Advanced .NET Debugging

If you mix and match 32 bit machines/processes with 64 bit machines/processes in an ASP.NET load balanced environment and you are using the AJAXControlToolkit ToolkitScriptManager class you might end up with the following error:

Message: Assembly “AjaxControlToolkit, Version=1.0.10920.32880, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e” does not contain a script with hash code “9ea3f0e2″.
Stack trace: at AjaxControlToolkit.ToolkitScriptManager.DeserializeScriptEntries(String serializedScriptEntries, Boolean loaded)

at AjaxControlToolkit.ToolkitScriptManager.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

The reason is that the request being sent to retrieve the combined javascripts of the control used in the page contains a hash code that is used internally. That hash code is being generated from the script’s name using the default string.GetHashCode function which returns different values for 32 bit and 64 bit processes.

If your 64 bit process creates the javascript include call which contains the 64 bit hash code and the request will eventually reach the 32 bit process/machine you will get this error since the hash value will not be found internally and vice versa.

There is an open issue about this in CodePlex since late January but as of the time of this post, the latest source version in CodePlex doesn’t have a fix for this.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm and is filed under .NET, AJAX.NET, ASP.NET, Not debugging related. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.