My current ASP.NET site requires to launch FFMPEG.EXE to convert uploaded videos. With shared web hosting server, can't be done but via a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or a dedicated server.
I've been reading some info about Windows Azure but haven't found any info regarding:
1. Be able to launch external executable
2. Be able to remote desktop into the allocated virtual machines
I just downloaded and installled the Microsoft Windows Azure SDK yesterday for the first time and I am having issues running the application as I all I am getting is 503 errors. I run Windows Server 2008 R2 on my development machine and even tested it on another co-workers 2008 R2 and couldn't even compile the application. He got this error instead "A problem occurred while trying to set the "References" parameter for the IDE's in-process compiler. Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component."
From within my Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Windows 7 x86 enviroment, I was able to successfully build and run the Windows Azure SDK and it even showed the base ASP.NET application.So my question is, does the Windows Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2010 w/ Visual Studio 2010 SP 1 installed not work under Microsoft Server 2008 R2?
how do I launch a windows form from a web page. For instance, when you click a button the windows form should launch and the web page should continue to run in the background without the user seeing it (this is there a way to keep the web page alive after the windows form app launch)
View 4 RepliesThis is going to be a question really for someone who has knowledge with PingIdentity and ACS, which could be pretty limited.I've got my ACS set up, all working fine and I know how to add a custom STS (PingIdentity) but I can't find any of the PingIdentity Federation MetaData (FederationMetaData.xml) to authenticate with.
Apparently our current system's workflow is such:
Us -> Our PingIdentity server -> Supplier -> Supplier's PingIdentity server -> Route token back to us.
Would I have to use our local PingIdentity Federation MetaData as the STS in order to achieve what I'm looking for (same scenario, but with ACS)? And where can I find this?
does windows azure automatically scale up(by providing more instances), or I need to change this?
the extra small instance costs 0.05$/hour. According to Azure SLA I need to use at least 2 instances. This means 2 * $0.05*24*30=$72/month minimum. I can get on premise asp.net hosting for $5/month. Is there any offer I don't know about so I can build from the start on Azure architecture, or should I just switch to azure when I need more scaling and other servies that Azure offers because the difference in price is too high for me.
Is it possible to run ASP.NET 1.1 on the Windows Azure?
View 1 RepliesI need a walkthrough or steps of how to deploy ASP.NET Website on Windows Azure.
View 3 RepliesI've currently got Windows Azure AppFabric system set up and running with my own registered Namespace, in which uses the Google/Yahoo/Windows Live STS providers. That all works fine, I can use them and login to my application. Easy.
However, I can't find anything in any way useful on the web that related to adding my own STS to this list from a 3rd party supplier. I've read that it's possible, and it's the last hurdle I'm stuck on here - replacing the Google/Yahoo/Windows Live STS with the ones I need my application to authenticate with. I cannot find anywhere in the STS control panel to allow for this (AppFabric Labs).
I've got a web app that converts text to audio using Microsoft .NET Speech library (System.Speech).
i want to know if this app can be migrated to Windows Azure, and if Azure can still allow me to use the System.speech namespace without any problem ?
I'm migrating an ASP .NET 2.0 WebSite to WebRole (ASP.NET 4.0 and VS2010). After created new web role, I moved all files and folders from website to WebRole then reference all needed dlls. I build and run web role stand alone and everything ok without problems. But when I build and run WindowsAzureProject, below errors come up
[fabric] Role state Stopping
[fabric] Role state Stopped
[fabric] Role state Aborted
[fabric] Role state Teardown
[fabric] Role state Destroyed
[runtime] Role entrypoint could not be created:
System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.CreateRoleEntryPoint(RoleType roleTypeEnum)
at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.InitializeRoleInternal(RoleType roleTypeEnum)
and the status "Operation was canceled" It takes me days to resolve but nothing found. I did set "Copy local" to true for all reference dlls but it doesn't effect also. I've just thought spring.core and spring.aop caused the error but I don't know how to debug and catching where it crash
I have written an web application in VS2010 ASP.net C#, to display Crystal reports. I moved this application to Azure Emulator. It was working fine locally. However after deploying it with Azure, crystal report is not getting displayed and not even an exception is thrown.
I have installed
Installed CRforVS_13_0.exe
Then installed CRRuntime_64bit_13_0, on my machine sequentially.Any input from any1 will be helpful. Please let know if you want more information.
We have a Web Role that we are hosting in Windows Azure that uses an old ASMX based Web Reference to contact an external system. The Web Reference proxy code is big enough that instantiating it the first time has a significant cost.
We'd like to be able to have this run when the Web Role starts instead of on the first request.
I know IIS 7.5 has an Application Warm-Up module that would allow us to achieve this, but I'm having trouble figuring out if something similar exists with hosting on Windows Azure.
I have a Silverlight/RIA application that worked fine locally and on my IIS 7 server. Now that I've moved it to Azure, I'm getting EndpointNotFoundExceptions.
