Error messages - you had better believe them...

Ok, so I've had a bit of a revelation the last few days. It seems nowadays error messages actually mean what they say. To an advanced computer user this is something new...

We had a web server that said "The system cannot find the file specified". This is usually an access rights problem so we started troubleshooting file security. Turned out the asp-file was actually missing!

One of my aspx pages said 'The control must be created within a form that contains the runat="server" directive'. I thought it was because it was created outside of a template - but the page actually didn't have a server sided form.

To any of you who don't deal with computers this may seem like a very peculiar learning. Those of you who do will not...
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