asp.net

Not generating a complete response from a HttpWebResponse object in C#

I am creating a HttpWebRequest object from another aspx page to save the response stream to my data store. The Url I am using to create the HttpWebRequest object has querystring to render the correct output. When I browse to the page using any old browser it renders correctly. When I try to retrieve the output stream using the HttpWeb...

Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

Hi Geeks, I dont know what is going on with this "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.". Do you guys know what happened? My wcf service was running fine, but today I got this error. I searched on google but no answers could be found. Thanks in advance ...

Server Side ListBox Visibility with C# and ASP.NET

I am interested in using a "onmouseover" event to make a listbox appear and disappear. I am fairly new with ASP.NET and I do not want to write javascript just yet. I am trying to use the following code, and the color change portion of it works, but the listbox visibility doesn't work: if (!IsPostBack) { But...

Linq to SQL, Ajax postbacks, and page state in ASP.NET

This has to be a frequent question, but not on SO yet, so it seems. I am using Linq to SQL for an application that allows a variety of data changes to my in-memory model, and the changes will then get placed into a queue for asynchonous processing. So, I am not worried about updates (yet). Changes to various parts of the data can be made...

How to use Secret Answer in .NET with Membership.Provider

I am using the Membership.Provider for security in my MVC Application. I have a forgot password page that asks for your username, and then gives you the secret question on file. My question is how to a check the secret answer against what is on file. I can't seem to find any method that does that besides Membership.Provider.ResetPasswo...

Why is this looping infinitely?

So I just got my site kicked off the server today and I think this function is the culprit. Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I can't seem to figure it out: Public Function CleanText(ByVal str As String) As String 'removes HTML tags and other characters that title tags and descriptions don't like If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(s...

can java consume .NET object returned by ASP.NET web service?

i have an ASP.NET web service that returning a custom entity object (Staff): [WebMethod] public Staff GetStaffByLoginID(string loginID){} how would i consume this in Java? thanks! ...

ASP.NET - Alias dropdownlist names on back end

I'm using .NET 3.5, MVC. I want to use a set of string aliases to represent database values. i.e. when a user selects an option from a dropdown it actually sets the value as 0, 1, 2, etc. in the table, rather than the text shown in the dropdown itself. e.g. I'm doing: IdName[] Thing = new[] { new IdName { Id = 0, Name = "No Selecti...

What is a good method for sharing source code among 3-4 developers that does NOT require it to be Open Source?

I'm a newbie developers and building an application with 3 other remote developers. I've only worked alone until now, and now I need a way to share my source code with the other developers on the project. All of the project sites out there (SourceForge, Codeplex, Google, etc) seem to be aimed at Open Source development I'm not interest...

XML-parser error: no element found

I have a asp.net application which is located on a server. It was working but then I added a whole bunch of stuff and now I get: XML-parser error: no element found Address: http://www.dtm.se/payex/Default.aspx Row 1, Column 1: (I have translated this error message from Swedish so it might not be 100% accurate) The error occurs in Fire...

Sending a web page by email programmatically. Image URLs not resolved

I am writing a SharePoint timer job, which needs to pull the content of a web page, and send that HTML as an email. I am using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse objects to pull the content. The emailing functionality works fine except for one problem. The web page which serves up the content of my email contains images. When the htm...

build ASP.Net default web site error

Hello everyone, I am using VSTS 2008 and I am using Create new ASP.Net web site and using default settings/automatically generated files. My questions are, How to use command line script (msbuild) to build the ASP.Net web site automatically? I want to build the web site into a DLL which could be easily copied to target IIS server lat...

Asp.net: How to sort a dropdown having duplicates?

Hi Guys, I have a dropdown in which we add certain items after the dropdown is bound by data from the db, hence the need to sort the dropdown arises. So i need to sort a dropdown which can have duplicates. What is the best way of doing this? ...

A good example of custom log4net appender outputting text directly to a asp.net control ( custom control , Label , etc) ?!

I do have db appender and know how to get the output to a custom "logging" page ... The idea is to have a quick and dirty switch to write for example to the Response object ... ...

Find/Replace Word Puzzle

Let's say I have an object that contains a Word property and a Sentence property. The sentence must use the word, and I want to replace the word in that sentence with a link using a public function (say, GetLinkedSentence). The catch is maybe the sentence uses a plural form of the word and maybe the "word" itself is actually a phrase, or...

May i config healthMonitoring for classic asp in ii7?

I see that for showing error of classic asp in ii7 i must use web.config with configurations for asp.net like this: <system.webServer> <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" /> <asp scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true" /> </system.webServer> BUT: may i use healthMonitoring in classic asp for getting e...

Automatically sanitize entries on HttpRequestValidationException

The infamous A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client question :) Here's my use case: I have a FCKEditor control on a webpage, that allows users to type HTML. That precise webpage has validation turned off to allow its use, but my masterpage has linkbuttons that can raise postbacks on other pages. I obvi...

Displaying a meaningfull error when uploading too large a file

We have set a fixed limit on the filesize of uploads on our site - below the size of the default asp.net and iis setting. I have a simple catch setup in Application_BeginRequest that catches this (it's not excat since it checks the ContentLength including all other form data but it's good enough). I want to either resume processing of t...

Must web apps support back button?

I did a system test on a new ASP.NET app. I encountered several exceptions when using the BACK button in my browser (IE 7). I stated in a review-record that the web-app must support the use of a BACK button (or at least handle it gracefully with for example session-time out warnings). The teamlead did not agree with me as he stated that...

How to check permissions of an ASP.NET Role

how Ican use declarative security("[PrincipalPermissionAttribute(SecurityAction.Demand, Role = "")]) but I don't want to check role I need to check the permissions for that role? scince I have roles and permissions for each role how I can use declarative security for permissions? Thanks for help ...