Web.config Doubts While Working With Legacy Application
Mar 31, 2011
Coding with ASP.NET 2.0 C# on a legacy application. The database is in MySQL I would like to know whether anything breaks if I delete the following lines from my code
I believe they all are not needed. Are they needed at all at present? What I would really like to know is whether anything breaks if I delete them. I would also like to know whether the snippet given below is relevant for ASP.NET 2.0
I know this question could be similar to others but really I'm looking for reasons why VB6 developers should switch to C#. My company recently approved project to be written in C#, so we have a lot of VB.Net programmers, however, we have some legacy app developers as well that are in VB6. We have a time frame to re-write those apps into .Net web apps. So no matter what they will have to learn new stuff.
One of the developers today specifically asked "why should we switch to C#?" I responded that the community largely has decided that C# is the way to go with about 80% of the examples in C#. I am a VB.Net programmer and I am excited to finally cut my teeth on C#, however, being that I'm so new I'm not sure I can answer the "why?" question. My reasons are more because I want to learn it. So without descending into a VB verses C# I really am curious if there are any resources that I can send to these developers to calm their nerves.
I'm working on a new website, written in VB.Net using ASP.NET MVC2, there is a need to call "legacy" VB6 code for various complex bits of business logic. The VB6 is a framework consisting of many dlls and is very stateful, we are pretty much emulating how the framework is used in our client application, ie the application runs (lots of state setup), a user logs on (even more state) and then loads a file (even more state).
I've been provided with a "web service interface framework" to get this up and running for use in the web app, this "web framework" hides the legacy code behind a thin layer running under IIS. The idea being that thread pooling provided by IIS will reduce memory use etc etc. I can't help but believe that the guy who provided this has missed the point, since each instance is so stateful there is no way that a thread pool can work, since once a user logs on using one particular object from the pool, no other object will be capable of servicing that client (since it wont have the state)! Also, adding a web service interface and associated SOAP marshalling is a huge overhead compared to calling the objects directly.
The only way I can think of doing this is either a single legacy interface instance which is used by all clients and blocked by each call until it completes, or a thread per client with each legacy interface object being created in a new thread and living for the life of the client.
None of these is ideal but with the amount of code in question and the prolonged migration programme to .net (2+ years and still stateful) I can't think of an alternative. We run the original client app in a citrix environment for some customers so I expect that it could also run ok with thread per client given a beefy enough server and that the overheads of the framework itself should be lower than when the client app is involved.
Order No Date Product Qty Customer A101 10-Oct-2010 Mac Book 10 John A102 10-Oct-2010 I-Phone 25 Smith A103 10-Oct-2010 I-Pad 40 Kallis
Here Order No is primary key
Order Detail Table
Order No Date Product Qty Customer Batch No A101 10-Oct-2010 Mac Book 03 John B01 A102 10-Oct-2010 I-Phone 05 Smith B02 A103 10-Oct-2010 I-Pad 10 Kallis B03 A101 10-Oct-2010 Mac Book 02 John B04 A102 10-Oct-2010 I-Phone 07 Smith B05 A103 10-Oct-2010 I-Pad 15 Kallis B06
Here Batch No is primary key
The above table is just a sample table.
I have more than 1000 Order in my table. And for each Order there are at least 12 Order Detail is available in my Order Detail Table. It uses to take long time on loading the report for the first time. So, I thought to select Top 20 records from Order table. I have used the below query in crystal report command
Select Top 20 O.OrderNo, O.Product, O.Date, O.Qty,OD.Unit,OD.Rate from Order O inner join Order Detail OD on O.OrderNo = OD.OrderNo
1. After execution of above query, I would like to know whether all the records from Order Detail Table will be checked during execution (OR) only matching Top 20 records of Order Table will be checked in Order Detail Table and executed?
2. How to use stored procedure in Crystal Report command?
3. What are the steps I need to take, to load Crystal report fast during first time page load?
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?
I have a web.config file defined in my asp.net web application. I have many different settings configured there. I have another project, this time a console application. I'd like to read several configurations from my web.config file. How can this be done?
My application is working fine in local environment but not working after push code in live. My locale environment and hosting environment both are having same configuration. Same app working fine 2 month before but in different domain but same hosting server.
how to check the both config / any possible to run debug mode in hosting server please let me know. below code used in all page for checking user session status but when I click on any link page redirect to login.aspx I think session got timeout. I don't know why session got time frequently, but this issue not happening in local environment (desktop).
Trying to integrate with a legacy WSE web service, getting the below error while authenticating via that internal service. It's pointing to a line in web.config(</securityTokenManager> as in the below snippet of web.config file), but I dont see any issue in web.config. Copied the same build to other machine(Win2003) and it's working fine, I am seeing an error in Win XP. I checked for the related assemblies(the one mentioned under securityTokenManager), it's all there.
I am using a third party service that does an async callback to a URL I provide to them. So I tell them to use [URL] This must obviously map to an Incoming() method on my StatusController.
However, what I don't have control over is the format of the parameters they call my URL with. E.g. They will do a callback such as: [URL] I want to map this to the parameters of my action method: Incoming(string param1, string param2, int param3)
We have an application that is making use of the location tag in the web.config file at the machine level - meaning like :WindowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0...CONFIGweb.config, the one that applies to the whole server - this application has lots of virtual directories under it and for each one there is a <location path="IIS Web App NameCustomerA">...This seems to work ok for that app. But then we have a second app on the same server, and I'd like to add location tags to that app's web.config file - meaning the local web.config file in the app's directory - and have each one of them specify a location tag in a similar way
it is show the page: http://localhost:3821/Errore.aspx?aspxerrorpath=/pagine/Ricerca.aspx
BUT on Errore.aspx Page_load() or OnError() are not called, and the page showed is just the standar one, (runtime error) that suggest to change to off the mode in customErrors.