[EndpointNotFoundException]: There was no channel actively listening at [URL]
DomainService.svc/binary/SeviceEndpoint
ive seen the solution for wcf services here [URL] but im not sure if this is also applicable for ria services
In one of our ASP.NET Web site solutions I need to roll out an update that might take reasonable time. It spawns multiple Windows Azure Workers and projects and so simple Deployment Swap is ruled out.
Essentially I'm just thinking about way to redirect all web requests to a "site is under maintenance" page for some time, given the project is under Windows Azure.
I'm aware of the app-offline.htm trick with IIS, but I doubt that Azure Web Role will allow this one to be deployed or run (it spins down the app domain).
I have setup Windows Authentication on a project but I need a windows login or something to appear when its accessed externally, how can I do this?
View 5 RepliesI we have created a website that requires users to login. It used forms based authentication and sql server to validation the login credentials.
Should we need to purchase an external connector license from microsoft to be able to host this site on a windows .net platform.
Edit: More information about external connectors. In microsoft licensing world there are cals for users connecting to the windows server software, external connectors are unlimited cal licenses.
Is it possible to embed an external application inside the browser (IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox) so it will look like a native web application but actually having access to the USB ports of the client machine? I have heard that I need to make an ActiveX control. I would like to use the .Net framework, but if that is not possible, maybe using Java or C++ will be fine.
I have to make an application that will allow to the users to connect an external device to an USB port, this device will take a backup of the information contained in a SIM card and send it to the user's account online agenda. So the user can restore it later using the same application. This should be a web application or at least look like one.
If the first is not possible. Is there any way to launch an external application from all the browsers, and then pass information to the browser window to allow it to refresh after the backup has been made?
I want to call an Executable from a Web Page. I used the following code :
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe");
Works fine when executing (debugging) from Visual Studio. But when deployed as a website on IIS, the UI of the Notepad application is not seen. As it is executed as an anonymous user (Network Service in IIS 6.0) it is seen in task manager but cannot be seen as an executing application.
So now I applied Impersonation :
Code file (ASPX.cs File)
System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationContext impersonationContext;
impersonationContext = ((System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity)User.Identity).Impersonate();
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("c:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.exe");
impersonationContext.Undo();
(Web.Config)
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<identity impersonate="true" userName="DomainUserName" password="password" />
In the application's virtual Directory in IIS go to properties and go to Directory Security Tab. In the Authentication and access controlclick Edit. Default Settings are: Enable anonymous access and Integrated Windows authentication are checked. This will give the following Error : An anonymous identity cannot perform an impersonation......................
I have a page which has populated a database with a set of information that needs to be processed. This could take a considerable amount of time and I want it to run in the background, mean while I will have my web app display a page with an intermittent meta refresh showing me progress of the records in the DB being processed.
What I think I need to do is start an executable, in a different thread running in the backgound on the server which will run until it is complete, without interfering with other web activity.
Can this be done? Do I start it in a different thread? How can I start the exe in that thread and just leave it to do its work?
I have an app that outputs a gridview to excel spreadsheet and adds a couple of rows for accounting. I'm trying to launch the spreadsheet after its saved off, using
Code:
excelApp.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs(filename);
excelApp.ActiveWorkbook.Saved = true;
excelApp.Quit();
var si= new ProcessStartInfo {FileName = filename, UseShellExecute = true}; //hits here and crashes
Process.Start(si);
it hits the marked line and crashes that it cant find the file, its automatically saving it to the documents folder on my local machine, and i cant seem to get it to save elsewhere (i have a data directory in the project i use for the other file types) that i would like to save to if possible, but it seems that if you have office installed it don't like it. i could always copy the file from documents to the datastore, but that's difficult.
how do i launch excel application using the file i just saved off to show to the bean crunchers?
i am working on a project where i have to give call to an .exe file to access the scanner on client side. i am using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Server.MapPath("~/bin/Scan.exe").ToString()"); to call exe file in my bin folder on to the server, but it is not getting called.
View 4 Repliesdoes someone know the utility/procedure for converting an ASP.net project containing multiple files into one executable (.EXE) file?
View 3 RepliesWhat are the alternatives to System.Diagnostics API for running external EXE or BAT files under IIS hosted web application?
I would like to run external EXE program from my ASP.NET-MVC web application. I don't need to wait till the program exits. I just want to start the program. The execution can take some time or it may crash, so I would like to run it separatelly from IIS in such a way that the web application only triggers its execution.
I have developed multiple WebServices in my project in ASP.NET. Now I need to deploy them as a single executable file. How can i do that?
View 1 Repliesi am working on a web application using C#,
i know that in window application how to give the path for executable file that started the application (if (!System.IO.File.Exists(Application.StartupPath + "gsdll32.dll")))
but i dont know how to give that path in web application using c#