I have an user control that reads the data from app_data folder and does some processing.In design time I'd like to show the row data in control placeholder (using GetDesignTimeHtml).To do that I need to figure out the absolute path to app_data folder on my project.The HttpContext is not available and HostingEnvironment.MapPath returns null.
View 3 RepliesIn ASP.NET MVC 2, how can I get the absolute path to the Content folder from within a model?I'm trying to check for the existence of a file by calling IO.File.Exists. So, I need to convert the "~ContentisFile.png" relative path to an absolute path.I tried getting the application's directory path by calling My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath but that returned some temporary folder that doesn't contain the Content folder.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to add a new database via the App_Data Folder and I receive an error described below.When I attempt to add ANY TYPE OF SQL SERVER DATABASE through the App_Data folder I receive this error "Connections to SQL Server Files (*.mdf) require SQL Server Express 2008 to function properly. Please verify the installation of the component or download
from the URl."
I can create a db via SQL Server Mgmt Studio, it connects fine, and I can see tables.
Visual Studio- Server Explorer connects fine to the Database, I can see the tables.
Im running XP SP3 w/ Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer. I had previously removed SQL Server Express.
Why cant I access the database within my project, when Im able to connect to this fine within Visual Studio Server Explorer?
How do you specify the path to a folder in you project. I have a Documents folder in my project. How would I refer to the path ie "~Documents"; instead of on the C drive ie
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("C:\Test.txt");
I'm new to .NET and while starting to learn ASP .NET MVC2 framework I see that you can create a .mdf file inside the App_Data folder and connect to it or you can connect to a SQL Server.What is the difference between these to methods of interacting with a database? What are the advantages/disadvantages of one over the other?
View 1 RepliesI am Final Year IT Engineering student. I am Doing Content Management System in ASP.net for my college. I have given link on my master page for various pages in the application; where I have specified only relative path of those pages. When I run this project and follow any link it works well for only first time and for second time when I click any link it .net run time environment unable to find the absolute address of that page.
View 2 RepliesI have a Datalist where I want to retrive Images from a folder and I have done URL rewritting so Images is not displaying when I write something like this:
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" ImageUrl='<%# Bind("Product_Image", "~/ProductImages/{0}") %>'
NavigateUrl='<%#"http://localhost:49524Mysite/Product/" + stringToBase64String(Eval("ProductID").ToString())%>' CommandName="IMG" CommandArgument='<%# Eval("ProductID")%>' runat="server"></asp:HyperLink>
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I don't want to write whole URL.
When I write following code in my view
<% Url.Action("Logon") %>
the mvc framework generates
/Account/Logon ({controller}/{action})
as path.
'/Account/Logon' path is an absolute path. Is there a way to change is to a relative path, like Account/Logon or ../Account/Logon.
Also, when I use the Html.Beginform(), the mvc framework generates <form action="/account/logon"..., I want to change this to <form action="account/logon"...So, problem is that I want relative paths instead of absolute path.
I can see the AdventureWorks MDF file in my Server Explorer window in VS, but when I try to add this database file as an Existing item to my App_Data folder in the Solution Explorer it gives me an error saying that this file is in use. Is it possible for me to add my Adventureworks database to the App_data folder? I am running a 32-bit XP using SQL Server 2005 Express.
View 2 RepliesI have 32-bit XP with SQL Server 2005 Express and VS 2008. I have successfully added the Adventureworks DB to my VS website and I can see it from SOlution Explorer, however, the entire DB is attached. How would I only attach a few of the tables and stored procedures from this DB?
View 1 Repliesi am fetching image using webservice into dataset and displaying for that its to be get worked after deployment i have done following line of code but its still not able to display the image after deployment
String imageName = row["ImageName"].ToString();
String physicalPath = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.ToString();
String imagePath = physicalPath.Substring(0, physicalPath.LastIndexOf("/",
StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) + 1) + imageName;
Is there any control which has to browse folder path alone instead of selecting folder path + file ?any server side or client side control ?
View 1 RepliesHere is what I am basically trying to accomplish I want to upload images to the server separated into categories and save the file path into the database. I have found plenty of documentation on saving to a file and the file path to a database. But, I haven't found anything that will allow me to seperate the images into categoies.
I have made three tables in the database
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What I am trying to do is create a gallery for our clients to browse and download different vesions of posters and ad cards.
Possible Duplicate: Absolute path & Relative Path
When to use absolute path, relative path and what is the difference between both?
