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I've finally gotten around to playing with ASP (yeah only a few years behind everyone else - I've been busy!) and I love it! I had an ADO data access page working great this week until I tried to get cutesy and put the connection object in an include page. Theoretically this would allow me to use the same connection across many pages. In practice, it crashes IIS 5.0 with the message "exception 'Runtime Error'" whenever I try to access the calling page.
I tried enabling all verbs for .asp extensions on the virtual direcory that contains the files, but that didn't help. I tried restarting IIS after making that change, but after stopping it I found that I can no longer start IIS - it reports a duplicate address in use. The MS Knowledge Base offered a few clues, all wrong as usual, and using two different port scanners I confirmed that no other program is using port 80. Rebooting the machine solved the problem of being unable to start IIS, but it didn't help the problem of using SSI scripts - it still doesn't work, providing the helpful meesage that an Object was expected in the calling script. The object in question is a connection created by the included file.
Is there a switch in IIS that I need to set to allow SSIs to work? It's not a big deal, as I can create connections on every page and make it work nicely. But it's a pain to do so, and I suspect that it's a poor practice, as well. I'd really like to make SSI work - any thoughts?
"When in danger, fear, or doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" - Lorelei and Lapis Lazuli Long
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Hi,
I have once seen this problem. I tried re-installing MDAC -- Microsoft Data Access Component and a reboot after that solved the problems associated with
Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Perhaps you can try reinstalling MDAC 2.7 (which is the latest one now)
Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
http://deepak.portland.co.uk/
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That's a good thought, but the problem isn't with creating the connection. When I put the connection code in the main page it works fine. The errors occur when I try to put the connection code in an include file. The main page then acts as if the #include never happenned, and the object was never created. I copied and pasted working code from the main page to the include file, then added the include directive to the top of the main page, saved everything, and it all stopped working. That led me to suspect that my installation of IIS may be corrupted, so I reinstalled it tonight. I haven't played with the site anymore tonight, but a quick check indicates that the reinstallation helped something. My default site was hacked last April replacing a lot of the content, and I thought I had it all cleaned out. But since then it has been impossible to contact http://localhost, and now that's working again. Maybe ASP will work again, too!
"When in danger, fear, or doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" - Lorelei and Lapis Lazuli Long
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Has everyone here tried asp.net web matrix on
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix?
I think it's worth while trying,
But it seems to have a major problems,that is can't be used outside english codes,I mean it can't display any other languages characters other that english?
What is your opinion?
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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This should go in the ASP.NET forum...but I'll answer it anyway.
Yeah. I have used WebMatrix. Let me say this, I love VS.NET...it is way cool. That being said, I find that I am most productive when I use both side by side. Sometimes when I'm done developing, and I'm testing on the actual server instead of my laptop, and something doesn't work...I love WebMatrix. I can FTP into the server, change the stuff, hit save, and it re-uploads everything...very cool. Also, there's some nifty stuff built into WebMatrix like the Online component gallery.
My only complaint is that it doesn't support code-behind.  I use code behind everywhere. Mainly because I use VS.NET and it has all the benefits geared towards code-behind and because I hated the ASP model of things with "spaghetti code".
But overall, it's really geared for small stuff. Tinkering that you need to do last minute. I wouldn't dream of creating an entire site in it. But I find it exceedingly useful for maintenance stuff and the tiny stuff that needs reworking occasionally.
You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks
-Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past.
-Chris Maunder
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Hi. David.
From USA?and only use english,lucky,then you will not encounter the problems I faced now.
The web matrix did not load aspx files properly when there are chars other than english in that file,such as chinese can't be displayed?
I want opinions from using web matrix in non-english languages?
Thanks.
this is my signature for forums quoted from shog*9:
I can't help but feel, somewhere deep within that withered, bitter, scheming person, there is a small child, frightened, looking a way out.
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 Sorry about that. Didn't realize that you were just asking for non-English speaking people's opinions. Well, now you know what I think of WebMatrix.
You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks
-Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past.
-Chris Maunder
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zhoujun wrote:
But it seems to have a major problems,that is can't be used outside english codes,I mean it can't display any other languages characters other that english?
Search a week down in the ASP.NET forums. Mazdak gave an answer, the other person was trying to work with Swedish characters...cant remember exact details...
"I dont have a life, I have a program."
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I searched,but seems they were not talking about web matrix?
regards,
zhoujun.
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zhoujun wrote:
What is your opinion?
My opinion is that it is a free tool and we should be thankful it exists at all.
If you need more advanced features, then you are probably in a commercial environment and then should get a hold of VS.NET.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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Is there any option to align the text inside the table justified both left and right as it can be done in WORD??
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Ever heard of WYSIWYG tools such as FrontPage, Dreamweaver,... ?
I am not saying you should always use such tool to produce HTML code, but isn't it obvious these tools provide you with answers such like how to do text alignment in html by just applying the alignment first and see the resulting html code in the source code view ?
Back to real work : D-21.
