In our organization we had to write code to store and retrive documents in many apps. Now I would like to write a service/library that can be used my other devs. Not sure how to start about that? What should be my first step.
View 5 RepliesWhat is the best approach to storing images in a file system. Currently I am separating the images by day, month and then year. I am also hashing file name so that no two files will be stored with the same name. Lastly, how would I go about using the image file address in a forum?
View 3 RepliesI maintain a web application (ASP.NET/IIS7/SQL2K8/Win2K8) that needs to access documents, actually hundreds of thousands of documents, and growing. Currently, they are all on a Windows 2K8 Server fileshare, being accessed by UNC path (SMB). The files are in a single flat directory and I'm trying to plan how to best improve this solution. I don't want to use the SQL Filestream attribute as it would be significant effort to migrate it all into that, and would really lock in to SQL Server. I also need to find a way to replicate the data for disaster recovery, so perhaps a solution can help with that too. Options could be: Segment files into multiple directories? application would add metadata for which directory it's on (or segment by other means) Segment files into separate servers? (virtualize)Backup becomes more complicated. Application would add metadata for which server it's on
NAS Storage
SAN Storage
Put a service (WCF) in front of the files and have the app talk to the service bonus of being reusable across many applications Assuming I'm going to store on filesystem and not in database (I've read those disccusions here), which would be a more scalable solution?
I want to build a custom document management web application that ties in with sharepoint for the actual document versioning and storage. I'm hoping for something like a sharepoint widget that I can plug into my web application that would allow me to tie in with sharepoint and download documents, make edits to them, and upload them back to sharepoint, with sharepoint handling all of the versioning and storage. Basically I'm looking for a sharepoint API. If WSS is the answer to this, are there licensing issues that I need to consider?
View 4 RepliesI'm thinking of using 3 layered architecture in my web site.Kind of classic layers - Presentation, BL, DAL and BO - business objects, just like in this great article http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=416I will have 4 projects according to levels.I'm goung to store data in xml files and my question is where should those files be located? In App_Data folder of web site? Then how DAL will know path where to find files to parse?
View 4 RepliesIs MFC's document view architecture the same as MVC pattern or not
View 1 RepliesI am making use of 3-tier architecture.In UI layer, i am getting user input and converting it into XML document. But now question arises that how can i pass this xml document to business and data access layer?
View 2 RepliesI am just writing a new article for my blog and I am using a bit of javascript that looks something like this:
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The purpose is as the code says to filter a document scroll event but only catch it the first time I reach a certain point. That doesn't really matter but I was just wondering if anyone knew a name for this? What would you call it?
I have an asp.net application running on a web farm that allows users to upload files and download them later via link to that file. Currently, I use Windows DFS to replicate the local IIS directory where the files are stored across the web farm servers. However, as this solution does not scale out, I want to implement a more scalable solution by partitioning the documents. Specifically, say I set up multiple file storage servers (Fs1, Fs2, Fs3, etc.) on the network. Further, let's say I change my upload page to save the uploaded file to one of the file storage servers on the local LAN (based on some logic). I assume so far I am safe with ASP.NET doing this much assuming I have the correct permission for the ASP.NET process ID. The question I have is withregards to download links. When a user gets served a download link to their document (e.g. http://www.testco.com/data/doc1.txt) is there a way for me to "intercept" that HTTP request and underneath the coversserve the doc1.txt from the file storage server (e.g. Fs2) it resides
View 5 Replies I have an application that allows admins to add types such as document types and training types that are in seperate tables with a foreign key in a transaction table.
When structuring my class I decided to go with an abstract-like pattern (without the factory methods though). So I have a Type abstract class that defines my Save, Delete, and GetList methods. I have a training type class that inherits this class. The thing is all types have 3 main properties - defined in the abstract base - but have different source tables and thus different store procedures in my DbCommand object. So basically I repeat setting up the same parameters on all the derived classes. I would like to implement the common stuff in the base but I am getting thrown off by the difference in data sources.
what the equivalent datatype of sql server timestamp in VB.NET,and How to retrive the exact value of timestamp from sql server in vb.net.?
I was looking over the Create a Movie Database Application in 15 Minutes with ASP.NET MVC (C#), and it used entity framework and I saw this code.
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I am just wondering, does this mean, this code actually downloads ALL the data from the SQL server for that table, and then filters where the Id matches, and then is stored in the var originalMovie? I have seen the "Linq to SQL", does this send this as sql query to the SQL server, and therefore only the relavent rows are returned from SQL server?
I have been following various guides online and they seem to be great and i learning a great deal and i have my learning set out however i have come across a stumbling block "yet again"
I was following Mikes SQLce image upload guide and I got it, I understood it all "in theory"
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however what i couldn't figure out is when i want to display that image on a separate page or pull it back into a webgrid it just showed me SystemByte[] and not the image. Or a long string of writing that started -System........
