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• apache fails to connect to tomcat (Worker config?)

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  I have a tomcat 6 with follwoing server.xml: <Connector port="8253" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8445" acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" /> <Connector port="8014" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="8445" /> and in added worker.properties: # Set properties for worker4 (ajp13) worker.worker4.type=ajp13 worker.worker4.host=localhost worker.worker4.port=8014 and i put in httpd.conf: JkMount /myWebApp/* worker4 It is not working a as trying to navigate to www1.myCompany.com/myWebApp gives "Service Temporarily Unavailable". I checked in tomcat catalina.out and it says: INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8014 UPDATE: i put mod_jk log level to debug and below is the result: [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_set_time_fmt::jk_util.c (458): Pre-processed log time stamp format is '[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] ' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_open::jk_uri_worker_map.c (770): rule map size is 8 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_add::jk_uri_worker_map.c (720): wildchar rule '/myWebApp/*=worker4' source 'JkMount' was added [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (171): uri map dump after map open: index=0 file='(null)' reject_unsafe=0 reload=60 modified=0 checked=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 0: size=0 nosize=0 capacity=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 1: size=8 nosize=0 capacity=8 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (186): NEXT (1) map #3: uri=/myWebApp/* worker=worker4 context=/myWebApp/* source=JkMount type=Wildchar len=6 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_set_time_fmt::jk_util.c (458): Pre-processed log time stamp format is '[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] ' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3123): Setting default connection pool max size to 1 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.list' with value 'worker1,worker2,worker3,worker4' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.worker4.type' with value 'ajp13' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.worker4.host' with value 'localhost' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.worker4.port' with value '8014' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_resolve_references::jk_map.c (774): Checking for references with prefix worker. with wildcard (recursion 1) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_shm_calculate_size::jk_shm.c (132): shared memory will contain 4 ajp workers of size 256 and 0 lb workers of size 320 with 0 members of size 320+256 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [error] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3166): Initializing shm:/var/log/httpd/mod_jk.shm.9552 errno=13. Load balancing workers will not function properly. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'ServerRoot' -> '/etc/httpd' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.list' -> 'worker1,worker2,worker3,worker4' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker1.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker1.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker1.port' -> '8009' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker2.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker2.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker2.port' -> '8010' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker3.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker3.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker3.port' -> '8112' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker4.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker4.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker4.port' -> '8014' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] build_worker_map::jk_worker.c (242): creating worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] wc_create_worker::jk_worker.c (146): about to create instance worker4 of ajp13 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] wc_create_worker::jk_worker.c (159): about to validate and init worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_validate::jk_ajp_common.c (2512): worker worker4 contact is 'localhost:8014' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2699): setting endpoint options: [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2702): keepalive: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2706): socket timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2710): socket connect timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2714): buffer size: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2718): pool timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2722): ping timeout: 10000 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2726): connect timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2730): reply timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2734): prepost timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2738): recovery options: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2742): retries: 2 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2746): max packet size: 8192 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2750): retry interval: 100 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] ajp_create_endpoint_cache::jk_ajp_common.c (2562): setting connection pool size to 1 with min 1 and acquire timeout 200 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [info] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3183): mod_jk/1.2.28 initialized [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] wc_get_worker_for_name::jk_worker.c (116): found a worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] wc_get_name_for_type::jk_worker.c (293): Found worker type 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_ext::jk_uri_worker_map.c (512): Checking extension for worker 3: worker4 of type ajp13 (2) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (171): uri map dump after extension stripping: index=0 file='(null)' reject_unsafe=0 reload=60 modified=0 checked=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 0: size=0 nosize=0 capacity=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 1: size=8 nosize=0 capacity=8 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (186): NEXT (1) map #3: uri=/myWebApp/* worker=worker4 context=/myWebApp/* source=JkMount type=Wildchar len=6 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9552:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_switch::jk_uri_worker_map.c (482): Switching uri worker map from index 0 to index 1 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_set_time_fmt::jk_util.c (458): Pre-processed log time stamp format is '[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] ' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_open::jk_uri_worker_map.c (770): rule map size is 8 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_add::jk_uri_worker_map.c (720): wildchar rule '/myWebApp/*=worker4' source 'JkMount' was added [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (171): uri map dump after map open: index=0 file='(null)' reject_unsafe=0 reload=60 modified=0 checked=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 0: size=0 nosize=0 capacity=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 1: size=8 nosize=0 capacity=8 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (186): NEXT (1) map #0: uri=/jsp-examples/* worker=worker1 context=/jsp-examples/* source=JkMount type=Wildchar len=15 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (186): NEXT (1) map #3: uri=/myWebApp/* worker=worker4 context=/myWebApp/* source=JkMount type=Wildchar len=6 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_set_time_fmt::jk_util.c (458): Pre-processed log time stamp format is '[%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y] ' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3123): Setting default connection pool max size to 1 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.list' with value 'worker1,worker2,worker3,worker4' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.worker4.type' with value 'ajp13' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.worker4.host' with value 'localhost' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_read_property::jk_map.c (491): Adding property 'worker.worker4.port' with value '8014' to map. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_resolve_references::jk_map.c (774): Checking for references with prefix worker. with wildcard (recursion 1) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_shm_calculate_size::jk_shm.c (132): shared memory will contain 4 ajp workers of size 256 and 0 lb workers of size 320 with 0 members of size 320+256 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [error] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3166): Initializing shm:/var/log/httpd/mod_jk.shm.9553 errno=13. Load balancing workers will not function properly. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'ServerRoot' -> '/etc/httpd' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.list' -> 'worker1,worker2,worker3,worker4' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker1.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker1.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker1.port' -> '8009' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker2.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker2.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker2.port' -> '8010' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker3.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker3.