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tracking down slow performance of an ASP.NET web page

Hi, I want to find out the reason for slow performance of some web pages of an ASP.NET intranet website. the reasons could be many like large view state, number of round trips to the server and database, inefficient code in UI/middle tier etc. most of these slow pages are complex web pages with some third party controls, user controls...

How to ensure website security checks

Hi; How to safe gaurd a form against script injection attacks. This is one of the most used form of attacks in which attacker attempts to inject a JS script through form field. The validation for this case must check for special characters in the form fields. Look for suggestions, recommedations at internet/jquery etc for permissible ch...

EndpointNotFoundException in webservice call from website, but not from console application

I'm getting this EndpointNotFoundException on a webservice call from a website, while the same exact call works if I do it from a console application. Here's the more detailed exception message: Could not connect to https://******. TCP error code 10060: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond aft...

How to tell if the requested URL is HTTPS behind a content switch that call the server on http?

I have classic asp web page in which I am calling an XML source using MSXML2 on an IIS box. MSXML2 requires a full URL http://www.dom.com/path etc. and this all work very well until I tried to install on a server behind a content switch on https url. After some debuging I worked out the that the content switch didn't have path for http ...

publishing asp.net website give "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." error

Good day I am using VS 2008 I am getting fed up with this error. I have search all over the web and tried every possible suggestion to this error I could find. 1. delete app_code, build, add files back, publish. (did not work) 2. delete temporary asp.net files (did not work) in the end I even tried the command line and get the followi...

How do you make a webpage "fall apart" (like the Wario Shake it ad on Youtube)?

I was just wondering if anyone had any idea how they made this page http://www.youtube.com/wariolandshakeit2008 If anyone has a tutorial on how to do something like this, please tell me! ...

Website Changes not taking effect

So, I am updating some images on the left side of the website (dog-a-holics.com) I added in the category tree another category - specifically Dog ID Tags. I've edited the index file which is named index.new.html. However, it's not showing up. I noticed that the site main page keeps going to index.php. If I go to dog-a-holics.com/inde...

Alternative to using java applet for bank websites

Hi all, this is a question for all coders developing online banking websites for banks. Why do banks all use java applet for their online banking websites? basically if you don't have JRE installed, you can't use thier websites. if it is for security reasons, isn't SSL good enough? ...

browser showing half progress bar even after page is fully rendered

Hi, what could be the reason if browser is showing progress bar (stuck at half) as if it is still trying to load something, even after the page is rendered. this is an intranet ASP.NET website. how can I find out the reason? the browser is IE8. actually this started after the browser is upgraded from IE6 to IE8. not sure if this issue ...

Does Facebook Connect Increase registration

Is there data on whether or not facebook connect (or similar, friendconnect, openid) actually increase registration? One of my friends is adamant on it despite my misgivings, so I am looking for some hard data if available. Thanks! Edit: I understand this might vary depending on site audience, so let's just assume that my site's users...

How much Work-power and time does it take for building website like stackoverflow ?

Hi I'm wondering building a website like StackOverFlow (approximately the same features using ASP.NET ) How much Work-power and time does it take in your opinion . My boss has asked me to estimate for work-power , time , cost and suitable technologies . I appreciate any direction . ...

how to completely Hide website from search engines?

Whats the best recommended way yo hide my staging website from search engines, i Googled it and found some says that i should put a metatag, and some said that i should put a text file inside my website directory, i want to know the standard way. my current website is in asp.net, while i believe that it must be a common way for any webs...

looking for a Python based web-app to serve files

I am looking for a Python-based alternatives for AutoIndex PHP Script. Preferably it runs under WSGI. The features of AutoIndex are listed here and there is also a live demo. Note: + I'm not looking for a web server. My shared web hosting doesn't allow me to run my own background process. + Neither am I looking for web frameworks (I am...

Having issues debugging website with VS2008

Hello SO: I am attempting to debug a website on Windows XP. To be more specific, I am trying to debug an install of SiteFinity CMS. This CMS was installed via Microsoft's Web Platform Installer. It was installed to the default location of C:\Inetput\wwwroot. The first error I got when attempting to debug the website with VS2008 was rel...

Getting page background to continue on iPhone

I have a background image repeated from top to bottom, and on PC it looks fine, but on the iPhone or droid it does not continue. The footer is above the bottom of the page and the page background does not continue on the iPhone/Droid but it sits at the bottom on a regular computer webpage. Any tips? ...

Implementing search engine into website

Hi, I want to develop a website with its own search engine. I would like to use some sort of web framework for all this development, like Django or Rails. The search would be based on vector space model (data is represented as term-by-document matrix). Everything would be running on one server, there would be no extra server for informa...

How would you implement a "who is online" feature?

I have been meaning to implement a "who is online" feature on my site. Was wondering how would you decide if a user is online or not? Some options are: Last seen, less than N minutes ago (what is N?) A comet server with long polling Something else ...

Open source web development framework

Hi All, I am a C++ developer. I want to develop a website in which I plan to put User accounts User groups Alerts based on user preferences Can anybody suggest the best open source framework that I can use to create this website. I hope that the framework would provide basic underlying infrastructer like session management etc. In s...

Software to check webpage in multiple browser?

I am working in creating a website and i want to check in multiple browsers for compability test without manually opening each browser and check the website. Do you guys know if there is any software where i can just give a link and it loads the page in multiple browsers? ...

Data exchange with remote server in Android

Hello! I'm building an application for android which collects user data. Also I'm going to build a website which will use that data where users can have an account and synchronize data with phone and website (I guess it's quite common setup). Site will be using MySQL database, but I want it to be database independent using some kind of...