ASP.NET

20-Jul-06 4:33

Hi..

Iam using Visual Studio 2003.I dont know how to make a beautiful Web Page using ready to use page templates or FrontPage program for that reason my Web page looks ugly as you can see from the following link:

www.engineeringprojects.net[^]

Could any one tell me how could I make it beautiful using FrontPage or ready to use templates with Visual Studio 2003? Confused | :confused:

"I am too late but i will never give up"

bluewavestrider20-Jul-06 5:02

bluewavestrider

20-Jul-06 5:02

First i have to commend you on that pretty ugly page. but you've done a good Job to convince me u need help Laugh | :laugh:

To use a ready template, you can copy it's html very carefully and insert it into an asp.net web page(html secttion). If The web template comes with other dependencies such as css files, remember to copy those files into your applications local path so it becomes accessible.
I'll also like to give you a link to some pretty wild templates^. Hope You enjoy them.;)

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.

TheEagle24-Jul-06 18:38

24-Jul-06 18:38

Sorry for being too late...
Thank you very much I was seeking for this answer for a long time Big Grin | :-D

.But what about the Form tag? I mean should the Form tag include the template or vice versa?

I am too late but i will never give up

Not Active20-Jul-06 5:03

Not Active

20-Jul-06 5:03

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Using templates won't make your pages any more or less visually appealing. The layout, design and graphics are what you need to concentrate on.

TheEagle24-Jul-06 18:41

24-Jul-06 18:41

Sorry for being too late...

May you tell me what is the best way to make an attractive web page layout?

I am too late but i will never give up

Paddy Boyd20-Jul-06 6:21

Paddy Boyd

20-Jul-06 6:21

That is a terribly ugly page. May i recommend visiting somewhere like http://www.csszengarden.com[^] to calm your eyes down...

TheEagle24-Jul-06 18:47

24-Jul-06 18:47

Sorry for being too late...

Big Grin | :-D

This is a greate website for learning a lot of effective design subjects thank you very much.

I am too late but i will never give up

WillemM20-Jul-06 22:47

WillemM

20-Jul-06 22:47

http://www.templatemonster.com/[^] this site contains some pretty good samples. For a small price you can buy those and use them in your site. I usually look there to get some inspiration for the general look for a site.

WM.

What about weapons of mass-construction?

TheEagle24-Jul-06 18:31

Timed Executions for Application

24-Jul-06 18:31

Sorry for being too late...
Thank you very much for this helpful link.

I am too late but i will never give up

RedGoblin20-Jul-06 4:11

RedGoblin

20-Jul-06 4:11

Greetings all. Just joined and this is my first post. Sorry if this is the incorrect forum

I am currently working on a project where certain actions must happen within a given date range, if this date passes then my web app needs to do things.

For instance a customer purchases an item. The item gets marked with Purchase made on DATE, the seller then has 14 days to ship. If 14 days pass then I need the application to end the transaction and return the money to the buyer like a refund.

This isn't something that I feel should be triggered by any user action, but instead should be something that is automatically run every evening at Midnight. I am still rather new to ASP.Net but I am looking for a functionality similar to that provided by CRON on Linux/Apache Servers, where I can specify code being run at a set time/date etc...

Any assistance in this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

FCarentz

Re: Timed Executions for Application

Paddy Boyd20-Jul-06 4:54

Paddy Boyd

20-Jul-06 4:54

You could create a windows service that can run at a specified interval in the background, or you could create a sql server job for the same purpose.

Re: Timed Executions for Application

RedGoblin20-Jul-06 5:05

RedGoblin

20-Jul-06 5:05

Thanks can you point me in the direction of creating either of these things? Never done either of them before, although the sql server job sounds like it will fit the bill. Know any links to tutorials for it?

Thanks again

Caching interop calls - not good [modified]

Malcolm Smart20-Jul-06 3:01

20-Jul-06 3:01

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MODIFY : SEE UPDATE BELOW.
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hi

Using C# / ASP.NET I am calling a couple of C++ routines from a tried and tested DLL. I have a test binary on the server which also calls the same routines. The DLL reads from a data provider.

Using the following test plan:-

1. Read data via DLL interop call
2. Change source (via a different app)
3. Read data via DLL interop call

Using the binary harness, the results from 1 and 3 are different, reflecting the change made in 2. Using the ASP.NET, the results of 1 and 3 show the same data - ie not showing the results.

I've wrapped the output with timestamps and spooled out to a file which proves teh ASPX page is being called, and the interop DLL method is being called, but some 'magical' thing inside IIS seems to say, 'Youve just called this with the same parameters - here, have the data back you got first time', which is no good.

Cutting to the chase,
1 - am I talking b******s?
2 - if not, can I force IIS to not cache any results from interop calls. The page making the calls definately isn't cached, just the result from the interop call.

