MVC Switching Cultures After Compile For Initial Load
Nov 3, 2010
I have a hybrid ASP.Net web forms/MVC app. On one of the MVC "pages"/views, I have it render a bunch of dates using the ToShortDateString() and ToLongDateString(). These work correctly most of the time, but the first time I load the view after compiling the app, they are formatted incorrectly.
I traced this down and checked the current thread's culture. For 99% of the time it's en-US, but on the first load of the MVC view after compiling it is set to en-GB. If I reload the page immediately after that, it's back to en-US.
I have tried setting the culture and uiculture in the web.config file to en-US to force it to be correct, but no luck.
Over the last week I've been investigating an issue for one of our clients whereby the initial page load following a deployment of their website takes around 1 minute, resulting in unacceptable downtime for end users. This was happening not only for code deplyments (bin dll's and .config files) but also if there were large numbers of .aspx pages updated. For code deployments it's not an issue, but for aspx updates it is; in this particular scenario, we are making use of a 3rd party content management system (RedDot from OpenText) in which every page of the site is published out as a distinct .aspx page. This means that for this website there's somewhere in the region of 2,400 separate .aspx pages. I realise this isn't an ideal situation but we're working within the constraints of the CMS, and we managed to correlate the instances where the site was unresponsive with App pool restarts, which also corresponded to publications of of .aspx pages.
I found an article by Tess Ferandez [URL] which describes all the reasons why the app pool may restart, and it does seem that if more than 15 .aspx pages are changed then the app pool will recycle and the pages will be re-compiled. Another msdn article [URL] then gave me a few pointers on how to start addressing this problem, and for the moment I've set a flag on the compilation options to prevent batch compilation:
<compilation batch="false">
This means that the initial page load now takes around 6 seconds instead of 1 minute, which is a great improvement. However, I also used the "Compilations Total" performance counter to investigate the number of pages that have been compiled by ASP.NET for my site and was quite surprised that the total number of pages that get compiled peaks at 44, which is odd given that there are 2,400 aspx pages in the site. If the batch flag is set to false, the counter slowly increments by 1 page at a time as you click around on the site; if batch mode is true, the initial compilation takes the number straight to 44 over the course of ~60 seconds. What I'm really struggling to understand is why all 2,400 pages aren't compiled. Does anyone have any inside info on what might be going on as all the documentation I've read seems to indicate that all of the pages should be compiled and this counter should be much higher.
I've built a multilingual ASP.NET web app and no problem . I'm trying to put a flash header for this website so I've made couple flash in different language ( because they are different not just in language , they have tiny different because of different cultures ) . But my problem is i don't know how to load specific flash while switching different language .
I'm writing a simple web site using codebehind for each page, however using the "codefile" directive, not "codebehind" as such, because I'm not precompiling. I'm just using a text editor to edit the aspx and codebehind files. Problem is, every time I make a change to the code or the aspx file, and refresh the page in the browser, it takes a 2 or 3 seconds to come up the first time, like it's doing an on-demand initial compile. I assume that's what it's doing, as after the initial load, the page refreshes without any delay at all.
This behaviour is quite frustrating when making small changes to the html or code. I'm coming from classic ASP, where you could edit-refresh-edit-refresh etc. all day without your "stride" being broken by waiting for a "compile", you know? So I'd love to know if there's a setting which prevents this initial delay. When I want to deploy, I can do a compile or something, but while making lots of small edits, I just need the page to run without that initial delay.
I have an application where different users can log in via a single portal login. When they log in, if they belong to more than 1 company they have to select the company they belong to. The theme will change if there is a custom theme for that company. Each page my application has inherits a "CustomPage" class. Here is the code for the custom page:
When the customer belongs to more than 1 company, and they select the company they belong to, the theme loads just fine. So, the problem I am having is this: If they belong to just 1 company, the company is automatically selected but the theme does not load right away. However, if I refresh the page, the theme loads just fine. Even the default theme will not load. The page has no css at all until I refresh.
I even view source and look for my css names and they are not there. I refresh and do the same thing, and they are there. I am not using forms authentication and the default theme in the web config is "Default"
I have this simple code in my page, I have a long page, if the client use this button then it shall reload the page and display the page from the beginning. I wish to be reload the page and display from the last position.
