The "Yellow Screen of Death"

...a funny new addition to the .NET developer vernacular I keep hearing. Know what it is?

hint: it's caused by bad developer code (not by anything wrong with the .NET Framework -- ok, I am a LITTLE biased).

second hint: you've got to be a web developer to 'get it'

Published Monday, August 09, 2004 10:49 PM by Rob Howard

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# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:04 AM by Scott Mitchell
A fix:

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="BSOD.htm" />

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BSOD.htm
=======
<html>
<body bgcolor="blue">
<table height="100%" width="100%">
<tr><td align="center">
<span style="color:white; font-family: Monospace;">Windows has performed an illegal operation.
</span>
</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:12 AM by Michael Giagnocavo
Nice fix :)

Server Error in / .... :)

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:45 AM by Barry Dorrans
Bad developer code? Oh come now, that's a little harsh <g> It can happen when you forget to turn validateRequest off, that's not bad code, just forgetful code

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 8:03 AM by Steve Saxon
We were calling it that back in 2000... The folks in the ASP.NET team used to give me funny looks when I would tell them some feature was giving me the Yellow Screen of Death. Pretty much anyone you run into at Dell will call it that now.

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 9:33 AM by Rohan Deshpande
Orkut displays it at least once every five clicks.

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:26 PM by stephen Patten
I like Scott's

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:18 AM by Tobin Titus
Holy Content Spam Batman.

I thought Scott Watermasysk updated .TEXT with comment moderation. Does he work with you now? I'll say this for the yellow screen of death, at least it tells you when something needs fixed. Some errors just occur without any clue it ever happened.

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:56 AM by Ben Richadson
About 2 minutes after reading this I saw the famous yellow screen, and it happened to be on the ASP.NET forums - http://forums.asp.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=457530#457530

# re: The "Yellow Screen of Death"

Sunday, September 05, 2004 8:15 AM by nackt
I thought Scott Watermasysk updated .TEXT with comment moderation. Does he work with you now? I'll say this for the yellow screen of death, at least it tells you when something needs fixed. Some errors just occur without any clue it ever happened.

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