Hi, I was working in a web-application which uses the Adpeters to render the controls for some of the controls. I was adding a new control to a page which has already using a control rendered by the adapter. Can we make the rendering of the adapter more conditional ? If possible on control basis ? Thanks. ...
I believe that In the past the decision as to how to deploy your application was largely a technology / architecture problem. How must I implement my code to best solve the technical problem at hand? Now I believe it is much more of a market decision. How can I reach the biggest market? What type of software do people now pay for? T...
I was looking into playing around with Python 3.0. My plan was to build a cutesy web-app in Django, but I don't think that Django support Python 3 at this stage (the last release was before Python 3 came out). What Python web development frameworks out there currently support Python 3.0? ...
Hi there, we are maintaing a database of image media in a large scale webapplication. The high resolution jpgs are big (> 15MB) and must not be made available for download in any way. Now we need to provide access to the details (crops) of the images to the clients (like a zoom-in function). The client should see a downskaled version of...
I am moving my ASP.NET website to a WepApp. I am of course having trouble with the Profile Provider. I have seen many workarounds. I just need a simple way to have user information available server-side without having to go to the DB every time. Profile was a good option until I tried to make it a WebApp. Is there a better way? ...
I develop a web application that needs to be load balanced across 4 webservers. My company is purchasing the load balancer hardware (Cisco). There is confusion on how to tell the load balancer that a webserver should be in the rotation. The IT Hardware support team wants me to create a one page web application that will sit next to the...
Is there a best practice for instantiating / calling business logic layer service in a web app? I've got a large number services that I keep instantiating and then disposing for just one method call. Should these be implemented as providers? Or maybe accessed from a singleton? Example code: void ShipProduct(){ ProductService serv...
Hi, I'm working on a new project, a web application, where I need to focus the user on a particular task. Therefore I want to eliminate all other "System Generated Noise", like Browser Menus, Buttons, Address Bar, OS Task Bar and so forth. I have seen implementations like Lightbox, but this modal approach is limited to the size of the b...
I'm in the trade of developing business web applications. They are mostly internal-use, sometimes with a partner zone, but rarely available to the public internet. They are applications that help companies run their business. For some time now I have an idea bugging me - why not use Flash for them? Up to now it's been ASP.NET + AJAX, wh...
What methods to you use to determine what kind of hardware you need for a server? I often find its very hard to predict what kind of hardware you will need for a web based application with a database. Do you have any good methods or recommendations on how to best pick hardware to use? ...
At my job, I have to implement web forms for loan applications with sometimes up to a hundred different input fields, and then save the application into the database for later retrieval. The person whom I replaced created a sql table with 100s of columns where each row represents a loan application and there is a column for every field....
I am looking for information about providing a license, or "terms of use", for a web application. The Wikipedia article is very limited, and it seems that unlike "downloadable" software (or perhaps "installable" software, for lack of a better term), for which there is much more information, not so much has been written specifically for t...
Our company has a fairly large ASP.NET web application. The app is already broken up into distinct 'areas' of business functionality. I'm looking for some strategies we can use to split this web application into separate buildable/versionable modules. Primary goal being to: Enable us to deploy the web app with only select areas of func...
Now is time to write all for web-based applications? Write web applications is slower than winforms-based applications? When to write web based and when to write desktop based? ...
I have an html page that contains startdate and enddate as user inputs. I need to let the user choose from a calendar for these inputs, instead of requiring the user to type the dates. Can you suggest anything to help? ...
We have a web application that takes user inputs or database lookups to form some operations against some physical resources. The design can be simply presented as following diagram: user input <=> model object <=> database storage validations are needed with request coming from user input but NOT when coming from database lookup hits ...
I need to write a new application, and have no experience with any new technology, framework, or language. Here are the requirements: HTML front end (best if it's cross-browser friendly) Web deployable, but also ideally want to be able to install as standalone on a desktop SQL Server database Ideally, would like to use a good (and easy...
I am now responsible for a Rails application that was built in a very quick-and-dirty fashion. It has many view files (html templates) that are not used. It also has many css files that are not used. What is the best way to determine which files are no longer needed so they can be deleted? I'm looking for a generic solution and not a R...
If I'd like to control the IP phone from my web application, how should I begin? Let's say I have a standalone IP phone connected to the provider of IP telephony services. On the other side I have a server-side web application for the sales support. I'd like to initiate a call on my phone from this web application, on the other side I'd...
I have a scenario where I have a web application hosted externally (ie: the webserver is not a member of my internal active directory domain). I would like to authenticate users of the web app using their active directory credentials. Is there a product or some setup I can use to accomplish this? ...