I want to implement a messaging system in my Web application similar to the one Chase and Facebook have on their websites. Should I develop this on my own, or should I find a 3rd party control or other solution? Would google provide some sort of API to make this easy? I'm leaning towards developing this on my own because it probably w...
I have two different web applications: Phase I and Phase II. Phase II has a dependancy on phase I for some session values. I want to run these two applications with sharing session variables. I don't want to use state server to store session. I have used inproc session and I want to share this session together. How do I achieve this...
I have a button control. Once the user clicks on it, the click event should fire and then the button should get disabled. How can I do this? I have the option to use JQuery or JavaScript or both. Here is my button declaration: <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Click Me" onclick="Button1_Click" /> On the butto...
I'm starting to use ASP.NET Ajax. Following Eric Pascarello's recommendations, I always operate under the assumption that anything can come from the client side (including fake requests). One matter which I have a hard time accounting for is user authentication. Since we use .NET's built-in session state management mechanism, I'm a ...
I am trying to navigate from one website on my localhost to second website on my localhost. Both sites have their own membership provider. I'm trying to use a FormsAuthorizationTicket from site #1 to SSO a user into site #2. Currently I'm getting this error: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Padding is invalid and c...
What is the easiest way to hide the Contents of an Update Panel when the UpdateProgress is invoked? ...
I really like the MVC "way" and have actually enjoyed learning ASP.NET MVC (I never liked ASP.NET Webforms but I didn't know why until now). The problem is I'm about to inherit a bunch of Webforms code and wondered if I'll be able to add new things to the codebase with MVC instead off using Webforms. I suppose it depends a lot on how a...
I have cruisecontrol.net building a asp.net web deployment project. This is working great until i created multiple deployment "configurations". Basically we have a dev,test,stage, and prod. The stage and prod configurations have a web.config replacement setup to change the plain text connectionstring section to what our production webs...
Is there any way that I can use C# to load and then "render" an ascx control? Essentially I am trying to replace inline ASP with a C# function which will return the same HTML. This would then let me set it as a webmethod so that I can update that section of the page with jQuery, using the same code that generated the original html. ...
hi, has any body used this Visual Web Gui , and are their claims right ? i have been reading on their site and it seems amazing that you can make Web/Desktop App in same time, plus they say you don't have to worry anymore about update panel, AJAX, it is all on the server, plus they have wrappers for 3rd Party controls. i mean all in al...
All it does is output 'CHECK' which I put in to make sure it was actually hitting the function... (Proceed() is called first then GetCompanies() after). using System; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using...
Hello, I have a very simple ASP.Net MVC Application that I have produced from an online tutorial. I've followed it exactly, step by step and have tried multiple times but keep getting the same error when I execute the code. The program just displays an index page which lists a series of data from an sql server database using linq to sql...
I'm adding a logout expiration alert to my application and would like to access my web.config forms authentication "timeout" value from my code. Any way i could do this? ...
Hi, I have a code that will loop through each row and each column and export the data to excel. It is all working fine. When the user clicks on "open" file, the system is opening file with different filename. If I give the filename as "test.xls", it is opening the file as "test[1].xls". Is there a way to export with the same filename? B...
Hi, I am running visual studio 2008 on vista business 64-bit. I am getting the following exception when I try to debug against IIS. "Unable to start debugging on the web server. The object identifier does not represent a valid object". IIS and Visual Studio are on the same box. I've tried adding Windows Authentication but no luck (my...
How do I use the ASP.NET sitemap control to render stacked horizontal css menus with styled UL/LIs? It seems to only want to do trees or flyouts. ...
I'm getting the error: Illegal characters in path. when trying to load XML, using XPath, into a gridview's datasource in the PageLoad function in the code-behind of an ASP.NET page I'm building. Does anyone know what this error means? The XML coming in from the Sharepoint Web Services call is: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO...
Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: Syste...
I'm going mad trying to get an ASP.NET application running on IIS7 (Server2008). I have one web site set up in IIS7 which works fine. I'm trying to create another one now but I only get 404s for all .aspx files. The Handling Mappers are all different from the working site's. Is there any way I can duplicate the working site's settings s...
I'm trying to use Url Routing within my existing ASP.NET WebForms site. Thanks to: this link, I got it working. Now I'm trying to use a SiteMap along with my routing. I have a page MyReport.aspx. It is in the SiteMap and accessing the page directly, works fine. I've added a route for /report/{param1}/{param2}. I was hoping the site...