What is the fastest and safest way to download a tool and see the difference between the 2 web.config files? Does windows xp has a built in tool to do a visual Diff on 2 files?I am running Windows XP professional SP3 on my computer.Would downloading Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools cause an issue?
View 5 RepliesI'm looking at an asp.net application, i notice that there are assemblies defined into two places. In web.config there is configuration/system.web/compilation/assemblies/add elements. In the project file there are references setup under the Project/ItemGroup/Reference elements.
I was wondering, what is the difference between assemblies/references added in either location?
I'm preparing to deploy a ASP.NET web application. The target server has already a previous version of my web application with parameters specified on the web.config file.
In the new version of this web application, the web.config file contains new sections I would like they appear into the target web.config file on the server.
However I can't find the way to merge the new web.config sections into the existing web.config file ?
Does I have to do it programmatically, or is there a tool to merge the both files during installation ? (I'm using Web Setup Project).
This might sound a bit dumb. I always had this impression that web.config should store all settings which are suspect to change post-build and setting.settings should have the one which may change pre-build.but I have seen projects which had like connection string in setting.settings. Connection Strings should always been in web.config, shouldnt it?I am interested in a design perspective answer.Just a bit of background:My current scenario is that I am developing a web application with all the three tiers abstracted in three separate visual studio projects thus every tier has its own .settings and .config file.
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a small web application, and I wanted the user to be redirected to a simple error page anytime an exception was encountered. So I wanted to redirect the user to generic Error page "Oooops.aspx" that will log the error in page_load.
I'm thinking that I can use Application_Error in Global.asax, where I can redirect to "Oooops.aspx" so that it displays a friendly error page and it logs the exception (through Server.GetLastError()). I can also use web.config and add "<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="Oooops.aspx"/>" It'll redirect me to a friendly error page and it will also log the exception. What's the difference between these two? Should I use both of them, or just one? And which should I use?
I have one doubt Can we access one web.config file to another web.config file in asp.net
View 6 RepliesCurrently, I work on an ASP.NET project which is hosted under version control and is used on several developer machines, tester machine and production environment.
In three cases, configuration (Web.config) may be different. For example, developer and tester environments use testing SQL Server, whereas in production environment, another SQL Server is accessed, so the connection string is different in those cases.
We want to keep three versions of Web.config in subversion. But modifying each of three files every time we need to add, remove or change a common setting is annoying: it would be nice to have a common, master Web.config, which will be inherited by each of the three Web.config files.
How to set up an ASP.NET project which will use a master configuration file and different slave configuration files on different machines, thus sharing the same project/source code/configuration files in subversion?
When I open my ASP.NET site in IIS and try to open the .NET Trust Levels, I get an error message:
.NET Trust Levels There was an error while performing this operation.
Details:
Filename: ?C:inetpubwwwrootmyappweb.config
Line number: 445
Error: This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. Locking is either by default (overrideModeDefault="Deny"),or set explicitly by a location tag with overrideMode="Deny" or the legacy allowOverride="false".
I've checked a few places, but I haven't found anything that seems like it would be locking that setting. Is there a systematic way of determining where that setting is locked?
I'm using IIS 7.5 and .NET 3.5 sp1.
I have many Connection strings in my web.config file. I also have a "dataConfiguration" setting in the same file which specifies what database my app connects to.
How do I read the "defaultDatabase" setting / section from the, see below xml file.
<configuration>
<configSections> [code]....
I am developing web applicaiton. I want to read web.config in App.config file. I have appSettings and connectionStrings in web.config. How to read that?
View 10 RepliesIs it possible to have separate config files for specific sections of the web.config? Specifically I'd like to move IIS 7's rewrite section out of the web.config and into it's own config file.
View 3 RepliesI have looked at two of Microsoft's tutorials for MVC. In one tutorial they are creating a .edmx file to handle the Entity Framework in order to execute Linq queries. In another tutorial they made a class called "MusicStoreEntities.cs" here is the code:
using System.Data.Entity;
namespace MvcMusicStore.Models
{
public class MusicStoreEntities : DbContext
{
public DbSet<Album> Albums { get; set; }
public DbSet<Genre> Genres { get; set; }
public DbSet<Artist> Artists { get; set; }
public DbSet<Cart> Carts { get; set; }
public DbSet<Order> Orders { get; set; }
public DbSet<OrderDetail> OrderDetails { get; set; }
}
}
And the tutorial creates an instance of this class and starts doing Linq queries as well. What are the differences between these 2 methods? and how can I make DbSet objects in a .edmx file?
It is known that we use web.config file to override the setting of machine.config file.
a) how come machine.config file knows that only changes made in web.config file are to be overwritten. I mean to say, if I use some other name for the config file say xyz.config, will it be able to work?
b) How does machine.config file know about web.config? Is there any link mentioned inside the machine.config file for that?
In the Web.Config we have a timeout property. Ex:
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Login.aspx" timeout="2880"/>
</authentication>
When loggin in, we can specify a ticket expiry date. Ex:
FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(
1, id.ToString(), DateTime.Now, expiryDate, true,
securityToken, FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath);
Why there's two places where I can set expiration info about forms-authentication? What's the difference between them? What has more relevance?