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker3.port' -> '8112' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker4.type' -> 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker4.host' -> 'localhost' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] jk_map_dump::jk_map.c (589): Dump of map: 'worker.worker4.port' -> '8014' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] build_worker_map::jk_worker.c (242): creating worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] wc_create_worker::jk_worker.c (146): about to create instance worker4 of ajp13 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] wc_create_worker::jk_worker.c (159): about to validate and init worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_validate::jk_ajp_common.c (2512): worker worker4 contact is 'localhost:8014' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2699): setting endpoint options: [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2702): keepalive: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2706): socket timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2710): socket connect timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2714): buffer size: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2718): pool timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2722): ping timeout: 10000 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2726): connect timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2730): reply timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2734): prepost timeout: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2738): recovery options: 0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2742): retries: 2 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2746): max packet size: 8192 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_init::jk_ajp_common.c (2750): retry interval: 100 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] ajp_create_endpoint_cache::jk_ajp_common.c (2562): setting connection pool size to 1 with min 1 and acquire timeout 200 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [info] init_jk::mod_jk.c (3183): mod_jk/1.2.28 initialized [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] wc_get_worker_for_name::jk_worker.c (116): found a worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] wc_get_name_for_type::jk_worker.c (293): Found worker type 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_ext::jk_uri_worker_map.c (512): Checking extension for worker 3: worker4 of type ajp13 (2) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (171): uri map dump after extension stripping: index=0 file='(null)' reject_unsafe=0 reload=60 modified=0 checked=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 0: size=0 nosize=0 capacity=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (176): generation 1: size=8 nosize=0 capacity=8 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_dump::jk_uri_worker_map.c (186): NEXT (1) map #3: uri=/myWebApp/* worker=worker4 context=/myWebApp/* source=JkMount type=Wildchar len=6 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9553:3086317328] [debug] uri_worker_map_switch::jk_uri_worker_map.c (482): Switching uri worker map from index 0 to index 1 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9556:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9557:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9558:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9559:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9560:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9561:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9562:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9563:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9564:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9565:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9567:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9568:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9566:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9569:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:26 2012] [9570:3086317328] [debug] jk_child_init::mod_jk.c (3068): Initialized mod_jk/1.2.28 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] map_uri_to_worker_ext::jk_uri_worker_map.c (1036): Attempting to map URI '/myWebApp/jsp/login.faces' from 8 maps [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] find_match::jk_uri_worker_map.c (850): Attempting to map context URI '/myWebApp/*=worker4' source 'JkMount' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] find_match::jk_uri_worker_map.c (863): Found a wildchar match '/myWebApp/*=worker4' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2459): Into handler jakarta-servlet worker=worker4 r->proxyreq=0 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] wc_get_worker_for_name::jk_worker.c (116): found a worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] wc_maintain::jk_worker.c (339): Maintaining worker worker1 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] wc_maintain::jk_worker.c (339): Maintaining worker worker2 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] wc_maintain::jk_worker.c (339): Maintaining worker worker3 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] wc_maintain::jk_worker.c (339): Maintaining worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] wc_get_name_for_type::jk_worker.c (293): Found worker type 'ajp13' [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] init_ws_service::mod_jk.c (977): Service protocol=HTTP/1.1 method=GET ssl=false host=(null) addr=167.184.214.6 name=www1.myCompany.com.au port=80 auth=(null) user=(null) laddr=10.215.222.78 raddr=167.184.214.6 uri=/myWebApp/jsp/login.faces [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_get_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (2977): acquired connection pool slot=0 after 0 retries [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_marshal_into_msgb::jk_ajp_common.c (605): ajp marshaling done [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2283): processing worker4 with 2 retries [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1501): (worker4) all endpoints are disconnected. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (452): socket TCP_NODELAY set to On [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (576): trying to connect socket 18 to 127.0.0.1:8014 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (594): connect to 127.0.0.1:8014 failed (errno=13) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (922): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8014) (errno=13) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1507): (worker4) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=13) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2447): (worker4) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=1) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2304): retry 1, sleeping for 100 ms before retrying [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1501): (worker4) all endpoints are disconnected. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (452): socket TCP_NODELAY set to On [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (576): trying to connect socket 18 to 127.0.0.1:8014 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (594): connect to 127.0.0.1:8014 failed (errno=13) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (922): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8014) (errno=13) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1507): (worker4) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=13) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2447): (worker4) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=2) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [error] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2466): (worker4) connecting to tomcat failed. [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_reset_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (743): (worker4) resetting endpoint with sd = 4294967295 (socket shutdown) [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [debug] ajp_done::jk_ajp_common.c (2905): recycling connection pool slot=0 for worker worker4 [Wed Jun 13 18:44:54 2012] [9555:3086317328] [info] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2615): Service error=-3 for worker=worker4 The error i get in browser is: Service Temporarily Unavailable Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) Server at www1.myCompany.com.au Port 80 can someone please help and explain what is going on and how it can be resolved?

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• unrecognized selector sent to instance in xcode using objective c and sup as backend

  - by user1765037

  I am a beginner in native development.I made a project using xcode in objective C.It builded successfully.But when I run the project ,an error came like 'unrecognized selector sent to instance'.Why this is happening ?can anyone help me to solve this?I am attaching the error that I am getting with this.. And I am posting the code with this.... ConnectionController.m #import "ConnectionController.h" #import "SUPApplication.h" #import "Flight_DetailsFlightDB.h" #import "CallbackHandler.h" @interface ConnectionController() @property (nonatomic,retain)CallbackHandler *callbackhandler; @end @implementation ConnectionController @synthesize callbackhandler; static ConnectionController *appConnectionController; //Begin Application Setup +(void)beginApplicationSetup { if(!appConnectionController) { appConnectionController = [[[ConnectionController alloc]init]retain]; appConnectionController.callbackhandler = [[CallbackHandler getInstance]retain]; } if([SUPApplication connectionStatus] == SUPConnectionStatus_DISCONNECTED) [appConnectionController setupApplicationConnection]; else NSLog(@"Already Connected"); } -(BOOL)setupApplicationConnection { SUPApplication *app = [SUPApplication getInstance]; [app setApplicationIdentifier:@"HWC"]; [app setApplicationCallback:self.callbackhandler]; NSLog(@"inside setupApp"); SUPConnectionProperties *properties = [app connectionProperties]; NSLog(@"server"); [properties setServerName:@"sapecxxx.xxx.com"]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppser"); [properties setPortNumber:5001]; NSLog(@"inside setupApppot"); [properties setFarmId:@"0"]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppfarm"); [properties setUrlSuffix:@"/tm/?cid=%cid%"]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppurlsuff"); [properties setNetworkProtocol:@"http"]; SUPLoginCredentials *loginCred = [SUPLoginCredentials getInstance]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppmac"); [loginCred setUsername:@"mac"]; [loginCred setPassword:nil]; [properties setLoginCredentials:loginCred]; [properties setActivationCode:@"1234"]; if(![Flight_DetailsFlightDB databaseExists]) { [Flight_DetailsFlightDB createDatabase]; } SUPConnectionProfile *connprofile = [Flight_DetailsFlightDB getSynchronizationProfile]; [connprofile setNetworkProtocol:@"http"]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppPort2"); [connprofile setPortNumber:2480]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppser2"); [connprofile setServerName:@"sapecxxx.xxx.com"]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppdom2"); [connprofile setDomainName:@"Development"]; NSLog(@"inside setupAppuser"); [connprofile setUser:@"supAdmin"]; [connprofile setPassword:@"s3pAdmin"]; [connprofile setAsyncReplay:YES]; [connprofile setClientId:@"0"]; // [Flight_DetailsFlightDB beginOnlineLogin:@"supAdmin" password:@"s3pAdmin"]; [Flight_DetailsFlightDB registerCallbackHandler:self.callbackhandler]; [Flight_DetailsFlightDB setApplication:app]; if([SUPApplication connectionStatus] == SUPRegistrationStatus_REGISTERED) { [app startConnection:0]; } else { [app registerApplication:0]; } } @end ViewController.m #import "Demo_FlightsViewController.h" #import "ConnectionController.h" #import "Flight_DetailsFlightDB.h" #import "SUPObjectList.h" #import "Flight_DetailsSessionPersonalization.h" #import "Flight_DetailsFlight_MBO.h" #import "Flight_DetailsPersonalizationParameters.h" @interface Demo_FlightsViewController () @end @implementation Demo_FlightsViewController - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. } -(IBAction)Connect:(id)sender { @try { [ConnectionController beginApplicationSetup]; } @catch (NSException *exception) { NSLog(@"ConnectionAborted"); } // synchronise } -(IBAction)Synchronise:(id)sender { @try { [Flight_DetailsFlightDB synchronize]; NSLog(@"SYNCHRONISED"); } @catch (NSException *exception) { NSLog(@"Synchronisation Failed"); } } -(IBAction)findall:(id)sender { SUPObjectList *list = [Flight_DetailsSessionPersonalization findAll]; NSLog(@"no of lines got synchronised is %d",list.size); } -(IBAction)confirm:(id)sender { Flight_DetailsPersonalizationParameters *pp = [Flight_DetailsFlightDB getPersonalizationParameters]; MBOLogInfo(@"personalisation parmeter for airline id= %@",pp.Airline_PK); [pp setAirline_PK:@"AA"]; [pp save]; while([Flight_DetailsFlightDB hasPendingOperations]) { [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:1]; } NSLog(@"inside confirm............"); [Flight_DetailsFlightDB beginSynchronize]; Flight_DetailsFlight_MBO *flight = nil; SUPObjectList *cl = nil; cl =[Flight_DetailsFlight_MBO findAll]; if(cl && cl.length > 0) { int i; for(i=0;i<cl.length;i++) { flight = [cl item:i]; if(flight) { NSLog(@"details are %@",flight.CITYFROM); } } } } - (void)viewDidUnload { [super viewDidUnload]; // Release any retained subviews of the main view. } - (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation { return (interfaceOrientation != UIInterfaceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown); } @end SUPConnectionProfile.h #import "sybase_sup.h" #define FROM_IMPORT_THREAD TRUE #define FROM_APP_THREAD FALSE #define SUP_UL_MAX_CACHE_SIZE 10485760 @class SUPBooleanUtil; @class SUPNumberUtil; @class SUPStringList; @class SUPStringUtil; @class SUPPersistenceException; @class SUPLoginCertificate; @class SUPLoginCredentials; @class SUPConnectionProfile; /*! @class SUPConnectionProfile @abstract This class contains fields and methods needed to connect and authenticate to an SUP server. @discussion */ @interface SUPConnectionProfile : NSObject { SUPConnectionProfile* _syncProfile; SUPBoolean _threadLocal; SUPString _wrapperData; NSMutableDictionary* _delegate; SUPLoginCertificate* _certificate; SUPLoginCredentials* _credentials; int32_t _maxDbConnections; BOOL initTraceCalled; } /*! @method @abstract Return a new instance of SUPConnectionProfile. @discussion @result The SUPconnectionprofile object. */ + (SUPConnectionProfile*)getInstance; /*! @method @abstract Return a new instance of SUPConnectionProfile. @discussion This method is deprecated. use getInstance instead. @result The SUPconnectionprofile object. */ + (SUPConnectionProfile*)newInstance DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTE NS_RETURNS_NON_RETAINED; - (SUPConnectionProfile*)init; /*! @property @abstract The sync profile. @discussion */ @property(readwrite, retain, nonatomic) SUPConnectionProfile* syncProfile; /*! @property @abstract The maximum number of active DB connections allowed @discussion Default value is 4, but can be changed by application developer. */ @property(readwrite, assign, nonatomic) int32_t maxDbConnections; /*! @method @abstract The SUPConnectionProfile manages an internal dictionary of key value pairs. This method returns the SUPString value for a given string. @discussion @param name The string. */ - (SUPString)getString:(SUPString)name; /*! @method @abstract The SUPConnectionProfile manages an internal dictionary of key value pairs. This method returns the SUPString value for a given string. If the value is not found, returns 'defaultValue'. @discussion @param name The string. @param defaultValue The default Value. */ - (SUPString)getStringWithDefault:(SUPString)name:(SUPString)defaultValue; /*! @method @abstract The SUPConnectionProfile manages an internal dictionary of key value pairs. This method returns the SUPBoolean value for a given string. @discussion @param name The string. */ - (SUPBoolean)getBoolean:(SUPString)name; /*! @method @abstract The SUPConnectionProfile manages an internal dictionary of key value pairs. This method returns the SUPBoolean value for a given string. If the value is not found, returns 'defaultValue'. @discussion @param name The string. @param defaultValue The default Value. */ - (SUPBoolean)getBooleanWithDefault:(SUPString)name:(SUPBoolean)defaultValue; /*! @method @abstract The SUPConnectionProfile manages an internal dictionary of key value pairs. This method returns the SUPInt value for a given string. @discussion @param name The string. */ - (SUPInt)getInt:(SUPString)name; /*! @method @abstract The SUPConnectionProfile manages an internal dictionary of key value pairs. This method returns the SUPInt value for a given string. If the value is not found, returns 'defaultValue'. @discussion @param name The string. @param defaultValue The default Value. */ - (SUPInt)getIntWithDefault:(SUPString)name:(SUPInt)defaultValue; /*! @method getUPA @abstract retrieve upa from profile @discussion if it is in profile's dictionary, it returns value for key "upa"; if it is not found in profile, it composes the upa value from base64 encoding of username:password; and also inserts it into profile's dictionary. @param none @result return string value of upa. */ - (SUPString)getUPA; /*! @method @abstract Sets the SUPString 'value' for the given 'name'. @discussion @param name The name. @param value The value. */ - (void)setString:(SUPString)name:(SUPString)value; /*! @method @abstract Sets the SUPBoolean 'value' for the given 'name'. @discussion @param name The name. @param value The value. */ - (void)setBoolean:(SUPString)name:(SUPBoolean)value; /*! @method @abstract Sets the SUPInt 'value' for the given 'name'. @discussion @param name The name. @param value The value. */ - (void)setInt:(SUPString)name:(SUPInt)value; /*! @method @abstract Sets the username. @discussion @param value The value. */ - (void)setUser:(SUPString)value; /*! @method @abstract Sets the password. @discussion @param value The value. */ - (void)setPassword:(SUPString)value; /*! @method @abstract Sets the ClientId. @discussion @param value The value. */ - (void)setClientId:(SUPString)value; /*! @method @abstract Returns the databasename. @discussion @param value The value. */ - (SUPString)databaseName; /*! @method @abstract Sets the databasename. @discussion @param value The value. */ - (void)setDatabaseName:(SUPString)value; @property(readwrite,copy, nonatomic) SUPString databaseName; /*! @method @abstract Gets the encryption key. @discussion @result The encryption key. */ - (SUPString)getEncryptionKey; /*! @method @abstract Sets the encryption key. @discussion @param value The value. */ - (void)setEncryptionKey:(SUPString)value; @property(readwrite,copy, nonatomic) SUPString encryptionKey; /*! @property @abstract The authentication credentials (username/password or certificate) for this profile. @discussion */ @property(retain,readwrite,nonatomic) SUPLoginCredentials *credentials; /*! @property @abstract The authentication certificate. @discussion If this is not null, certificate will be used for authentication. If this is null, credentials property (username/password) will be used. */ @property(readwrite,retain,nonatomic) SUPLoginCertificate *certificate; @property(readwrite, assign, nonatomic) BOOL initTraceCalled; /*! @method @abstract Gets the UltraLite collation creation parameter @discussion @result conllation string */ - (SUPString)getCollation; /*! @method @abstract Sets the UltraLite collation creation parameter @discussion @param value The value. */ - (void)setCollation:(SUPString)value; @property(readwrite,copy, nonatomic) SUPString collation; /*! @method @abstract Gets the maximum cache size in bytes; the default value for iOS is 10485760 (10 MB). @discussion @result max cache size */ - (int)getCacheSize; /*! @method @abstract Sets the maximum cache size in bytes. @discussion For Ultralite, passes the cache_max_size property into the connection parameters for DB connections; For SQLite, executes the "PRAGMA cache_size" statement when a connection is opened. @param cacheSize value */ - (void)setCacheSize:(int)cacheSize; @property(readwrite,assign, nonatomic) int cacheSize; /*! @method @abstract Returns the user. @discussion @result The username. */ - (SUPString)getUser; /*! @method @abstract Returns the password hash value. @discussion @result The password hash value. */ - (NSUInteger)getPasswordHash; /*! @method @abstract Returns the password. @discussion @result The password hash value. */ - (NSString*)getPassword; /*! @method @abstract Adds a new key value pair. @discussion @param key The key. @param value The value. */ - (void)add:(SUPString)key:(SUPString)value; /*! @method @abstract Removes the key. @discussion @param key The key to remove. */ - (void)remove:(SUPString)key; - (void)clear; /*! @method @abstract Returns a boolean indicating if the key is present. @discussion @param key The key. @result The result indicating if the key is present. */ - (SUPBoolean)containsKey:(SUPString)key; /*! @method @abstract Returns the item for the given key. @discussion @param key The key. @result The item. */ - (SUPString)item:(SUPString)key; /*! @method @abstract Returns the list of keys. @discussion @result The keylist. */ - (SUPStringList*)keys; /*! @method @abstract Returns the list of values. @discussion @result The value list. */ - (SUPStringList*)values; /*! @method @abstract Returns the internal map of key value pairs. @discussion @result The NSMutableDictionary with key value pairs. */ - (NSMutableDictionary*)internalMap; /*! @method @abstract Returns the domain name. @result The domain name. @discussion */ - (SUPString)getDomainName; /*! @method @abstract Sets the domain name. @param value The domain name. @discussion */ - (void)setDomainName:(SUPString)value; /*! @method @abstract Get async operation replay property. Default is true. @result YES : if ansync operation replay is enabled; NO: if async operation is disabled. @discussion */ - (BOOL) getAsyncReplay; /*! @method @abstract Set async operation replay property. Default is true. @result value: enable/disable async replay operation. @discussion */ - (void) setAsyncReplay:(BOOL) value; /*! @method @abstract enable or disable the trace in client object API. @param enable - YES: enable the trace; NO: disable the trace. @discussion */ - (void)enableTrace:(BOOL)enable; /*! @method @abstract enable or disable the trace with payload info in client object API. @param enable - YES: enable the trace; NO: disable the trace. @param withPayload = YES: show payload information; NO: not show payload information. @discussion */ - (void)enableTrace:(BOOL)enable withPayload:(BOOL)withPayload; /*! @method @abstract initialize trace levels from server configuration. @discussion */ - (void)initTrace; - (void)dealloc; /* ultralite/mobilink required parameters */ - (SUPString)getNetworkProtocol; - (void)setNetworkProtocol:(SUPString)protocol; - (SUPString)getNetworkStreamParams; - (void)setNetworkStreamParams:(SUPString)stream; - (SUPString)getServerName; - (void)setServerName:(SUPString)name; - (int)getPortNumber; - (void)setPortNumber:(int)port; - (int)getPageSize; - (void)setPageSize:(int)size; @end @interface SUPConnectionProfile(internal) - (void)applyPropertiesFromApplication; @end We are using SUP 2.1.3 library files.Please go through the code and help me...

