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by Avelino Ferreira
The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...
by Steffen Ploetz
YES, you can - use native DLLs in your Azure Functions via P/Invoke ([DllImport]) as you already know it from .NET Framework, and safe the code you have developed and maintained for decades with much effort and patience.
by Florian Lopes
How to host multiple websites on a single host with Docker
by Glenn Prince
Quick guide on how to save some money by switching your Azure WebApp service to a Azure Storage and a Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosting setup for static websites

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by Steffen Ploetz
YES, you can - use native DLLs in your Azure Functions via P/Invoke ([DllImport]) as you already know it from .NET Framework, and safe the code you have developed and maintained for decades with much effort and patience.
by Glenn Prince
Quick guide on how to save some money by switching your Azure WebApp service to a Azure Storage and a Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosting setup for static websites
by Alon Lek
HostMe is a simple one EXE application that can host your static web pages easily. It can run either as a console or as a Windows service with the minimal amount of effort from your side.
by Zachary Flower
To get a feel for how Alibaba Cloud Web Hosting works, I went through the process from end-to-end, and have come away with some pros and cons of the service.

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3 Aug 2016 by Avelino Ferreira
The easiest way to implement the ToolStripControlHost and ToolStripDropDown classes, in a UserControl, in order to display a Container/Control beyond the limits of its Parent Container and Parent Form, with very few lines of code. Let's uncomplicate ...
10 Feb 2020 by Steffen Ploetz
YES, you can - use native DLLs in your Azure Functions via P/Invoke ([DllImport]) as you already know it from .NET Framework, and safe the code you have developed and maintained for decades with much effort and patience.
5 Dec 2014 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)
Refer - Cannot get email to work with GoDaddy email SMTP[^]. Implement this.Quote:SymptomsUsing GoDaddy SMTP server smptout.secureserver.net email errors occur such as: Mail Error occurred - Exception=Failure sending mail. Unable to read data from the transport connection:...
28 Sep 2016 by Florian Lopes
How to host multiple websites on a single host with Docker
24 Jul 2019 by Glenn Prince
Quick guide on how to save some money by switching your Azure WebApp service to a Azure Storage and a Content Delivery Network (CDN) hosting setup for static websites
11 Aug 2012 by Member 8192506
ASPSpider.com its free for 3 Month only.
20 Nov 2012 by ZurdoDev
Look at http://www.asp.net/hosting[^] to find someone who can host on the internet for you.
13 Apr 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
I don't think we can promote any of the commercial entities. You should do the shopping and make your own decision. First of all, learn the subject well. Please start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority[^].—SA
14 Aug 2013 by Joezer BH
It can be done via a single front end Load Balancing Server and Back End server possibly remote with proxy servers in the middle like using MS ISA-Server (or its new name Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway).But - I am not sure this is within your scope...* If you want, I can...
22 Jun 2015 by OriginalGriff
We can't tell you - because we don't know.You need to talk to the manufacturers, and try to get some idea of the communications protocol from them. You can't "guess" how to talk to it - there are far, far to many different ways to do it. If you had the communications software it's possible...
17 Jul 2016 by Andy Point
Firebase Android Tutorial : Adding Registration and Login Hello Developers, this is our android firebase tutorial. In this tutorial we will create an android firebase app that will use firebase android login functionality. This post will help you get you up and running with integrating Firebase to a
5 Sep 2017 by OriginalGriff
Stop using windows authentication mode in production - it's not often supported. Instead, use a SQL username and password combination that has permission (and only the right permissions) for the tasks it needs to perform on the database. You can normally set up the users via the management...
9 Mar 2020 by Richard Deeming
Uninstall IIS and the Windows Process Activation Service. Then delete or rename the folders C:\inetpub and C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv (if they still exist). You can then reinstall IIS, and the configuration should be reset to the default. How...
15 Nov 2023 by Member 9581093
I am new to website programming and I am confused by the different option I have read on this topic. So, I would like to just ask the question very simplistically and make sure I am approaching this correctly. Task I am hosting a Blazor web...
22 Jun 2011 by OriginalGriff
If what you mean is, that you want a folder in your domain which users do not have to log in to access, then edit your web.config file - MSDN has the explanation: HOW TO: Control Authorization Permissions in an ASP.NET Application[^]
14 Aug 2011 by OriginalGriff
Google will help you here - just try searching for "ASP.NET host free" and you should get a lot of responses. Which one you go with will depend on what you want to use with it: some give very small MsSQL databases, some use MySQL, and so forth.Be aware though that you get what you pay for:...