This is on my pc, so there is not IIS... ...and I don't use authentication (not yet)
UPDATE:
The error occur in Global.aspx, in Application_Start() . When the error occur, redirecting to an .aspx page will cause an error because the app is not up. The solution is to redirec to an html page.
I have done forms authentication a couples of times before but this time I cant get my head around something.Somehow altough the user authenticated,the destination page does not get this.The destination page is called Approval.aspx and is located in the /Admin directory which is secured by having its own web config with those settings:
[Code]....
If I remove the <deny users="?" />,then everything works fine but obviously everyone has access to that page.I only want that the user of role Admin can access it. I have implemented the standard VS 2010 login controland the user gets to the destination page with a response redirect:
[Code]....
Why does the destination page not realize that the user is authenticated and does not treat the useras a user in role "Admin"?
[Code]....
While debugging the login page I can see that the user has the right role "Admin".
Hint: this one might sound complicated, because I am trying to give as much info as possible, but I suspect that I just want someone to tell me "yes, you are correct".
On this legacy system, which dates from 2002, the user visits a web page and uses an RFID reader to read a tag number, which is then written to an input field on the web page.
The only s/w that comes with the reader is a custom DLL, nop .exe.
The very sparse documentation insists that only MSIE be used and that all security relating to ActiveX be disabled.
When I look into the source of the web page I see calls to functions in the DLL.
Now, here's the fun part: I know zilch about ActiveX, I have to make a minor change to the DLL _but_ the VB6 source code has been lost, so I guess that I have to recreate the (seemingly very simple) DLL from scratch - this week.
Decompiling the DLL shows me the functions (locateReader, getTagVal, closeReader). However, by decompiling I can't really know the number or type of the parameters, nor the return values ... and if anyone knows the API they are refusing to share it, but basically it all seems to have been lost in the mists of time as companies went bust, were bought & sold, merged & demerged and the initial DLL might have been written by an external guy, but no one knows who.
So, can I get the function params & type from the ASP page source?
I see things like
Reader = new ActiveXObject("<dllName>.Reader"); Reader.locateReader(); tagVal = Reader.getTagVal(); Reader.closeReader();
So, I would say that none of the fn()s take parameters, that closeReader doesn't have to return anything; it looks like locateReader doesn't return anything either, so I guess that error handling will have to be in the DLL (loop forever with a popup demanding that a reader be attached; and getTagVal seems to return a string.
Does that sound about right? Any other comments (other than lessons to be learned)?
we are experiencing big difficulties in the configuration of ASP.Net state service and II7. The service seems not working correctly because when the application pools recycles the applicatio loose the session.If we try the same configuration in IIS6 it works correcly.What is the correct way to configure the aspnet session state service in iis7?
The event is simply not firing, what am I missing?
Code for the button: <input type="button" class="button hide" id="savetext" style="float:right;" value="Hello" runat="server" OnServerClick="savetext_Click"/>
And the code that is generated (i.e. when opened in a browser and the source is viewed) is this: <input onclick="__doPostBack('ctl00$Main$savetext','')" name="ctl00$Main$savetext" type="button" id="savetext" style="float:right;" class="button hide" value="Save to text" />
I've got <pages clientIDMode="Static" /> in web.config but the name and generated onclick event are prefixed despite that. Server side code: Protected Sub savetext_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) End Sub
To be clear, my goal is to register a click on a button server-side, not just client-side.
I have a basic intranet website for my company but there is one page that cannot allow anonymous as I need to grab the user's login. I created the site and everything works perfectly on my development machine. once moved to the production server it no longer works.
Here is the problem: I can get the login prompt when going to the secure page, but when trying to login I get a "401.1 - Unauthorized", even when trying to login as a server administrator. Here is the authentication portion in my web.config:
[Code]....
I have done this before and always gotten it to work. I hope I am just missing something very simple...
I have created a website using visual studio 2010 on .net3.5 framework. When I run the site on my local system it works fine but on the external hosting server I am getting a 500 internal server error. Upon speaking to the hosting service provider, they advised me to delete the web.config file, having followed their instructions, the website works fine without the web.config file. But now I have added AJAX controls on one of the pages and am not able to run this page on the hosting server. Do I have to configure my web.config file in order to get this working. Could someone please help me with this.
I'm testing this on my local dev environment using Cassini and on a test web server running IIS 6. Both systems/sites work the same way and allow anyone access to any page. Both systems/sites also return correct data when programmatically checking Roles.GetRolesForUser and User.IsInRole.
I have a page which is using the AJAX Control Toolkit HTML Editor. I have it configured with only the Bold, Italics and Underline buttons. Once the user saves the information, it's stored in a database table. No problems.
I need to change the resulting code so the HTML code can be correctly interepted by a Crystal Reports report. CR doesn't understand the <span> options being created by the HTML editor. So for example, I need to change the
<span style="font-weight: bold">Bold</span> code created by the HTML Editor so it's entered into the database as <b>Bold</b> instead.
I can attempt this in the code behind, but I then also need to replace the </span> with a </b>. This causes an issue because if there are multiple options (e.g. bolded word within an underlined line), then the proper tags won't be closed as they should.
Our old ASP.net site stored static images in a sub directory on the root called /images.
Our new ASP.net MVC site stores these images in the new layout of /Content/Images
I've changed all the pages in the site to cope with the new folder structure, but I'd like to set up Permanent Redirects from the old static images to the new location.
Now deploy to file system on local hardrive. Open resulting web.config and see <value> setting has extrac carriag return and bunch of tabs in front of it..