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What was the bug? I'd like to make sure it's listed on https://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/workitem/list/basic if it's not there already.


This one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8640950/null-reference-ex...

In my case it manifested on ajax calls but not the initial page load. I had a custom grid that worked fine on the first load but blew up when the user tried to page or sort it. And it only happened on production, because the prod server had the component mentioned in the link installed, but the dev and stage servers didn't.

Luckily the guy administering the web servers tracked down the configuration difference, googled, and found the above link, and I was able to make a small change to my code to work around it, pre-calculating the url on the initial load and just referencing the resulting string on the ajax call (specifically, using lexical closure instead of calculating the url inside a lambda). That fixed it.

This was on MVC3.




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