I am developing 2 Applications. One WebForms and the other is MVC. How can i secure the code such that when i deploy them to the clients production environment, they cannot be simply picked up, copied and repackaged by someone else?. I simply need a way to protect my intellectual property. Can this be done in Visual Studio 2010?
View 1 RepliesI am dynamically generating script code to return transaction data to Google Analytics using their ecommerce script. The code that generates the script is fully tested and functional on my development machine and when I view the page code the script, along with any values that were passed to it, can be seen above the </form> tag. Happy days, or so I thought. For some reason the code is not being generated when I test it in a live, hosted environment. I cant figure out why this is the case as the code is quite simple. I simply generate the script code and register it on the client side (see code below)
//Capture the transaction data for analytics ecommerce tracking
//Generate the necessary script code
string strAnalyticsEcommerceScript = Analytics_Ecommerce_Script_Creator();
//Register the script on the page
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "AnalyticsScript", strAnalyticsEcommerceScript);
The page in question is called "Order-Successfull" and is where customers are sent to when they have succesfully payed for an order. On this page:
-The order is added to the orders database table
- The customer is emailed an order confirmation email
- The google analytics script is generated and registered
The Sequence is as follows:
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Whats really interesting is that if I move the Analytics script creator code before the code that sends the emails, the script is generated and can be seen when I view the page code. If I do this, however, the emails do not get sent. If I lay the code out as per the code I have inserted in this post, the emails get sent but the script code is not placed on the page.. The code to that actually sends the emails is quite standard:
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if cookies are disabled at the clients enviorment, what should we use to store the global data or the sessional data, for example now i use APPLICATION["VarName"]=Value;
To store the data, how is it different from
SESSION["VarName"]=Value;
Also if both dont work when cookies disabled , what is the best approach to store the global data
I developed a web page using asp.net 2.0 and ajax toolkit on my laptop on Windows 7 and IIS 6. I have my ajax/atlas toolkit DLL in my bin. The updatePanel works fine and does not postback my page. But when i hosted my website on a dedicated server the page postback totally like i have no updatepanel/ajax in my page...
I am using : Windows server 2008, IIS 6Ajax 2.0 installed on the server. I don t understand what is the difference with windows server or IIS or something else?
I have a procedure in asp.net web site that gives strange result sometimes, I'm thinking to add some code to track it. My question is, in the production environment, is there any way that I can get the calling stacks like the one in the exceptions?
View 1 RepliesIn my development environment, my CSS loads perfectly. But when I publish the files to the server, the CSS no longer loads.
Originally, when I had this problem, it was because I was denying access to unknown users for all directories. It was also occurring in both environments.
When I fixed that, the CSS started working just fine. But when I publish it to the server, it no longer works.
The website appears to function. I can log in, navigate pages and everything. It's just that the CSS doesn't work.
I checked the permission on the directory and it has access to NETWORK SERVICE, the admin account and IIS_IUSRS.
I have this website with english and portuguese support. In localhost everything works fine and the content is translated based on the querystring parameter named "lang". This chunk of code makes the trick in every page:
protected override void InitializeCulture() {
SetCulture(); } private void SetCulture() {
var logger = Util.GetLogger();
string lang = Request.QueryString["lang"];
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(lang)) { lang = "pt-br"; }
string sessionLang = (string)Session["lang"];
if (sessionLang != lang) { Session["lang"] = lang;
} logger.Log(string.Format("Culture {0} found",lang));
UICulture = lang; Culture = lang;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(lang);
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(lang);
logger.Log(string.Format("Cultura {0} set", lang));
base.InitializeCulture(); }
Thanks to the logger I can say for sure that this method is called in both cases (production and localhost). I have two resources files in App_GlobalResources folder:
-WebSitemapGlobal.en-us.resx;
-WebSitemapGlobal.resx;
When I try to run my ASP.NET app from my development environment I get the following error message: Compiler Error Message: CS1502: The best overloaded method match for 'mmars.Printing.printFunctions.SetPrintSummaryProperties(mmars.contextInfo, ref mmars.Printing.printObjSummary)' has some invalid arguments.
