I'll soon be managing a fleet of ASP.NET webservers...
What are the technical limitations with deploying an ASP.NET webserver? Can I just copy the file(s) over, restart the website, and I'm good to go?
Is this any different than what VS2010's "deploy" does?
Does it matter what "type" of project I have: a Web Site or a Web Application?
I have just started learning C#. Can anyone explain the technical differences between a .Net desktop application and a web application? I mean for example, if I have a simple HelloWorld application using a WinForm, what are the steps required to change that into a HelloWorld web application?
View 5 RepliesOur 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.
View 2 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 am new to asp.net.I want to know names of web servers used for deploying web applications in asp.net .some widely used web servers for making asp.net web sites.
View 3 Replieshow to structure our intranet. The way it's going right now is, that I'll create a web application that usually contains just a single web page and then deploy it. I'm using the file system deployment to deploy to a test server.
The file structure on this test server is something like "\serverwebintranetwebapplicationsAPP_NAME". I would create a folder on the server with whatever name to replace "APP_NAME" and then deploy into that folder. Everything deploys fine and is structured fine, none of the pages will load.
When try to load the page you get an error like: Could not load type 'WebInterface._Default'. The dll containing that code is definitely there. Inside the "APP_NAME" folder is the bin folder, config file, and the (usually) single aspx page. So for some reason, the web page can't find the dll files.
i am new this preparing a technical specifation document explain me how write a techical specification document.
View 4 RepliesI landed on a job to continue working on exisiting asp.net 3.5 application using Visual Studio 2008. The former .net developer is no longer around and I have to dig into the application code to understand how the app works( workflow, logic, etc...)I have added new development to the existing application and enhanced existing pages. Now, I need to provide Technical documentation for the application so any new developer comes onboard will not struggle enhancing the app or do new development following the same methodology . Q1. What is the best approach to provide technical documentation.I thought of the following
View 1 RepliesI ve completed a web application and now i want to prepare functionality and technical documentation for the same. But i ve never done such documentations. Can someone provide how to prepare such documentations.
View 2 RepliesI am using XAMPP to publish my a .net application. The server is working fine. I created a sample login.aspx file, and it works fine. I deleted the sample login file, and I build and copy all the files to the XAMPP directory. When I tried to acces the page, it gave an error message "Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server. If you think this is a server error, contact the
View 8 RepliesIs there a technical/performance limit on the number of roles an application handles? I'm in the process of designing an application which I forsee having a lot of roles created, to be able to handle the degree of granularity the system should have (e.g., permissions per project, where there could be a lot of projects).
Would you recommend another approach other than using roles for this kind of granularity?
I'm looking for detailed technical information on the compilation process for aspx pages and vs2008.Recently I have been learning about controlbuilders and pageparserfilters. I have downloaded some code to clean out extra white spaces in my html in order to make the pages smaller. The code works great, but I don't understand WHY it works. I need to learn more about the page compilation process.
View 1 RepliesI'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?
We are currently building a site in ASP.net MVC 2 and we have discovered that the URL's we have specified are not supported by MVC. This is what our developers are telling us anyway. I'd like to get feedback form this forum. My asp.net MVC knowledge is limited (I am an old school ASP 3 guy who hasn't programmed for years) but am trying to learn as much as I can so I can understand the limitations. say for example the app is a jobsearch site in the healthcare sector e.g. we would like the urls to be the following:
1. (non advanced searech) [URL]
2. (advanced search) [URL]
they are telling us that they need to send all parameters in the url even if they are blank so our example 1 here would not be possible. It would need to contain all of the possible advanced parameters in the search like this: [URL] most seaerches are basic i.e. looking for job in a location. but users have the optyion to do an advanced search also. The dev is telling us that we must send all params empty in the URL even in a basic search. Has anyone come across this limitation beforee and if so how did you combat it?
I've run into a wall with the ViewData construct, but not sure exactly where the limitation lies or the best way to get around it. I have a complicated View that needs to contain many dropdown listboxes. I am loading up ViewData objects in the controller for the view. Apparently, I have hit some limit and cannot add another ViewData object for another dropdown. I'm not sure if the limit is the number of distinct objects in ViewData, the amount of memory in my test server, or the overall amount of data I am trying to load into the ViewData collection.
View 7 Repliesi have deployed my website on a particular server. i have some limitations in using viewstate and session variables. those pages in which i have used ViewState variables (for storing some information), i user accesses that page and does not do any activity for 5 minutes and if after 5 minutes he does any kind of activity (click on Link or button etc) then he receives following error: "Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster."
how i can avoid above error? another problem is with session. My session expires just after 2-3 minutes. What should i do for maintaining session for long time? i can not use cookies, as if user has disabled the cookies then my website will not work...
What are the limitations of Visual Web Developer Express 2010 when compared to the Professional and Ultimate and other non-free versions
View 3 Repliesexplain me or provide me with a links of good articles/tutorials on "Benefits AndLimitations of Service Oriented Architecture" ?I mean Where to Use and Where not, the SOA.
View 11 Replies have a page that has a validation summary control. On this page I have a nested user control (Control1). nside Control1 is another nested control (Control2). I have a CustomValidator on a textbox inside Control2.
Although the validation works on this textbox, the error message doesn't get bound to the ValidationSummary control. Is there limitations to the ValidationSummary control with nested controls?
I'm investigating a simple url rewriting setup for iis6 / net 2.0 sites.
I've added a . wildcard mapping in IIS that points to the .net executable. I'm also using the urlMappings element in the web.config to add some rewritten urls. I've moved the config outside of the web.config so I can make changes to the list without forcing application restarts, like so:
<urlMappings configSource="configurlMappings.config">
</urlMappings>
I'd like to allow our content management to add urls to this file so that we can have extensionless friendly urls. <add url="~/someurl" mappedUrl="index.aspx?page=123" />
This works just fine, but I'm concerned about limitations in the number of entries that I can map in the urlMappings config. I can't seem to find any documentation on this. Has anyone found any limitations?
What is the different between the vs 2010 Web Developer Express and the full version of 2010?With the vs 2010 Web Developer Express will I be able to use all types of databases (MSSQL, MySQL, Access, ect) and enitity frame work?
View 2 Replies Just wanted to get clarification that methods like HTML.TextBoxFor() exist ONLY for the benefit of compile-time parameter type checking.
From my experimentation, these appear to ONLY accept a simple "expression lambda" syntax, which simply provides reference to a member property, and will not allow more robust use of "statement lambda" syntax. Other places in the .NET framework where lambda's are used, "statement lambda" syntax can be used, such as :
( x => { x += 7; if(x < 9) return x * 3; } )
... in effect, multiple statements of "in-line" code.
The type checking benefit is great - I just wanted to understand if there is additional capability which I have not recognized.
I need to limit the access of web application based on the number of days!
For example the application should not work more than ten days, if our client has 10 day license limit,when the user try to access the application after ten days , it should give a message like "the demo period has expired"!!
what is the lmitations and obstacles to make validations on credt cards or payment via my websitewithout use validaton form from any websites like authorize.net
View 7 RepliesI am trying to develop the nerddinner mvc website, so I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Express but I do not see an option for MVC or even asp.net website. Can I download this for Visual Studio?
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