ASP.NET

asp.net form authentication

17-Aug-09 19:15

$150 is close enough to free to make no difference. This is the wrong place to post this. This place is for programmers to ask programming questions.

Christian Graus

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lofland17-Aug-09 16:06

17-Aug-09 16:06

I have a web page created with ASP.net in visual studio. My progam requires authentication. I used the built in server controls in ASP.net that utilize a SQL Express database. When I publish my web site to a web host, it does not work because web hosts do not support SQL Express.
How do I utilize the built in authentication server controls using SQL? OR
Is there a web host that I can use that will support SQL Express for authentication and SQL 2005 or 2008 for database connections?
Why does Microsoft use SQL express if it is not functional in a web host?

Lofland

Christian Graus17-Aug-09 16:16

17-Aug-09 16:16

lofland wrote:
When I publish my web site to a web host, it does not work because web hosts do not support SQL Express.

No, YOUR web host does not support SQL Express. Either way, if your DB is plain SQL, you should be able to move it. What do they support ? If they don't support SQL Server OR SQL Express, they are not much of a web host.

lofland wrote:
Is there a web host that I can use that will support SQL Express for authentication and SQL 2005 or 2008 for database connections?

This would be stupid. Why do you think you need to do this ? Why not authenticate in SQL Server ?

lofland wrote:
Why does Microsoft use SQL express if it is not functional in a web host?

SQL Express is just a database. In fact, it's basically a lite version of SQL Server, it's DESIGNED to be used by developers who go on to migrate their DB to a full SQL Server.

Christian Graus

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lofland17-Aug-09 16:29

17-Aug-09 16:29

Your comment "that would be stupid" is my point.
why does Microsoft create server controls that use SQL express by default when web hosts don't support sql express.
All of the server authentication controls use the default of SQL express. I would prefer to use SQL Server 2008 but I don't know how to make the change.
I am using SQL Server for the rest of my web site. The authentication is the only part that uses SQL express.

Christian Graus17-Aug-09 16:49

17-Aug-09 16:49

lofland wrote:
why does Microsoft create server controls that use SQL express by default when web hosts don't support sql express.

Probably because it can't be hard at all to change what you use, and they expect a lot of developers to use SQL Express on their local machines.

lofland wrote:
I would prefer to use SQL Server 2008 but I don't know how to make the change.

It's got to be a matter of changing a connection string. Of course, there needs to be a DB behind it that has the tables to support it. How did you set it up in the first place ?

Christian Graus

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lofland17-Aug-09 17:02

17-Aug-09 17:02

When you drag the server authentication controls on to your page for the first time Visual Studio creates all the tables and the database.
The database exists within the web application.

I have code that connects to SQL server 2005 tables and I have connection stings for that.
However in the book I am reading, it says if I want to use SQL server instead of SQL Express for authentication, I need to modify the web.config file and clear out all the existing connection strings and replace it with

<add name="LocalSQLServer" providername="System.Data.Sqlclient"
connectionstring="Data source=localhost;integrated security=SSPI;
AttachDBFilename=|Datadiretory|aspnetdb.mdf;user intance=true">

My problem is I have other connection strings that I use for my website that I still need.

Does this make sense?

lofland17-Aug-09 17:06

17-Aug-09 17:06

I forgot the first line.

Christian Graus17-Aug-09 17:13

Re: Masked Edit Script Error

17-Aug-09 17:13

Well, you wouldn't replace it with localhost, unless that was where your DB was. I imagine you need to copy the tables in question to your SQL Server DB, then just point everything to the connection string you're currently using.

Christian Graus

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Masked Edit Script Error

smlud117-Aug-09 14:01

smlud1

17-Aug-09 14:01

Textbox in the edit template is not binding... The Masked edit extender causes the error "Line: 16
Error: '2.length' is null or not an object". Well I actually have two textboxes closing time and opening time... Opening time always causes this error while closing time is working fine in edit mode....I tried to redo the whole thing and maybe it might work but it didn't, tried to check everything from syntax to binding of textbox everything looks fine...Anybody who knows what its complaining about....Heres the edit template not workin maybe there's a bug somewhere....

<edititemtemplate>
<asp:textbox id="timOpeningTime_edt" runat="server" text="<%# Bind("timOpeningTime") %>" columns="5" validationgroup="MKE">
<asp:requiredfieldvalidator id="rfvOpeningTime_edt" runat="server" text="*" errormessage="Opening Time is required!" controltovalidate="timOpeningTime_edt" validationgroup="EditGrid">
<asp:regularexpressionvalidator id="rgxOpeningTime_edt" runat="server" controltovalidate="timOpeningTime_edt"
="" display="Dynamic" errormessage="Invalid Time format! Must be like 99:99 for 00:00 to 23:59" setfocusonerror="True" validationexpression="^(20|21|22|23|[01]\d|\d)(([:][0-5]\d){1,2})$" validationgroup="EditGrid">*
<cc1:maskededitextender id="MaskedEditExtender5" runat="server"
="" targetcontrolid="timOpeningTime_edt" mask="99:99" messagevalidatortip="true" onfocuscssclass="MaskedEditFocus" oninvalidcssclass="MaskedEditError" masktype="Time" acceptampm="false" usertimeformat="TwentyFourHour" errortooltipenabled="True">
<cc1:maskededitvalidator id="MaskedEditValidator5" runat="server"
="" controlextender="MaskedEditExtender5" controltovalidate="timOpeningTime_edt" isvalidempty="False" emptyvaluemessage="Time is required in the format: 99:99" invalidvaluemessage="Time is invalid" display="Dynamic" tooltipmessage="Input a time" emptyvalueblurredtext="*" invalidvalueblurredmessage="*" validationgroup="MKE">