When I publish and run on our production server I don't get this error.It seems to compile fine when I build from the build menu (in fact if I change the second argument of the bolded function call below, i get a compiler error in visual studio), but now i've suddenly started getting this error message at runtime. So another question I have in addition to getting rid of the error is why is the .NET development server even trying to do JIT compilation on my project if it is already compiled into a DLL?
Printing.printObjSummary myPrintObj = new Printing.printObjSummary();
Printing.printFunctions.SetPrintSummaryProperties(ci, ref myPrintObj);
printObjects.Add(myPrintObj);
Also, though there are no warnings at compile-time, when I get redirected to the page with that first compilation error there are many warnings like the following:
Warning: CS0436: The type 'mmars.MMARSSummaryDataItem' in 'c:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Files
oot3dad423c40569048App_Code.b0rgpkzr.4.cs' conflicts with the imported type 'mmars.MMARSSummaryDataItem' in 'c:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Files
oot3dad423c40569048assemblydl37179c19a345f948c_ece7ca01mmars.DLL'. Using the type defined in 'c:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727Temporary ASP.NET Files
oot3dad423c40569048App_Code.b0rgpkzr.4.cs'.
What's the deal with that? Is the webserver complaining about name conflicts in the source file and dll resulting from the source file?
My technique for deploying an ASP.NET webapp into production is as follows: Client: Select 'Release' mode and then right-click to publish. Go manually to the publish folder and zip contents. Now transfer to server by FTP.
Server:
Unzip folder contents. Stop IIS. Deploy new folder contents for web app. Start IIS. I don't stop the database or run any additional tools to promote to production. It's a small company, and this seems fine. What's wrong with this technique in your opinion?
I have read some articles about the new enitity framework and I think it looks very cool from a development perspective.
considering a production environment loaded with data. How does one apply changes to the model? You cannot regenerate the model and in most large organizations, database changes are executed by DBS's and not developers. In such situaitons, it is the role of the developer to develop delta-scripts that the dba can execute.
My experiense with Hibernate (Java) and the like is that you have to pay double when using such frameworks.
Is it OK to use threading.sleep in an intranet web application to display AJAX loading (in production environment)? Off course, the application works fine without it but all works too quick for the end user or even a developer to notice any difference.What is the recommended approach ?
View 1 RepliesI hate to sound stupid, but ASP.NET is not my forte. I have build an ASP.NET application which I now which to deploy to a production server. Searching on the web I found that it's recommended to just use the Setup tool within VS2010 to compile and install the files on the production servers. However, I find it a bit weird:
The files on the server are exactly those that I had on my system. I would've imagined that moving to a production server would involve some compiling and compression of file content so as to improve execution. But in practice all files on the server are exactly as they are on my local system -- I can even modify my .cs file on the servers and that works!! (Surprised ;-)). Following from the above, all my code is readily available on the server for anyone to see. I am not sure if this is a problem... For example, could it end up a security risk (due to passwords within the files)?
Current process:
Whenever we have an issue in production, we restore DB backup from our nightly sql backup files in our testing environment. This way we get all data from production.
New Requirement:
Instead of restoring the db which takes upto 2 days, they want to do only selective restore based on few parameters. Requirement is to a build a new ASP.NET page in our application with few inputs. On submit button click, I should select data from prod and insert into testing environment. This involves opening new sql connection.
My company has several web applications written in ASP.NET. We need to make these applications available to Intranet users as well as authenticated external users. Most of the features are the same for the two groups, though there are some extra features available to the Internal users. The two different sets of users would use a slightly different security setup... our internal people will be authenticated using LDAP against Exchange, whereas the external users will have accounts in SQL Server.
What is the best approach for deploying our web apps? Should we deploy 2 copies to different servers, one configured for an Intranet and one for outside users? Or is there a better way to share the code between the 2 servers, yet have the flexibility to use different web.config settings for security??
I am rather new to asp.net but I have built a couple of apps that do not require users to login. am having some problems moving my secure .net application from my laptop to a production server, however, and I am hoping someone can help me. On my laptop my application's user authentication functions as it should, but when I move my application to a webserver I get an assortment of errors. Forgive me if these questions are a little basic. My first question is this. In a production environment do I move the ASPNETDB.MDF file in the App_Data folder to my SQL server? Is it OK to rename it to something more descriptive?
