Do I really need to use transactions in stored procedures? [MSSQL 2005]
I'm writing a pretty straightforward e-commerce app in asp.net, do i need to use transactions in my stored procedures? Read/Write ratio is about 9:1 ...
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Where to put master page's code in an MVC application?
I'm using a few (2 or 3) master pages in my ASP.NET MVC application and they must each display bits of information from the database. Such as a list of sponsors, current fundings status etc. So my question was, where should I put these master-page database calling code? Normally, these should goes into its own controller class right? B...
ASP.NET - Is it possible to trigger a postback from server code?
Is it possible to to programmatically trigger a postback from server code in ASP.NET? I know that it is possible to do a Response.Redirect or Server.Transfer to redirect to a page, but is there a way to trigger a postback to the same page in server code (i.e. without using javascript trickery to submit a form)? ...
IIS Integrated Request Processing Pipeline -- Modify Request
Hi, I want to implement an ISAPI filter like feature using HttpModule in IIS7 running under IIS Integrated Request Processing Pipeline mode. The goal is to look at the incoming request at the Web Server level, and inject some custom HttpHeaders into the request. (for ex: HTTP_EAUTH_ID) And later in the page lifecycle of an ASPX page, i...
ASP.NET Convert Invalid String to Null
In my application I have TextBox in a FormView bound to a LinqDataSource like so: <asp:TextBox ID="MyTextBox" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("MyValue") %>' AutoPostBack="True" ontextchanged="MyTextBox_TextChanged" /> protected void MyTextBox_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { MyFormView.UpdateItem(...
Whats your favorite new feature in asp.net 3.5?
I am upgrading an asp.net 2.0 site to 3.5 and visual studio 2008. What would be the one thing that you would recommend looking into for upgrade to benefit the site? ...
Getting HTML from a page behind a login
This question is a follow up to my previous question about getting the HTML from an ASPX page. I decided to try using the webclient object, but the problem is that I get the login page's HTML because login is required. I tried "logging in" using the webclient object: WebClient ww = new WebClient(); ww.DownloadString("Login.aspx?UserNa...
IIS uses proxy for webservice request. How to stop this?
I have a problem with a little .Net web application which uses the Amazon webservice. With the integrated Visual Studio web server everything works fine. But after deploying it to the IIS on the same computer i get the following error message: Ein Verbindungsversuch ist fehlgeschlagen, da die Gegenstelle nach einer bestimmten Zeitspanne...
DateTime Utility for ASP.net
I was wondering if anyone could suggest a utility library that has useful functions for handling dates in ASP.NET easily taking away some of the leg work you normally have to do when handling dates? Subsonic Sugar has some really nice functions: http://subsonichelp.com/html/1413bafa-b5aa-99aa-0478-10875abe82ec.htm http://subsonicprojec...
Browser WYSIWYG best practices.
I am using a rich text editor on a web page. .NET has feature that prevent one from posting HTML tags, so I added a JavaScript snippet to change the angle brackets to and alias pair of characters before the post. The alias is replaced on the server with the necessary angle bracket and then stored in the database. With XSS aside, what a...
What's the best method in ASP.NET to obtain the current domain?
Hi, I am wondering what the best way to obtain the current domain is in ASP.NET? For instance: http://www.domainname.com/subdir/ should yield http://www.domainname.com http://www.sub.domainname.com/subdir/ should yield http://sub.domainname.com As a guide, I should be able to add a url like "/Folder/Content/filename.html" (say as gen...
Web Control Properties
I would like to make my web control more readable in design mode, basically I want the tag declaration to look like: <cc1:Ctrl ID="Value1" runat="server"> <Values>string value 1</Value> <Values>string value 2</Value> </cc1:Ctrl> Lets say I have a private variable in the code behind: List<string> values = new List<st...
How do you bind an Enum to a DropDownList control in ASP.NET?
Let's say I have the following simple enum: enum Response { Yes = 1, No = 2, Maybe = 3 } How can I bind this enum to a DropDownList control so that the descriptions are displayed in the list as well as retrieve the associated numeric value (1,2,3) once an option has been selected? ...
Problem with Login control of ASP.NET
I set up a website to use SqlMembershipProvider as written on this page. I followed every step. I have the database, I modified the Web.config to use this provider, with the correct connection string, and the authentication mode is set to Forms. Created some users to test with. I created a Login.aspx and put the Login control on it. Ev...
Response.Clear in ASP.NET 3.5
I have recently upgraded some of my web applications to ASP.NET 3.5 by installing the framework on the server and setting up my web applications acrodingly and all is well, however. On some pages, I want to clear the current contents of the response buffer with code like this: Response.Clear(); // Output some stuff Response.End(); Bu...
Where can I Find GOOD ASP.NET tutorial(or books) online?
Looking for some good resources (or tutorials) that will demonstrate the proper techniques on building ASP.NET web sites. ...
Whats a liquid layout?
My designer keeps throwing out the term "liquid" layout. What does this mean? Thanks for the clarification, I have always just called this a percentage layout, and thought he was saying that the pieces could be moved around, and that was liquid ...
Using reflection to call an ASP.NET web service
Say I have an ASMX web service, MyService. The service has a method, MyMethod. I could execute MyMethod on the server side as follows: MyService service = new MyService(); service.MyMethod(); I need to do similar, with service and method not known until runtime. I'm assuming that reflection is the way to go about that. Unfortuna...
Shared/Static variable in Global.asax isolated per request?
I have some ASP.NET web services which all share a common helper class they only need to instantiate one instance of per server. It's used for simple translation of data, but does spend some time during start-up loading things from the web.config file, etc. The helper class is 100% thread-safe. Think of it as a simple library of utility ...
What could be good ways to deploy ASP.Net Web Applications?
We currently deploy web applications by creating a database and running SQL scripts through query analyzer. Then we copy the output from "publish website" and set up that website in IIS. We have seen websetup in visual studio, but that part seems to be thinly documented. For example, we are not clear how to ask the user for IP and pas...