I have a client whose desired Web UI is graphically intense; we would like to gather statistics on the average bandwidth of those connecting to the site. Is there an easy way to do that? The "simplest thing that could possibly work" would seem to be a Flash or Silverlight component that times the download of a file of some size (say 200K...
How is programming on the internet going to change in the next 5 - 10 years? I don't mean general stuff, but what impact specific technologies will be most likely to have, which will end up by the wayside, which will be most likely to endure. For example, will SilverLight become huge, kill flash, and make the Internet a Microsoft Meca ...
If you are trying to position your web application as "social" (or Web 2.0), what are the top features you should implement? A decent starting point is this page, but even this perhaps goes a little too far (I think the bar is likely lower). ...
I used to understand "beta" as "feature-complete". Web applications rarely are ever feature-complete and rather evolve slowly with time. So does "beta" have any specific meaning with them or is it just a gimmick? ...
I'm loading an iFrame and want the parent to automatically change the height based upon the height of the iFrame's content. To simply things, all pages belong to the same domain, so I shouldn't run into cross-site scripting issues. ...
I have an ASP.NET 2.0 website created in VS2008 and I need to migrate it to a web application. I have not had much luck so far. How do I figure out how to do this? ...
We are deploying our ASP.NET 3.5 app to a production server for beta testing. Each page is secured using SSL. On our homepage (default.aspx) we have web services which populate flash objects. I am getting an error: The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'. The authentication header received from ...
I am building a relatively simple django app and apart from the main page where most of the dynamic parts of the application are, there are a few pages that I will need that will not be dynamic at all (About, FAQ, etc.). What is the best way to integrate these into django, idealing still utilizing the django template engine? Should I jus...
Hi I have created a base class A and a class B is a derived class inherited from class A. Both classes are marked as Serialized. When I try to return an object of type B through a web method i am getting following error: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to proce...
It seems that HTML 5 is going to be supported (partially) by Firefox 3.1 and other browsers. It is adding support for video and audio as tags, but these are new tags that XHTML 1.0 Transitional does not recognize. What is the behavior supposed to be if I use a new HTML 5 tag in a future version of Firefox but use the DTD for XHTML? And w...
I need to schedule several different pages on several different sites to be run at certain times, usually once a night. Is there any software out there to do this? it would be nice if it called the page and then recorded the response and whether the called page was successful run or not. I was using Helm on a different box and it had ...
We have a fairly complex web application (.NET 3.5) that need to be launched from a CD-ROM (or DVD, or from an USB key). I'm thinking of using Cassini and SqlCe for the database (we use LinqToSql for data access, so I think it's the only choice without rewriting the entire data access classes). Is anyone ever done something like that? ...
I've been asked to build 'widgets' that let users of a web application install a desktop, or web-based widget which will provide: Notifications of new content. Personalized access to key performance indicators I'm looking for some information to inform our requirements and design discussions. On the desktop you can target the Vista ...
How do you screen scrape ajax pages? ...
I'm hosting an ASP.NET web application on a Sharepoint 2007 box, which makes a web service call to Sharepoint to retrieve a document location (specifically, the GetListItems method). The service is consumed with passed credentials of a valid Sharepoint account with appropriate permissions. ListServiceWrapper listService = new ListServi...
Last week I implemented a date validation in our front end, a combination of ASP.NET and heavily dependent on lots of JavaScript code to avoid server round-trips until a form is actually saved. I felt it clumsy that this rule check is not done on the server, but our current architecture and performance requirements prevent this. It's o...
We're looking for a cheapish, easy-to-use stress testing tool to record a user's flow through our website and then hammer it with that script until it falls over. Our requirements are: 1) Certain URL's need to be called with a Session Id that is returned in previous calls. So there must be some way of generating dynamic URL's based on d...
Say you had to develop a web-based application that needs to be able to read the contents of a .NET DLL, and from that, populate the local database with a list of all the namespaces, classes, etc. It has to also do the same thing with Java JAR files. Are there limitations on what language I could use to develop this? I'm leaning towar...
Greetings, Here's the problem I'm having. I have a page which redirects directly to another page the first time it is visited. If the user clicks 'back', though, the page behaves differently and instead displays content (tracking session IDs to make sure this is the second time the page has been loaded). To do this, I tell the user's...
I used web site deployment projects but I discovered that the aspnet_merge.exe utility is not on my build server. This prevents me from being able to build. In order to get this utility I have to install the Windows SDK which comes as an ISO file and is over 1gb. I do not want to install this entire thing when I all I need is that one as...