Error Readout:
None, it's not an error silly.

The Problem:
When I debug, and look at a string that contains my file path I see 2 backslashs (escape characters) in my string when I only wanted 1.

The Solution:
It's nothing, don't worry about it, that's just the way Visual Studio "debug" shows your path when you catch it while debugging.  When the path is used in the code for the file system there will only be 1 backslash and it will work correctly.

This is such a stupid little thing, but for some reason every once in a blue moon, I forget and freak out on why it's doing this, thus wasting a solid five minutes of my life. I put this post up in hopes I will never forget again and that if someone happens to Google this, my post will pop up and help them move on quickly....maybe only wasting 1 to 2 minutes. :)

It's a good question.

There are some types that are not derived from NSObject, these types are called "Primitive Types." Some examples of these types are

1. int
2. bool
3. short
4. long
5. double
6. char

Sooooo basically any type that is not derived from the NSObject class is a Primitive type and does not require a "*".

Now I bet you are wondering how do I figure out if it's a primitive type or not.

1. An easy way is to look at the color of the syntax in xCode, is it deep blue or a sky blue? Deep blue = primitive type, but this is not entirely reliable as the standards for coloring syntax can fluctuate or change.
   




2. You can option-click on the object after you have typed it in xCode, click the little book in the upper right hand corner, when the class reference viewer comes up, look and see if it inherits from NSObject. If it doesn't it's Primitive and you don't need a "*".
   
   
   
   
   

Note:
There are some alternatives to using the primitive type int, such as the reference type NSInteger, which has some nice baked in functionality of distinguishing between 32 bit and 64 bit, but not all primitive types have an alternative reference type in Objective C.


Just for fun:
In .Net they have primitive types too(I believe they call them value types), kinda. The compiler recognizes traditional primitive types and therefore lets you use the syntax

int i = 5;

But despite the compiler letting you do this, this type still maps back to System.Int32. All things in .Net are mapped back to System.Object. Everything is a reference type, but .Net lets you keep the traditional syntax instead of writing:

System.Int32 i = new System.Int32(5);





Error Readout:
HTTP Error 404 - File Not Found
HTTP Error 404- File or Directory not found

Fix:
Enable a Pre-existing Web Service Extension in IIS 6.0

To permit IIS to serve content that requires a specific ISAPI or CGI extension that is already listed in the Web service extensions list, follow these steps:

1. Open IIS Manager, expand the master server node (that is, the Servername node), and then select the Web service extensions node.
2. In the right pane of IIS Manager, right-click the extension that you want to enable. In this example, this is Active Server Pages.
3. Click to select the Allow check box.

Microsoft Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315122

Explanation:
Apparently there was no easy Google search for this stupidly easy fix. (UPDATE: I'm wrong Google the title of this blog entry and a Microsoft fix is the first result) Consequently, I spent more time than I would like on trying to fix it.

Here is how it went down. I recive a HTTP Error 404 - File Not Found error on a page I was browsing to from IIS 6.0. How could this be I ask myself, the page does exists, I know because I see it in IIS 6.0, I right click the file and I select browse. WTF. Upon a little investigation I found out what was wrong and I found a Microsoft website furthers my fix. Soooo  easy! Anyways moving on, going to go drink a beer and forget this time was lost in which I will never get back.