5 Oct 2011 by Yvan Rodrigues
You may find that when you upload new code or assemblies, your content doesn't refresh.
15 Oct 2011 by I.explore.code
well, i think the one way is run the same SQL scripts that you used in localhost (if you created your database using queries) on your production environment. I am not sure whether MySQL has something which SQL Server has which is an ability to generate SQL scripts from physical tables.OR,...
15 Oct 2011 by Mehdi Gholam
Read the following on the subject : mySql backup methods
15 Oct 2011 by Bala Selvanayagam
you can backup your local database and restore it in the production environment. for more info please google it as ...mysql backup and restore, you will have plenty of articles
22 Oct 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
You can simply set up permissions for the directory accordingly for read-only access; it depends on OS and has nothing to do with programming, just a simple administration. However, the image and other files cannot be changed by the users of Web application anyway, unless you intentionally write...
15 Mar 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
You requirements are truly minimalistic. It's very easy to satisfy them. You will be able to find cheep and acceptable hosting, may be even free of charge, however not so likely. It looks like your only essential requirement is PHP, which is currently available in nearly 100% hosting providers,...
6 Apr 2012 by Reza Ahmadi
Hi,It depends, if you have a WebSite rather than a WebApplication, then you can change them while they are hosted. Otherwise, you can just edit tags in your .aspx files and recompilation is not needed.I hope it will help,Cheers.
8 Apr 2012 by Mohamed Mitwalli
Hi , According to your Question you didn't deploy your website i mean it's not DLL files so you still have both .cs file and .aspx so the answer for your Question YesNote : you have to deploy your website don't publish with your .Cs Files for security reason's .Best RegardsM.Mitwalli
17 Apr 2012 by crazedDotNetDev
I believe you don't have enough data to define the best architecture. Performance is never a one size fits all kinda thing. You have an existing system, so I'd...Check out the hardware to make sure it's not having any failures. Run the Performance Monitor to look at disk/memory/CPU usage,...
15 May 2012 by OriginalGriff
You probably will not find one.Most (if not all) of the free hosting sites have a limit on email sending, normally along the lines of "x per minute" or "x per hour" which if you exceed will cause your account to be frozen. This is so they are not used as a free spambot source, and tie up all...
21 May 2012 by Nilesh Patil Kolhapur
hi, to deploy a website pls refer following link How to deploy ASP.NET Web Application on server[^]best LuckHappy Coding:)
21 May 2012 by Technoses
For local deploymentUse IISif you have already installed then on you website folderright click on folder, you get a new tab named "Web Sharing"in this tab you can write you application name on IISand click okor use Administrative Tools>> Internet Information Serviceadd new...
6 Jul 2012 by OriginalGriff
Two possibilties that I can think of:1) The IP is worng, or is local to your network.2) The DB server is set not to accept remote connections.Check the IP address you are using first: if it starts with 192 then it is a local IP, not internet, so you won't be able to see it from...
31 Jul 2012 by Xenit7
I am currently researching with regards to a web development project that me and a few friends are going to start using ASP.NET C#. We have identified a few things and are researching them however no matter how much i Google i cant seem to get a clear answer on this.We want to make a...
4 Aug 2012 by jd patel
Look domain: yoursitename.comhosting: space for your websitethere is two types of hosting..1 is only domain hosting 1 is only webspace hostingand 1 is work both at simultaneous for domain and hostingnow, check what is your budget...your hosting company provides webmail...
1 Oct 2012 by Irmgard Sitterson
When you say cloud hosting, you are referring to a type of hosting platform. There are several types of cloud. The private, hybrid and private cloud hosting. With cloud hosting, you will say goodbye to the old school of just renting a server or using a shared server space. Through cloud hosting,...
2 Nov 2012 by Richard MacCutchan
Try some of these suggestions[^].
20 Jan 2013 by Joezer BH
Hello, Mitchell, [Not entirely sure what your question exactly, but you can adjust\explain and I will add info to the answer to be more specific]There is no problem adding code in your web pages.If you are talking about server-side-code that can be C# as it seems your preferable...
20 Jan 2013 by Joezer BH
What do you mean by "portable web server"? you plan on developing an exe-like web-server that will be run with no installation (i.e. without IIS or some other solution)?
