Hi Nick. I've been very impressed with your Aero theme and wanted to install it on my site. So I've just doenloaded Aero 2.0 and followed the instructions to copy the bin and themes folders to my CS Web directory. So far so good.

However, as soon as I set any blog to use the Aero2 theme, this is what happens when I visit that blog:

Server Error in '/' Application.

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Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Community Server\Web\Themes\default\Variants'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Community Server\Web\Themes\default\Variants'.

Source Error:

[DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Community Server\Web\Themes\default\Variants'.]
   System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) +2014576
   System.IO.Directory.InternalGetFileDirectoryNames(String path, String userPathOriginal, String searchPattern, Boolean includeFiles, Boolean includeDirs, SearchOption searchOption) +1817
   System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories(String searchPattern, SearchOption searchOption) +57
   System.IO.DirectoryInfo.GetDirectories() +11
   nbdc.communityserver.themes.aero.Configuration.AeroConfig.loadVariants(XmlNode node) +301
   nbdc.communityserver.themes.aero.Configuration.AeroConfig.loadFromFile() +473
   nbdc.communityserver.themes.aero.Configuration.AeroConfig..ctor() +436
   nbdc.communityserver.themes.aero.AeroContext.get_AeroConfig() +101
   nbdc.communityserver.themes.aero.User..ctor() +31
   nbdc.communityserver.themes.aero.Controls.Script.RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter output) +36
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer) +29

[etc...]

So, lloks like it is missing a folder, so if I go and create that Variants folder, I no longer get the exception, but the blog just takes on the default CS2 theme.

 What did I miss? You make it sound so simple in the instructions ;-)

Cheers,

Tim Long
TiGra Networks

Ah, yes, I did read that bit, but I didn't want Aero2 to be my default theme for all my site's blogs, I wanted to apply it to just one blog. Does Aero2 have to take the place of the CS2 default? I guess I can work around it but first I need to know if that's the way it has to be.

Thanks for replying.

Tim Long

Oh, OK. That's fine, I can live with that. To be honest, I'm fed up with the CS defaults ;-) Just as a point of feedback, that isn't entirely obvious from the ReadMe file. It looks like it's optional.

Nice job, by the way.

Sorry bout the readme issue, lol

To me installing a theme in /themes instead of /themes/blogs|/themes/gallery, means that it's a global theme 

Nick,

After installing Aero 2 on my CS 2.1 w/SP 2 I and setting my user to Aero 2 I get the following message... Any ideas?

We are currently unable to serve your request

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