I wrote a windows service using VB that read some legacy data from Visual Foxpro Databases to be inserted in SQL 2005. The problem is this use to run fine in Windows server 2003 32-Bits, but the client recently moved to Windows 2003 64-Bits and now the service won't work. I'm getting a message the the VFP .NET OLEdb provider is not found...
Hi, We need to replace the menu system in our main ASP.NET application. So naturally we're looking at the ASP.NET SiteMapProvider and Menu controls. However we also need enough security to prevent users from directly entering URLs that they shouldn't have access to. We can do this by putting entries in web.config and securing them indi...
For many years I have had a low-traffic mailing list at freelists.org to provide users of my hobby software projects with updates about releases and other news. Recently I noticed they now send out monthly reminders to everyone subscribing to any of their hosted lists, informing them which lists the user is subscribed to. I don't want ...
Oracle 11g version of ODP.Net introduces the provider model objects (session state provider, identity provider etc) which lets the application to store these information in an oracle DB without writing custom provider implementation. Has anyone has done any performance benchmarking on these objects? how do they compare in performance to...
For the life of me, I cannot get the SqlProfileProvider to work in an MVC project that I'm working on. The first interesting thing that I realized is that Visual Studio does not automatically generate the ProfileCommon proxy class for you. That's not a big deal since it's simpy a matter of extending the ProfileBase class. After creati...
We are looking for a reliable "current weather" web service for Europe, with city resolution. We only need the current weather. Since it is for a commercial web site, we don't mind paying a reasonable fee for the service. What are our options? What service would you recommend or avoid based on previous experience? Note: SOAP Web Serv...
I wonder whether there is a workaround for using the standard XmlSiteMapProvider within a non asp.net application, like WinForm/Console or, in my case, VS Unit Test one. The following code fails, because it cannot create a path to the .sitemap file inside a private GetConfigDocument method. XmlSiteMapProvider provider = new XmlSiteMapP...
I have looked over the Repository pattern and I recognized some ideas that I was using in the past which made me feel well. However now I would like to write an application that would use this pattern BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE ENTITY CLASSES DECOUPLED from the repository provider. I would create several assemblies : an "Interfaces...
We are embarking on a grand/huge project which will take us around 1 full year of coding (by 4 developers) to get off the launch pad. It is a complete Business Management System. We can use any commercially available RDBMS like Oracle, MS SQL Server, etc. but we are looking out to use freeware and open source RDBMS system like FireBird...
There were supposedly some classes in the LINQ to SQL provider model that were sealed--but I never really figured out exactly which classes need to be 'unsealed' in order to use it. Hypothetically speaking, which classes do I need to unseal to enable the provider model? [EDIT: I know that the sealed keyword means that it's not supposed...
I have been playing around w/ ASP.NET's Membership, Roles, and Profile providers. In doing so, I recently set up Microsoft Sample's custom Table Profile Provider (see: http://www.asp.net/downloads/sandbox/table-profile-provider-samples/) When I run the test solution I have programatic access to the Profile variables. I.e. I can type P...
What should I do to get my content provider to return the _count column with the count of records? The documentation says it is automatic, but maybe it's only taking about some built-in content provider. Running a query to the database seems not to return it. ...
I'm maintaining a web application that utilizes the provider pattern as described below, for configuration purposes. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972319.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972370.aspx Everything has been working fine, but as we add functionality to our application, we are finding that our prov...
using asp.net and c# membership provider how to check if the user is registered or not? I want to handle this in code not by using "login status"? ...
Hi, I am trying to implement the provider pattern in a custom web control. I am still trying to understand the pattern and I have the following questions. Is the default provider the provider that is always going to be used when my control loads? From what I can tell the provider used will always be the default but I am not sure becaus...
Note that this is for Mac OS X, although I imagine my problem would exist on any dtrace-capable OS. I have an app that utilizes a lot of plugins. I'm adding userland probes to it, in both the core application and in the plugins themselves. The issue is that if I use the same provider name in the plugins that the main app is using, tho...
I'd like to write a custom role provider for my application, which has existing users and roles tables. I'm looking for a reference on that, which: doesn't require machine.config changes (I see this a lot in custom role architectures), supports master pages that may be applied to child pages that require different rights. ...
I'm using the standard out-of-the-box aspnet membership provider, and I have the following settings in the web.config: <anonymousIdentification enabled="false"/> <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms cookieless="AutoDetect" loginUrl="~/XXXX.aspx" name="XXXXAuth" slidingExpiration="true" timeout="432000"/> </authentication> ... <membe...
I am trying to figure out what is the best way to connect an (existing) ASP.Net application to an Oracle database to read its dictionary information. There are simply too many possibilities: MS Data Provider for Oracle (requires 8.1.7, namespace System.Data.OracleClient) Oracle Data Provider for .NET (requires 9.2, namespace Oracle.Da...
I have the source for the sqlMembershipProvider and the sqlRolesProvider that MS ships and I want to modify it to use my own tables and schema. I have an existing solution that will use this provider and I'd like to debug the provider code within that solution until I'm sure it works. How do I set up my provider code in a project with...