3 Apr 2013 by Abhinav S
URL rewriting[^] can help you hide aspx pages.However, if the user has access to the file location, then you cannot do much.
28 Jun 2013 by Allan Chong
Hi,your solution can be found hereInstalling IIS 7.5 on Windows 7 Home Premium, Home Basic, or Home Starter[^]
14 Aug 2013 by AAGC15
You are right.It would need to have at least a 3rd "hardware" (some sort of load balancer) to redirect if server A is down.Our main "concern" is the fact that server A is with one provider and server B is what another provider. I don't know if that is possible or not.
24 Oct 2013 by Zoltán Zörgő
How I see, you need a pluginn architecture. Well, MEF and MAF are options for WPF too, bou you could consider also prism (http://compositewpf.codeplex.com[^])
30 Oct 2013 by Bhuvanesh Mohankumar
Thanks for your Reply, Please find my commentsI have a single .SVC file which has two service class [Addition/Subtraction] Service.I have two end points for these two services. ...
4 Nov 2013 by thatraja
Check theseSqlServer Shared Memory Provider Error233 No Process Is On Other End Of Pipe[^]and/orShared Memory Provider, error: 0 – No process is on the other end of the pipe[^]
4 Nov 2013 by Bhuvanesh Mohankumar
public class InternalService : IService { public string StartServer() { return "\n\n@@@ Internal Server Started!"; } } public class ExternalService : IService { public string StartServer() { return...
21 Nov 2013 by OriginalGriff
Google is your friend: Be nice and visit him often. He can answer questions a lot more quickly than posting them here...A very quick search using your subject as the search term gave 150 million hits: Google: "how to build web host with pc"[^]In future, please try to do at least basic...
14 Jun 2017 by Member 10308798
I have hosting with a cpanel accelerated 2 panel here I can manually create a sub domain but is there a way to create a sub domain with a php script so they input the sub domain they like then click submit and it will create a sub domain for them. Thank you.What I want is to create...
25 Feb 2014 by Maciej Los
Have a look here: How to reference the App_Data folder (or any other) in asp.net app[^]ASP.NET Web Project Folder Structure[^]
3 Sep 2014 by xirokx
hi there,I am developing an android app and need to educate myself on how android apps are hosted.Sure I read this site:http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/start.html[^]and this site:http://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/launch-checklist.html[^]but...
6 Oct 2014 by Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)
Check the below resources.1. Transfer Your Domain[^]2. Moving Your Website to Us (Shared Hosting)[^]
15 Dec 2014 by 1&1 Internet
As an independent Web developer, your goal is to attain clients and create websites that meet their needs. Whether they would like a site built for business or for personal interests, use this guide to advise clients and help them identify the best Web hosting solution.
29 Nov 2014 by Zoltán Zörgő
So what should i do so that website speed should not be slow? All cards will be editable.You should consider using minimized javascript and css, and as less heavy graphics as possible. Thus user experience will be better. But you can't control client browser performance. On server side it...
2 Feb 2022 by Raj Negi
I am trying to send email by using ASP.NET C# code. My website is hosted in godaddy server. It gives this error: Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed. using System.Net.Mail; using MailMessage =...
15 Feb 2015 by AdamASPGeek
Hi ekipongi,- Can I be able to deploy the already ASP.Net developed application together with its MS SQL Server DB easily as I have no prior or complete understanding in ASP.net under my subscription? (can I easily restore the DB to any of the DB server that I’m allocated under my...
22 Jun 2015 by User 59241
I refrained from answering your previous question because really where to start. The cost of the vendor software is probably going to be insignificant compared to the time you will need to spend here.I can give you a generic approach that I would employ in this situation.1. Obtain a...
23 Jul 2015 by CPallini
Then make HTTP custom request. See "SIM900 GPRS/GSM Shield"[^].
9 Aug 2015 by OriginalGriff
I'm not saying your numbers are wrong, but...Those are big numbers. 10,000,000 users a month is 13,000 per hour, 24 hours a day. This site has 11,000,000 members of which only 65,276 are "Online" - i.e. still have current Sessions - at this moment. Very, very little of the site uses HTTPS,...
9 Sep 2015 by Suvendu Shekhar Giri
You can setup a server to host the database and then if you need your database to avaialble to the users not connected to the same network then provide it a public IP so that it can be accessed over internet. Else if the users connected to the same network then you can provide them access...