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• ASP.NET MVC2 custom rolemanager (webconfig problem)

  - by ile

  Structure of the web: SAMembershipProvider.cs namespace User.Membership { public class SAMembershipProvider : MembershipProvider { #region - Properties - private int NewPasswordLength { get; set; } private string ConnectionString { get; set; } //private MachineKeySection MachineKey { get; set; } //Used when determining encryption key values. public bool enablePasswordReset { get; set; } public bool enablePasswordRetrieval { get; set; } public bool requiresQuestionAndAnswer { get; set; } public bool requiresUniqueEmail { get; set; } public int maxInvalidPasswordAttempts { get; set; } public int passwordAttemptWindow { get; set; } public MembershipPasswordFormat passwordFormat { get; set; } public int minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { get; set; } public int minRequiredPasswordLength { get; set; } public string passwordStrengthRegularExpression { get; set; } public override string ApplicationName { get; set; } // Indicates whether passwords can be retrieved using the provider's GetPassword method. // This property is read-only. public override bool EnablePasswordRetrieval { get { return enablePasswordRetrieval; } } // Indicates whether passwords can be reset using the provider's ResetPassword method. // This property is read-only. public override bool EnablePasswordReset { get { return enablePasswordReset; } } // Indicates whether a password answer must be supplied when calling the provider's GetPassword and ResetPassword methods. // This property is read-only. public override bool RequiresQuestionAndAnswer { get { return requiresQuestionAndAnswer; } } public override int MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts { get { return maxInvalidPasswordAttempts; } } // For a description, see MaxInvalidPasswordAttempts. // This property is read-only. public override int PasswordAttemptWindow { get { return passwordAttemptWindow; } } // Indicates whether each registered user must have a unique e-mail address. // This property is read-only. public override bool RequiresUniqueEmail { get { return requiresUniqueEmail; } } public override MembershipPasswordFormat PasswordFormat { get { return passwordFormat; } } // The minimum number of characters required in a password. // This property is read-only. public override int MinRequiredPasswordLength { get { return minRequiredPasswordLength; } } // The minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters required in a password. // This property is read-only. public override int MinRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters { get { return minRequiredNonAlphanumericCharacters; } } // A regular expression specifying a pattern to which passwords must conform. // This property is read-only. public override string PasswordStrengthRegularExpression { get { return passwordStrengthRegularExpression; } } #endregion #region - Methods - public override void Initialize(string name, NameValueCollection config) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool ChangePassword(string username, string oldPassword, string newPassword) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool ChangePasswordQuestionAndAnswer(string username, string password, string newPasswordQuestion, string newPasswordAnswer) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a user name, password, e-mail address, and other information and adds a new user // to the membership data source. CreateUser returns a MembershipUser object representing the newly // created user. It also accepts an out parameter (in Visual Basic, ByRef) that returns a // MembershipCreateStatus value indicating whether the user was successfully created or, if the user // was not created, the reason why. If the user was not created, CreateUser returns null. // Before creating a new user, CreateUser calls the provider's virtual OnValidatingPassword method to // validate the supplied password. It then creates the user or cancels the action based on the outcome of the call. public override MembershipUser CreateUser(string username, string password, string email, string passwordQuestion, string passwordAnswer, bool isApproved, object providerUserKey, out MembershipCreateStatus status) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override bool DeleteUser(string username, bool deleteAllRelatedData) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } public override MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByEmail(string emailToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Returns a MembershipUserCollection containing MembershipUser objects representing users whose user names // match the usernameToMatch input parameter. Wildcard syntax is data source-dependent. MembershipUser objects // in the MembershipUserCollection are sorted by user name. If FindUsersByName finds no matching users, it // returns an empty MembershipUserCollection. // For an explanation of the pageIndex, pageSize, and totalRecords parameters, see the GetAllUsers method. public override MembershipUserCollection FindUsersByName(string usernameToMatch, int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Returns a MembershipUserCollection containing MembershipUser objects representing all registered users. If // there are no registered users, GetAllUsers returns an empty MembershipUserCollection // The results returned by GetAllUsers are constrained by the pageIndex and pageSize input parameters. pageSize // specifies the maximum number of MembershipUser objects to return. pageIndex identifies which page of results // to return. Page indexes are 0-based. // // GetAllUsers also takes an out parameter (in Visual Basic, ByRef) named totalRecords that, on return, holds // a count of all registered users. public override MembershipUserCollection GetAllUsers(int pageIndex, int pageSize, out int totalRecords) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Returns a count of users that are currently online-that is, whose LastActivityDate is greater than the current // date and time minus the value of the membership service's UserIsOnlineTimeWindow property, which can be read // from Membership.UserIsOnlineTimeWindow. UserIsOnlineTimeWindow specifies a time in minutes and is set using // the <membership> element's userIsOnlineTimeWindow attribute. public override int GetNumberOfUsersOnline() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a user name and a password answer and returns that user's password. If the user name is not // valid, GetPassword throws a ProviderException. // Before retrieving a password, GetPassword verifies that EnablePasswordRetrieval is true. If // EnablePasswordRetrieval is false, GetPassword throws a NotSupportedException. If EnablePasswordRetrieval is // true but the password format is hashed, GetPassword throws a ProviderException since hashed passwords cannot, // by definition, be retrieved. A membership provider should also throw a ProviderException from Initialize if // EnablePasswordRetrieval is true but the password format is hashed. // // GetPassword also checks the value of the RequiresQuestionAndAnswer property before retrieving a password. If // RequiresQuestionAndAnswer is true, GetPassword compares the supplied password answer to the stored password // answer and throws a MembershipPasswordException if the two don't match. GetPassword also throws a // MembershipPasswordException if the user whose password is being retrieved is currently locked out. public override string GetPassword(string username, string answer) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a user name or user ID (the method is overloaded) and a Boolean value indicating whether // to update the user's LastActivityDate to show that the user is currently online. GetUser returns a MembershipUser // object representing the specified user. If the user name or user ID is invalid (that is, if it doesn't represent // a registered user) GetUser returns null (Nothing in Visual Basic). public override MembershipUser GetUser(object providerUserKey, bool userIsOnline) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a user name or user ID (the method is overloaded) and a Boolean value indicating whether to // update the user's LastActivityDate to show that the user is currently online. GetUser returns a MembershipUser // object representing the specified user. If the user name or user ID is invalid (that is, if it doesn't represent // a registered user) GetUser returns null (Nothing in Visual Basic). public override MembershipUser GetUser(string username, bool userIsOnline) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, an e-mail address and returns the first registered user name whose e-mail address matches the // one supplied. // If it doesn't find a user with a matching e-mail address, GetUserNameByEmail returns an empty string. public override string GetUserNameByEmail(string email) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Virtual method called when a password is created. The default implementation in MembershipProvider fires a // ValidatingPassword event, so be sure to call the base class's OnValidatingPassword method if you override // this method. The ValidatingPassword event allows applications to apply additional tests to passwords by // registering event handlers. // A custom provider's CreateUser, ChangePassword, and ResetPassword methods (in short, all methods that record // new passwords) should call this method. protected override void OnValidatingPassword(ValidatePasswordEventArgs e) { base.OnValidatingPassword(e); } // Takes, as input, a user name and a password answer and replaces the user's current password with a new, random // password. ResetPassword then returns the new password. A