Grant.JinxedSelf() == true

Not even ten hours after I complimented ASP.Net it has already come back to haunt me.

This morning I was rolling out a new version of the old implementation of the FTL Drive Guidance Transmogrifier and try as I might IIS kept spitting out error after error. It turns out that the production server was running .Net 2.0 BETA instead of the released version like everywhere else.

“Not to worry,” I thought “everything else went so smoothly a simple upgrade will fix this all up.”

Stupid.

Stupid.

Stupid.

Installing the release version of .Net 2.0 required the uninstall of the beta which, naturally, doesn’t really uninstall everything. This meant manual registry cleanup, in particular the obviously named HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7D23CCC6-A390-406E-AB67-2F8B7558F6F6} key.

After all that was done I re-registered ASP.Net by hand and finally was up and running. *Sigh*