What is the best method for utilizing a single code base for multiple websites? We have validation and session management libraries that we use on multiple websites. Is there a best practice for keeping a single copy rather than having to maintain updates of local copies for each website? ...
I have a web application that comprises the following: A web project (with a web.config file containing a connection string - but no data access code in the web project) A data access project that uses LINQ-SQL classes to provide entities to the web project UI (this project has a settings file and an app.config - both of which have con...
I'm looking for a way to configure the color used for line numbering (as in: :set nu) in Vim. The default on most platforms seems to be yellow (which is also used for some highlighted tokens). I would like to color the line numbers a dim gray; somewhere in the vicinity of #555. I'm not picky though, any subdued color would be acceptab...
I want some particular urls like "springer.com" to automatically convert to "springer.com.proxy1.mycollege.edu". The second url takes me to springer site through my college library gateway; I am able to access some parts that would otherwise be restricted. Is there some way to convert the url as above automatically in firefox 3? ...
Hi, Everytime that I do an 'hg diff file.ext' I end up using a console diff application. Is there a way to change that? I can't find a reference in Mercurial documentation (I'm not talking about merge!). I would like to use Kdiff3 or WinMerge (I'm using Windows). Thanks for your time. Best regards. ...
Hi guys I have a dependency that I need to inject into one of my classes. This dependency will be lifestyle of Transient. It inturn has a dependency of type Type. This type should be the type of the original class. I was just wondering if anyone has any idea how I might go about conducting this registration. See example: public interfa...
I'm looking for best practices for using the same data in different places without repeating yourself - this could include configuration or business rules. Example 1. Data validation rules where you want to validate on the client using javascript, but you want to make sure by validating on the server. Example 2. Database access where y...
What is people's prefered method of storing application configuration data in a database. From having done this in the past myself, I've utilised two ways of doing it. You can create a table where you store key/value pairs, where key is the name of the config option and value is its value. Pro's of this is adding new values is easy and...
I've been wondering this for a while but since it hasn't come up much I've left it in the 'mysterious wizardy' column. It seems to me that there is some sort of relationship between a connection identifier like ABC and ABC.DEFG and I don't quite get what it is. For example, a machine I was setting up just now I was having problems with...
Hi, When I restart my apache2 and reload a page, the log file shows boogie.tontut.fi - - [28/Oct/2008:03:27:49 +0200] "GET /test HTTP/1.1" 404 457 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3" ...as supposed to, as it's 03:27:49 now. However, when I click the refresh button again, th...
In my ASP.NET application I have a web.config file. In the web.config file I have a connection string... <connectionStrings> <add name="HRDb" connectionString="xxxxx" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> </connectionStrings> Yet, when I retrieve this value using ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStringsp["HRDb"], I get the my old ...
By default, .NET application's configuration file is named after "exe file name".config. I'm wondering whether it is possible to have one application's configuration specified dynamically. For example, the built application is "foo.exe". At runtime, the config file is "foo.exe.config". Is it possible to have it accept command line argum...
Hi all, This problem has several of us stumped in the office. We are all new to deploying ASP.NET apps to a web farm, and I am fresh out of ideas. We have a web farm, and the application is copied on to all of them. However, we are having a problem.. An exception is being thrown when trying to get settings from appSettings. Upon furth...
Hi, I remember hearing Joel say he has 2 different locations where the servers are located, each location has 2 front end servers and 1 back end server. If a one of the hosting facilities goes down, how can he switch over to the other one? (Or is it just going to be a DNS change that will take 24-72 hours to propagate?). How can a si...
I am configure log4net to use a composite RollingFileAppender so that the current file is always named logfile.log and all subsequent files are named logfile-YYYY.MM.dd.seq.log where seq is the sequence number if a log exceeds a certain size within a single day. Unfortunately, I have had very little success in configuring such a setup. ...
I am attempting to deploy .NET 2.0 web services on IIS that has both 1.0 and 2.0 installed. This web server primarily serves a large .NET 1.0 application. I have copied by .NET 2.0 web service project to the server and have created a virtual directory to point to the necessary folder. When I set the ASP.NET version to 2.0 in IIS, The...
I am attempting to deploy an ASP.NET 2.0 Web service application on an IIS server that currently serves a large .NET 1.0 web application. I have set up an appropriate virtual directory and have set the ASP.NET version for the virtual directory to 2.0, when I attempt to browse the site in a web-browser, I am prompted for a password. If ...
I am attempting to deploy an ASP.NET 2.0 Web service application on an IIS server that currently serves a large .NET 1.0 web application. I have set up an appropriate virtual directory and have set the ASP.NET version for the virtual directory to 2.0, when I attempt to browse the site in a web-browser, I am prompted for a password. If ...
I have some configuration values for an asp.net web app. They will be maintained by a system admin once the system goes live. Should I store these values in the database or in a config file? Is there a best practice for this sort of thing? ...
Anyone know if there is already a validator for "type" strings? I want to make sure that the type attributes in my custom config are one of the following: type="TopNamespace.SubNameSpace.ContainingClass, MyAssembly" type="TopNamespace.SubNameSpace.ContainingClass, MyAssembly, Version=1.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b17a5c5619...