View 4 RepliesI am developing a MVC 2 application that uses aspnetdb on my SQL Server 2008 detabase for forms authentication. On my development machine I can configure the users, roles and permissions using my Website Administration Tool (WAT). My question is how do I deploy this database to a production server and how do I configure it with users, roles and permissions?
View 1 RepliesI am a newbie. First time, I am going to deploy the web application to a host? Few questions, do you know any free asp.net hosting with FTP capability? Secondly, how do I ensure the data-base is secure, so that the hosting site cannot access the database or open without a password?
View 1 RepliesWe have been a ColdFusion shop for 10 years, and are now switching over to ASP.net MVC. Our target framework is .net 4.0 BETA 2 using VS 2010 BETA 2. We set up two instances of Windows Server 2008 (staging and production), and will be using our existing database server (SQL Server 2008).
None of us really have much experience in ASP.net itself, though we are all very comfortable in C# and the MVC pattern. The coding itself isn't much of an issue; but the deployment process is. Our goal is to be able to have a CI setup that will automatically pull down, and test, our applications into staging on commit - then have the option to tag, then switch, the checkouts on our production sites when websites pass QA.
Some of the things I'm having issues with here is the concept of an ASP.net application and how it integrates into SVN. CF, like PHP or RoR, are all scripting languages and as such require no build process (checking out the source into production is very straightforward). But in this case, applications need to be compiled - which is where we start to have problems. Will we need to create another server (or use an existing one) that has some sort of application that pulls down code, compiles it, then somehow pushes it on the live servers? If so, what is considered the best way to accomplish this? I imagine if we end up using a build tool such as Nant, adding additional steps to migrate the database would be trivial, but what is the best way to accomplish this as well?
Another, slightly unrelated, problem is how our designers will work with our code. Most of them are on Macs, and using VS isn't much of an option. How will they be able to edit the aspx, css and image files easily? Our goal is to make this as transparent as possible to them.
We have done a lot of shopping around, and ASP.net MVC seems to be the best option as far as our familiarity with the language, and our current platform. We just need to figure out a good build process so everything is as transparent as possible.
I'm trying to find the best server architecture solution to deploy monthly updates to an Asp.net external public facing website. What I'm looking for are ways to release a new version of a website with minimal impact to users. Besides deploying the standard way (ie. stop IIS, copy new website over existing website, start IIS), what are some "better" solutions for deployment out there? It would be nice if they kept their session and didn't have to see a "Website under maintenance" message during the update. My server configuration
We have 2 IIS web servers (2003) and are trying to figure out the best way to utilize them for deployments. My first thought was to update the non-active web server with the latest release. Then to gracefully point the web traffic to that server with minimal impact to users (best case, the user doesn't lose his session). How would you go about "repointing" the web traffic from server 1 to server 2? Changing firewall NAT? Changing DNS records? Some other way?? We need to be able to test the live site immediately after we release the new changes (duh). BTW, we are using nant and cruise control to automate the builds, and a custom web service to deploy the build to production. So it's all automated with the click of a button. Could a better solution be achieved using a 3rd server? If so how?
Is this possible to download my application's dll file from production server's bin directory...
View 2 RepliesI have around 100 rdl report files...what i have found in google is -> open RS Admin site upload each report...doing this manually takes a lot of time... We don't want to use Target report server url method and clicking deploy option to deploy the reports or report project onto the report server...because we are not provided with such production server url information...!! In client perspective...We just give the reports as a rar file...now client will have to extract the report files...and what should be the next step...!! Is there anyway to deploy or upload all the reports at a time...!!
View 1 Repliesi want to know how do i deploy ASP.NET web applications on client machines which runs with the visual studio development server rather than configure it in the IIS on the client machine? I know its possible and telerik also uses this approach.
View 1 RepliesCan i use web developer express 2010 to deploy applications or is it still in Beta?
View 1 RepliesI have searched and could not find any article related to "How to implement Certificate Security in
production environment".
I could able to Create sample certificates for client and Server on my local machine and was able to authenticate my client app with the certificates . These certificates are test certificates.
How do I do this in Production. We have a domain certificate from GoDaddy which resides on the server. How do I create a Client Certificate off of that.
I have create a report in sql server 2005 & want to deploy on production server, in local system it deployed & works well. also if that report deploy at local system successfuly than how i see report in intranet.
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