convenient mechanism for generating a random password // is the Membership.GeneratePassword method. // If the user name is not valid, ResetPassword throws a ProviderException. ResetPassword also checks the value of // the RequiresQuestionAndAnswer property before resetting a password. If RequiresQuestionAndAnswer is true, // ResetPassword compares the supplied password answer to the stored password answer and throws a // MembershipPasswordException if the two don't match. // // Before resetting a password, ResetPassword verifies that EnablePasswordReset is true. If EnablePasswordReset is // false, ResetPassword throws a NotSupportedException. If the user whose password is being changed is currently // locked out, ResetPassword throws a MembershipPasswordException. // // Before resetting a password, ResetPassword calls the provider's virtual OnValidatingPassword method to validate // the new password. It then resets the password or cancels the action based on the outcome of the call. If the new // password is invalid, ResetPassword throws a ProviderException. // // Following a successful password reset, ResetPassword updates the user's LastPasswordChangedDate. public override string ResetPassword(string username, string answer) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Unlocks (that is, restores login privileges for) the specified user. UnlockUser returns true if the user is // successfully unlocked. Otherwise, it returns false. If the user is already unlocked, UnlockUser simply returns true. public override bool UnlockUser(string userName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a MembershipUser object representing a registered user and updates the information stored for // that user in the membership data source. If any of the input submitted in the MembershipUser object is not valid, // UpdateUser throws a ProviderException. // Note that UpdateUser is not obligated to allow all the data that can be encapsulated in a MembershipUser object to // be updated in the data source. public override void UpdateUser(MembershipUser user) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a user name and a password and verifies that they are valid-that is, that the membership data // source contains a matching user name and password. ValidateUser returns true if the user name and password are // valid, if the user is approved (that is, if MembershipUser.IsApproved is true), and if the user isn't currently // locked out. Otherwise, it returns false. // Following a successful validation, ValidateUser updates the user's LastLoginDate and fires an // AuditMembershipAuthenticationSuccess Web event. Following a failed validation, it fires an // // AuditMembershipAuthenticationFailure Web event. public override bool ValidateUser(string username, string password) { throw new NotImplementedException(); //if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(password.Trim())) return false; //string hash = EncryptPassword(password); //User user = _repository.GetByUserName(username); //if (user == null) return false; //if (user.Password == hash) //{ // User = user; // return true; //} //return false; } #endregion /// <summary> /// Procuses an MD5 hash string of the password /// </summary> /// <param name="password">password to hash</param> /// <returns>MD5 Hash string</returns> protected string EncryptPassword(string password) { //we use codepage 1252 because that is what sql server uses byte[] pwdBytes = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(password); byte[] hashBytes = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create().ComputeHash(pwdBytes); return Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetString(hashBytes); } } // End Class } SARoleProvider.cs namespace User.Membership { public class SARoleProvider : RoleProvider { #region - Properties - // The name of the application using the role provider. ApplicationName is used to scope // role data so that applications can choose whether to share role data with other applications. // This property can be read and written. public override string ApplicationName { get; set; } #endregion #region - Methods - public override void Initialize(string name, NameValueCollection config) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a list of user names and a list of role names and adds the specified users to // the specified roles. // AddUsersToRoles throws a ProviderException if any of the user names or role names do not exist. // If any user name or role name is null (Nothing in Visual Basic), AddUsersToRoles throws an // ArgumentNullException. If any user name or role name is an empty string, AddUsersToRoles throws // an ArgumentException. public override void AddUsersToRoles(string[] usernames, string[] roleNames) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a role name and creates the specified role. // CreateRole throws a ProviderException if the role already exists, the role name contains a comma, // or the role name exceeds the maximum length allowed by the data source. public override void CreateRole(string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a role name and a Boolean value that indicates whether to throw an exception if there // are users currently associated with the role, and then deletes the specified role. // If the throwOnPopulatedRole input parameter is true and the specified role has one or more members, // DeleteRole throws a ProviderException and does not delete the role. If throwOnPopulatedRole is false, // DeleteRole deletes the role whether it is empty or not. // // When DeleteRole deletes a role and there are users assigned to that role, it also removes users from the role. public override bool DeleteRole(string roleName, bool throwOnPopulatedRole) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a search pattern and a role name and returns a list of users belonging to the specified role // whose user names match the pattern. Wildcard syntax is data-source-dependent and may vary from provider to // provider. User names are returned in alphabetical order. // If the search finds no matches, FindUsersInRole returns an empty string array (a string array with no elements). // If the role does not exist, FindUsersInRole throws a ProviderException. public override string[] FindUsersInRole(string roleName, string usernameToMatch) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Returns the names of all existing roles. If no roles exist, GetAllRoles returns an empty string array (a string // array with no elements). public override string[] GetAllRoles() { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a user name and returns the names of the roles to which the user belongs. // If the user is not assigned to any roles, GetRolesForUser returns an empty string array // (a string array with no elements). If the user name does not exist, GetRolesForUser throws a // ProviderException. public override string[] GetRolesForUser(string username) { throw new NotImplementedException(); //User user = _repository.GetByUserName(username); //string[] roles = new string[user.Role.Rights.Count + 1]; //roles[0] = user.Role.Description; //int idx = 0; //foreach (Right right in user.Role.Rights) // roles[++idx] = right.Description; //return roles; } public override string[] GetUsersInRole(string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a role name and returns the names of all users assigned to that role. // If no users are associated with the specified role, GetUserInRole returns an empty string array (a string array with // no elements). If the role does not exist, GetUsersInRole throws a ProviderException. public override bool IsUserInRole(string username, string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); //User user = _repository.GetByUserName(username); //if (user != null) // return user.IsInRole(roleName); //else // return false; } // Takes, as input, a list of user names and a list of role names and removes the specified users from the specified roles. // RemoveUsersFromRoles throws a ProviderException if any of the users or roles do not exist, or if any user specified // in the call does not belong to the role from which he or she is being removed. public override void RemoveUsersFromRoles(string[] usernames, string[] roleNames) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } // Takes, as input, a role name and determines whether the role exists. public override bool RoleExists(string roleName) { throw new NotImplementedException(); } #endregion } // End Class } From Web.config: <membership defaultProvider="SAMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="SAMembershipProvider" type="User.Membership.SAMembershipProvider, User" /> </providers> </membership> <roleManager defaultProvider="SARoleProvider" enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="SARoleProvider" type="User.Membership.SARoleProvider" /> </providers> </roleManager> When running project, I get following error: Server Error in '/' Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. Parser Error Message: The method or operation is not implemented. Source Error: Line 71: <providers> Line 72: <clear/> Line 73: <add name="SARoleProvider" type="User.Membership.SARoleProvider" /> Line 74: </providers> Line 75: </roleManager> I tried: <add name="SARoleProvider" type="User.Membership.SARoleProvider, User" /> and <add name="SARoleProvider" type="User.Membership.SARoleProvider, SARoleProvider" /> and <add name="SARoleProvider" type="User.Membership.SARoleProvider, User.Membership" /> but none works Any idea what's wrong here? Thanks, Ile

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• content show problem

  - by nonab

