I've been working with MVC for awhile and I'm not sure what works with asp.net.
Is it possible to organize code outside the App_Code directory or into separate projects? How would this be done?
I have an application which contains different modules from different databases, for instance, I have a table called "ITEMS" in each database. When I create the classes for the table ITEMS I wonder how I can differentiate among them.
For instance, for now, I have "ItemDetails.cs" under App_Code folder BUT I need to create another "ItemDetails.cs" class which will reference the table ITEMS from a different database. If I create folder under the App_code the class name still remains the same.
I could add an acronym in front the class to differentiate which database I am working from but that makes the class name too long.
I am reorganizing my MVC app into a Models project and a Controllers project, and then the main application as a project. So, everything is working good so far except. Whenever I go to "Rebuild" my controllers project, I get this error:
Controllers.AccountController.Initialize(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext)': no suitable method found to override.
Keep in mind that AccountController.cs was automatically placed in my application by Visual Studio, and this was all working fine when the Controllers were within my main project. I think it might have to do with the ASPNETDB.MDF file that this AccountController.cs file references to authenticate users as they log in, since this database stayed within my main project and didn't follow the Controllers project.
Here's the Initialize method on my AccountController:
protected override void Initialize(RequestContext requestContext) {
if (FormsService == null) { FormsService = new FormsAuthenticationService(); }
if (MembershipService == null) { MembershipService = new AccountMembershipService(); }
base.Initialize(requestContext); }
Nowadays I'm building an electronic store where I work. We have a few other online applications for the e-marketing and e-commerce activities, such as payment forms of campaigns we're spending, various portals etc. There is a common entity in our sites : VISITOR. We save a record for each visitor containing various information. Also, we have another entity - PURCHASE - the purchase of a product. It also exists in some of our DBs, Depending on applications. Today, when I'm designing a new store I decided to get WCF into business.
The purpose is to union all the application workings with PURCHASE and VISITOR. Since there are several applications that use the entity VISITOR and PURCHASE, I thought to develop VISITOR WCF and WCF for PURCHASE. I thought to create them in two separate projects - each one on its own WCF SERVICE APPLICATION, and to invoke them from my new shop as a beginning and in the future from the other applications. Both WCFs will work on the same DB that will contain and work with VISITOR and PURCHASES.
We have been building ASP.Net websites for many years. During this time we gathered a lot of knowledge of ASP.Net. We know what to use, a what not. One problem is still, persistently, bugging us. I hope to solve this for once and for all.
We have a fairly large solution with lots of aspx-files. All aspx-files reside in one Web Application Project. This single big WAP needs to be split in multiple smaller projects.
There are a number of ways to accomplish this, but I am still unsure what the best way would be. We use ASP.Net 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 Premium.
This is our current work-around (which we do not like)
[code]....
I am confused as to what to do with these. I have .cs files in App_Code. I also have other files in App_Data, and Bin. Could I just create these folders, make them virtual directories and upload my files as normal? Or do I need to do something special with these folders/files? Im really stuck on this. Also, this is a "shared hosting" account.
View 5 RepliesI have a customer that willing to buy a website and willing to pay for the database and for the ASP.NET portal that I developed for more then a year.
So, what I am selling to this customer is the database, the domain name, and the portal binaries.
I wish to allow the customer to change the .ASPX files, and also the ,ACSX files. and also the .CS files.
How do I block the access to the App_Code directory (Which is the busniess logic). I need a very good encryption method, so the customer will not be able crack the code.
In a website, I see some developers put code into app_code, and sometimes appcode (due to some bug), other files into DataModel, and other files into miscellaneous folders.
Is there a standard approach to organizing code within an application?
How is it different between an ASP.NET, MVC, Silverlight, Console, Database, and WCF application? The reason I mention WCF is because many people seem to have a shared types library that is linked between the server and client code.
Where can I learn these common practices without having to try, fail, and try again. I'd rather just learn it once from the experts.
I have trouble getting a custom ObjectDataSource for an asp:ListView control to work. I have the class for the DataSource in the App_Code directory of the web application (as required by the asp:ListView control).
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.Common;
using System.Web;
using System.DirectoryServices;........
As soon as I add using System.DirectoryServices; the page crashes with this message:
Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?) Without the usage of System.DirectoryServices the page loads without problems.
