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UPDATE: Pretty much disregard this entire post, except as a reminder that it’s easy to make a mistake with DOCTYPEs and markup. As many people have told me, I had an error I didn’t notice in the original HTML. I forgot to close the SELECT tag. I’ll leave the post as-is. Not only that, the DOCTYPE is not specified in the document, which causes IE to render in Quirks mode, not standards mode. So I guess the bug is in IE 7 rendering. So this is a case of PEBKAC , the bug is in the HTML, not the browser. Here’s an example of the HTML with the SELECT tag properly closed and the proper DOCTYPE . It renders correctly in FireFox 3 and IE 8. In testing our helper methods for rendering a <select /> element which has some styling applied to it if...

This error is more than a little irritating, especially considering this is Visual Studio 2005 SP1 . I'm getting this, now, for one file, every time I run my application. The way I "fixed" it was to exclude the file from the Web Application Project, recompile, then re-include, the recompiles. Seems to me that the error handler that threw this message box should spend more time fixing the problem automatically and less time informing me of a problem I can do little about. Maybe that's just me. Technorati Tags: ASP.NET , Bug , Visual Studio © 2007 Scott Hanselman. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. Meet Over 32,000 Programmers at Dream.In.Code Read More...