I have a solution that contains two projects. One project is an ASP.NET Web Application Project, and one is a class library. The web application has a project reference to the class library. Neither of these is strongly-named. In the class library, which I'll call "Framework," I have an endpoint behavior (an IEndpointBehavior implementa...
I am considering the purchase of some .NET user controls with interest in both WinForms and asp.net. I have trialed in the past devexpress when I needed a hierarchical data grid for a personal project which I was impressed with. Rather than just jump for them I am interested in peoples experience of different products such as: TelerikDev...
I'm trying to implement a server control that frobs a couple of files inside the web directory of an ASP.NET site. I'm using VS Web Dev Express 2008 as my IDE. When I call HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath to get a path to the web root so I can find those files, it returns C:. What the heck? Absolute paths work just fine, but ...
SQL Server profiler is great for profiling SQL Server performance for web apps. However, when I'm testing my webapp I'd like a summary of database hits/duration per page. Does anybody know of any utilities for giving you this kind of information? ...
I have a scenario where I'm not really sure my approach is the best one, and I would appreciate feedback / suggestions. scenario: I have a bunch of flash based (swf) 'modules' which are hosted in my aspnet application. Each flash has it's own directory on the filesystem, which contains assets for the flash. Consider this simplified site...
We're running on .NET 3.5 SP1. Recently, in IE, some of our users started getting "Out of Memory" errors once in a while. This doesn't happen all the time. I managed to replicate it a couple times and I found that this code, from the AjaxControlToolkit.Common.Common.js file, was causing an infinite loop: AjaxControlToolkit.TextBoxWrapp...
Edit: Now I need to solve this problem for real, I did a little more investigation and came up with a number of things to reduce duplicate content. I posted detailed code samples on my blog: Reducing Duplicate Content with ASP.NET MVC First post - go easy if I've marked this up wrong or tagged it badly :P In Microsoft's n...
Hey guys, I need help. I want to recreate the the update panel postback without using a update panel to do the postback. What is the generic method for doing this? For example, on stackoverflow, when you vote up or down on a question it does a postback to update the database and I would bet they didn't use an update panel. What do I...
How do most people handle updating ASP.NET applications running in a webfarm? I am having the problem that because the app is in use and the request affitnity is not sticky, when we push the update users run into errors as the process requests the request might be handled by the wrong version of the application. How do you do this? Take...
In my ASP.NET application using InProc sessions, Session_End calls a static method in another object to do session-specific clean up. This clean up uses a shared database connection that I am storing in application state. The problem is that I cannot see how to access the application state without passing it (or rather the database con...
I'm running into an issue where I have a FileUpload control in an UpdatePanel. When I attempt to save changes and upload the file, no file is found. If I remove the UpdatePanel everything seems to work fine. Any ideas why this might be happening? And is there a work-around? ...
Here's my code in a gridview that is bound at runtime: ... <asp:templatefield> <edititemtemplate> <asp:dropdownlist runat="server" id="ddgvOpp" /> </edititemtemplate> <itemtemplate> <%# Eval("opponent.name") %> </itemtemplate> </asp:templatefield> ... I want to bind the dropdownlist "ddgvOpp" but i don'...
I can get both System.Net.Mail and System.Web.Mail to work with GMail, but I can't get them both to work with smtp.att.yahoo.com. I get the SMTP settings from my own Web.config keys. These settings work when I send using System.Web.Mail, but fail with System.Net.Mail. <add key="SmtpServer" value="smtp.att.yahoo.com"/> <add key="Smt...
I have a contract in the offering from a client to develop an intranet application for capturing/manipulating/displaying a fairly complex set of marketing data. I've done this sort of thing before so the analysis, database etc. holds no issues for me, but the client would most likely prefer ASP.NET as they have some (small) amount of ex...
I have the option of storing data in memory either as an XML document or multi-table ADO dataset. The web page utilizing this object will be selectively retrieving data items based on keys. Does either of these objects have a clear performance advantage over the other? ...
I need to retrieve a set of Widgets from my data access layer, grouped by widget.Manufacturer, to display in a set of nested ASP.NET ListViews. The problem is that (as far as I can tell) the nested ListView approach requires me to shape the data before using it, and I can't figure out the best approach to take. The best I've been able t...
Can someone please explain how to remove the background/borders off an embedded CrystalReportViewer control in Visual Studio 2008. I'm trying to remove the light gray (below the "Crystal Report" heading) and then the darker gray underneath that. I want to be left with only the white box and the report inside this. This is the output I'...
I know what ViewData is and use it all the time, but in ASP.NET Preview 5 they introduced something new called TempData. I normally strongly type my ViewData, instead of using the dictionary of objects approach. So, when should I use TempData instead of ViewData? Are there any best practices for this? ...
I am exploring ASP.NET MVC and I wanted to add jQuery to make the site interactive. I used StringTemplate, ported to .Net, as my template engine to generate html and to send JSON. However, when I view the page, I could not see it. After debugging, I've realized that the $ is used by the StringTemplate to access property, etc and jQuery u...
Specifically, in VS 2008, I want to connect to a data source that you can have by right-clicking on the automatically-generated App_Data folder (an .mdf "database"). Seems easy, and it is once you know how. I just figured out how to do this. I'll post my answer below, which will include the one thing no tutorial on MSDN included that ha...