Christian Graus17-Aug-09 14:04

Re: Masked Edit Script Error [modified]

17-Aug-09 14:04

There is no length property in any of the code you posted.

Christian Graus

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smlud118-Aug-09 2:36

smlud1

18-Aug-09 2:36

Exactly I don't have length property, don't know where the error get thats....The 2.length thing is the AJAX script that controls the maskededit in the background...

modified on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:55 AM

Implementing MVC vs built-in MVC

Quake2Player17-Aug-09 11:30

Quake2Player

17-Aug-09 11:30

Hi,

Is there any big reason of why should I use the "ASP.NET MVC" (built-in mvc) instead of implementing the pattern itself manually ??

Re: Implementing MVC vs built-in MVC

Christian Graus17-Aug-09 11:38

Re: Implementing MVC vs built-in MVC

17-Aug-09 11:38

Trendiness and resume food are the only things I can think of.

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Not Active17-Aug-09 12:40

Not Active

17-Aug-09 12:40

I think you answered the question already, should you use something that is available or build your own.

only two letters away from being an asset

Re: Implementing MVC vs built-in MVC

Quake2Player17-Aug-09 13:41

Quake2Player

17-Aug-09 13:41

But is it possible to implement it without any troubles?
Because of the pages throwing events and catching events maybe...
Also I didnt found much information on google about doing it manually

getting at object properties in an arraylist

BPatt17-Aug-09 10:59

BPatt

17-Aug-09 10:59

I am not well versed in ASP.NET so how to do this is really escaping me.

I want to display the value of one of the properties from an object conained in an arraylist using c#

This is kind of what I mean but, of course, this doesn't work

string mystr = myArrayList[0].strValue;

myArraylist[0] cantains an object with property strValue. I know I can't use the [] in the expression but how do I access that property?

The help is much appreciated.

Re: getting at object properties in an arraylist

Christian Graus17-Aug-09 11:39

Re: getting at object properties in an arraylist

17-Aug-09 11:39

This has nothing to do with ASP.NET.

Your problem is that you're using an arraylist, which is not strongly typed. In future, I suggest you define 'doesn't work', so people can help you better, but in this case, I know it 'doesn't work' because you're not casting the object. Use a List instead, never use the non generic collections.

Christian Graus

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BPatt17-Aug-09 16:38

BPatt

17-Aug-09 16:38

You're scolding me for using outdated code right?

I inherited this code with an arraylist. Maybe I should switch it over, but I did resolve my problem with the arraylist once I figured out my way around a foreach

foreach ( object myobj in myArray)
{
     mystringbuilder.Append( myobj.myproperty);
}

Anyway, thanks for the reply

how to integrate pseudo css style into ASP.net

Seraph_summer17-Aug-09 10:26

Seraph_summer

17-Aug-09 10:26

how to integrate the following pseudo-class into ASP.net

<style>
a:link {color: blue;} /* an unvisited link */
a:visited {color: purple;} /* a visited link */
a:hover {color: red;} /* a link with the mouse hovering
over it */
a:active {color: green;} /* the selected link */
</style>

because I want to realize the mousehover ona linkbutton to change the color,
but I do not know how to use the css style, for self-defined css style, we can sue sth like
<div class="style_deine_1" >

thanks!

Abhijit Jana17-Aug-09 10:33

Abhijit Jana

17-Aug-09 10:33

Use MouseOver and MouseOut for Change the color of hover. And For Rest, only using the CSS Class.

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Seraph_summer17-Aug-09 10:51

Seraph_summer

17-Aug-09 10:51

thanks, again, but I did not understand you.

here, I also want to know that is it possible to use these css styles in ASP.net, if so, how?

Abhijit Jana17-Aug-09 11:05

Abhijit Jana

17-Aug-09 11:05

Ohh. I missunderstood yout question. You do it like this way,

 .MyHperLink{
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #006DB1;
}

.MyHperLink:a
{
	color: #006DB1;
	text-decoration:none;
}

.MyHperLink:hover
{
	color: #13B12D;
	text-decoration:underline;
	
}

Do all other stuff for active etc.

Set CssClass="MyHperLink" for link button.

Abhijit Jana | Codeproject MVP
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