This is a shameless information gathering exercise for my own book. One of the talks I give in the community is an introduction to web site vulnerabilities. Usually during the talk I can see at least two members of the audience go very pale; and this is basic stuff, Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Information Leakage, Cross Site Fo...
I have an ASP.Net GridView control that I need to remain a fixed size whether there are 0 records or n records in the grid. The header and the footer should remain in the same position regardless of the amount of data in the grid. Obviously, I need to implement paging for larger datasets but how would I achieve this fixed sized GridVie...
What are the key strengths of ASP.NET Webforms (2.0-3.5)? I'm not looking for comparisons to other frameworks, I'm just am looking for feedback on ASP.NET as it stands today. ...
I am looking for an enhancement to JSON that will also serialize methods. I have an object that acts as a collection of objects, and would like to serialize the methods of the collection object as well. So far I've located ClassyJSON. Any thoughts? ...
I am currently working on a project where a programmer who fancied themselves a graphic designer attempted their hand at ASP.Net themes. The CSS is pretty bad, but that is another question altogether. What I really need help with is the best way to organize ASP.Net Themes and the CSS that lies within them. Imagine that there is a direct...
Anyone know? Want to be able to on the fly stamp an image with another image as a watermark, also to do large batches. Any type of existing library or a technique you know of would be great. ...
We've just been tasked with updating an e-commerce application to use PayPal's PayFlow product. The site was originally written in classic ASP except for the credit card processing portion which was a COM component. Our plan is to replace the COM component with a .NET 2.0 component. I'm looking for tips, gotcha, etc. before we embark....
Currently IIS sends an expires http header of yesterday minus 1 hour on ASP.NET pages. How do I change this to 60 seconds in the further instead? ...
We have a large ASP (classic ASP) application and we would like to convert it to .NET in order to work on further releases. It makes no sense continuing to use ASP as it is obsolete, and we don't want to rewrite it from scratch (Joel Spolsky tells you why). Are there any tools for converting from ASP to ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5? ...
Needs to be secure and able to handle thousands of users. ...
I would like to configure asp.net process to run under an account with domain credentials. My requirement is to access some files on a network share. What are the steps for this? Is there any built-in account I can use? ...
What’s the difference between Response.Write() and Response.Output.Write()? ...
UPDATE: Focus your answers on hardware solutions please. What hardware/tools/add-in are you using to improve ASP.NET compilation and first execution speed? We are looking at solid state hard drives to speed things up, but the prices are really high right now. I have two 7200rpm harddrives in RAID 0 right now and I'm not satisfied wit...
Any good ones? So far I have found IZWebFileManager, OXFileManager and AWS File Picker. The file manager should be able to delete, copy, rename, download & upload files. ...
Hi, I use a System.Timers.Timer in my Asp.Net application and I need to use the HttpServerUtility.MapPath method which seems to be only available via HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath. The problem is that HttpContext.Current is null when the Timer.Elapsed event fires. Is there another way to get a reference to a HttpServerUtility obje...
I run Vista (business x32) on my work machine, in which I do ASP.NET development. Because I use IIS to server the sites I build (I do a lot of CMS integrations so I need to use IIS not the inbuilt web development server) I always need to attach to w3wp for debugging. The problem is that w3wp requires elevated permissions for me to conne...
Like in Windows Forms: Dim myForm as New AForm(Constr-arg1, Constr-arg2) myForm.Show ... is there a similar way to Load a Page in ASP.Net. I would like to overload the Page Constructor and instantiate the correct Page Contructor depending on the situation. ...
I want to change the standard "3D" look of the standard asp.net checkbox to say solid 1px. If I try to apply the styling to the Border for example it does just that - draws the standard checkbox with a border around it - which is valid I guess. Anyway, is there a way to change how the actual textbox is styled? ...
I want to implement Generics in my Page Class like : Public Class MyClass(Of TheClass) Inherits System.Web.UI.Page But for this to work, I need to be able to instantiate the Class (with the correct Generic Class Type) and load the page, instead of a regular Response.Redirect. Is there a way to do this ? ...
I have an .asmx in a folder in my application and I keep getting a 401 trying to access it. I have double and triple checked the setting including the directory security settings. It allows anonymous. I turned off Windows Authentication. If I delete the application and the folder its in, then redeploy it under the same application na...