Dashboard Template doesn't work?

[Joe]

For the 2016.3.914 release, I tried using the Dashboard project template, since I have to start thinking of building a dashboard at work, but upon running it, I just get a bunch of 500 errors on all the CSS and JS files...  Does this project template not work out of the box?  What do I need to do to get it to work?

[Dimiter Madjarov]

Hello Joe,

Thank you for reporting this. We reproduced the issue on our end too. It is caused by the following code in the Web.config file:

<system.webServer>
  <staticContent>
    <mimeMap fileExtension=".json" mimeType="application/json; charset=UTF-8" />
  </staticContent>
</system.webServer>

which is required when running the project in older Visual Studio and IIS versions.

At the moment you could comment or remove those lines. I will report this behavior to the developers team, so we could address it in future versions.

Regards,
Dimiter Madjarov
Telerik by Progress

[Joe]

Thank you