Are you using Forms authentication? Forms authentication uses it own value for timeout (30 min. by default). A forms authentication timeout will send the user to the login page with the session still active. This may look like the behavior your app gives when session times out making it easy to confuse one with the … Read more
Because when I use one or another I get a window prompt asking me to download the file for both of them. This behavior depends on the browser and the file you are trying to serve. With inline, the browser will try to open the file within the browser. For example, if you have a … Read more
If your page does not modify any session variables, you can opt out of most of this lock. <% @Page EnableSessionState=”ReadOnly” %> If your page does not read any session variables, you can opt out of this lock entirely, for that page. <% @Page EnableSessionState=”False” %> If none of your pages use session variables, just … Read more
Using User Instance means that SQL Server is creating a special copy of that database file for use by your program. If you have two different programs using that same connection string, they get two entirely different copies of the database. This leads to a lot of confusion, as people will test updating data with … Read more
Store the pictures on the file system and picture locations in the database. Why? Because… You will be able to serve the pictures as static files. No database access or application code will be required to fetch the pictures. The images could be served from a different server to improve performance. It will reduce database … Read more
Sections don’t work in partial views and that’s by design. You may use some custom helpers to achieve similar behavior, but honestly it’s the view’s responsibility to include the necessary scripts, not the partial’s responsibility. I would recommend using the @scripts section of the main view to do that and not have the partials worry … Read more
This technique by Jeff Atwood for Stackoverflow is the simplest method I’ve come across. It relies on the “cache item removed” callback mechanism build into ASP.NET’s cache system Update: Stackoverflow has outgrown this method. It only works while the website is running but it’s a very simple technique that is useful for many people. Also … Read more
Okay. I finally got to the bottom of this. You need to jump through some hoops to get the PUT and DELETE verbs working correctly with IIS8. In fact if you install the release candidate of VS 2012 and create a new WEB API project you’ll find that the sample PUT and DELETE methods return … Read more
Try using a simple HttpResponseMessage with its Content property set to a StreamContent: // using System.IO; // using System.Net.Http; // using System.Net.Http.Headers; public HttpResponseMessage Post(string version, string environment, string filetype) { var path = @”C:\Temp\test.exe”; HttpResponseMessage result = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK); var stream = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); result.Content = new StreamContent(stream); result.Content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue(“application/octet-stream”); … Read more
Doing this requires understanding how HTTP redirects work. When you use Response.Redirect(), you send a response (to the browser that made the request) with HTTP Status Code 302, which tells the browser where to go next. By definition, the browser will make that via a GET request, even if the original request was a POST. … Read more