The error message just isn’t helpful

(Heads Up: This is not my code. I’m trying to help out.)

In our systems there is a web application (not website) which has an automated Cruise Control (ccnet) build. And that ccnet build has worked for a couple of weeks until I added a  new webpage.

Unfortunately, once I added the webpage to the build I started to receive this error  from the asp compiler (when I removed the webpage the error went away):

/Announcements/ArchiveFeed.aspx(2): error ASPPARSE: Could not load type 'ArchiveFeed'.

I looked at both the aspx and aspx.cs file which created the error and could not understand why the error message was being generated:

ArchiveFeed.aspx:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding = 'utf-8'?>
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="ArchiveFeed.aspx.cs" Inherits="ArchiveFeed" Title="Announcement Archives" %>

<rows>
   <page>1</page>
   <total>2</total>
   <records>15</records >

<asp:Repeater ID="repeater1" runat="server">

    <HeaderTemplate>   
    </HeaderTemplate>
    
    <ItemTemplate>
    <row id='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Id") %>'>
        <cell><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Id") %></cell>
        <cell><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Subject") %></cell>
        <cell><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Message") %></cell>
        <cell><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Editor") %></cell>
        <cell><%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Tr") %></cell>
    </row>
    </ItemTemplate>
    
    <FooterTemplate>
    </FooterTemplate>
    
</asp:Repeater>

</rows>

 

ArchiveFeed.aspx.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web.UI;
using Ucsb.Sa.Registrar.Herald;
using Ucsb.Sa.Registrar.Herald.Services;


public partial class ArchiveFeed : Page
{
    private AnnouncementService _servAnnounce = AppSettings.GetAnnouncementService();
    private ArrayList list1 = new ArrayList();
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        /*if (Session["validated"] == null || !Session["validated"].Equals("true"))
        {
            Response.Redirect("Login.aspx");
        }*/
        Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
        AnnouncementList aList = _servAnnounce.getAllAnnouncements();
        for (int i = 0; i < aList.Announcements.Count; i++)
            list1.Add(new ArchiveInformation(aList.Announcements[i].ID,aList.Announcements[i].Subject,aList.Announcements[i].Message,
                                             aList.Announcements[i].Editor,aList.Announcements[i].ActiveTimeRange));
            //lists.Add(aList.Announcements[i].ID);
        this.repeater1.DataSource = list1;
        this.repeater1.DataBind();
    }
}   

After asking some of the other developers in the department about the problem, a unanimous conclusion was made: “That’s just weird”. So what the heck is going on?

Any help would be appreciated.

UPDATE: The code behind for the page wasn't able to compile because a referenced assembly wasn't updated in the source control system. I have become too reliant on the source control system's Visual Studio integration.