Suddenly I'm getting the following error on all web applications using dotNET 1.1 and trying to access MS SQL 2005. The applications and SQL server run on the same machine. System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException Message: General network error. Check your network documentation. I have googled the following and tried all suggested solution...
I am setting up windows performance monitor to log activity on a web server while running MS Web application stress tool. Which counters should I choose to give me the best picture of where I have bottlenecks, slow performance and response etc? cheers ...
This is more to understand the request-response mechanism in web apps. A client sends a request (GET / POST) to a web app. The web app has an application server running which serves as the container for the application specific programs. I don't understand the part when the app server starts a FastCGI / CGI process. What is the significa...
For a web-app product which would need to be installed by the customer on their own servers (think FogBugz or the self-hosted Wordpress package), which technology stack would result in a smoother/easier installation? Our target platforms are known: Windows/IIS/SQLSever and Linux/Apache/MySQL. But the technology stack to be used is bein...
Hi already wrote this observation and question on this question earlier, but only later noticed that it was an old and "dead" question. As I'd really like some insights from others, I'm reposting it as a new question. To the question of how to do authentication RESTfully, people generally enthousiastically shout "HTTP Authentication". H...
hi There, We have an application for which UI is built on Flex, and its consuming webservieces built on Dotnet hosted on IIS. we are trying to upload files which are around 100/200 megs , this works like a charm on LAN , if we try to do the same with web service hosted on public ip machines , then this would fail very often(obviously bc...
When i recycle the application pool for my web app via IIS MMC, the first user to request a page within the webapp will experience a really slow response from the site. After that initial request, every page there after is fine. The user could also log off the site, come back later and the speeds are quick. My concern is with the first, ...
I have a classic ASP app that I am trying to connect to a SQL Server 2008 database on a different server. The ASP app is being served from IIS7 on Windows Server 2008. I have changed the web site's application pool to run under a specific windows account, that I have verified has access to the database on the remote server. However, wh...
In Magento the default reports are very limiting. I have been trying to create custom reports that show more information. I have tried creating a module to recreate an existing report but am not having a lot of success. I know there is an easy way to change existing reports but it involves changing core file and wouldn't give the same f...
Need a way to connect to a unique SQL db via login in ASP classic. THE SETUP Webapp: ASP classic/SQL 2005. Webapp stores information for multiple companies. All data stored in one master SQL 2005. All db's will be on same server. Each user has a unique login (Company, User ID, Password) Connection is with master db include file us...
I have a solution file containing multiple web applications and components. Mostly these web applications operate independently of one another, but I need to be able to response.redirect from one application to another. This works, and the new page runs, but I can't step into the code in the second web app and debug it. I have both we...
Hi, I have updated my post according to the clarifications requested below. Thanks a lot. We have a web application that stores audio, video, and pictures in it. We didn't consider it before, but the digital files are being committed in and out when we do an svn export (publish). Obviously this isn't a good way to go. We have a ...
Want to hire a developer to develop a web app (or SaaS) that allows teachers to create and sell their courses online through the site. Much like ChalkBoard.com What skills should I be looking for in such a developer? Also, what kind of hosting service should I look for since this app would need to be able to handle many concurrent user...
How do we test a web application for the memory leaks? How much does it contribute to the overall performance of the site? Please suggest any tool which can help us test the web application for memory leaks. ...
What is the percentage of technologies used to construct various sites on the web? Is there any rating/counting available? Like ASP.NET xx percent, PHP xy percent, JSP xz percent, etc? ...
I deployed my asp.net web app project that has a reference to my DAL class library. How can I change the connection string in my DAL library once deployed? The DAL code was ignoring my web.config connection string and trying to use the app.config value. I thought I would be able to edit a config file that is associated with the class l...
I'm just interested in this scenario. Suppose you are building a web application, and would like to receive speech commands and execute actions based on the speech-to-text result. Any major roadblock that may otherwise make this a killer application? ...
I want to write a web version of an image processing application writen using winforms before. Which is prefered silverlight or xbab application? what is main differences of them? ...
In the past, I've handled user image uploads in two different ways: Save the image data in a database table, and load it via a PHP script Upload the image, convert it to jpeg, put it in a directory and load it via HTML tags The first option worked fairly well, but I had to keep fairly constraining size restrictions on uploaded images...
Lately I've been thinking a lot about building a website/blog/community oriented site. However I can't decide if it's a good idea to build it using Wordpress as a base. I've been reading around the Internet, and I've seen that many users have trouble with Wordpress using lot of CPU and other resource related problems. So, what do you t...