How Does The ApplicationName Attribute Actually Work
Dec 20, 2010
why did asp.net team choose / as the default value of Membership Role application name rather than the project name that makes sense?
In addition, the application might not be deployed as the root application. It means that / is no longer
Edit 1:
For example: I create a project A first and deploy it. Later I create another project B and deploy it. If both projects use the default, they still work but it will be difficult to know which users come from each project.
For me, it is better if the default is set to the project name.
Edit 2:
I am talking about the applicationName attribute generated by Visual Studio in Web.config.
Why don't use the project name instead of / by default ?
After creating two applications (i.e., one as the root and the other one as the child app) and both have the same applicationName set to /, both application use the same ApplicationID. It means the slash has nothing to do with site domain tree. My confusion has been answered. So... why did Visual Studio set it to / (that makes confusion for me) by default?
EDIT 4:
I have two applications. One as the root application and the other one as the sub application under the former. Both use applicationName = "/". I got the result as follow in database: So what is the meaning of /? If no meaning, why did VS choose this confusing name rather than the project name?
EDIT 5:
From this article, I will make the summary:
If we remove applicationName attribute from web.config for both applications, the ApplicationName generated in database for the root will be "/" and the ApplicationName generated in database for the sub app will be "/subappvirtualdir".If we leave the applicationName to its default value of "/" for both applications, both root app and sub app will get the same ApplicatonName of "/" generated in database. If we change the applicationName to "any name you want" for both applications, the ApplicationName generated in database will be set to "any name you want" for both applications.
How to create ApplicationName and how to choose ApplicationName in C #?
Example:
I have several different applications into the same database. How to choose in combobox Application name" in nato dovolim prijavo. At present this can fix it in web.config, but I would like all done in c #.
I'm managing a rather large project, written in asp.net webforms + mvc3, with a large user base, and a pretty high daily visitor count. Basically, there are a lot of requests at any given moment.
One of my controllers in MVC that handles / resizes images on the fly has the following attribute applied to it:
[SessionState(SessionStateBehavior.Disabled)]
Now, if an action in the controller tries to access the session - it obviously throws an exception - so we're good so far. The problem is: if I go to the IIS Worker Processes window (Win Server 2008 R2, IIS 7.5), and check the current requests for this site, I can sometimes see the requests to an action in this controller. Their current state is locked in State: RequestAcquireState, Module Name: Session. Sometimes these locks go over a second or two in this state.
Wasn't the whole point of the attribute in the first place to make the requests to the controller ignore the state, and not waste time (and possibly being locked) trying to acquire the state? If this is so - am I doing something wrong here, or does the problem lie elsewhere?
I have a User Control (ascx) and a property which a want to display in my categories tab in Visual Studio in the category named "Styles".
[Code]....
And here is the problem: Actually I do not need a get, because I only have to set the property (write only property). But when I omit the get, the property is displayed in the "Misc" category in the categories tab in Visual Studio. Only when I code the get as well, then the property is displayed correctly in the "Styles" category in the categories tab in Visual Studio.
Does anybody know why? How can I display the category correctly only with set?
I am currently writing a user management application which administers users in a single aspnetdb instance. This single instance contains multiple "applications" which all have roles assigned against the individual applications.
As each user can be a member of multiple applications I use Roles.ApplicationName to cycle through each configured application and then determine which roles they are a member of. After checking each application I set the Roles.ApplicationName back to the original application which is the management application.
The problem I am having is when multiple users eachview an individual application and a request for Roles.GetAllRoles() is made. Most of the time the roles that come back are for the intended application but sometimes the wrong application's roles come back due to other requests cycling over the Roles.ApplicationName per application.
I've since read that Roles.ApplicationName is not threadsafe and therefore should not be used in a web application but I would prefer to have a solution to this rather than having to rewrite the role model in the application.
Also, The aspnetdb applications are created via this administration system and therefore I cannot create multiple RoleProviders, one per application.
I have a (internet) web site with the below web.config (everything works fine). How would I alter this to include an applicationName attribute. I wish to eventually have multiple web sites using the same ASPNETDB database.
I have an administration website - the users of which should be able to modify users for a public site. This means the administration site has a valid membership provider, but I want to be able to access/change members in another site (and therefore ApplicationName).
First thought was to set ApplicationName on the Membership static - but that seems like a bad idea according to answers here: Changing Membership.ApplicationName in code - thread safety.
Second thought was to duplicate the MembershipProvider entry to the web.config - so now I can do WebSiteMembershipProvider = Membership.Providers("WebsiteSqlMembershipProvider") - but I can't now seem to get to a 'Membership' object which will let me (for example) call the standard 'CreateUser' method.
I tried WebSiteMembershipProvider.CreateUser - but it takes a load more parameters, and doesn't seem to do anything if I poke some values into it.
Am I nearly there? Or do I need a different approach? There's always the SqlProvider's stored procedures, I suppose...
I have an asp.net page which I created using Visual Web Developer Express 2005, and locally everything works file as expected however when I uploaded the content of site into the online server one of the functionalities do not work and instead I get an error saying:
Server Error in '/Applicationname Application
Where the Applicationname above is replaced by them name of my application. It also state runtime error under the abve line.
And I am wondering if anyone could let me know what the problem is and how I could solve this issue.
