Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Code Project
  1. Home
  2. Other Discussions
  3. Site Bugs / Suggestions
  4. The filename did not contain valid characters

The filename did not contain valid characters

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Site Bugs / Suggestions
comhelpquestionannouncement
15 Posts 5 Posters 0 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • K Keith Barrow

    Chris, I'm having the same problem & I don't have any non-ASCII characters: A DatePicker based Event Calendar with MVC3 and AJAX. I tried clearing the title box and typed "ZZZZZ", it still happened. It submitted the article OK through the wizard a couple of hours before, I was just making a few ammendments before publishing. The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article" [Edit] I forgot to say, the page was posting back, so it wasn't client side validation. Dunno if this helps...

    Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
    -Or-
    A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

    C Offline
    C Offline
    Chris Maunder
    wrote on last edited by
    #6

    Keith Barrow wrote:

    The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

    Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

    K 2 Replies Last reply
    0
    • C Chris Maunder

      Keith Barrow wrote:

      The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

      Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

      K Offline
      K Offline
      Keith Barrow
      wrote on last edited by
      #7

      Chris Maunder wrote:

      Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?

      Here is what I tried:

      1. I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
      2. I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error

      I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though :)

      Chris Maunder wrote:

      BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

      Please (see the primal scream below)...

      Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
      -Or-
      A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

      C 1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • K Keith Barrow

        Chris Maunder wrote:

        Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error?

        Here is what I tried:

        1. I only added a small bit of text to the article body (a paragraph, and an ol with one li in it) - I got the error
        2. I only changed the title to "ZZZZZ" without changing anything else. - I got the error

        I went in a third time to try just re-submitting with no change, but the article was deleted (not sure how) but given 1&2 it looks likely that no change would give the error. Not the same thing as testing it though :)

        Chris Maunder wrote:

        BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

        Please (see the primal scream below)...

        Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
        -Or-
        A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

        C Offline
        C Offline
        Chris Maunder
        wrote on last edited by
        #8

        I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.

        cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

        D 1 Reply Last reply
        0
        • C Chris Maunder

          I found the issue with your article (and 27 other articles) that would have caused this error. It all goes back to a change we made a couple of months ago while we transitioned over to a new file system and there was a very brief gap in which a few articles became a little confused.

          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

          D Offline
          D Offline
          Don Kackman
          wrote on last edited by
          #9

          Cool. Shall we try again?

          10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

          C 1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • D Don Kackman

            Cool. Shall we try again?

            10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

            C Offline
            C Offline
            Chris Maunder
            wrote on last edited by
            #10

            Please do, and let me know how it goes.

            cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

            D 1 Reply Last reply
            0
            • C Chris Maunder

              Please do, and let me know how it goes.

              cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

              D Offline
              D Offline
              Don Kackman
              wrote on last edited by
              #11

              Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris

              10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

              C 1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • D Don Kackman

                Just updated my article without error. Thanks Chris

                10 PRINT "Software is hard. - D. Knuth" 20 GOTO 10

                C Offline
                C Offline
                Chris Maunder
                wrote on last edited by
                #12

                I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.

                cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

                N 1 Reply Last reply
                0
                • C Chris Maunder

                  I need a "wipes sweat from brow" emoticon.

                  cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

                  N Offline
                  N Offline
                  Nish Nishant
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #13

                  Chris, This guy has the same problem: http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4142856/Re-Formatting-issue.aspx[^]

                  Regards, Nish


                  My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • C Chris Maunder

                    Keith Barrow wrote:

                    The error is happening both when go to "My Articles" --> "Edit this article", and when I open the article itself and click "Update Your Article"

                    Just to confirm: you click to edit the article, and whether you make changes or not, when you hit submit it throws an error? I just edited it and it went through without a single problem for me. This is doing my head in. BTW, it's marked as deleted. Do you want me to undelete it?

                    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

                    K Offline
                    K Offline
                    Keith Barrow
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #14

                    Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!

                    Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
                    -Or-
                    A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

                    C 1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • K Keith Barrow

                      Thanks for undeleting the article, I drafted in Word but it took a good while to transfer to HTML!

                      Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
                      -Or-
                      A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

                      C Offline
                      C Offline
                      Chris Maunder
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #15

                      In the online HTML editor there is a button that looks like <> in a circle with a line through it. Just paste your word doc into the editor, click this button, and a lot of the grunt work in converting from Word to HTML is done.

                      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      Reply
                      • Reply as topic
                      Log in to reply
                      • Oldest to Newest
                      • Newest to Oldest
                      • Most Votes


                      • Login

                      • Don't have an account? Register

                      • Login or register to search.
                      • First post
                        Last post
                      0
                      • Categories
                      • Recent
                      • Tags
                      • Popular
                      • World
                      • Users
                      • Groups