ArgumentNullException when initializing site

Question

I am in the process of evaluating several service frameworks and one of them is OpenRasta.

Despite being taken a bit aback for the lack of organization (multiple source code repositories, lack of binary downloads, outdated build instructions and the end result of the build, OpenRasta.dll, has version 0.0.0.0 after building the openrasta-core repository), I managed my way to start building a site with a service that serves a bit of Xml (I did include OpenRasta.Hosting.AspNet and configured the handlers and modules as per IIS or Cassini).

But the very first time I hit the site (both IIS Express and VS Dev Server) I get a ArgumentNullException coming from the PipelineStage.cs. Apparently the pipeline.CallGraph property is null.

My configuration source is a mere:

ResourceSpace.Has
   .ResourcesOfType<CatalogCollection>()
   .AtUri("/catalogs")
   .HandledBy<CatalogsHandler>()
   .AsXmlDataContract();

As I mentioned I am using the code I cloned from the openrasta-core repository as of yesterday.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

try wrapping resource registrations in

using (OpenRastaConfiguration.Manual)
{
//code
}

Also check this out;

https://github.com/openrasta/openrasta-stable/wiki/Building-Your-First-OpenRasta-Website

Hope this helps