For information I am using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005
I changed the 'applicationName' attribute of all the providers in the web.config file from its default value of "/" to an actual name "/sampleName" and I have also changed it in the aspnet_applications table in the asp.net database.
Now users cant login... Why?
I am trying to do this to 2 web applications I have inorder for them to share 1 asp.net database
On the MSDN page for the Membership.ApplicationName property (which applies to an asp.net membership provider), it warns that although one can change Membership.ApplicationName in code, 'The ApplicationName property is not thread safe for multiple writes, and changing the ApplicationName property value can result in unexpected behavior for multiple users of an application.' They therefore recommend avoiding using it for a 'web application'.
This is because the default SqlMembershipProvider is written as a singleton. But here's my question: is it OK if all the threads in my application process are going to set Membership.ApplicationName to the same thing?
I'm thinking of having multiple applications on my IIS box, each with their own separate application pool. I want to point them to the same location, but based on the hostname, set the application provider to different things. Wouldn't this actually be OK? It might not be a thread-safe operation, but doesn't each application pool have its own process and therefore its own instance of SqlMembershipProvider? So, every thread that tried to set Membership.ApplicationName for a given SqlMembershipProvider instance would be trying to set it to the same thing (the provider that is appropriate for that hostname).
I have a custom security module which is retrieving the applicationName of the defalut Membership Provider. I am using this value for convenience only. I mean, sometimes, I will authenticate the user as per "Windows Authentication" where there is no Login Form, and yet, I need to access the "applicationName" of the membership provider.So, in some of my applications, I am not using a memberhsip, and I leave it empty. And I found out that if the <membership> is not defined in web.config, it will default to "AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type "System.web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider".I can add an key in <appSettings>, but I like to using the applicationName of the default membership provider, becuase in other applications I am using Forms Authentication, with a custom membership provider.If try to setup a dummy memberyship provider, I will get error that the connection string is empty.How I can set the "applicationName" property in web.config if I am using "Windows" authentication, and I have no membership provider ?
I'm developing a ASP.NET MVC 2 web application. So far, I managed to define access rules for every controller function, using "RequiresRole" attribute.
Suddenly, this way of defining access rules stopped working (now every user can invoke any of the controller methods). :S. I tried debugging, and it seems that user-roles are correct. I tried reviewing web.config, but did not find anything suspicious.
I created a simple Master Page in Visual Studio 2008:
<%@ Master Language="VB" CodeFile="MasterPage.master.vb" Inherits="MasterPage" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
and got green underlined 'Master' with two warning messages: 1.Validation (ASP.NET): This attribute name must be followed byan equal (=) sign and a value. If the value is in quotation marks, the quotation marks must match. 2. Validation (ASP.NET): Attribute 'Master' is not a valid attribute of element 'Control'.How I can get rid of the messages?
i'm trying to host an .net framework4.0 application in IIS7. i got an error while clicking on the manage module in modules .like ("Unrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. ") .I changed my application poll to .net4.0.I am able to browse my application
I installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Trial and converted existing asp.net 2.0 web application and I am getting this error: znrecognized attribute 'targetFramework'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive. It's coming from this section in the web.config which was auto-generated by VS2010 when I converted the project:
I am developing asp.net mobile application. I am using LINQ to XML to query XML file. I am using the following query to retrieve the name & value of the query dynamically as follows
var TotalManifolds = from MF in FieldRoot.Element("FIELD-DEFINITION").Element("MANIFOLDS").Elements("MANIFOLD") join SLT in FieldRoot.Element("FIELD-DEFINITION").Element("SLOTS").Elements("SLOT") on (string)MF.Attribute("MID") equals (string)SLT.Attribute("PARENT") select new { SlotName = (string)SLT.Attribute("NAME").Value, SlotValue = (string)SLT.Attribute("NAME").Value };
In the following statement of above query I want to retrive the name of the attribure dynamically without explicitly specifying the name of the attribute SlotName = (string)SLT.Attribute("NAME").Value Here I am explicitly specifying the name. I want to code which can dynamically retrieve the name of the attribute. I am new to Linq to xml. how this can be done programatically? or can you provide me the link through which I can resolve the above issue ?
I am trying to achieve a SSO implimentation across my websites so i am using the machine key attribute to do so.now the trouble starts here as the website the user logs in is on the .net 1.1 framework and the website it it navigating to is .net 4.0.I have share the same machine-key across both the application . It works fine in my testing environment but as i move to the deployment server ,it just dosent work !So what i could do is read this article on MSDN :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/eb0zx8fc.aspx this tells me to add a domin attribute like below <forms loginUrl="~Login.aspx" defaultUrl="Default.aspx" protection="All" timeout="80" name=".ASPXAuth" domain="asbc.com"/> but this thing just dosent work on the 1.1 application and throws an error Unrecognized attribute 'domain'.
Where do i get to mention the domin in my 1.1 application.?
I have created a crystal following your article which url is
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It is working fine on local machine but when i upload it on the server it is not working. Crystal Report is showing but data is not showing in the crystal report.
I am working on a multi-language web site. It is half English and half Portuguese. I have created forms that have portuguese values in it. These forms work perfectly on my desktop. I'm using Cassini as the development server. When I move them over to IIS, they are not loading properly. The text comes up all weird looking. I am declaring the culture in the page attribute: Culture="pt-BR"