9 Sep 2015 by OriginalGriff
If you are using SQL Server, you already have a server set up - the applications all communicate with the database via that. So for a local based solution, you have already got what you want.You could move the DB to an online host, but there are risks associated with that: just moving the DB...
14 Dec 2015 by Richard Deeming
Read the following Microsoft knowledgebase article:Considerations for server-side Automation of Office[^]Microsoft does not currently recommend, and does not support, Automation of Microsoft Office applications from any unattended, non-interactive client application or component (including...
23 Dec 2015 by ZurdoDev
You need to host it in IIS. In IIS on a server, add new website and point to where the files are. Then you can access it via other computers using http://servername/website if your DNS works otherwise you use http://serveripaddress/website.
25 Apr 2016 by Jochen Arndt
To solve this you must define what should be displayed: A directory listing or a default page (usually an index page) when it is present.See DirectoryListings - Httpd Wiki[^] for the required Apache configuration settings.
14 Jun 2016 by OriginalGriff
It probably depends on the version of SQL Server, but in theory, you could have 32,767 databases per instance: Maximum Capacity Specifications for SQL Server[^]But...would the rest of the infrastructure support that many requests? I think you'd need to look closely at the whole "probably...
18 Apr 2017 by Member 12498173
You could use Apache with the mod_mono module mod_mono | Mono[^]
9 Jul 2017 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
AWS has a website (https://aws.amazon.com/) with megatons of documentations... Read the bit concerns you... IIRC you do not upload your project ,but - after setting up the environment - your are RDP into the virtual machine you created and install the published version of your project...
27 Sep 2017 by OriginalGriff
If you have deleted files, you need to restore them, preferably from a backup. Most reputable hosting services provide automatic backups, I'd start by contacting them and asking for a selective restore of the missing files.
22 Jan 2020 by MadMyche
You would need to setup DNS; which will link the Domain Name to the IP Address References: Change my IP address | Domains - GoDaddy Help CA[^] Add an A record | Domains - GoDaddy Help CA[^]">^]
15 Jun 2011 by Fawad Ahsan
Hello,I have multiple sites, is it possible if I can use single SSL certificate for all my sites?Thanks
15 Jun 2011 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
If those are the sites of on different sub-domains, it should not be a problem. More exatly:The only problem is the location of private part of certificate used for validation — it should not be accessible via network, therefore it should better be stored on the same computer where...
23 Jun 2011 by hassan_sayfi69
I have Web Hosting With Support LINQ ....
21 Jun 2011 by derinpdavis
Yes, It will support. I have made a DBManager component to do all my Linq To Sql activities and operating from aspx pages.Is that you want to do..?
22 Jun 2011 by divesh12
How to remove Password permission on subDomain.
23 Jun 2011 by Christian Graus
OK, I assume you're asking for web hosts that support LINQ to SQL. That's a feature in .NET 3.5, so as long as the host supports that, and all should, it's free, then it will support LINQ to SQL by default. Have you run LINQ to SQL code on your existing host to see if it's supported, or are...
23 Jun 2011 by Abhinav S
If you are looking at using LINQDataSource - see here[^].
4 Jul 2011 by mohit`12
Hello ,I am working on project with Silverlight 4 and Local Web hosting and i am really new to web Development.What needs to be done is here :Host a Website with Sign-In / Sign-up Page (DONE . Business Application does work)Able to see settings page which holds textboxes and labels and...
4 Jul 2011 by Sobelja
HelloWe have a website hosted in southern part of India. It is a webbased application developed in asp.net. What problem we are facing is that the website is either loading very slow or not opening in some locations (ISP wise). Example for some users in Bangalore the site is working very...
9 Jul 2011 by Member 8071268
Hello, I've been using Google Code's Project Hosting feature for a few projects over the last years but i've recently encountered a rather strange and annoying problem which is unabling me from accessing the source code after X days. For this particular project, i've only used Eclipse's...
9 Jul 2011 by fjdiewornncalwe
Perhaps you should be asking this to the guys over at google?
9 Jul 2011 by fantasyaa
I think I had a similar experience a while back but you should post the link to your repository so others could check what's up.My advice is that you start a new project, commit your source to that one and carry your work out from there.At least, that's what the guys at google recommended...
