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Upgrading an ASP.NET 1.1 app to 2.0

We have this big application known as the app with the sprocs , it has been a source for quite a lot of blog fodder already. The app has a long history; it originally started as a classical 2-tier Client Server application. A Delphi frontend running against a sql server backend. A lot of the business...

Published Thu, Jan 17 2008 12:10 PM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
Including a winforms user control in an asp.net web page

Despite all the nice UI and usability offerings of AJAX nothing beats a real windows control. These days you can do terrific things on a web form but when it comes to things like drag and drop between the nodes of different treeviews a real windows control is the way the go. In an old post I already...

Published Mon, Jun 18 2007 2:57 PM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
Resources in an asp.net site, MissingManifestResourceException and custom tool

In my last post I described a problem I had with localized resources in an asp.net site. Investigating another side of the matter I found out what really went wrong with my resources. Here's the real gotcha: When you add a resource file to a project it is assigned a custom tool: Now what the custom...

Published Fri, Feb 16 2007 6:26 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
Globalization of an ASP.NET site is easy. But has a catch..

Making an asp.net website multi-lingual is, at first sight, no big deal. But there is quite a gotcha in the tail. I will rush you through the easy part, try to explain the gotcha and hope somebody can help me to find a fix. I have an asp.net site. Most users are Dutch but an English version should be...

Published Thu, Feb 15 2007 4:29 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
The page life-cycle is not just hard for developers

A recent post by Karl on the page_load event again mentioned how hard it is to fully understand the life cycle of an asp.net page. In a comment Fregas even mentions switching to PHP (or RoR) to get a better grip on it. IMHO this is running away from the core of the problem which is (still imho) the web...

Published Wed, Jan 24 2007 7:21 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Chatter
Deployment of a VS2005 web application project

With VS 2005 sp1 a web application project (which puts all webpages in a single assembly) is again a standard project type. What you have to watch yourself is the support in a deployment project. Having created a "web setup" project you see the folder tree on the target machine. This does include...

Published Thu, Dec 28 2006 9:04 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
Pragmatic OOP in JavaScript Part 2 : To prototype or not to prototype

My recent post on object orientation in JavaScript has resulted in some quite interesting comments. Good fodder for a sequel. Prototype JavaScript is said to be a language with only objects and no classes. A JavaScript object is constructed using a constructor function. I showed two different ways to...

Published Tue, Oct 31 2006 7:37 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Coding
Pragmatic OOP in JavaScript

JavaScript is the only language a web browser speaks; it is a given fact. It's not a matter of choice if you are going to work with it, whenever you build a browser app it is there. All script code might be hidden to you but there is no ASP.NET, let alone Atlas (AJAX) without JavaScript. Recently...

Published Tue, Oct 24 2006 3:48 PM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Coding
Web services on the world wild web

No more lamenting woes, back to real code. This was the core of my SDN presentation . The web is an omnipresent infrastructure which your software can use to communicate. The way to communicate are XML webservices over HTTP. Any attempt to do it different often ends in a firewall as soon as it is deployed...

Published Thu, Sep 21 2006 5:05 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Mobile
Switching from the VS development server to IIS

By default a web project in VS is hosted by Cassini, the included web-server. Nevertheless I prefer IIS for my projects. For several reasons: Security. A site running in IIS is running under the asp.net account which is quite a stricter security context than the one Cassini is running in. This can lead...

Published Tue, Sep 12 2006 2:57 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Mobile
Change a database connection string from code

The connection string to a database should never be hard coded in your application. There is (almost) always a difference between the development and production database server. Besides that IT management should have an easy way to change the configuration. Part of this has been automated by the wizards...

Published Fri, Aug 11 2006 7:46 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Data
Fixing a broken asp.net installation. (The Web server

This is my third post with this title. What started as quick command line fix has grown into something huge, including top numbers of hits and comments here on Codebetter. So it's worth continuing. An asp.net 1.1 installation on IIS can get broken resulting in the error message in the title. When...

Published Tue, Jul 18 2006 5:52 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Out of control
ASP.NET 1.1 working with an ASP.NET 2.0 web.config file

In a recent post I described the trouble an asp.net 1.1 application has with a web.config file targeted at asp.net 2.0. The main problem is that the asp.net 1.1. runtime does not understand parts of the 2.0 web.config and crashes. My first solution was to move settings to the global 2.0 config. In a...

Published Fri, Jun 23 2006 5:05 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
Web.config combinations going bad Incompatible entries and incompatible framework versions

When an asp.net application is started it processes the web.config file. Doing so it is combined with with all web.config files found up in the tree of virtual directories. Suppose you have a website located at www.YourSite.com/NiceWebApp/ and some supporting webservices like www.YourSite.com/NiceWebApp...

Published Wed, Jun 21 2006 3:46 PM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET
A long running SQL batch in asp.net with feedback

Another story from the app with the sprocs . That was a classical 2-tier CS application which we transformed into an asp.net 1.1 app. Once a year the application has to copy and transform huge amounts of data. This is done by running a batch of stored procedures which run in one huge transaction after...

Published Tue, Jun 20 2006 4:10 AM by pvanooijen

Filed under: ASP.NET, Data

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Upgrading an ASP.NET 1.1 app to 2.0

Including a winforms user control in an asp.net web page

Resources in an asp.net site, MissingManifestResourceException and custom tool

Globalization of an ASP.NET site is easy. But has a catch..

The page life-cycle is not just hard for developers

Deployment of a VS2005 web application project

Pragmatic OOP in JavaScript Part 2 : To prototype or not to prototype

Pragmatic OOP in JavaScript

Web services on the world wild web

Switching from the VS development server to IIS

Change a database connection string from code

Fixing a broken asp.net installation. (The Web server

ASP.NET 1.1 working with an ASP.NET 2.0 web.config file

Web.config combinations going bad Incompatible entries and incompatible framework versions

A long running SQL batch in asp.net with feedback