I`d like to be able to read the content of office documents (for a custom crawler). The office version that need to be readable are from 2000 to 2007. I mainly want to be crawling words, excel and powerpoint documents. I don`t want to retrieve the formatting, only the text in it. The crawler is based on lucene.NET if that can be of ...
I've started using Visual Studio 2008 and it keeps asking me to upgrade my 2.0 website project to 3.5 every time it opens. What effectively happens when I "upgrade" a website project from 2.0 to 3.5 in Visual Studio? Does it update my web.config? How exactly does it change my project/website/code? Is there a potential for any 2.0 met...
Can someone explain when to use each of these? They almost seem interchangeable in many cases. The Custom Control gets added to the toolbar while the User Control (ascx) can not. The Custom Control does not get rendered in the Designer while the User Control does. Beyond that, how do you choose which is the right one to use? Als...
I'm wondering what is the best way to handle error messages in your application. Currently I'm working on a web application and all error messages are stored in the database and we get them by ID, negative is an error ,positive are success messages. the problem with that is hard to maintain and keep tracking of text messages. What ar...
The cascading dropdown control works great except that I am unable to figure out a way to reset the dropdown client-side (in Javascript) My set up is something like this DD1 DD2 DD3 DD4 each DD is dependent on the previous DD and uses webservice to load them. On change of DD3 I need to reset DD4 but the previous selection stays. C...
I am starting a new ASP.NET MVC project to learn with, and am wondering what's the optimal way to set up the project(s) to connect to a SQL server for the data. For example lets pretend we have a Product table and a product object I want to use to populate data in my view. I know somewhere in here I should have an interface that gets i...
I have an int array as a property of a Web User Control. I'd like to set that property inline if possible using the following syntax: <uc1:mycontrol runat="server" myintarray="1,2,3" /> This will fail at runtime because it will be expecting an actual int array, but a string is being passed instead. I can make myintarray a string and p...
Currently I am working on a web page that has six ReportViewer controls that are using remote processing and that allow for drill-down. When a user clicks on one control the entire page refreshes and the other five reports all refresh as well. Users are currently requesting that the refreshing of the other controls be removed in favor of...
I know this is a dumb question. For some reason my mind is blank on this. Any ideas? Sorry should have been more clear. Using a HtmlGenericControl to pull in link description as well as image. private void InternalCreateChildControls() { if (this.DataItem != null && this.Relationships.Count > 0) { ...
Is it possible to call a JavaScript function from the IMG SRC tag to get an image url? Like this: <IMG SRC="GetImage()" /> <script language="javascript"> function GetImage() {return "imageName/imagePath.jpg"} </script> This is using .NET 2.0. ...
I have some ASP.NET Master pages located in one assembly. I need to use these masterpages for my webform pages located in other asseblies that have a reference to the first assembly. I cannot seem to figure out a way to do this. Is there a nice way that I can do this? If you do not have a pretty solution I would also like to hear about...
Consider this code... using System.Threading; //... Timer someWork = new Timer( delegate(object state) { //Do some work here... }, null, 0, 60000); HttpContext.Current.Application["SomeWorkItem"] = someWork; Could this be dangerous? Caching a timer in the Application to perform some work in the background while yo...
I am re-designing an application for a ASP.NET CMS that I really don't like. I have made som improvements in performance only to discover that not only does this CMS use MS SQL but some users "simply" use MS Access database. The problem is that I have some tables which I inner join, that with the MS Access version are in two different f...
My ASP.NET MVC application will take a lot of bandwidth and storage space. How can I setup an ASP.NET upload page so the file the user uploaded will go straight to Amazon S3 without using my web server's storage and bandwidth? ...
My ASP.NET MVC application will take a lot of bandwidth and storage space. How can I setup an ASP.NET upload page so the file the user uploaded will go straight to Amazon S3 without using my web server's storage and bandwidth? ...
I have a website where people can upload documents, and view them later at their convenience. I store the binary info along with the mime type in my db, and later just stream the binary content straight to the browser. This works for for every file type except Office 2007 files. When I try to view the Office 2007 files, I get a popup re...
I have the task of integrating a web application with MS Outlook Exchange account. I want to read the inbox items, send, reply and delete messages. Are there any good vb or c# examples out there? ...
I have an ASP.NET application that will host multiple tenants (Software-as-a-Service style). Each tenant will have their own domain name (www.mydomain.com, www.yourdomain.com) and their own SSL certificate. Is there a way to host the application such that all of the tenants are on the same application instance? I know you can have mul...
Although ASP.NET MVC seems to have all the hype these days, WebForms are still quite pervasive. How do you keep your project sane? Let's collect some tips here. ...
E.g. we this code in the asp.net form codebihind: private void btnSendEmails_OnClick() { Send100000EmailsAndWaitForReplies(); } This code execution will be killed by the timeout reason. For resolving the problem I'd like to see something like this: private void btnSendEmails_OnClick() { var taskId = AsyncTask.Run( () => Send...