  I still fight with some jquery scripts:) With my first problem Jens Fahnenbruck helped me here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3021476/problem-with-hide-show-in-jquery thanks:) Now i added another fancy thing - jquery tabs Made a few modifications and it works like this: When you click on tab and it loads different main image for every tab. The problem is that i used $(document).ready(function() to handle those image changes. When i click any of 2x2 box images (on any tab) it will permanently change the image on the right and when i click on tabs it won't work like it did at the beginning. online example: http://rarelips.ayz.pl/testy/2/ code: <style type="text/css"> body { font: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif normal 10px; margin: 0; padding: 0; } * {margin: 0; padding: 0;} img {border: none;} .container { height: 500px; width: 1000px; margin: -180px 0 0 -450px; top: 50%; left: 50%; position: absolute; } ul.thumb { float: left; list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 10px; width: 360px; } ul.thumb li { margin: 0; padding: 5px; float: left; position: relative; width: 165px; height: 165px; } ul.thumb li img { width: 150px; height: 150px; border: 1px solid #ddd; padding: 10px; background: #f0f0f0; position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; } ul.thumb li img.hover { background:url(thumb_bg.png) no-repeat center center; border: none; } #main_view { float: left; padding: 9px 0; margin-left: -10px; } #main_view2 { float: left; padding: 9px 0; margin-left: -10px; } #main_view3 { float: left; padding: 9px 0; margin-left: -10px; } #main_view4 { float: left; padding: 9px 0; margin-left: -10px; } #wiecej { float: right; padding: 9px 0; margin-right: 20px; } .demo-show { width: 350px; margin: 1em .5em; } .demo-show h3 { margin: 0; padding: .25em; background: #bfcd93; border-top: 1px solid #386785; border-bottom: 1px solid #386785; } .demo-show div { padding: .5em .25em; } /* styl do tabek */ ul.tabs { margin: 0; padding: 0; float: left; list-style: none; height: 32px; /*--Set height of tabs--*/ border-bottom: 1px solid #999; border-left: 1px solid #999; width: 100%; } ul.tabs li { float: left; margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 31px; /*--Subtract 1px from the height of the unordered list--*/ line-height: 31px; /*--Vertically aligns the text within the tab--*/ border: 1px solid #999; border-left: none; margin-bottom: -1px; /*--Pull the list item down 1px--*/ overflow: hidden; position: relative; background: #e0e0e0; } ul.tabs li a { text-decoration: none; color: #000; display: block; font-size: 1.2em; padding: 0 20px; border: 1px solid #fff; /*--Gives the bevel look with a 1px white border inside the list item--*/ outline: none; } ul.tabs li a:hover { background: #ccc; } html ul.tabs li.active, html ul.tabs li.active a:hover { /*--Makes sure that the active tab does not listen to the hover properties--*/ background: #fff; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; /*--Makes the active tab look like it's connected with its content--*/ } .tab_container { border: 1px solid #999; border-top: none; overflow: hidden; clear: both; float: left; width: 100%; background: #fff; } .tab_content { padding: 20px; font-size: 1.2em; } </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="index_pliki/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ //Larger thumbnail preview $("ul.thumb li").hover(function() { $(this).css({'z-index' : '10'}); $(this).find('img').addClass("hover").stop() .animate({ marginTop: '-110px', marginLeft: '-110px', top: '50%', left: '50%', width: '200px', height: '200px', padding: '5px' }, 200); } , function() { $(this).css({'z-index' : '0'}); $(this).find('img').removeClass("hover").stop() .animate({ marginTop: '0', marginLeft: '0', top: '0', left: '0', width: '150px', height: '150px', padding: '10px' }, 400); }); //Swap Image on Click $("ul.thumb li a").click(function() { var mainImage = $(this).attr("href"); //Find Image Name $("#main_view img").attr({ src: mainImage }); $("#main_view2 img").attr({ src: mainImage }); $("#main_view3 img").attr({ src: mainImage }); $("#main_view4 img").attr({ src: mainImage }); return false; }); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#main_view img").attr({ src: './index_pliki/max1.jpg' }); $("#slickbox div[data-id=" + '01' + "].slickbox").show('slow'); $('a.slick-toggle').click(function() { var dataID = $(this).attr("data-id"); $('#slickbox div.slickbox').hide(); $("#slickbox div[data-id=" + dataID + "].slickbox").show('slow'); return false; }); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#main_view2 img").attr({ src: './index_pliki/max2.jpg' }); $("#slickbox2 div[data-id=" + '11' + "].slickbox2").show('slow'); $('a.slick-toggle').click(function() { var dataID = $(this).attr("data-id"); $('#slickbox2 div.slickbox2').hide(); $("#slickbox2 div[data-id=" + dataID + "].slickbox2").show('slow'); return false; }); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#main_view3 img").attr({ src: './index_pliki/max3.jpg' }); $("#slickbox3 div[data-id=" + '21' + "].slickbox3").show('slow'); $('a.slick-toggle').click(function() { var dataID = $(this).attr("data-id"); $('#slickbox3 div.slickbox3').hide(); $("#slickbox3 div[data-id=" + dataID + "].slickbox3").show('slow'); return false; }); }); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $("#main_view4 img").attr({ src: './index_pliki/max4.jpg' }); $("#slickbox4 div[data-id=" + '31' + "].slickbox4").show('slow'); $('a.slick-toggle').click(function() { var dataID = $(this).attr("data-id"); $('#slickbox4 div.slickbox4').hide(); $("#slickbox4 div[data-id=" + dataID + "].slickbox4").show('slow'); return false; }); }); </script> <script type ="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { //When page loads... $(".tab_content").hide(); //Hide all content $("ul.tabs li:first").addClass("active").show(); //Activate first tab $(".tab_content:first").show(); //Show first tab content //On Click Event $("ul.tabs li").click(function() { $("ul.tabs li").removeClass("active"); //Remove any "active" class $(this).addClass("active"); //Add "active" class to selected tab $(".tab_content").hide(); //Hide all tab content var activeTab = $(this).find("a").attr("href"); //Find the href attribute value to identify the active tab + content $(activeTab).fadeIn(); //Fade in the active ID content return false; }); }); </script> </head> <body> <div class="container"> <ul class="tabs"> <li><a href="#tab1">1</a></li> <li><a href="#tab2">2</a></li> <li><a href="#tab3">3</a></li> <li><a href="#tab4">4</a></li> </ul> <div class="tab_container"> <div id="tab1" class="tab_content"> <!--Content--> <ul class="thumb"> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max1.jpg" data-id="01"><img src="./index_pliki/min1.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max2.jpg" data-id="02"><img src="./index_pliki/min2.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max3.jpg" data-id="03"><img src="./index_pliki/min3.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max4.jpg" data-id="04"><img src="./index_pliki/min4.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> </ul> <div id="main_view"> <a href="index.htm"><img src="index_pliki/max1.jpg" alt=""/></a> <small style="float: right; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </small> </div> <div id="wiecej"> <div id="slickbox"> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox" data-id="01" style="display: none;"> 1.1 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox" data-id="02" style="display: none;"> 1.2 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox" data-id="03" style="display: none;"> 1.3 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox" data-id="04" style="display: none;"> 1.4 </div> <!-- <a href="#" id="slick-show"><img src="http://www.amptech.pl/images/more.jpg" alt="Zobacz wiecej" /></a> <a href="#" id="slick-hide"><img src="http://www.amptech.pl/images/online.jpg" alt="Zobacz wiecej" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp; --> </div> </div> </div> <!-- tutaj wklejalem reszte --> <div id="tab2" class="tab_content"> <!--Content--> <ul class="thumb"> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max4.jpg" data-id="11"><img src="./index_pliki/min4.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max3.jpg" data-id="12"><img src="./index_pliki/min3.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max2.jpg" data-id="13"><img src="./index_pliki/min2.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max1.jpg" data-id="14"><img src="./index_pliki/min1.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> </ul> <div id="main_view2"> <a href="index.htm"><img src="index_pliki/max1.jpg" alt=""/></a> <small style="float: right; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </small> </div> <div id="wiecej"> <div id="slickbox2"> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox2" data-id="11" style="display: none;"> 2.1 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox2" data-id="12" style="display: none;"> 2.2 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox2" data-id="13" style="display: none;"> 2.3 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox2" data-id="14" style="display: none;"> 2.4 </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="tab3" class="tab_content"> <ul class="thumb"> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max4.jpg" data-id="21"><img src="./index_pliki/min4.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max3.jpg" data-id="22"><img src="./index_pliki/min3.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max2.jpg" data-id="23"><img src="./index_pliki/min2.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max1.jpg" data-id="24"><img src="./index_pliki/min1.