asp.net

How to cache images from a SQl Server 2005 database call?

I am having trouble using the output cache param in an aspnet 2.0 page directive. I am using a session variable to hold the value of the selected image. It seems that the dynamic control in a datalist, is not working when the output cache is set to true in the page directive. Is there a way to cache the images seperately to avoid using a...

ASP.Net site using Windows Authentication pops up "Authentication Required Window" a lot in Firefox

I have an ASP.Net application where I am using Windows authentication to deny access to some components via roles. When using IE, the site pops up the "Authentication Required" box once, allows the user to enter their username/password for Active Directory, and all is fine. HOWEVER, when using Firefox, it's "Authentication Required" bo...

Can iTextSharp open an RTF document, manipulate it, and export the document to PDF?

Using iTextSharp (and c#/ASP.NET) is it possible to open an RTF document, manipulate it by replacing some text, insert an image (WMF or PNG), and the export that manipulated document to a PDF document that retains the formatting of the original RTF document? Essentially I'm hoping to create a simple mail merge solution with the template...

Any way to make small web pages show up full size on iPhone?

I'm currently working on an intracompany web site which will be viewed on cell phones - at the moment, Palm Treos and iPhones. The Treo has a screen 360x360 so I'm putting all the page info into a 360x360 box. Works fine on the Treo, but when you log in to the site on an iphone, it shows up about 1/2in square on the screen. Is there a...

How to improve asp.net AJAX autocomplete performance

My web site has city,state and zip code autocomplete feature. If user types in 3 characters of a city in the textbox, then top 20 cities starting with those characters are shown. As of now, Autocomplete method in our application queries sql 2005 database which has got around 900,000 records related to city,state and zip. But the respo...

Call to .ashx returns the file not the JSON result

I know this is working because I'm getting data populated in a jQuery plug-in once it parses the JSON response. And I've called this so many times before in the past just to check out the returned JSON in the browser. But lately for whatever reason, and after I've stepped through with the debugger to find that the code in my .ashx is w...

In reference to ASP.NET Caching, what is the purpose or reason for sliding expiration?

I am looking for a good explanation of why one would use sliding expiration when caching data in a Web application. It seems as if you would always want to cache content using absolute expiration so the data is forced to be refreshed. With sliding expiration you risk having your data be cached indefinitely. Is it only useful for cachi...

How do I use an .ashx handler with an asp:Image object?

I have an ashx handler: <%@ WebHandler Language="C#" Class="Thumbnail" %> using System; using System.Web; public class Thumbnail : IHttpHandler { public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) { string imagePath = context.Request.QueryString["image"]; // split the string on periods and read the last element,...

context.Response.Charset = Encoding.UTF8.ToString();

I had used this in my code to set the Charset but IE did not like it. Any reason why? context.Response.Charset = Encoding.UTF8.ToString(); I ended up having to set it to just context.Response.ContentType = "application/json;charset=utf-8" or context.Response.Charset = "utf-8"; instead. Not sure then what Encoding.UTF8.ToString(); w...

Change Style of Scrollbar in DropDownlist in asp.net

Hello Friends, Can anyone tell me how can I change the default style of DropDownlist scrollbar I use below style property to change scrollbar style but its not working for dropdownlist .scrollbarstyle { scrollbar-face-color: #BAC8D5; scrollbar-highlight-color: #DCF5F8; scrollbar-shadow-color: #DEE3E7; scrollbar-3dlight...

how to create a "Uploading! Pls wait..." msg for uploading excel file and load to SQL Server?

Currently, i have a working function that will let user to upload an excel file and thn insert the excel file data into the SQL Server. So, they might be thousand of records in an excel file, i would like to have a message like "Please wait while uploading..." during the process! i have tried on the update progress and javascript but bot...

Does user write permissions to the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder pose any security problems?

I am experiencing assembly binding failures due to insufficient permissions to the Temporary ASP.NET Files folder. The application uses (web.config) Forms authentication with Impersonate = True and IIS Windows Integrated Authentication. According to ASP.NET Identity Matrix, this means that the WindowsIdentity resolves to Domain\UserNam...

Server.Transfer() inside Global.asax file showing problem

I am using Global.asax page for error handling. While there is an error I want to transfer to a Error page to show a friendly message. But it is not showing that page. ...

In VS 2008 one of the ascx file saves very slow but other ascx files are working fine.

One of the ascx file saves very slow in source (html) mode but other files in same project are working fine. I have deleted this file from my working copy and created a new file with the same name but it is also very slow in saving. I have also created a new ascx file and pasted script of corrupted file in this new file and here this scr...

Sharepoint: Custom SiteMapProvider for custom list

Hi All, I need to customise the title property for SiteMapNodes. I am using WSS, and have created a custom document library. While navigating through this library I want to change the names of the nodes in the breadcrumb displayed above the list name. So far I have: created a class inheriting from System.Web.SiteMapProvider, added ...

VS2005 not attaching to aspnet worker process

Hi When I start a debug session in VS2005 (to debug an ASP.Net web site), The browser is launched but the Debug session ends. VS is not attaching to the worker serive. I can attach manualy to aspnet_wp service and then debug. Before I not my new works PC this happend automatiacly now its a manual task. What have I done or forgotten to...

Customer: Website is not user friendly? Are there common rules or standards to do this?

We developed an asp.net website for one of our customer. We followed our rules and standards while building website. While showing it for customer, he said: it's not user friendly. Are there common rules/standards for developing user friendly website? ...

System.Web.HttpException: This is an invalid script resource request

I get this error when pushing our website to our clients production server however the page works absolutely fine on their dev / test servers. What causes this error (considering I am not using any web resources myself, though I am using the asp.net ajax toolkit). ...

rendering a user control to a string

I'm using the technique described here to render a User Control to a string and it all works fine when the control contains just plain HTML, but when I try adding some server controls to the UC (like asp:button) I get the following error when calling server.execute: "Error executing child request for handler 'System.Web.UI.Page'." ...

Creating the looks and feel of a Windows form.

I'm working on an ASP.NET and someone asked me how much time it would cost to make the site.master appear like a Windows form. Basically, it should have a caption, an icon on the left, a minimize/maximize/close button on the right and preferably these should function similar to a real form. Also, it needs to have borders which can behave...