asp.net

ASP.NET HTTP to HTTPS redirect with www prefix

I am using this simple code to redirect http to https on my billing landing page: if (!Request.IsSecureConnection) { // send user to SSL string serverName =HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"]); string filePath = Request.FilePath; Response.Redirect("https://" + serverName + filePath); } ...

ASP.NET Radiobutton list set to autopostback but not posting back if selected item changes

I have radiobuttonlist that i have set to autopostback, but when a user clicks a button, there is no postback. Any suggestions? ...

Is connection string name LocalSqlServer mandatory?

Hello, How do i configure connection string for Asp.Net Membership Provider? Do i have to write it by hand or any tool is available in Visual Studio where i can specify connection string as well as algorithm used to store password? I read one article and it specifies this connection string :- <configuration> <connectionStrings>...

How was the oracle padding attack on ASP.NET Fixed?

Microsoft released their out of band release to fix the security flaw in ASP.NET the yesterday. What methods did Microsoft use to end the viability of this vector? ...

how do I? simple scramble/encrypt string in server (ASP.NET) and unscramble/decrypt in javascript

Platform: Server - ASP.NET 3.5 / C#; client side - javascript/jQuery This is what I want to do Scramble a string in ASP.NET WebMethod (called through a jQuery Ajax call) before sending to the client Unscramble it in javascript and display I'm not looking at any sort of heavy duty encryption AES SHA whatever. I'm only interested in s...

What's the best way to implement a fulltext search for an ASP.NET MVC application?

I've built an ASP.NET MVC application with MVC 2.0 and Fluent NHibernate (hided behind repositories for some reasons). The application represents a quite complex domain with some different objects like users, messages, comments, files and appointments. Now I want to implement a fulltext search which is enabling the user to find easily a...

How to include ampersand in connection string password when using Entity Framework?

I'm using Entity Framework 4 for a simple app and would like to bake my connection credentials into the following connection string: <connectionStrings> <add name="MyEntities" connectionString="metadata=res://*/MyDataModel.csdl|res://*/MyDataModel.ssdl|res://*/MyDataModel.msl;provider=System.Data.SqlClient;provider conn...

ASP.NET with VS 2010: Web Site or Web Application?

When I start a new ASP.NET project in Visual Studio 2010, I can either create a new ASP.NET Web Site or an ASP.NET Web Application. What's the difference between these two project types? Why would I choose one over the other? Please note: this question is an exact duplicate of this one, but I'm asking specifically about Visual Studio 2...

Can content page use ContentPlaceHolderID of master parent of its master page (nested master pages)

I have a 3 level nested master pages and a content page. parent1 is the top parent, parent2 is parent of parent3 and parent3 is the parent of the content page. I get an error 'Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder xxx...' where xxx is a ContentPlaceholder. It resides in parent2 and content page is trying to fill it. Can content pages only u...

ASP.NET Declaritive Data Sources. Are they ever used if more than one table is invovled?

For typical examples I see of SqlDataSource, LinqDataSource... EVERY example deal with how to make changes to a Customer table where the Gridview/RADgrid directly represents the customer.. But in my case I have stored procedure which show data from multiple tables and make changes to multiple tables so it seems I am not a canidate for ...

NHibernate Collection Left Outer Join Where Clause Issue

It seems that when using the following NHibernate query, I do not get a root entity when the left outer join has no records. ICriteria critera = session.CreateCriteria(typeof(Entity)); criteria.CreateCriteria("SubTable.Property", "Property", NHibernate.SqlCommand.JoinType.LeftOuterJoin); criteria.Add(Expression.Not(Expression.Eq("Prop...

Is it true that the WebResource.axd can potentially return any file in the application?

There is a lot of discussion about todays fix for ASP.NET to prevent an attack that can be used to get the encryption keys from an application. In one discussion I read that it could also be used to make the WebResource.axd handler return any file in the application by forging the request parameters to point to a known file location (whe...

ASP.NET ERROR : Keyword not supported: 'provider'

My app fails at this line of code: Dim objConnection As New SqlConnection(Application("ConnString")) My connection string is: "Server=testAITSQL;Database=SSCommerce;UID=PlanoWebApp;PWD=XXXXXXXX;" I googled this problem and the solution for it was having a malformed connection string where the "provider" was being specified when it ...

When is ASP.Net 4 available on a server

Hi, i was building a new small website for an existing client, and thought about building it with ASP.Net 4. But in the apppoolsettings, i could only choose framework 2.0, so i guessed that 4.0 is not available on the server. Is it something i have to install on the server, or will it be installed via windows update somewhere in time? ...

SMTP Email from ASP.NET

I have an asp.net 4.0 web site that generates email alerts based on several different events throughout the site. I use the following code in a Utility.cs class that lives in my App_Code folder. Subject, body, and mailto are parameters being passed into the method. try { var mailmessage = new MailMessage(); mailmessage.From("a...

Forms Authentication Ignoring Default Document

Hello all, I have spent a day and a half trying to resolve this issue. Bascially have an ASP.net website with Forms Authentication on IIS7 using Framework 4.0. The Authorization stuff seems to be working perfectly for every scenario with the exception of hitting it with no document specifed (Should resolve to Default Doc). For exampl...

Losing session in ASP.NET C#

Hello, I'm having a problem of losing session variable on my website. It append at random times so there is no particular behavior that cause this. What can be the cause of this session lost? I've read everywhere on this site that I could put my session in "sql server" mode so everything is written on the server, can it be a solution? ...

Access asp:content from code behind

Ok, I am an experienced web developer but sometimes ASP.Net is tricking me. I have a master page in asp.net. Then I have a page based on that master page (home.aspx). Now in home.aspx.cs I want to access the asp:content controls to add controls programmatically. Aspx looks like this: <asp:Content ID="leftCol" ContentPlaceHolderID="c...

ASP.NET Response.Redirect Hangs Server

This is related to this question but I've got specific information now. I've got a problem where my site won't load for a second visitor if the page is running a report for the first visitor. This is what happens. User 1 comes to the site User 1 runs a report that takes 30 seconds. User 2 comes to the site User 2 waits until user 1 re...

Where should connection strings be stored in a n-tier asp.net application

Folks, I have an ASP.NET project which is pretty n-tier, by namespace, but I need to separate into three projects: Data Layer, Middle Tier and Front End. I am doing this because... A) It seems the right thing to do, and B) I am having all sorts of problems running unit tests for ASP.NET hosted assemblies. Anyway, my question is, w...