Aloha I'm running a website using ASP.NET 2.0. Every now and then (10+ times per day on 100+ users daily) I receive this error: Forms authentication failed - ticket supplied has expired. Here's my web.config snippet: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name=".CLLSAUTH" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" path="/" timeout="60"...
I'm creating a control and need to pass it the current logon user as a parameter (declaratively) I tried this but didn't work (I got "<%= User.Identity.Name %>" as value): <cc1:MyControl id="myid" runat="server" User="<%= User.Identity.Name %>" /> Is there a way to do it? ...
How do you add type ahead functionality to an asp.net dropdownlist control? ...
I am writing event data to a log file in an asp.net httphandler by using the File.AppendAllText method. I am concerned with what will happen when multiple requests are received simultaneously. Does AppendAllText lock the file it's writing to? ...
If I were writing my own HTML and placing the values in the table I would use css and style the borders using something like: td{ border-left : solid gray 1px; } ...
UPDATE So it turns out internet exploder's stranglehold on "security" to "make up" for being so bad at security was causing my problems. I should have checked that out first haha. Thanks everyone for the input, it has given me ideas on how to optimize my application :D I am writing a web app (in ASP.NET 3.5) that integrates with a ...
What are the most common Antipatterns you see in ASP.NET applications and how should we avoid them? ...
I've done a good bit of research to find an upload component for .NET that I can use to upload large files, has a progress bar, and can resume the upload of large files. I've come across some components like AjaxUploader, SlickUpload, and PowUpload, to name a few. Each of these options cost money and only PowUpload does the resumable u...
We are looking to implement a rich-text box in an ASP.NET application and our requirements are specific to using the "Track Changes" features of Microsoft Word. The closest thing we found in the RadEditor by Telerik. This is a nice control that has a "Track Changes" button and will give you the ability to track the changes from the tex...
Hi, I need your advice with converting plain text to an URL. The scenario will be this: The user will select some entry and then click a "convert to link" button. The entry text the user selected will convert to (link: selected_text). I do it with JavaScript. And after that, when he clicks the Save button to save all his entry, I don'...
This exception is consistently thrown on a SOAP Request which takes almost three minutes to receive and is 2.25 megs in size. When scouring the web I find all sorts of posts which all seem to be about setting headers on the Request, some want me to not send the "Expect:" header, some want me to send the "Keep-Alive:" header, but irrega...
I have a third party JavaScript plug-in but including the file breaks IntelliSense for jQuery amongst other things. The only way I can get IntelliSense back working with jQuery is by commenting out the plug-in. Is there a way I can hide the plug-in file from the IntelliSense parser? ...
I created a custom login page using Forms Authentication and using a sQL DB to store user data. I am able to create a session variable from the username, but wondering if it is possible to pull a separate field and create a session variable based on that. I would like the session variable to be based off a SalesNumber a 5 digit decimal...
I am making a post from a .NET console app to a .NET web service. I know that the timeout on the server side is 20 min, but if my client takes more than 100 seconds to post my data to that service then I get a timeout exception. How would I tell my client to wait the available 20 min to timeout? ...
Up till now all my programming experience has been desktop development (mostly C/C++ with OpenGL/DirectX) but I'm interested in trying my hand at some web dev. The two directions I'm considering are Ruby on Rails and ASP.net. Which is most widely used? Which would be a more marketable skill to have? Thanks! ...
I'd like to call svn up from an asp.net page so people can hit the page to update a repository. (BTW: I'm using Beanstalk.com svn hosting which doesn't allow post-commit hooks, which is why I am doing it this way). See what I've got below. The process starts (it shows up in Processes in Task Manager) and exits after several seconds wit...
what is the best way to loadtest an application that relies heavily on posts with viewstate (same posts can't be sent twice, so a simple record / replay won't do) Can I generate the viewstate to be used in in the posts? ...
From the blog of the creator of the error message, if you mix Response.Write (among other things) with an UpdatePanel you will likely get PageRequestManagerParserErrorException errors. I was wondering, is it ok to mix UI.HtmlTextWriter and UpdatePanels? My guess would be that it would not be ok, but I'm not sure. With the limited testing...
I have a web application that is using a data store that has it's own built in paging. The PagedResult class tells me the number of total pages. What I would like to do it (after binding my ASP.NET GridView) do this: MyGridView.PageCount = thePageCount; And then have the GridView magically build the pagination links as it normally wou...
Background We are developing some in-house utilities using ASP.NET 2.0. One of which is extracting some information from databases and building an Excel workbook containing a number of spreadsheets with data based on queries into the database. Problem The proof-of-concept prototype (a simple ASP.NET page that queries a single item fro...