WebGrid requires WebDesktop’s resources since the context menu and pop menu available in WebGrid utilize the WebDesktop script.

WebGrid has WebDesktopScriptDirectory property. This property gets or sets the IIS path to locate WebDesktop's script directory. This property is only applicable when SmartWebResources is not enabled.

Please try to add following key into the web.config file of your project which will set the WebDesktopScriptDirectory property globally.

<appSettings>
  <add key="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.RunTimeLicenseKey"
        value="ABCDE-FGHI-JKLMN" />
  <add key="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.ScriptDirectory"
        value="~/Intersoft/WebGrid/V6_0_7200/" />
  <add key="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.SharedScriptDirectory"
        value="~/Intersoft/Shared/" />
  <add key="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.ImagesDirectory"
        value="~/Intersoft/Images/" />
  <add key="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.LocalizationDirectory"
        value="~/Intersoft/WebGrid/V6_0_7200/Localization/" />
  <add key="ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.WebDesktopScriptDirectory"
        value="~/Intersoft/WebDesktop/V2_5_7200/" />
</appSettings>

Please let us know whether this helps or not.

Hi Yudi,

Yes, this helped me find the solution. To summarize your answer:

• make sure not to forget RunTimeLicenseKey (it was there, I just didn't mention it)
• I don't need any appSettings for ISNet.WebUI.WebDesktop keys
• add the appSettings key "ISNet.WebUI.WebGrid.v6_0_7200.WebDesktopScriptDirectory" (this was the problem)

But even after fixing this, it didn't work. Reason was a typo in your code above. The value for the WebDesktopScriptDirectory should've been "~/Intersoft/WebDesktop/V2_5_2007/" (note the 2007, not 7200).

So yes, this fixed the problem. One important thing to mention: The included help for WebGrid (see page "Application Wide Configurations") doesn't list this WebDesktopScriptDirectory key. That's why I missed it. Actually this key is not mentioned anywhere in your documentation (only the class property with the same name is mentioned). If this is still missing in your latest version of the documentation for WebGrid, please update.

Thanks

Follow-up question: After everything seems working, now I get a 404 error in one special case: When the WebGrid displays its error box ("Unhandled exception"). What happens: The client side script requests an AJAX part and gets an empty answer from the server. This is interpreted as an error and the popup (div) with the error message is being displayed. The client script does all this and requests the following files (or the browser does when interpreting the genereated HTML):

• wg_blank.gif (path ok, image returned)
• wg_Error.gif (no path, auth cookie missing, requested from same path as page, returns error 403)
• wg_Error.gif (path ok, image returned)
• wg5_header_bg.gif (via path /ApplicationName/ISRes.axd?G/wg5_header_bg.gif, error 404)

For me this looks like two bugs in WebGrid and I'll ignore that. Are these known bugs?

I tried to find out where this comes from. I found a CSS with style name TD.WG5E-Caption which has a background-image: url(ISRes.axd?G/wg5_header_bg.gif); This CSS comes from a request via WebResource.axd, so it was dynamically generated. On our generated page I see such a request created via a <link href="xxx/WebResource.axd?xxx". For me this sounds like the SmartWebResources are not fully turned off. There is no handler for WebResource.axd in web.config and there is no setting for ISRes_Registered in web.config. So maybe this is just standard behaviour (somehow wrongly implemented). Any infos on this?