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asp.net database connection

Hi, I have the correct entries in the web.config file in my asp.net project. How do I make sure that the connection has been established successfully? I want to pull an image form my database and then display it on my aspx page. Some things to note: I am using visual studio 2010, sql server 2008, .NET 4.0 Thanks Here is the relevant p...

Visual Studio C# projects: how to place conditional references in .csproj?

Hello, I'm working on an open source project (Logbus-ng), and I need to implement a web service spawned by a console application in a way that works both on Windows and Mono. Currently, thanks to the tutorial by MSDN Magazine, I succeeded in doing this on Windows. A console application can spawn its own web server and actually open a we...

Download server with ASP.NET how to accomplish long running synchronous requests ?

My ASP.NET application is a download application (no pages) which reads huge binary files (1-2 GB -> over 1 hours download time with resume support) from local network and stream them to web clients (each request -> one large binary response, so there's no text/html response at all). I use a HTTP Handler (.ashx) instead of a (.aspx) page...

Typed configuration data in a separate config file in ASP.Net 4.0?

I have an asp.net 4.0 web application. I need extensive configuration data for this web application, that is strongly typed and the structure of this configuration data is going to be fairly complex (cannot do with key-value pairs). In the past I remember having done this in .Net 2.0 but cannot figure out how I will do it in .Net 4.0. T...

Polymorphism broken when changing web site project to web application project

Greetings, I just converted an ASP.NET Web Site Project to a Web Application Project in VS 2010. After I run the application though it seems that my class polymorphism broke. I don't have a clue as to why this could occur. So in the following code when I call base.OnLoad(e) I am getting errors in the base class because the variable m...

vb.NET WebRequest to read aspx page to string, access denied?

I'm trying to make an executable in VS2008 that will read a webpage source code using a vb.NET function into a string variable. The problem is that the page is not *.html but rather *.aspx. I need a way to execute the aspx and get the displayed html into a string. The page I want to read is any page of this type: http://www.realtor.ca/...

Creating an ASP.Net website on your computer?

I was wondering if there was a way to create a local webserver on your own computer which uses ASP.Net? Sort of like WAMP for Microsoft technologies. ...

DDD Architecture for ASP.NET MVC2 Project

I am trying to use Domain Driven Development (DDD) for my new ASP.NET MVC2 project with Entity Framework 4. After doing some research I came up with the following layer conventions with each layer in its own class project: MyCompany.Domain public class User { //Contains all the properties for the user entity } ...

Two Ajax timer cannot tick simultaneously?

I have two ajax time for my aspx web page but while the one is ticking , the other stops running. How can i make it both timer run together like the windows form? ...

Is it possible to share the web.config across multiple projects in a solution?(ASP.NET)

Hi, I have a solution composed of a web application and multiple projects, is it possible to share the configuration in the web application across all the solution? Thanks ...

ASP.Net Gridview -> How to show collection of data inside one row of the GrdiView?

Hi, I have a scenario where I will be showing a Customer data in a GridView. I have a Dictionary collection like this IDictionary<Customer, IList<CustomerOrder>>. First Question Can I bind this dictionary to the ASP.Net GridView? Now next question, I want to show following kind of UI i.e. Show multiple CustomerOrders in one row...

auto partial page refresh in asp.net without UpdatePanel

I want to make auto partial page refresh in asp.net. There is UpdatePanel but it sends too much data. So I've found that I can make a webservice and call it by the JavaScript code. But I don't know how to call webservice automatic. There are many examples showing how to call webservice by the button click event: http://www.asp.net/ajax/...

Change and retain DIV Selected tag in Master Page

I have a CSS class called selected which highlights the DIV as the current step. When they're all in separate pages, I just had to move the selected word to the next DIV. But how can I achieve the same in Master Page VB .Net? It seems to be one page for all. When the next page loads, how do I get it to highlight the next step? Thank you...

Randomness vs Uniqueness ?

In a web application if a user check the Remember Me box I'm gonna create a cookie and save it in database and assign it to user (long-life cookie). On any page request (page_load) I check this cookie (if session is null) and ask DAL for user object. If I use GUID it would be unique but the question is if a user can guess the pattern may...

How to create threads in ASP.NET pages from CLR thread pool instead of ASP.NET pool ?

If I create a new thread on an ASP.NET page the IsThreadPoolThread property is true. First question is, is it from ASP.NET pool or CLR pool ? Second question is, if it is from ASP.NET pool then how to create a thread from CLR and don't use ASP.NET pool ? I need a synchronous solution for long-running requests (full story). ...

restricting user permissions for webservice method invocation

I have to write a web service that can be called through WWW(using asp.net 3.5) but i need to restrict users from calling the service methods from preferably using built in aspnet security principle objects.how to restrict users from calling web service based on their role in asp.net webservices? ...

Asynchronous use of webclient to transfer files

I have an objective to transfer some files which can be pdf, jpg and xml from one location to another. I am creating a handler based API for that. What could be the best approach for doing it? Should i return a byte array so that the client can pick the byte array and convert it back to file? Also the max file size I need to handle is 18...

remember me in login form

I had Login form ,and I added check box for remember me ,I did my code well but when I check rememeber me check box it rememeber only user name only.so please any one help me. protected void CBRemeber_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { HttpCookie MyCookie = new HttpCookie("MyCookie"); bool IsRememberme = ...

Long polling with IIS 7.5

Hi, I have a ASP.NET 3.5 web application that uses long polling for chat. It long polls an asynchronous handler for new messages. Each request can last a maximum of 15 seconds before being closed and reconnected. The application runs fine using Visual Studio Built-in web server but once deployed to the IIS (i.e. IIS 7.5 ) the long poll...

First request fails with HTTP 400 (Bad Request) after reading HttpRequest.InputStream

I develop an asmx web service (i.e. ASP.NET 2.0). There's a piece of code that may read the contents of the HTTP request (via HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream) while processing it. I realise that InputStream may only be read once for a request, and I make sure I never try to read it more than once. The problem seems to be that i...