I'm creating a custom server control which needs to take in a root-relative path for one of it's properties. I use the UrlProperty, but when I select a file in the markup, the selected path doesn't inlcude the the "~/". I'd like to mimic the behavior of a hyperlink. So let's say I have this:
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" NavigateUrl
When I type in an equals sign after the NavigateUrl property, intellisense pops open a URL picker and I can pick from any page to produce this code:
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" NavigateUrl="~/default.aspx"
this code has the "~/" in front. When I use my control, I have this:
<cc1:TestControl ID="TestControl1" Url="default.aspx"
the C# code has this property:
[UrlProperty]
public string Url { get; set; }
Does anyone know how I can make the "~/" be placed in front to make a root-relative path?
I created one textbox custom control and i opened new asp.net web project. now i register my custom control in my web project.
Afterthat i can't able to access my custom control textbox and its not showing in my web project(not web application).
its working in my local machine, the same way i upload all the files to my remote server its not working.
Let me know , what mistake i have done and what way can i access my textbox controls in my web project.
through webproject how to get the custom controls values.
I created a survey in vb.net where results are stored in an Excel file.Locally I can access and update the data of the file, but if I put online can not correctly access the excel file.How can I determine the absolute url of the file so, when a user submits the answers they can be inserted correctly in the excel file? Currently I use this to determine the location of the file:
Dim LocalizacaoFicheiro As String = String.Concat(Server.MapPath("."), "RespostasQuestionario.xlsx")
I am really surprised that there is no native .NET method to get an absolute url from a relative url. I know this has been discussed many times, but never have come across a satisfactory method that handles this well. I think all I need left is to auto choose the protocol instead of hard coding it (http/https). Anything else I am missing (caveats, performance, etc)?
public static string GetAbsoluteUrl(string url)
{
//VALIDATE INPUT FOR ALREADY ABSOLUTE URL
if (url.StartsWith("http://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) || url.StartsWith("https://", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
{
return url;
}
//GET PAGE REFERENCE FOR CONTEXT PROCESSING
Page page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as Page;
//RESOLVE PATH FOR APPLICATION BEFORE PROCESSING
if (url.StartsWith("~/"))
{
url = page.ResolveUrl(url);
}
//BUILD AND RETURN ABSOLUTE URL
return "http://" + page.Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"] + "/" + url.TrimStart('/');
}
I've noticed that ASP.NET automatically creates an App_Data folder for you whenever you make a new webforms application.
Since all of my data comes from a SQL Server 2005 database server, is there any reason to actually keep this folder?
I have some user controls registered in the web.config.
Now I need to load some of them dynamiclly with the page.loadcontrol() function. This function needs a virtual path to the .ascx file. Is it possible to get this virtual path (that is the same as the source path in the config) by the tagname?
Pardon if this is a very dumb question, but I was trying to migrate an existing ASP application to asp.net MVC, and followed the procedure from the music store tutorial (http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-music-store-part-4), which involves adding the
database to the App_Data folder. (I had to restart my machine before it would work, since otherwise, Visual Studio thought the database was being used by another application.)
Now when I check in Windows Explorer, it looks like the database file was literally copied into the App_Data folder, and now I have two mdf files on my hard drive with the same name. What is going on there?
Will my MVC app ignore the original (real) database and use it's own private copy instead? (That would be bad.) Or is the new copy just for reference when using wizards that generate entity classes etc.? If the latter, what is the procedure when the real
database is modified, to update the application code?
My Microsoft Access DB file is in APP_DATA folder. my server is Windows 2003 and I like to know how is the best way to protect this file.
so which one is safer ?
./wwwroot/App_data/Database.mdb
or
./db/Database.mdb
How to locate the path of other drive's folder in server?
For ex:
The application is there in 'C:SomeFolder', now I want to export a file to the drive 'D:AnotherFolder' on the server. How can I achieve this?
I have a string variable called pdfdestination which points to a file on another server. This string is "\\mars\IntranetUploads\pdf\testpdf1.pdf"; The following code doesn't work:
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and the reason is that it won't just directly input that string into the address bar, but instead the path it tries to access begins at the root of my application. In other words, the resulting URL comes out like: [URL] I simply need the browser to directly access: \marsIntranetUploadspdf estpdf1.pdf
I have added .CSS file in Resources folder of the project.In the same way i can add Images or any other files.But i am unable to use those files in Server Control Project.How to apply CssClass property to any predefined server control to the css file that is stored in the Resources folder ?
how to use those Resource files .