I tried stripping Mikes code thinking well he is pulling the Image from the DB once the postback is done so why cant I do it on another page or in another <Div>. ?
If im not mistake it has somthing to do with this line
Response.BinaryWrite((byte[])file.FileContent);
Here is mmikes code:
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I had a web application. We needed to move it to anotherserver, after we moved that, the membership database (aspnetdb) did not work.....finally i solved the problem, and now I have another problem. although in the web.config enablepasswordretrieval is set to true, and the type is clear, i get error in password retrieval.
View 7 RepliesI have to know how to achieve the following senario in an web application,I have a search functionality, where i will give some parameteres which are used as input to my select query in sql database.
Once i click the start search button the parameters will go to database and execute the query. and display the result in application.If i click the Stop Search, i want to retireve the records which are available till that time. How can this be achieved in .net
By default the Password Recovery control requires the username to send the user the login details. Is there any way I can configure it to work with either the log in name and email address or failing that just email address?
View 1 RepliesI have developed a application using Visual Studio 2008 and SQLServer 2008. I have a page called "Billing Center" where i need to display more than 500 records in a gridview and the gridview has sorting enabled. If i limit the page size upto 10 only the gridview performs well but user requirement is to view atleast 500 records at once which is slowing down the gridview record retrieval process.
I am using the following C# code in code behind to sorting, paging and retrieval . Please guide me what am i doing wrong in this code and how to make it work with large data set.
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design pattern that works well with Visual Studio data tools against an MS SQL server; to retrieve a subset of an object's fields for all rows, and then on-demand retrieve the remainder for one row. I.E. just the small summary fields that I will serialize to a master grid view, then the larger properties including a large blob that I will render in a detail view. The performance hit from retrieving the large blob with the master result list would be too great.
The data shape is static, and I can define two separate data classes to match the specific summary vs. detail information returned. However that sounds anti-pattern-ish, to define the data classes specifically to suit the presentation layer. It also presents another problem, how to translate from the summary item to the detail item in an object-oriented way?
<iframe src="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=filename&embedded=true" style="width:600px; height:600px;margin-left:20px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>
I am using above code to show our document online.
But when we inspect element it is showing url of file which we dont't want.
it is possible to hide this url or any other alternate to show our document to user without exposing our physical file path.
I have xml document and wanting to pass it through wcf restfull service, i am able to do that by using string format i mean i can pass the xml as string param in the restful service and it worked but now my xml document becomes huge so if i pass it as string then it gives URI long error. any way i can pass the huge xml document through the WCF RESTFul service.
View 1 RepliesI want when user upload a doc file it convert into pdf. How can i do this. I read that itextsharp convert it.
View 1 RepliesI am launching a pdf document using either:
1. Response.Redirect("filepath/document.pdf"), or
2. Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf"
Response.WriteFile("filepath/document.pdf")
Response.End()
Both methods successfuly launch the PDF document displaying the document path and title in the title bar. For security reasons I'd like to HIDE the document title. Can someone advice how this can be done? (How can a PDF document be launched without showing the actual document's name)
A few years ago, when first being introduced to ASP.net and the .NET Framework, I built a very simple online file storage system.This system used Rijndael encryption for storing the files encrypted on the server's hard drive, and an HttpHandler to decrypt and send those files to the client. Being one of my first project with ASP.net and databases, not understanding much about how the whole thing works (as well as falling to the same trap described by Jeff Atwood on this subject), I decided to store freshly generated keys and IVs together with each file entry in the database.
To make things a bit clearer, encryption was only to protect files from direct access to the server, and keys were not generated by user-entered passwords. My question is, assuming I don't want to keep one key for all files, how should I store encryption keys for best security? What is considered best practice? (i.e: On a different server, on a plain-text file, encrypted). Also, what is the initialization vector used for in this type of encryption algorithm? Should it be constant in a system?
User images - database vs. filesystem storage
Where should i store photos for a facebook-like app ? locally on the server in a folder or upload them to a database ? I am not intending to make this app commercial .
Currently I am looking to move my websites images to a storage service. I have two websites developed in PHP and ASP.NET.
Using Amazon S3 service we can host all our images and videos to serve web pages. But there are some limitations using S3 service when we want to serve images.
If website needs different thumbnail images with different sizes from original image, it is tough. We have again need to subscribe for EC2 also. Though the data transfer from S3 to EC2 is free, it takes time for data transfer before processing image resize operation. Uploading number of files in zip format and unzipping in S3 is not possible to reduce number of uploads. Downloading multiple files from S3 is not possible in case if we want to shift to another provider. Image names are case sensitive in S3. Which will not load images if image name does not match with request. Among all these first one is very important thing since image resize is general requirement. Which provider is best suitable to achieve my goal. Can I move to Google AppEngine only for the purpose of image hosting or is there any other vendor who can provide above services?