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# re: IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3 @ Friday, February 02, 2007 7:09 AM

I am having a problem with my installation off Internet Explorer.  Will you help me?  When I go to various forums and try to post a question instead of an input screen, IE is blank.  What could cause this?

KC

KCav

# re: IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3 @ Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:13 PM

In the IEBlog post announcing the availability of the IE Dev Toolbar Beta 3 (http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/01/09/ie-developer-toolbar-beta-3-now-available.aspx), there have been several reports of people having JavaScript errors (I'm getting the same errors as well) James Park posted the exact line in the script causing the error (I also located the same line independently). Quoting briefly:

function ParseDoc(doc)

{

   /* stuff */

   collSelectors.item(i).SetQuirksMode(true); //<--- Error

   /* stuff */

}

I just found some more information that should be helpful (comments in the IEBlog are closed, so I post here instead).

Looking at my App Event Log, in order, I found a bunch of these, in sequence:

Event Source: SideBySide

Event ID: 32

Description:

Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.CRT could not be found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

Event Source: SideBySide

Event ID: 59

Description:

Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC80.CRT. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

Event Source: SideBySide

Event ID: 59

Description:

Generate Activation Context failed for C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar\SelectorObjectAPI.dll. Reference error message: The operation completed successfully.

Given the similarity of the name of the DLL and the javascript function that fails, I bet these are related.

I hope this helps.

Euro

# re: IE Developer Toolbar Beta 3 @ Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:43 AM

Weird; I was convinced that I had already downloaded and installed the second release, but I was wrong: I still had the old one on my work computer (the one with the log entries). I must have applied the refresh only to my home PC.

The affected computer has Windows XP SP2 with IE6. For your reference, my second work computer has Windows XP SP2 with IE7, and that one did NOT log those messages (but note that IE7 seemed to have more problems with the original release than IE6 did). My home computer has XP SP2 and IE7 as well.

I have installed the second release in both work PCs, and tested them on a number of local and remote websites. The messages are not being logged anymore, nor do I seem to be getting script errors anymore.

I'm sorry for not double-checking the release version before posting... I suppose that at least one good thing came out of my oversight: if someone else notices the same Log entries, they might find this post and learn about the fix.

Thanks for your help, and to the team for creating IEDevToolbar in the first place. You have no idea how many dozens of hours of pain it has saved me from. I would never want to do web development without it again.

(PS. Correction to the original post: the messages are in the System Log, not the Application Log)

Euro