Sunday from Hell

[Henk]

Yesterday I made some changes to my C# chess program.
I tested it just pressing a next move button, nothing special. Then I started to play ...




Drag and drop did not work anymore. After three hours debugging, at last restoring old version which did not work either I understood it was an update (Microsoft?). I used a link to jquery 1.8.2 and Internet Explorer.

Now I can start all over again with my user interface. I am still able to type the moves in a text box, but that is far less convenient.

When I tested it on Google Chrome, I still can drag and drop but I have to drag e2-e5 to make a move to e2-e4. So that is hopeless too.

I use drag and drop from HTML5 and asp.NET MVC.

[CRoberson]

Welcome to the club!

Even with engnes compiled in C, similar things can happen. You mess up your code so bad you need to back up a version, then you can't find the previous version .....

[Henk]

I copied a simple small html5 file from internet with drag and drop. Had nothing to do with chess and that works in internet explorer. So Internet explorer 10 is not the problem. Perhaps it has something to do with new library files (I suspect jquery and I even do not use jquery). I do not know. I can still use my program but have to type moves instead of dragging pieces. Very unhandy. But better than nothing. Problem is not solved.

I did not change anything and the next morning, bang program does not work anymore ????

[Henk]

It can happen that a hidden bug that has been there for a long time comes to live. Backups don't help you then. Only patience.

[Henk]

I copied a simple small html5 file from internet with drag and drop. Had nothing to do with chess and that works in internet explorer. So Internet explorer 10 is not the problem. Perhaps it has something to do with new library files (I suspect jquery and I even do not use jquery). I do not know. I can still use my program but have to type moves instead of dragging pieces. Very unhandy. But better than nothing. Problem is not solved.

I did not change anything and the next morning, bang program does not work anymore ????

Problem solved(workaround ?). Local host was in compatibility view. After disabling compatibility view in Internet Explorer 10 problem was solved. Just type alt key in IE10. Then Tools->compatibility view etc.