I posted a similar question previously, but none of the answers worked and I've been scouring all over the web trying to find a solution. My situation, I have a Edit Window webform with a dropdownlist (Note: to avoid confusion, I'm using Telerik extensions only to decorate the webform):
And in the code behind, I'm setting the datasource for the dropdownlist and using a function to query the DB for the name of the value I want to set as the selected value when the page loads initially: Partial Class EditFormVB Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Public Shared category_Name As String = "" Dim ddlDataSource As New SqlDataSource Protected Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Init DetailsView1.DefaultMode = DetailsViewMode.Edit End Sub Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Me.Page.Title = "Editing record" ''Setup DropDownList SqlDataSource ddlDataSource.ID = "ReqCategoryData" Page.Controls.Add(ddlDataSource) ddlDataSource.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("TTPRODReportsQuery").ConnectionString ddlDataSource.SelectCommand = "SELECT TS_NAME AS ReqCategory FROM dbo.TS_SELECTIONS WHERE (TS_FLDID = 5299 AND TS_STATUS = 0) ORDER BY TS_NAME" Dim args As New DataSourceSelectArguments ddlDataSource.Select(args) ''Set max length of Title field to 70 characters Dim dvrTest As DetailsViewRowCollection = DetailsView1.Rows Dim TitleTB As TextBox = dvrTest.Item(0).Cells(1).Controls(0) TitleTB.Attributes.Add("onkeydown", "isMaxLen(this)") TitleTB.Attributes.Add("maxlength", "70") Dim myDDL As DropDownList = DetailsView1.FindControl("reqCategoryDropDown") ''Perform dropdown list population operations If Page.IsPostBack = False Then Dim ticket_ID As String = getDataKey(DetailsView1) ''Fetch Category ID Dim sqlText As String = "SELECT TS_REQCATEGORY FROM USR_ITFAC WHERE (TS_ID = " + ticket_ID + ") " Dim reqDataReader As SqlDataReader = GetDataReader(sqlText) reqDataReader.Read() Dim category_ID As String = reqDataReader(0) ''Fetch Category name using the categoryID and set as selected value in dropdown list sqlText = "SELECT TS_NAME FROM TS_SELECTIONS WHERE (TS_ID = " + category_ID + ") " reqDataReader = GetDataReader(sqlText) reqDataReader.Read() category_Name = reqDataReader(0) myDDL.DataBind() myDDL.Selectedvalue = category_Name //<--this value gets set only when debugging, End If End Sub Private Function GetDataReader(ByVal sqlText As String) As SqlDataReader Dim dr As SqlDataReader Dim sqlConn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("TTPRODReportsQuery").ConnectionString) sqlConn.Open() Dim sqlCmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand(sqlText, sqlConn) dr = sqlCmd.ExecuteReader(System.Data.CommandBehavior.CloseConnection) Return dr End Function End Class
The dropdownlist does get populated appropriately, however when I attempt to set the value, it doesn't reflect when the page loads; the dropdownlist just gets populated and no value is set to selected in the markup, so the first value is shown by default. The odd thing is that when I'm debugging, the value appears to get set when I step through the function, it's as if the selectedvalue is getting reset as soon as the function exits and proceeds to load the page.
SOLUTION: Had to add a separate function that is called onLoad from the DropDownList after the after Page_Load is done executing. Still unresolved is why the the DropDownList rebinds after the Page_Load.
IN HTML: <asp:DropDownList DataSourceID="ReqCategoryData" DataTextField="ReqCategory" DataValueField="ReqCategory" ID="reqCategoryDropDown" runat="server" AutoPostBack="true" OnLoad="DDL_DataBound"> IN CODE-BEHIND Public Shared category_Name As String = "" Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Me.Page.Title = "Editing record" ''Setup DropDownList SqlDataSource ddlDataSource.ID = "ReqCategoryData" Page.Controls.Add(ddlDataSource) ddlDataSource.ConnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("TTPRODReportsQuery").ConnectionString ddlDataSource.SelectCommand = "SELECT TS_NAME AS ReqCategory FROM dbo.TS_SELECTIONS WHERE (TS_FLDID = 5299 AND TS_STATUS = 0) ORDER BY TS_NAME" Dim args As New DataSourceSelectArguments ddlDataSource.Select(args) ''Set max length of Title field to 70 characters Dim dvrTest As DetailsViewRowCollection = DetailsView1.Rows Dim TitleTB As TextBox = dvrTest.Item(0).Cells(1).Controls(0) TitleTB.Attributes.Add("onkeydown", "isMaxLen(this)") TitleTB.Attributes.Add("maxlength", "70") Dim myDDL As DropDownList = DetailsView1.FindControl("reqCategoryDropDown") ''Perform dropdown list population operations If Page.IsPostBack = False Then Dim ticket_ID As String = getDataKey(DetailsView1) ''Fetch Category ID Dim sqlText As String = "SELECT TS_REQCATEGORY FROM USR_ITFAC WHERE (TS_ID = " + ticket_ID + ") " Dim reqDataReader As SqlDataReader = GetDataReader(sqlText) reqDataReader.Read() Dim category_ID As String = reqDataReader(0) ''Fetch Category name using the categoryID and set as selected value in dropdown list sqlText = "SELECT TS_NAME FROM TS_SELECTIONS WHERE (TS_ID = " + category_ID + ") " reqDataReader = GetDataReader(sqlText) reqDataReader.Read() category_Name = reqDataReader(0) myDDL.DataBind() End If End Sub Protected Sub DDL_DataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) If Page.IsPostBack = False Then Dim myDDL As DropDownList = DetailsView1.FindControl("reqCategoryDropDown") myDDL.Items.FindByValue(category_Name).Selected = True End If End Sub
I've stumbled across a strange problem with the AsyncFileUpload control: if the control doesn't exist on the initial load, the UploadedComplete event does not fire. For example, the following code works just fine:
[Code]....
But as soon as the code is wrapped in an if (IsPostBack) condition as shown below, FileUploaded no longer fires, even though the code is otherwise identical:
[Code]....