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> </ul> <div id="main_view3"> <a href="index.htm"><img src="index_pliki/max1.jpg" alt=""/></a> <small style="float: right; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </small> </div> <div id="wiecej"> <div id="slickbox3"> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox3" data-id="21" style="display: none;"> 3.1 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox3" data-id="22" style="display: none;"> 3.2 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox3" data-id="23" style="display: none;"> 3.3 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox3" data-id="24" style="display: none;"> 3.4 </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="tab4" class="tab_content"> <ul class="thumb"> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max4.jpg" data-id="31"><img src="./index_pliki/min4.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max3.jpg" data-id="32"><img src="./index_pliki/min3.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max2.jpg" data-id="33"><img src="./index_pliki/min2.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> <li><a class="slick-toggle" href="./index_pliki/max1.jpg" data-id="34"><img src="./index_pliki/min1.jpg" alt="" /></a></li> </ul> <div id="main_view4"> <a href="index.htm"><img src="index_pliki/max1.jpg" alt=""/></a> <small style="float: right; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </small> </div> <div id="wiecej"> <div id="slickbox4"> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox4" data-id="31" style="display: none;"> 4.1 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox4" data-id="32" style="display: none;"> 4.2 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox4" data-id="33" style="display: none;"> 4.3 </div> <div id="someOtherID" class="slickbox4" data-id="34" style="display: none;"> 4.4 </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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• What's New in ASP.NET 4

  - by Navaneeth

  The .NET Framework version 4 includes enhancements for ASP.NET 4 in targeted areas. Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express also include enhancements and new features for improved Web development. This document provides an overview of many of the new features that are included in the upcoming release. This topic contains the following sections: ASP.NET Core Services ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Data ASP.NET Chart Control Visual Web Developer Enhancements Web Application Deployment with Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements to ASP.NET Multi-Targeting ASP.NET Core Services ASP.NET 4 introduces many features that improve core ASP.NET services such as output caching and session state storage. Extensible Output Caching Since the time that ASP.NET 1.0 was released, output caching has enabled developers to store the generated output of pages, controls, and HTTP responses in memory. On subsequent Web requests, ASP.NET can serve content more quickly by retrieving the generated output from memory instead of regenerating the output from scratch. However, this approach has a limitation — generated content always has to be stored in memory. On servers that experience heavy traffic, the memory requirements for output caching can compete with memory requirements for other parts of a Web application. ASP.NET 4 adds extensibility to output caching that enables you to configure one or more custom output-cache providers. Output-cache providers can use any storage mechanism to persist HTML content. These storage options can include local or remote disks, cloud storage, and distributed cache engines. Output-cache provider extensibility in ASP.NET 4 lets you design more aggressive and more intelligent output-caching strategies for Web sites. For example, you can create an output-cache provider that caches the "Top 10" pages of a site in memory, while caching pages that get lower traffic on disk. Alternatively, you can cache every vary-by combination for a rendered page, but use a distributed cache so that the memory consumption is offloaded from front-end Web servers. You create a custom output-cache provider as a class that derives from the OutputCacheProvider type. You can then configure the provider in the Web.config file by using the new providers subsection of the outputCache element For more information and for examples that show how to configure the output cache, see outputCache Element for caching (ASP.NET Settings Schema). For more information about the classes that support caching, see the documentation for the OutputCache and OutputCacheProvider classes. By default, in ASP.NET 4, all HTTP responses, rendered pages, and controls use the in-memory output cache. The defaultProvider attribute for ASP.NET is AspNetInternalProvider. You can change the default output-cache provider used for a Web application by specifying a different provider name for defaultProvider attribute. In addition, you can select different output-cache providers for individual control and for individual requests and programmatically specify which provider to use. For more information, see the HttpApplication.GetOutputCacheProviderName(HttpContext) method. The easiest way to choose a different output-cache provider for different Web user controls is to do so declaratively by using the new providerName attribute in a page or control directive, as shown in the following example: <%@ OutputCache Duration="60" VaryByParam="None" providerName="DiskCache" %> Preloading Web Applications Some Web applications must load large amounts of data or must perform expensive initialization processing before serving the first request. In earlier versions of ASP.NET, for these situations you had to devise custom approaches to "wake up" an ASP.NET application and then run initialization code during the Application_Load method in the Global.asax file. To address this scenario, a new application preload manager (autostart feature) is available when ASP.NET 4 runs on IIS 7.5 on Windows Server 2008 R2. The preload feature provides a controlled approach for starting up an application pool, initializing an ASP.NET application, and then accepting HTTP requests. It lets you perform expensive application initialization prior to processing the first HTTP request. For example, you can use the application preload manager to initialize an application and then signal a load-balancer that the application was initialized and ready to accept HTTP traffic. To use the application preload manager, an IIS administrator sets an application pool in IIS 7.5 to be automatically started by using the following configuration in the applicationHost.config file: <applicationPools> <add name="MyApplicationPool" startMode="AlwaysRunning" /> </applicationPools> Because a single application pool can contain multiple applications, you specify individual applications to be automatically started by using the following configuration in the applicationHost.config file: <sites> <site name="MySite" id="1"> <application path="/" serviceAutoStartEnabled="true" serviceAutoStartProvider="PrewarmMyCache" > <!-- Additional content --> </application> </site> </sites> <!-- Additional content --> <serviceAutoStartProviders> <add name="PrewarmMyCache" type="MyNamespace.CustomInitialization, MyLibrary" /> </serviceAutoStartProviders> When an IIS 7.5 server is cold-started or when an individual application pool is recycled, IIS 7.5 uses the information in the applicationHost.config file to determine which Web applications have to be automatically started. For each application that is marked for preload, IIS7.5 sends a request to ASP.NET 4 to start the application in a state during which the application temporarily does not accept HTTP requests. When it is in this state, ASP.NET instantiates the type defined by the serviceAutoStartProvider attribute (as shown in the previous example) and calls into its public entry point. You create a managed preload type that has the required entry point by implementing the IProcessHostPreloadClient interface, as shown in the following example: public class CustomInitialization : System.Web.Hosting.IProcessHostPreloadClient { public void Preload(string[] parameters) { // Perform initialization. } } After your initialization code runs in the Preload method and after the method returns, the ASP.NET application is ready to process requests. Permanently Redirecting a Page Content in Web applications is often moved over the lifetime of the application. This can lead to links to be out of date, such as the links that are returned by search engines. In ASP.NET, developers have traditionally handled requests to old URLs by using the Redirect method to forward a request to the new URL. However, the Redirect method issues an HTTP 302 (Found) response (which is used for a temporary redirect). This results in an extra HTTP round trip. ASP.NET 4 adds a RedirectPermanent helper method that makes it easy to issue HTTP 301 (Moved Permanently) responses, as in the following example: RedirectPermanent("/newpath/foroldcontent.aspx"); Search engines and other user agents that recognize permanent redirects will store the new URL that is associated with the content, which eliminates the unnecessary round trip made by the browser for temporary redirects. Session State Compression By default, ASP.NET provides two options for storing session state across a Web farm. The first option is a session state provider that invokes an out-of-process session state server. The second option is a session state provider that stores data in a Microsoft SQL Server database. Because both options store state information outside a Web application's worker process, session state has to be serialized before it is sent to remote storage. If a large amount of data is saved in session state, the size of the serialized data can become very large. ASP.NET 4 introduces a new compression option