I have built an ASP.NET (.NET v4) application in VS 2010. It is working just fine. But when I try to create deployment package (so I can deploy it in our test IIS 7.5 Server), it gives me error like this,
Error 1 Could not open Source file: Could not find file 'C:11-2 estobjDebugCSAutoParameterize ransformedWeb.config'. 0 0 test
Thing is in past, I had deployed the SAME application using the SAME method.
In my project i wants to display report and export it in pdf format so that i used rdlc but now my requirement is that there are some labels like name,address for it i wants to give some specific margin from left right(x,y) and i wants to give this margin by config file. "how can we set margin in rdlc from cofig file or run time?"
View 1 RepliesI am encrypying my .NET config file using this command and it works just fine:
aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/SampleApplication"
For this to work though I have to have a virtual directory called SampleApplication pointing to the folder my web.config file is under.
Is there a way to just specify the path to the file and not have to have a virtual dir?
I tried with
aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -location "c:FoldercontainingWebConfigFile"
but i get the error: " path attribute must be a relative virtual path". And cannot contain any of ":" "" etc...
I am looking here:
[URL]
Given the following code which is extremely generic, I was hoping someone could tell me a bit about what is going on behind the scenes...
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Load(Guid regionID, HttpPostedFileBase file)
{
if (file.ContentLength == 0)
RedirectToAction("blablabla.....");
var fileBytes = new byte[file.ContentLength];
file.InputStream.Read(fileBytes, 0, file.ContentLength);
}
Specifically, is the file completely uploaded to the server before my action method is invoked? Or is it the file.InputStream.Read() method call that causes or rather waits for the entire file to upload. Can I do partial reads on the stream and gain access to the "chunks" of the file as it is uploaded? (If the entire fire is uploaded before my method is invoked then it is all a moot point.) Is there any difference between IIS6 or II7 here?
by looking at using the XmlDocument and creating elements and attributes and then inserting them into the document. Pretty soon this looked like a massive amount of work for all the elements I have to add.What are the repercussions of treating the config file as one big long text string and doing a replace at certain points to add my entries. Something like this...
private void InsertXMLElement()
{
StringBuilder webConfig = new StringBuilder();
// get the file into a stringbuilder for manipulation
using (var sr = new StreamReader("C:web.config"))
{
webConfig.Append(sr.ReadToEnd());
On my master page (for all pages in my site) I have a ToolkitScriptManager.
On my content page, there are a series of hyperlinks and divs for collapsible functionality.
The code to show/hide the panels work like the following:
[code]....
If I include a ScriptReference to the jQuery 1.4.2 file in the toolkitscriptmanager, the javascript code is executed incorrectly on the page (only the text for the hyperlink is changed, the div is not actually shown.) However, if I don't include the jQuery file in the ToolkitScriptManager and instead include it in the content page, it works correctly.
We have a .aspx file which has about 400 lines of javascript code. Is it a good idea to have such huge code in its own file? What is the performance difference in having huge javascript code in aspx as against the .js file?
View 5 Replieswhen I reference a assembly. It's reference gets added to the project file in my case ( ABC.csproj)
Also when I take a look at the web.config file there is a section called <assemblies>. And lot of assemblies are added there.
What is the difference between link to the assemblies in the Project file and the assemblies in the web.config file?
I need to update these fields from the front end, using c#.
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="email.fromAddress" value="printingshop@rp.sg"/>
<add key="email.fromName" value="help-printingshop"/>
<add key="email.toAddress" value=""/>
<add key="email.ccAddress" value="printingshop@rp.sg,
OSC_Projects@rp.sg"/>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
I'm trying to write a new web.config file using VB in ASP.net. I am trying to set access permissions, but it won't let me use the question mark to denote: <deny users="?" /> in the authorization tag. Is there an alternative to this or a different encoding I should be using for this character?
My specific error: The '?' character cannot be used here.
'Create file, overwrite if exists
'enc is encoding object required by constructor
'It is null, so default encoding is used
Dim objXMLTW As New XmlTextWriter((MapPath(".") & "asic" & fold & "" & "web.config"), Nothing)
objXMLTW.WriteStartDocument()
'Top level (Parent element)
objXMLTW.WriteStartElement("configuration")
'Child elements, from request form
objXMLTW.WriteStartElement("system.web")
objXMLTW.WriteStartElement("auhorization")
objXMLTW.WriteString("deny users="?"")
objXMLTW.WriteEndElement()
objXMLTW.WriteEndElement()
objXMLTW.WriteEndElement() 'End top level element
objXMLTW.WriteEndDocument() 'End Document
objXMLTW.Flush() 'Write to file
objXMLTW.Close()
I have uploaded a simple hello world on my IIS server 7 (shared hosting). It doesn't work. Is it necessary to add a web config and what's the minimum in that case ?
Error says:
Server Application Unavailable
The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web browser to retry your request.
Here's the script, very basic :)
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>ASP.NET Hello World</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><%= "Hello World!" %></p>
</body>
</html>