SharePoint, Anonymous Access in FBA and SPContext issues

Question

Hi,

We have created a virtual directory under the root sharepoint site. This virtual directory hosts a Web Service which is accessed anonymously. In the code we are doing the following:

using(SPSite site = new site(some uri))
{
    using(SPWeb web = site.RootWeb)
    {
        SPList list = web.Lists["SomeList"];
        SPListItem item = list.GetItemById(1); // Exception Here, COM Exception        
    }
}

This does not work even when using RunWithElevatedPrivileges.

However, if the HttpContext.Current is set to null, before creating the SPSite, everything works fine.

Any pointersas to why this is happening will be very helpful.

Kind regards,

Answer 1

This may not be the cause of your problem, but your SPWeb does not need to be disposed of, as per Roger Lamb here, which is a distillation of Microsoft's best practices document here.

Answer 2

On the contrary! It is considered a good practice to always check for null and dispose both your SPSite and your SPWeb explicitly, even though SPSite arguably will dispose your SPWeb for you.

And that is not part of the problem either :-) At the worst that would cause the worker process to recycle a bit more often than usual...

Could you maybe add some more code (the whole class).

Also please include full stack trace for the error. (details on how to enable stack trace and debugging here http://blogs.importchaos.com/alonsorobles/2008/06/09/enabling-the-sharepoint-safe-mode-call-stack-disabling-custom-errors-and-enabling-compilation-debugging/ )

Also i take it you are sure that the list and the item exists and allow anonymous access?

regards Anders Rask