The reference is there, it is working in classes outside the App_Code directory.
I wrote some code to connect the application to it's database, then I created some code to use the connection code and retrieve, update or add some values to the database, Also I might have some code to deal with other stuff than to deal with the database
The code is a little complicated, maybe it's simple but it's not short, for example to write a good piece of code to just retrieve a single value so I could set the controller with this value I used this :
SqlConnection sqlconnection= new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DefConnectionString"].ConnectionString);
SqlCommand sqlcommand = new SqlCommand("SELECT name FROM message WHERE id = 3", sqlconnection);
try
{
sqlconnection.Open();
lbl_name.Text = (string)sqlcommand.ExecuteScalar();
Status.Text = "Done";
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Status.Text = ex.Message;
}
finally
{
sqlconnection.Close();
}
I might even add some code to store some info in the database about any exception is thrown, I think the code is pretty basic, yet it's not small, given that it's the smallest piece I'll need, some huge code is written for adding or editing new items, and also consider that it's not the only code I'll write in the page, the page has more needs.
I've provided a detailed case I hope!...So what do you think will be the best way to make my page fast and easy to read and have an organized code I've started placing every code in an appropriate method, but some methods are common so I create them again in every page that needs them like a ConnectionToDataBase Method, and mean while I think I just organized the page so I could mainly look at Page_Load and see what are the called methods and then scroll down to read the definition but It's still a big page and note the best practice I think
Sorry for all the big question, I just provide details so I could get a reasonable answer for my question, I hope everyone benefits from it as most questions are pretty basic, newbies like me needs some detailed cases and answers to get a better start.
EDIT: I know I'm new, So any comments on my code are more than welcome!
Create profile tables in an existing mdf in app_code directory
View 5 RepliesI have been asked to join a very small team where one main developer has been buiding the web app (.NET 4.0) during ~6 months. The project should be delivered within next 2 months.
After first look at the code I can say that I would never allow it to go to production (things like catch { }, no tests at all with WebForms etc).
So the code quality is incredibly low.
My task is to improve that and still deliver the solution. So I plan to start with unit testing and MVC2 reimplementing most of the functionality (though using some of the existing code).
I estimate that I will need about 6 weeks to catch up with the current progress and be on te same functionality level as the application will be in 6 weeks.
The problem is that the main developer who has been working on the project seems to be really starting in IT and many basic things are unknown to him. It will take significant amount of time and effort to educate him how to do the proper testing, development and apply some patterns.
I am ready to take responsibility for the reimplemnting the application but at the same time I don't want the main developer to be on idle but as he won't be able to significantly contribute to the better-world project at this stage I am not sure what would the best way to keep productivity high for both of us.
Currently I think following solution is good enough: He proceeds doing what he does until I will catch up with him and then start working on a new project together.
The problem is that of course this approach is not very productive as one developer will do better-world project while the other will proceed with what he did, effectively doing similar tasks.
Another approach would be to pair and try to do things together, but again not sure how productive we will be.
Can you suggest how we could better organise the work together in order to be most efficient for the overall project?
Our website has all of the publicly accessible pages at the root and private pages (login required) in a folder below the root (call it "private").Private pages are accessed as
www.oursite.com/private/somepage.aspx.I want to run the pages in the private folder in a separate application pool without changing the URL for private users.I tried making the private folder a virtual directory but then the pages in the private folder did not render(I think because it did not find a web.config in the private folder).Is the answer to simply put a copy of the web.config that resides at the root in the private folder or is that problematic?
I'm missing a the code browser when I create pages that have the code not placed in a seperate file. For pages with .asp.vb files I get the browser correctly.
I think it's called a code browser but just in case it's not I mean the dropdown that shows Page Events, Buttons and other controls that can be selected along with their events.
How do I turn on those dropdowns for pages with code behind that uses <script> tags in the actual .aspx page?
Included (Showing page events just under the tab):
Missing
I lost my solution files for a project which I've sent to my web host earlier. Now I need to edit and fix some but I don't have the solution files now. I have my project with App_Code.dll. Is there a way to get the whole project back?
View 1 RepliesI have published my site in the production server .
Now i have changed one of the web form code behind file. Now i published the site in local system. And update only App_Code.dll in the production server. But my changes not reflected in the Production server.
