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If you get an error something like "Object Expected - Webresource.axd" while trying to run an ASP.NET application then please do the followings - 1. Many blogs suggest trying un-checking "check if File exists" in the handlers mappings section in IIS (IIS 5 or 6) and similar settings in IIS 7 but still sometimes it doesn't work. I did not found any websites suggesting the simple solution I found as I continued to face the same problem with the above solution. 2. The solution specific to my problem that worked was - check ASPNET has read/write access to the WebApplication folder. This is typically a problem in Windows Vista/7 where even an Administrator has some execution issues in the C drive too. So, it's better to move the WebApplication to drives other than C: like D:. Please check if this works. In my case it worked, hopefully it would work in your case too :-)

This is for the developers who must have been struggling with, why a Silverlight ComboBox is not working in a Windows Phone 7 application. Although the code does allow to put a ComboBox control to the page but actually it doesn't work when you try to run the page with ComboBox controls. This control has been removed in Windows Phone 7 development and you won't find this in ToolBox either in Visual Studio or Expression Blend. I think the ComboBox is not designed to work with touch screen input. Please check the msdn article on the same.

After a few months of break, I am back now and hope to post a few useful posts on Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development in coming days. In between, the entire World, particularly the developer community, has now started talking about Windows Phone 7 (expected to get launched this Fall - Sep/Oct in India) after Microsoft's recent announcement on WP7 and release of development kit for the developers to start building Apps on WP7 before every common man :-) starts using it. Here, I will talk about how to start building your own application that can run on Windows Phone 7. People who are already familiar with Silverlight, would be very happy to see the same technology getting used for application development except few changes. I will talk about those changes in my future posts. The installations/applications that are required for WP7 app development are - 1. Visual Studio as IDE 2. Windows Phone 7 Development Kit (aka WP7 Developer Tools) Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 E...