My forms are losing session variables on shared hosting very quickly (webhost4life), and I think I want to replace them with cookies. Does the following look reasonable for tracking an ID from form to form: if(Request.Cookies["currentForm"] == null) return; projectID = new Guid(Request.Cookies["currentForm"]["selectedProjectID"]); Re...
I have a C# Web application built in Visual Studio 2008 where we rely heavily on user controls for 'pre-built' blocks of ASP.NET. Instead of registering a big stack of user controls on each page, we register all the controls in a local (to a specific folder) web.config file. The advantage is that we can use the controls and the pages lo...
These two may look like they have no correlation but bear with me! In a previous version of the software I develop/maintain there was a web app sitting on top of a web service. There was a scheduled task that run every hour called one of the web methods to carry out some tasks. In the new architecture we now have a web application pr...
Hi All, I'm designing a user control, briefly it contains an asp:hiddenfield control, i'm going to access it via JavaScript function like this function doAnyThing { var myVar = document.getElementById("myHiddenFiled"); } but when I trace my code I found myVar assigned to null, does it matter document.getElementById() method i...
I have a dataSet populated from Excel Sheet. I wanted to use SQLBulk Copy to Insert Records in Lead_Hdr table where LeadId is PK. I am having following error while executing this code The given ColumnMapping does not match up with any column in the source or destination string ConStr=ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConSt...
When I use the Visual Studio menu Tool -> Generate Local Resource, it changed aspx file by adding meta attributes to controls. But it doesnt do so for user controls that I have created. For example, If I have used a control in the page <myControl:SpecialLabelControl ID="myLabel" runat="server" Text="Localize Me!" /> I want "Localize ...
i have a dinamically created table and in some of the cells i have an image button associated with the redBall_Click() handler (here is the code behind) TableCell cellOK = new TableCell(); cellOK.Style.Add(HtmlTextWriterStyle.TextAlign, "Center"); cellOK.Width = new Unit("3%"); ImageButton redBall = new ImageButton(); redBall.C...
Hey all, how can I get an "open file dialogue" box in Javascript? ::) Thanks in advance :) Edit: Duplicate of: open-file-dialogue-box-in-javascript and javascript-file-uploads ...
Hi I am developing a simple application based upon ASP.NET MVC. I have altered the default master.css to my have my own styles. Now the only problem is that i am adding background-image property to my one of my UL->Li->A to create menus. It is working fine in firefox but the images are not showing up at all in Internet explorer (IE7/8). ...
I have a GridView control on an ASP page, which I've bound to a large(ish) datasource (about 10k rows, with 24 varchar(50) columns). The page also has a seperate (i.e. not in the GridView) button control. The problem is; clicking on the button doesn't appear to fire either the PageLoad or the Button___click events, all I get is a 'Canno...
Basically, what I'm wondering is if I need to set debug="false" before hitting the "Publish Web Site" button or if I can switch it after all the files have been published. ...
We are setting up production servers (Windows Server 2003 R2 64-bit) for a web application that uses the Dundas Maps for ASP.Net component. After installation we receive the following error: "RunSilent has encountered a problem and needs to close." The question is, what on earth is RunSilent? A google search gets nothing of interest b...
I want to change Control(@Control) directive in a way to make it redistributable and want to use ClassName attribute so I changed this From : <%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="ProductShower.ascx.cs" Inherits="MyCompany.Web.Controls.ProductShower" %> To : <%@ Control Language="C#" ClassName="MyCompany.Web.C...
I have a solution with 2 projects. In the first project a I have a website with a Logon Control. In the second project I have a WCF project with an AuthenticatonService configured. What is the easiest way to integrate both? In other word, How do I call the Authentication Service from the login control? EDIT: OK, what I mean is that by ...
I have a dropdown, I have a datasource, I have AutoPostBack set to true. I want to add a first entry to the datasource that says something like "--- select country ---" and selecting this entry won't cause postback. This feels like it should be easy to do, yet I can't seem to be able to find a good solution. Thanks. ...
Long ago I read a great book on C# and Visual Basic best practices: Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers by Francesco Balena, Giuseppe Dimauro This book was very helpful to me in its time, which dates back to ASP.NET 1.1. Please list some current best practices for ASP.NET, C#, ...
If I have a page with outputcaching (let's call it Employees.aspx) which accepts one parameter (through querystring) called Company like this: http://www.example.com/Employees.aspx?Company=Google How can I avoid duplicate page cache entries for differently cased URLs like: http://www.example.com/Employees.aspx?Company=GOOGLE http:/...
I have Reporting Services set up with Forms Authentication. Our app is sitting over Reporting Services and uses it's authentication extension as a Single Sign On. We have a simple logon page that we've got working in the past but on this one machine it refuses to post back when the logon button is clicked. I have Trace information inser...
I need a client-side script to confirm that the Timer's OnTick event can proceed. How do I invoke CanContinue() before the Timer1 postback occurs? How do I cancel the postback if user selects Cancel? <%@ Page Language="C#" %> <script runat="server"> protected void Timer1_OnTick(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response...
I'm rewriting a website and going from a home-grown authentication model where users logged in with their account id (numbers) and password, to .NET FormsAuthentication where users will login with a username that they choose (or is available) and a stronger password. There are over 38K existing accounts and I'm trying to decide if the ex...