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That option is not in frontpage (I think so). Have not tried dreamweaver.....
Thanks....
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I haven't mentioned any option. I have showed a general way to solve your html coding problems.
I could answer you for the very practical issue you have here, but as you can see for yourself someone else has also answered you.
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SPS wrote:
s there any option to align the text inside the table justified both left and right as it can be done in WORD??
Yes you can use CSS to do this... but be warned that a: it does not work on many browser and b: it looks terrible. Browsers do not have the same justification ability as word processors or DTP products, this is by choice as justification on the web is seen as a bad thing.
Anyway you can do it this way:
<table>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: justify">Justified text</td>
</tr>
</table>
Hope that helps (but don't do it ya hear? )
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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The problem is, there are many files that needs the modification. So, this takes a hell a lot of pain in updatig the same.... anyway... thanks for the reply.....
Bye
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SPS wrote:
The problem is, there are many files that needs the modification. So, this takes a hell a lot of pain in updatig the same
Muwahahahahahaah! *Paul gets the evil CSS evangelising glint in his eye*
Which is exactly why you should be using CSS in the first place. Look I don't want to say "I told you so" (because I did not) but for future reference start and stick with CSS. If you had been using CSS from the start then all you would have to do is go into one CSS file and modify the neccessary class, a maintenance dream! 
Still you could be lucky.
Is there is something unique about the TDs which you want justified? Do they have a CSS class assigned? Are they named? Do they have any attribute assigned to them that other TDs you do not want affected have not?
Basically CSS has some powerful selectors which could sort this out for you with just one external CSS file.
Maybe post up some of the TABLE code and I might be able to say "yes! We can use XYZ selector to do this site-wide" which will rock
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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Ok everyone,
I'm putting on a rarely worn web development hat, so I could use some help.
Basically, what I'd like to do is see what sort of requests are being generated by a particular webpage, (<get> urlname, <put> whatever, next i clicked button), and be able to capture that, so that I could repeat it manually. The idea is to kind of mimic manuevering through a web page for a kind of poor-man's load test.
(By re-reading what I just said - it sounds like my intentions are kind of fishy, but this is purely for good reasons. )
Anyway - does anyone have any ideas? I don't even know how difficult this is.....Thanks!
Marcus Spitzmiller
"Why must life be so hard? Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" - Homer
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Client-side:
Microsoft has a free tool named WCAT - Web Capacity Analysis Tool for just that. I don't have the link now, sorry.
Server-Side:
Under \WINNT\SYSTEM32\LOGFILES\W3SVCn\ you'll find the logs of requests of your server.
Let me know if this is what you needed.
lazy isn't my middle name.. its my first.. people just keep calling me Mel cause that's what they put on my drivers license. - Mel Feik
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Thanks this looks like what I'm looking for. I'm not sure that WCAT is free though. I can't find the download anywhere. Its on the w2k resource kit disc.
Thanks!
Marcus Spitzmiller
"Why must life be so hard? Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry?" - Homer
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How do I execute an application from ASP.net?
For instance, I have a web app on my server. When I visit it at http://localhost/default.aspx and click on a button, I want notepad to pop up or some other program. I've tried:
Process commandPrompt = Process.Start("notepad.exe");
which does run notepad, but it's not visible.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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friendlyghost wrote:
For instance, I have a web app on my server. When I visit it at http://localhost/default.aspx and click on a button, I want notepad to pop up or some other program. I've tried:
Process commandPrompt = Process.Start("notepad.exe");
which does run notepad, but it's not visible.
(We need an FAQ for this question!)
Casper, you need to first understand the client/server model that the web uses.
The ASP.NET code (the C#, VB.NET etc. in the ASPX and code behind) is run on the server side, not the client side.
So when you execute a Process.Start command it is being executed on the server, not the client. No execute commands are being sent back along over TCP/IP to the client browser.
Also what you are wanting to do is quite dangerous. If web pages can start firing off Process.Start commands on the client side then security is shot to hell. You could fire off a format c:\ /q if that was the case... Not good.
What you can do, I think, is use an ActiveX component embedded in the page which starts off the process on the client side. Not sure of the details, but that is how you would do it. Look up how to run C# on the client side which can be done, but which requires the client to have the .NET Framework installed.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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If anyone is interested, here are two very handy Favelets.
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Basically they give Internet Explorer the same text zooming features as Mozilla. It works on sites that even set rigid font-sizes (like CP.)
Just drag those two links onto your IE link bar and say Yes to the warnings (but no to drugs.)
Then whenever you need to zoom in or out, just click the links!
I got these favelets from Yourhtmlsource.com[^] and this post follows on from a rant I had with Shog9.
Enjoy! 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Ray Cassick wrote:
Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson
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That is really terrific.
Albeit the fact that Zoom-in/Zoom-out option exists for Images as part of IE Power Toys, a simple JavaScript trick is able to do this trick of Zooming In/Zooming Out of Text.
That's great!!!
Deepak
Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
http://deepak.portland.co.uk/
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