I started a brand new ASP.NET MVC 3 project to test out Slick Uploader. When I run the app, I'm getting the "

SlickUpload configuration is invalid. Message: The configuration section cannot contain a CDATA or text element.

Here's my web.config file. Any idea what's causing the issue?

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!--

  For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit

  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=152368

  -->

<configuration>

  <configSections>

    <section name="slickUpload" type="Krystalware.SlickUpload.Configuration.SlickUploadSection, Krystalware.SlickUpload" requirePermission="false"/>

  </configSections>

  <slickUpload>

    <uploadProfiles>

      <add name="quickStart">

        <uploadStreamProvider type="File" location="~/Files" />    

      </add>

    </uploadProfiles>

  </slickUpload>

  <connectionStrings>

    <add name="ApplicationServices"

         connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true"

         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

  </connectionStrings>

  <appSettings>

    <add key="webpages:Version" value="1.0.0.0"/>

    <add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true"/>

    <add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true"/>

  </appSettings>

  <system.web>

    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">

      <assemblies>

        <add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />

        <add assembly="System.Web.Helpers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />

        <add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />

        <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />

        <add assembly="System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />

      </assemblies>

    </compilation>

    <authentication mode="Forms">

      <forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" />

    </authentication>

    <membership>

      <providers>

        <clear/>

        <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices"

             enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false"

             maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10"

             applicationName="/" />

      </providers>

    </membership>

    <profile>

      <providers>

        <clear/>

        <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />

      </providers>

    </profile>

    <roleManager enabled="false">

      <providers>

        <clear/>

        <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />

        <add name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider" applicationName="/" />

      </providers>

    </roleManager>

    <pages>

      <namespaces>

        <add namespace="System.Web.Helpers" />

        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />

        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />

        <add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />

        <add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />

        <add namespace="System.Web.WebPages"/>

      </namespaces>

    </pages>

    <httpModules>

      <add name="SlickUploadModule" type="Krystalware.SlickUpload.Web.SlickUploadModule, Krystalware.SlickUpload"/>

    </httpModules>

  </system.web>

  <system.webServer>

    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>

    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">

      <add name="SlickUploadModule" type="Krystalware.SlickUpload.Web.SlickUploadModule, Krystalware.SlickUpload" preCondition="integratedMode" />

    </modules>

    <security>

      <requestFiltering>

        <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2072576000"/>

      </requestFiltering>

    </security>

  </system.webServer>

  <runtime>

    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">

      <dependentAssembly>

        <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />

        <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />

      </dependentAssembly>

    </assemblyBinding>

  </runtime>

</configuration>

A few questions:

• It works if you remove just the <slickUpload> section?
• What if you copy that web.config into the quick start example, does it still error?
• What are you using to host the app? The VS.NET webdev server, IIS 6/7/7.5, IIS Express?
• What version of SlickUpload are you using?

Maybe there was some weird unicode character there?

To determine the version, there are two simple ways:

• Right click the .dll, go into properties and then the details tab and look at the version there
• Drop the SlickUploadDiagnostics.aspx file into your project and navigate to that. That will give a bunch of diagnostic info, among which is the version.