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ASP.NET Single Login - Is distributing session the answer

We have 5 balanced web servers with various websites. What I am trying to achieve is to ensure a single login. i.e. the same user account cannot login to the same website more than once at any given time. The method i'm considering for solving this, is to share session amongst the servers so I can control which session is assigned to w...

Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'this._postBackSettings.async' is null or not an object

I have report on my asp page and every time I change a filter and click view report, I get this error: Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'this._postBackSettings.async' is null or not an object I tried change the EnablePartialRendering="true" to EnablePartialRendering="false" but then people can't login on the site ...

Google 404 and .Net Custom Error Pages

This question has two parts really so even if you can help with just one part that will help me out a bit! I've got an asp.net 2.0 website with a custom 404 page. When content is not found the site serves the custom 404 page with a query string addition of aspxerrorpath=/mauro.aspx. The 404 page itself is served with an http status of...

Caching the sessionfactory

As far as I've gathered (read: measured), building the configuration and the sessionfactory by far takes the most time in executing a query using nhibernate. Is there anything against making the sessionfactory static, so it will only be configured once per appDomain? I know there are locking and racing issues when using this approach, b...

ASP.NET user login best practises

I want to make a login system using ASP.NET (MVC). The last one I did was in PHP and it was 4 years ago. I have looked a bit on the internet, and found some bad examples that involved SQL in Click events. Other information pointed to the ASP.NET built-in membership provider. However, I want to roll my own. I don't want to use the built...

How to initialize ConnectionStrings collection in NUnit

I want to test ASP.NET application using NUnit, but it seems WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings collection is empty when running from NUnit GUI. Could you tell me how to initialize this collection (probably in [SetUp] function of [TestFixture])? Should I copy Web.config somethere? Thank you! ...

Default port for SQL Server

I need to know the default port settings for the following services SQL Server SQL Browser SQL Reporting services SQL Analysis services I neeed to know the port settings for these services for different versions of SQL Server (2000,2005,2008) Also let me know whether the default port setting will change based on sql server versions...

Using jQuery to Highlight Selected ASP.NET DataGrid Row

Hi, It is easy to highlight a selected datagrid row, by for example using toggleClass in the tr's click event. But how best to later remove the highlight after a different row has been selected? Iterating over all the rows to unhighlight them could become expensive for larger datagrids. I'd be interested in the simplest solution, ...

How do I create an Xml file using templating similar to ASP.NET

I need to generate an XML file in C#. I want to write the code that generates this in a file that is mostly Xml with code inside of it as I can in an ASP.NET MVC page. So I want a code file that looks like: <lots of angle brackets...> <% foreach(data in myData) { %> < <%= data.somefield %> <% } %> More angle bracke...

What Happened to ASP.Net Mobile Web Forms?

Previously Visual Studio had templates for mobile web forms (not the mobile SDK). They appear to be gone in Visual Studio 2008 and the only solution I've seen is to download some templates from Omar here: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2007/09/17/tip-trick-asp-net-mobile-development-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx Is this supp...

Is there any way to programmatically set the application name in Elmah?

I need to change the app name based on what configuration I'm using in Visual Studio. For example, if I'm in Debug configuration, I want the app name to show as 'App_Debug' in the Application field in the Elmah_Error table. Does anyone have any experience with this? Or is there another way to do it? ...

How do I setup remote debugging from scratch for an Asp.Net app

I would like to be able to step through an application deployed to a remote location which as yet has nothing bar version 3.5 of the .Net framework. What steps do I need to go through to achieve this and how long would you envisage this taking? ...

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Edition from Classic ASP or ASP.NET

We have a new installation of Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Edition on one server and it's nicely indexing our intranet (on another server) which we can search from the provided search form on the search server. I'd like to customise the search results so that they actually look like our intranet has generated them and also place...

MVP pattern - Passive View and exposing complex types through IView (Asp.Net, Web Forms)

Hi, I've recently switch to MVP pattern with a Passive View approach. I feel it very comfortable to work with when the view interface exposes only basic clr types, such as string mapped to TextBoxes, IDictionary mapped to DropDownLists, IEnumerable mapped to some grids, repeaters. However, this last approach works only when from those...

What to learn first?

I went to school for programming years ago and when I got out I found a job in system administration and that is the direction my career took. I'd like to get back into development of some sort and have been 'playing' with C# and ASP.NET, but I've been hearing lots of buzz for other 'new' languages (by new I mean that they are new to me)...

Flex/Flash Debugging in the Browser

I'm having an issue with a Flash/Flex erroring in Firefox but not IE. I need to see the error that the Flash/Flex app is getting from the ASP.NET app. Is there any way to debug the response that Flash/Flex is getting? ...

Updating UI After Asynchronous WebMethod Calls

Greetings! I have a WebService that contains a WebMethod that does some work and returns a boolean value. The work that it does may or may not take some time, so I'd like to call it asynchronously. [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.com/")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] [System.ComponentModel.Toolb...

How can I call a javascript function from inside a method?

I am inside of... public class bgchange : IMapServerDropDownBoxAction { void IServerAction.ServerAction(ToolbarItemInfo info) { Some code... and after "some code" I want to trigger [WebMethod] public static void DoSome() { } Which triggers some javascript. Is this possible? Ok, switch methods here. I was able to ca...

Dropdown controls in ASP.NET 2.0

I am using a codebehind page in ASP.NET to perform a SQL query. The query is loaded into a string, the connection is established (To Oracle), and we get it started by having the connection perform .ExecuteReader into a OleDBDataReader (We'll call it DataRead). I'll try to hammer out an example below. (Consider Drop as an ASP DropDownL...

Find controls on sharepoint master page

I'm trying to loop through all the controls on a sharepoint page, for the purposes of testing i just want to output the control ID this is the code i'm using Public Shared Sub SubstituteValues3(ByVal CurrentPage As Page, ByRef s As StringBuilder) 'Page() '- MasterPage '- HtmlForm '- ContentPlaceHolder '- The TextBo...