If i copy all the published content, its working.
Why i need to copy all the files into production server while changes made in code behid page instead of App_Code.dll?
I appear to have hit a brick wall whilst attempting to debug some C# code that resides in the App_Code folder.We have an established ASP.NET solution and I've just been brought onto the team. Unfortunately when I run the code [which successfully debugs (to a certain extent)] it does not step into a *.cs file that exists in the App_Code folder.I've found several posts on the subject, none of which seem relevant to me.
Specifically:
Running Win7 Enterprise 32 bit VS2005 8.0.50727.867 (vsvista.050727-8600) http://forums.asp.net/p/958358/3675792.aspx#3675792 mentioned removing the "+optimize" in the web.config file; this doesn't seem to be relevant to me (<compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" compilerOptions="/d:TRACE"
type="Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider, System, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089"/>)
The "App_Code" folder doesn't seem to have any peculiar setting associated with it
I also said that debugging works successfully "to a certain extent". I've set up Visual Studio with the C# developer environment. When I hit F11 I would expect the IDE to begin debugging and for the execution point to stop on the very first line of code (this is what it does in all my other projects in VS2003 & VS2008). However, when I hit F11 it acts like F5, running until it either hits a break point or a run-time error. I'm wondering whether this may be related to it not even hitting break-points in code in my App_Code folder?
I have a PlannerShiftView user control in the root folder of my ASP.NET web site. In my App_Code folder, I have a ShiftViewTemplate class that needs to instantiate a PlannerShiftView (for a TemplateField in a GridView). The problem is, the following code doesn't compile because the PlannerShiftView type is not available in what I deem to be the App_Code 'phantom namespace'.
Please can somebody explain to be what is happening here, as well as what to do. I know I can just move the ShiftViewTemplate out of App_Code, going against convention and without explantion, but that is something of a hollow victory.
I have a function that sends out emails when certain processes are complete. The function works great; however, in our testing lab, I want to be able to see the message that are going out and not have it actually send the messages. Since MsgBox does not work in the web environment, is there a way to open a new page/window from the common code? The page will have the message passed to it for display and I do not want to do a redirect as there are times when more than one email is going out.
View 2 RepliesI want a list of Asp.net projects as well as .NET projects with source code. for Acadamic Level......
View 7 RepliesProfile that is used for ASP.NET Profile Service is not available in Page code behind files like in Page_Load.
It may be just a problem with Visual Studio installation/configuration, but as another problem, classes placed in App_Code in not seen in page codes. Even when I'm adding new ASP.NET folder to my project, "App_Code" is not available as an option.
I tested the entire scenario with ASP.NET Web Project and Empty ASP.NET Web Project. This problem does exists while creating ASP.NET Website.
Environment: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate x64, ASP.NET 4.0, Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.
I just moved to a new PC and installed VS 2010. I copied all of my websites over from the old machine and now when I open the old websites on the new machine, they do not show up in my recent projects list on the start page. New websites that I make do show up there but the old ones do not. This is very inconvenient. Is there a way to make old projects that I open show up in the list?
This brings up another question. Is there a way to make a shortcut that will open VS2010 up with a website already loaded so that I don't have to go through the file open dialog every time?
I've seen some teams that start breaking into multiple projects from the beginning and others build behemoth single projects. The large project teams say that one massive project is easier to maintain than multiple smaller projects.
View 4 RepliesI need to create a sample project (for educational purposes) and I'm faced with the choice between Web Site Projects or Web Application Projects. This feels similar to the choice between C# and VB. My question isn't about the differences between these 2 choices, but rather which is more popular (relevant, recognizable) to the general ASP.NET community.Has anyone seen any statistics in terms of adoption/usage of these 2 different project types? What project type should I use to reach the widest audience?Update: I created a poll on this subject - http://poll.fm/2e6cy
View 4 RepliesI have a multi-tiered application. I would like to publish the class libraries to UI developers to let them add to their web or windows projects to add all the functionality.
I would like to restrict access so only a certain project can be referenced. The reason is so that they do not refer to the data access layer directly and start making calls that would bypass the business logic built into the business tier.
UI->>Business Logic->>Data Access
So in other words, BL and DA are deployed as compiled assemblies. BL references DA. UI will reference BL, but I would like to strictly prevent any other project from referencing DA directly.