Hi,

I'm creating a site that requires the forum to be on the home page, and so be available at startup.

This causes an issue and exception as the forum links are injected with a pageindex value from the Reques objects parameters...  Obviously these will be empty on first load (and subsequent page requests unless you first visit another page).

The code for the forum is faulty, this is because you are checking for a null on the page index value from the request, a request object will exist even if the key is not recognised, as it returns a type of empty string, so you then attemt to convert the empty strin to an integer and this causes an exception...

So, I think the tests within the forum code (Page_load which initializes all the items relying on request values) should insted read something like:

    if (Resuest.Params["pageindex"] != String.Empty)

which seems to then work correctly.

This is only a problem on the home page.

Let me know what you think, and thanks for a great portal.

Paul