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport "d:/data/inetpub/focs/bin/MonkeyCfg.dll")]
    public static extern long GetBatchJobSize(string str , ref long i);

  [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("d:/data/inetpub/focs/bin/MonkeyCfg.dll")]
    public static extern void GetBatchJob(string str , System.Text.StringBuilder buf);

UPDATE : Killing the w3wp.exe process which is holding the DLL open resolves the problem. So this leads to the real question - how can I ensure the DLL is unloaded after each call?

Regards

Angel
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-- modified at 10:23 Thursday 20th July, 2006

Malcolm Smart20-Jul-06 4:47

20-Jul-06 4:47

I'm going to keep answering my own question as I find out more and more until a) I either get it working, or b) somebody reads this thread and puts me out of my misery...

I now know you can't unload assemblies explicitly in asp.net. But...you can create an appdomain, run the assembly in there and unload the appdomain, effectively unloading the assembly....cool....sounds just like what i need....except...

I now can't work out how to create a domain and call my interop method. If it was an exe, no problem, but can't find anything on launching a DLL in a separate domain.

Regards

Angel
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The sooner you fall behind, the longer you have to catch up.

Re: Caching interop calls - not good [modified]

Dustin Metzgar20-Jul-06 6:26

Dustin Metzgar

20-Jul-06 6:26

When you load up a DLL in a separate AppDomain, you don't need to have it run like an exe, but you have to treat it like a remote. Everything has to be done by proxy. Use the CreateInstanceAndUnwrap method on the AppDomain to initialize an object of a particular type in the AppDomain and get a proxy to it. The type you create must have MarshalByRefObject marked on it. Look here[^]

Logifusion[^]

Malcolm Smart20-Jul-06 22:44

20-Jul-06 22:44

Getting there I think....but I can't seem to load anything using this method. Code included below...

<br />
public class MonkeyDLL : MarshalByRefObject<br />
{<br />
    public string LoadBatch(string batchName)<br />
    {<br />
        long i = 0;<br />
        <br />
        GetBatchJobSize(batchName, ref i);<br />
<br />
        System.Text.StringBuilder buf1 = new System.Text.StringBuilder(((int)(i + 10)));<br />
        GetBatchJob(batchName, buf1);<br />
<br />
        return buf1.ToString();<br />
    }<br />
<br />
    [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("d:/data/inetpub/focs/bin/MonkeyCfg.dll")]<br />
    public static extern long GetBatchJobSize(string str, ref long i);<br />
<br />
    [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("d:/data/inetpub/focs/bin/MonkeyCfg.dll")]<br />
    public static extern void GetBatchJob(string str, System.Text.StringBuilder buf);<br />
<br />
};<br />
<br />
<br />
//calling code<br />
<br />
 MonkeyDLL monkey = new MonkeyDLL();<br />
            AppDomain ad = AppDomain.CreateDomain("MonkeyDomain");<br />
<br />
            MonkeyDLL remoteWorker = (MonkeyDLL)ad.CreateInstanceAndUnwrap(<br />
          "d:/data/inetpub/focs/bin/MonkeyCfg.dll",<br />
          "Worker");  <--FAILS HERE<br />
            <br />
            //parse the batch string<br />
            cached_batch batch = new cached_batch();<br />
            batch.BatchName = job;<br />
            batch.XMLContent = remoteWorker.LoadBatch(job); ;//batchString;<br />
<br />
AppDomain.Unload(ad);<br />

? - What is the second param in CreateInstanceAndUnwrap for? My DLL contains only two methods listed earlier in the thread.

Fails with

System.IO.FileLoadException: COuld not load file or assembly 'd:/data/inetpub/focs/bin/MonkeyCfg.dll' or one of its dependencies. 
 The given assembly name or codebase was invalid.

The DLL calls works fine through 'normal' interop, so the path is correct, the dependencies are there. I attempted to switch the assembly in CreateInstanceAndUnwrap with notepad, ir c:/winnt/system32/notepad.exe and got the same error.

Can you hammer home what mundane stupid thing I have missed please, or am I missing the whole plot?!?

Cheers

Regards

Angel
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The sooner you fall behind, the longer you have to catch up.

-- modified at 5:17 Friday 21st July, 2006

Malcolm Smart20-Jul-06 23:33

20-Jul-06 23:33

I am determined to get there...

I have just tried

<br />
MonkeyDLL remoteWorker = (MonkeyDLL)ad.CreateInstanceFromAndUnwrap(<br />
          "d:\\data\\inetpub\\focs\\bin\\MonkeyCfg.dll",<br />
          "MonkeyDLL");<br />

and now being told "the module was expected to contain an assemly manifest". The DLL in question is an 'old' unmanaged C++ DLL.

Any more ideas?

Regards

Angel
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The sooner you fall behind, the longer you have to catch up.