Web Vs Windows Forms Applications - Tutorial / Book?
Jan 22, 2010
Up to now I've only really worked with ASP.NET (both WebForms and MVC) but have never tried my hand at building an application for Windows. I've been working at moving one of my Web Forms pages to an executable but things just don't flow as easily. I've got it to work but I'm not sure if "best practices" (or at least the practices I'm used to) translate between the two technologies. For example, I'm filling a DataGridView in the app using Linq to Sql which is taking the column header names from the "select new {}" but that doesn't give me control over additional fields I may want to add and if I do they are both tacked into the DataGridView. I'm not familiar with binding without <itemtemplates> and such. Can anyone suggest a tutorial or book to get me started?
I am planning to buy a new laptop to learn asp.net web applications and also windows applications. Do we get IIS7 installed when we buy the home edition of windows 7 or should we buy windows 7 professional version?
I just changed my NHibernate application to use the Unit of Work pattern. I then continued through this tutorial to the part where it starts using HttpContext to determine whether or not the code is running in an web application. Using Visual Studio 2010 I get the error "The name 'HttpContext' does not exist in the current context". So I added a reference to System.Web and imported the namespace. The sample code then checks whether or not HttpContext.Current is null to determine whether this is a web or windows application. Is this the best way of doing that?
Error: When I hit F5: "A project with an output type of class library cannot be started directly. In order to debug this project, add an executable project to this solution which references the library project. Set the executable project as the startup project."Trying to debug the code in windows applications. It throws the above error.Googled, most of them say to download the exe file. But when I've right click the Project ->add reference-> browse -> bin-> debug -> .dll downloaded, still throws the same error. Unable to locate the executable file.
I have this web application built. I am using windows authentication for this application. I have to log all the user activity as wells as site activity in this application. I have the below mentioned class established to log some activity regarding the user to an SQL server database table..
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I would still need to log many other items regarding the user and also the site, like the time spent by the user on the site, no: of currently logged in users on the site. Can anyone here suggest me as to how do I capture those items?? let me know if I am going in the right direction too.....?? If you can provide me with some links on this "user activity logging for windows authenticated applications".
My workstation does not have Internet access, but it uses a DNS server on the LAN. Every time I start any ASP.NET application from Visual Studio with either F5 or Ctrl-F5, the workstation (I don't know whether it's Visual Studio or Webdev.Webserver.exe) asks the DNS server for the IP address of "time.windows.com". The application is not started until the LAN-only DNS server returns an error, which results in a 10-second delay, during which the Internet Explorer is started, but displays a white background. Is there any way to prevent these connection attempts?
getting a new laptop at work and I'm curious what, if any, issues I'm going to encounter when I move from my 32bit laptop to my 64bit laptop running Win7 64bit and VS 2008/2010 64bit.Many of the applications (web and windows) that I maintain are 32bit and are installed on 32bit servers
I've been worked with web services so far, and I'm interested in expanding my services to console applications as well so I started digging up with WCF but I'm conserned that I won't be able to use the HttpContext collection that I've been used to do with web services one important thing which is to generate a random value from HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["ALL_HTTP"] that I need to reckon if it's the same or at least near what machine that is calling my service. How can I overcome this problem?
I need to know what machine is calling to count the number of attempts to login into my system for example. So must do it inside of the svc code otherwise if I let the client inform what ip address or what computer he is using, anyone could forge this argument and surpass by another machine. May be I'm approaching this matter wrongly. And I should count the number of attempts per state session, but how is it done?
in that i have also put a image control and upload control for uploading a book image and image uploaded is stored in a seperate folder only image name is stored in database.what i want is when user upload image he can view it on tha page without storing it on server folder directly from where image is selected and when he click on save only than image and its name is stored.problem is i can not view uploaded image without stroing it in folder.is there any way i can store image temporary to view and if user dont save data image is deleted from thereor image is directly viewed from client`s pc in the page.
Our corporate intranet is designed so that each web application is a child application in the primary application.. Everything has worked fine with Visual Studio 2008 and even in 2010 running the website locally works great, the output directory for the child apps is ..in and the ProjectName.dll copies to that directory.. When I do a publish however it does not and I have to manually copy the dll from the bin folder in the project folder to the parent bin folder, this isn't hard of course but more of a pain in the butt each time I need to publish something. I made sure the output directory is correct for both debug and release yet on publish is just copies it to the child bin and not the parent bin as needed.
I'm looking for a book on MVC. I've tried diving head-first into it without any documentation, but I didn't really learn about the core concepts. I'm a hands on kinda guy, so the ideal book would teach me the concepts and then allow me to implement them with mini-projects.
There are plenty of books to choose from on Amazon, but recommendations would be helpful.
The topic of our undergraduate project is SOA. Under this project we are supposed to build 3 service components and one example website that uses those components. I am quite good with Java and have no experience whatsoever with C# or .NET.We have decided to do project in C#.NET. I found SOA with .NET & Windows Azure by Thomas Erl. As we are not going to deploy our application to any cloud, I am bit worried about the book whose title has "& Windows Azure".I am currently reading SOA Concepts, Technology and Design by Thomas Erl. Is the book SOA with .NET & Windows Azure right for my present needs? Or any other recommendations about book/blog etc on SOA with C#.NET?
Part of this tutorial entails setting up a GridView which is bound to the collection of UserAccounts, and then enabling paging on the GridView. There are the usual four links for First, Prev, Next, and Last pages, which should work because I have twelve users defined, and the pagesize of my GridView set to 5. I've set up the code to enable or disable the paging links depending on what section of the entire UserGrid is currently visible.
So when I first run the website and go to the ManageUsers.aspx page, I would expect to see only the first five users in my collection. But it shows all twelve.
I must have overlooked something, but I can't find it in the text and examples.
I took the 70-562 exam and didn't do well enough to pass. My main weakness was ASP.NET Javascript, where obviously I need more grounding than the MS Press exam kit book provides.
What book will best give me this grounding? It needs to cover everything really and be easy to read (bullet points etc) and has to talk about using the AJAX role manager and things like that.
I was wondering about this book from Apress over at Amazon, and I'm looking for some insight about whether or not it's a smart purchase..
I think it really fits my needs perfectly, because I'm looking to implement ASP.NET to run my E-Commerce shopping website, therefore, I believe it's a great fit.I would love to learn the ASP.NET as a whole, but this narrowed focus is more practical and it's pretty much guiding me through exactly what I want to accomplish with ASP.NET.
The only problem I really see is the errata that reviewers are complaining about.I'm completely new to ASP.NET, and it seems that some of these mistakes in the code are actually causing parts of the source files to not work properly.
Also, should I care about the fact that the book appears to only cover 3.5 and not 4.0? I would imagine that it's fine, jut because I probably wouldn't notice or need the differences just yet!Finally, should I pick up a general ASP.NET book prior to reading this, just to get myself familiar with the language? I wouldn't want to be thrown into something that I am not very comfortable with just yet, but it seems like it doesn't assume too much prior knowledge.
I think I'll read the intro, and the "who this book is for" section to find that out.
am involved in a project with UI comprising mainly of Action Script. My role as an ASP.NET programmer is to pull data from DB using Web Services and supply it as XML to the Action Script.if I could learn more about XML Web Services in ASP.NET.