Would anyone be able to shed some light on why this is happening?
I have a simple web application that loads very slow the very first time after i deploy it. I am using ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 / VS 2008 / Linq / Web forms to load the default.aspx home page. It is a very light page with nothing too fancy.Now to debug this load issue, I logged all the events in the global file and got the following log text:
Now my question is, between the Application_AuthenticateRequest and Session_Start functions, there is generally around 10 - 15 seconds - which i believe seems to be the problem.The thing, I am unsure why this is slow between these two functions.I am not using any forms authentication.Also, I am not doing anything fancy in the global file besides setting a session variable.
For some reason my RadComboBox "EmptyMessage" is not showing on the initial load of the page but it does after I focus and blur out of the control. How can I force my "EmptyMessage" to show by default?
about how many are using jQuery to create controls in the DOM after the initial page load.Curious also about any conventions for naming DOM objects in relation to database objects.Seems you could almost render the entire page using jQuery..Does that mean I am only using ASP.Net for the fact that my page methods will run in IIS on the web server?
I've searched around a lot, and honed this problem down to this case: I'm using the PRG pattern, pragmatically I'm using the same DTO for my post/get actions. It looks like when I have the dto with the data annotation attributes in the get action parameter list, the validation is always displaying errors, every time on initial page load. In some cases this could be desired behavior if you put asterisks in the error message, but how do I get rid of it?
I have an application that initially display 4 grid views at page load. This process takes 50-60 seconds and I would like to change the process to display the web page, show message like "Data being loaded, please wait..." and then spin off a thread that fills the various grid view. When this is done I would programatically like to do a post back to show the result. Not sure if this is possible? I tried something like this:
On my Page_Load command for a page, I have a couple of tests that are performed before the screen is displayed with an alert box displaying if the user cannot access the screen. If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
I am not sure what I am doing wrong in how I set up validation on my models and viewmodels. For some reason on several of my views that contain a validation summary, it appears empty on initial load of the page. On some other pages it appears correctly when the form's data is posted and it does not appear on initial load, this is the way that I would expect it to work.
On the views where this is occuring, my viewmodels are somewhat more complex in that they contain another complex type that I am passing around that has it's own set of DataAnnotation Validation properties, but I have called the validation summary like this; Html.ValidationSummary(true) so that those properties are not validated.
I have several divs on an asp page. All of my divs are runat="server". On the initial load of my page I set all the divs visible property to false because I dont want them to appear on the first show. Then, I have a drop down list raising postback events.
On the selected index changed event I am setting the visible property of my divs to true to make them appear on the page. However this does not work.
I discovered that, on the initial load non of my divs are added to the page's html content. So, on a postback event non existing divs can not be made to appear. If all the divs would set to visible = true on the initial load, postback event would work just expected.
Could any one tell me a way to hide divs on the initial load and make them appear on a postback event?
I a formview object. I have created an edit temple and an empty template Whehn there is data in the table nor probem When my table is empty i got the empty template to display when I click insert I get the error " Form must be in insert mode" How can I tell if there is no data on the page load so I can maybe do this:
I recently downloaded the mvc 3 RC and I am receiving a type load exception everytime i do a fresh compile and start a debugging session. The error is
System.TypeLoadException crossed a native/managed boundary
[code]...
I can click ok and my debug session continues working as normal. I can close the session and restart without making any code changes, and it will open and work correctly. But, everytime I close, make a compilable change and rerun, I get the message.
I would like to know if its possible to have different cultures for every UserControl, en-US culture in the first and he-IL or da-DK for the second one.
I am building my first ASP.NET MVC site and this site needs to be in 2 languages.
When a user selects a language from the menu, the site would present itself in that language.
The content likely will be loaded all from resource files. Can I respond to a change in the culture definition at runtime so it load the correct resource file?
I want different URLs for both languages. Perhaps something like mysite.com/en/home/index.
Is this possible? The users should be able to forward and save links and that the site will be loaded in their language.
I have been using C plus plus throughout my semester but now i want to switch to .Net but before i start i was wondering how different it is from C? and how much work i will have to do to master this?
I am programmer analyst working mainly in Asp.net for more than 3 yrs. I always wondered why employers are ready to pay more dollars for the same skill a person have in dotnet. I also see more BPM technologies are based on Java. Like Pega, Tibco etc. I have learned java in my college 4-5 years back.
I have an application I would like to force SSL on the login page and on the page that the CC is entered on. I would prefer to keep the rest of the application free of SSL.
I have the code working to force SSL on certain pages, and remove SSL on others. The problem I have is that if I log in with SSL enabled the user is only authenticated on the pages that are SSL. The reverse holds true as well, if the user logs in without SSL they are only authenticated on pages without SSL.
What can I do to have this persist between the two. Is this using cookies or the session?
We're currently using Wilson ORMapper with our asp.net 2.0 website against an Oracle db and we're having some issues that is making us look into an alternative ormapper. I know there is nhibernate but are there any other we should look into for our environment (.net and oracle db) or has nhibernate become the industry leader and therefore we don't need to look any further.
