This was my solution: In Global.asax, method: Application_BeginRequest, place the following: if (Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath == “~/”) HttpContext.Current.RewritePath(“HomePage.aspx”); Nice and simple, and you have a chance to build logic around what home page you want to use if your website uses multiple home pages based on configuration variables. Dmitry.Alk
This is the nature of Forms Authentication. (which im guessing you’re using). That is, when you access a page which requires authentication, ASP.NET will redirect you to the login page, passing in the ReturnUrl as a parameter so you can be returned to the page you came from post-login. To remove this functionality would break … Read more
If you are connecting from Windows machine A to Windows machine B (server with SQL Server installed), and are getting this error, you need to do the following: On machine B: 1.) turn on the Windows service called “SQL Server Browser” and start the service 2.) in the Windows firewall, enable incoming port UDP 1434 … Read more
What you can do is register a Javascript function that will iterate through the global Page_Validators array after submission and you can set the background appropriately. The nice thing about this is that you can use it on all of your controls on the page. The function looks like this: function fnOnUpdateValidators() { for (var … Read more
This issue is caused by the pipeline mode in your Application Pool setting that your web site is set to. Short Simple way Change the Application Pool mode to one that has Classic pipeline enabled. Correct way Your web.config / web app will need to be altered to support Integrated pipelines. Normally this is as … Read more
When a Page is requested, it raises various events which are considered to be part of it’s lifecycle. I keep the visual representation created by Peter Bromberg handy with me. The AutoEventWireUp property when True, automatically wires up some of these built-in events in the Page life cycle to their handlers. This means that you … Read more
For the most part you treat it as if you are validating any other kind of control but use the InitialValue property of the required field validator. <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID=”rfv1″ runat=”server” ControlToValidate=”your-dropdownlist” InitialValue=”Please select” ErrorMessage=”Please select something” /> Basically what it’s saying is that validation will succeed if any other value than the 1 set in … Read more
Use " instead of ” to escape it. web.config is an XML file so you should use XML escaping. connectionString=”Server=dbsrv;User ID=myDbUser;Password=somepass"word” See this forum thread. Update: " should work, but as it doesn’t, have you tried some of the other string escape sequences for .NET? \” and “”? Update 2: Try single quotes for the … Read more
I had a similar problem and had to tell ASP.NET in configuration to use the 3.5 compiler as follows by modifying Web.config. I’ve copied and pasted the following from my code. You have to change value=”v3.5″ to value=”v4.0″. The compiler type strings might also change. <configuration> <!– … other configuraiton stuff … –> <system.codedom> <compilers> … Read more
I didn’t try rangitatanz solution, but I used another method and it worked just fine for me. private List<String> getOnlineUsers() { List<String> activeSessions = new List<String>(); object obj = typeof(HttpRuntime).GetProperty(“CacheInternal”, BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static).GetValue(null, null); object[] obj2 = (object[])obj.GetType().GetField(“_caches”, BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(obj); for (int i = 0; i < obj2.Length; i++) { Hashtable c2 = (Hashtable)obj2[i].GetType().GetField(“_entries”, … Read more