28 Jul 2011 by Brady Kelly
I am trying to implement Google Apps for a new domain of mine, and although Google says it can take up to 48 hours, it is normally much quicker than that, and other DNS changes, such as creating the domain alias, normally take less than 1 hour to propogate. The domain I'm trying to set up Google...
28 Jul 2011 by SomeGuyThatIsMe
The time it takes usually is based on how far away you are from the server, i.e. updates on my dns server are usually seen almost immediatly(i've also had it take several hours), but changes i make on godaddy take a couple hours for me to see. If you need to see it right now for testing you can...
3 Aug 2011 by wizardzz
Have you considered buying your own server, or do you really want a hosting company to take care of your space? If you wanted a completely hosted solution, you should try Microsoft's or Amazon's cloud solution. It will cost you, but your bandwidth, disk space, etc will be completely scalable...
18 Aug 2011 by ShonaR
I am new to WCF hosting.I have designed a WCF service, how do I install it to IIS on a server using WIX. Any clues where I can find step by step procedure.Please help.
25 Aug 2011 by Neha Thanka
Hi....How to download or backup hosted Sqlserver database which is used for a website in asp.net using c#? Is there any direct download methods?
25 Aug 2011 by Shameel
If you are talking about backing up the database on the hosting provider's server, you cannot directly backup the database to your local storage. Instead, you can backup your database using the BACKUP command on to the server storage and then FTP the backup file from the server to your local...
5 Sep 2011 by Abhishek Sur
I think it is COM based API so needs installation. Why dont you speak with your Vendor, just dropping him a mail to update his server with latest drivers? To access this driver from a 64 bit machine you can use This tutorial[^]
8 Sep 2011 by Member 8196496
Hello all,i developed a small dynamic website in my Eclipse i want to Host in InternetI have domain and Hosting How can i host this Dynamic website?Please help me
13 Sep 2011 by Furqan Sehgal
Hi,I have hosted a very basic test application onwww.ezitek.somee.com[^]It just contains a database and reads/writes data from there.In localhost, it works fine without any errors. But after hosting, when accessed from my browser, it is giving error.Please visit the site and...
13 Sep 2011 by santosh pabba
Hi,May i Know are you calling database contents in the pageload of the web siteThen go to this linkhttp://blog.evonet.com.au/post/Setting-up-SQL-Server-2008-for-an-ASPNET-website-on-IIS-70.aspx[^]View this Site from Step 3: Allowing TCP/IP Connections to SQL ServerThis Might...
29 Sep 2011 by Member 7976636
Hi Everybody,I am new to asp.net,i did a website using VS2008 and it was working fine in the localhost.we bought the hosting space.i tried posting asp.net content using filezilla and posted.but it was showing only text.please anyone give the solution or tips for hosting the site.
29 Sep 2011 by OriginalGriff
First do a simple check:Create (use notepad if you have to) two small files: default.aspx and default.aspx.cs:
15 Oct 2011 by rashidfarooq
I have developed a website in localhost and I have entered almost all the data to MySQL DB in localhost environment. Now, I have purchased the domain and hosting space. Now, I want to host my site to Production Environment. The Problem is, I don't know how to move the MySQL DB Data from...
21 Oct 2011 by rashidfarooq
I have an images directory "wb_imgs" inside the root directory. I want that no one can change / overwrite or delete the images of this directory. How can I do that using .htaccess or some other way???
14 Dec 2011 by Mohankumar.Engain
Dear sir,I am hosting my application now. and error is crystal report is not display when I am running windows server 2008 OS.How to solve this problem?Any solutions for this hosting application?By mohan.
15 Dec 2011 by jgegroups
You should post more details if you want help. Like Visual Studio version, .Net version, error messages etc.Have you installed the appropriate Crystal runtime on your server?
17 Jan 2012 by OriginalGriff
We can't answer that.There are so many variables that the question is pretty much meaningless.Do you want free, or paid? Wheat you get varies a lot?Do you want local, or somewhere-in-the-world-I-don't-care?Do you want support in your native language?Do you expect much traffic?Are...
9 Mar 2012 by ajusagmar
Hello i using ajax.dll and ajaxmethods on my web application but when the server installed on web application ajax.dll does not work what can I do ?
12 Mar 2012 by uttam2010
why do you not using "AjaxControlToolkit.dll" for .NET technology. Its a simple & much useful to use on Windows server.I think that your question is not clear!!