for both kinds of out-of-process session state providers. By using this option, applications that have spare CPU cycles on Web servers can achieve substantial reductions in the size of serialized session state data. You can set this option using the new compressionEnabled attribute of the sessionState element in the configuration file. When the compressionEnabled configuration option is set to true, ASP.NET compresses (and decompresses) serialized session state by using the .NET Framework GZipStreamclass. The following example shows how to set this attribute. <sessionState mode="SqlServer" sqlConnectionString="data source=dbserver;Initial Catalog=aspnetstate" allowCustomSqlDatabase="true" compressionEnabled="true" /> ASP.NET Web Forms Web Forms has been a core feature in ASP.NET since the release of ASP.NET 1.0. Many enhancements have been in this area for ASP.NET 4, such as the following: The ability to set meta tags. More control over view state. Support for recently introduced browsers and devices. Easier ways to work with browser capabilities. Support for using ASP.NET routing with Web Forms. More control over generated IDs. The ability to persist selected rows in data controls. More control over rendered HTML in the FormView and ListView controls. Filtering support for data source controls. Enhanced support for Web standards and accessibility Setting Meta Tags with the Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription Properties Two properties have been added to the Page class: MetaKeywords and MetaDescription. These two properties represent corresponding meta tags in the HTML rendered for a page, as shown in the following example: <head id="Head1" runat="server"> <title>Untitled Page</title> <meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2' /> <meta name="description" content="Description of my page" /> </head> These two properties work like the Title property does, and they can be set in the @ Page directive. For more information, see Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription. Enabling View State for Individual Controls A new property has been added to the Control class: ViewStateMode. You can use this property to disable view state for all controls on a page except those for which you explicitly enable view state. View state data is included in a page's HTML and increases the amount of time it takes to send a page to the client and post it back. Storing more view state than is necessary can cause significant decrease in performance. In earlier versions of ASP.NET, you could reduce the impact of view state on a page's performance by disabling view state for specific controls. But sometimes it is easier to enable view state for a few controls that need it instead of disabling it for many that do not need it. For more information, see Control.ViewStateMode. Support for Recently Introduced Browsers and Devices ASP.NET includes a feature that is named browser capabilities that lets you determine the capabilities of the browser that a user is using. Browser capabilities are represented by the HttpBrowserCapabilities object which is stored in the HttpRequest.Browser property. Information about a particular browser's capabilities is defined by a browser definition file. In ASP.NET 4, these browser definition files have been updated to contain information about recently introduced browsers and devices such as Google Chrome, Research in Motion BlackBerry smart phones, and Apple iPhone. Existing browser definition files have also been updated. For more information, see How to: Upgrade an ASP.NET Web Application to ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET Web Server Controls and Browser Capabilities. The browser definition files that are included with ASP.NET 4 are shown in the following list: •blackberry.browser •chrome.browser •Default.browser •firefox.browser •gateway.browser •generic.browser •ie.browser •iemobile.browser •iphone.browser •opera.browser •safari.browser A New Way to Define Browser Capabilities ASP.NET 4 includes a new feature referred to as browser capabilities providers. As the name suggests, this lets you build a provider that in turn lets you write custom code to determine browser capabilities. In ASP.NET version 3.5 Service Pack 1, you define browser capabilities in an XML file. This file resides in a machine-level folder or an application-level folder. Most developers do not need to customize these files, but for those who do, the provider approach can be easier than dealing with complex XML syntax. The provider approach makes it possible to simplify the process by implementing a common browser definition syntax, or a database that contains up-to-date browser definitions, or even a Web service for such a database. For more information about the new browser capabilities provider, see the What's New for ASP.NET 4 White Paper. Routing in ASP.NET 4 ASP.NET 4 adds built-in support for routing with Web Forms. Routing is a feature that was introduced with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 and lets you configure an application to use URLs that are meaningful to users and to search engines because they do not have to specify physical file names. This can make your site more user-friendly and your site content more discoverable by search engines. For example, the URL for a page that displays product categories in your application might look like the following example: http://website/products.aspx?categoryid=12 By using routing, you can use the following URL to render the same information: http://website/products/software The second URL lets the user know what to expect and can result in significantly improved rankings in search engine results. the new features include the following: The PageRouteHandler class is a simple HTTP handler that you use when you define routes. You no longer have to write a custom route handler. The HttpRequest.RequestContext and Page.RouteData properties make it easier to access information that is passed in URL parameters. The RouteUrl expression provides a simple way to create a routed URL in markup. The RouteValue expression provides a simple way to extract URL parameter values in markup. The RouteParameter class makes it easier to pass URL parameter values to a query for a data source control (similar to FormParameter). You no longer have to change the Web.config file to enable routing. For more information about routing, see the following topics: ASP.NET Routing Walkthrough: Using ASP.NET Routing in a Web Forms Application How to: Define Routes for Web Forms Applications How to: Construct URLs from Routes How to: Access URL Parameters in a Routed Page Setting Client IDs The new ClientIDMode property makes it easier to write client script that references HTML elements rendered for server controls. Increasing use of Microsoft Ajax makes the need to do this more common. For example, you may have a data control that renders a long list of products with prices and you want to use client script to make a Web service call and update individual prices in the list as they change without refreshing the entire page. Typically you get a reference to an HTML element in client script by using the document.GetElementById method. You pass to this method the value of the id attribute of the HTML element you want to reference. In the case of elements that are rendered for ASP.NET server controls earlier versions of ASP.NET could make this difficult or impossible. You were not always able to predict what id values ASP.NET would generate, or ASP.NET could generate very long id values. The problem was especially difficult for data controls that would generate multiple rows for a single instance of the control in your markup. ASP.NET 4 adds two new algorithms for generating id attributes. These algorithms can generate id attributes that are easier to work with in client script because they are more predictable and that are easier to work with because they are simpler. For more information about how to use the new algorithms, see the following topics: ASP.NET Web Server Control Identification Walkthrough: Making Data-Bound Controls Easier to Access from JavaScript Walkthrough: Making Controls Located in Web User Controls Easier to Access from JavaScript How to: Access Controls from JavaScript by ID Persisting Row Selection in Data Controls The GridView and ListView controls enable users to select a row. In previous versions of ASP.NET, row selection was based on the row index on the page. For example, if you select the third item on page 1 and then move to page 2, the third item on page 2 is selected. In most cases, is more desirable not to select any rows on page 2. ASP.NET 4 supports Persisted Selection, a new feature that was initially supported only in Dynamic Data projects in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. When this feature is enabled, the selected item is based on the row data key. This means that if you select the third row on page 1 and move to page 2, nothing is selected on page 2. When you move back to page 1, the third row is still selected. This is a much more natural behavior than the behavior in earlier versions of ASP.NET. Persisted selection is now supported for the GridView and ListView controls in all projects. You can enable this feature in the GridView control, for example, by setting the EnablePersistedSelection property, as shown in the following example: <asp:GridView id="GridView2" runat="server" PersistedSelection="true"> </asp:GridView> FormView Control Enhancements The FormView control is enhanced to make it easier to style the content of the control with CSS. In previous versions of ASP.NET, the FormView control rendered it contents using an item template. This made styling more difficult in the markup because unexpected table row and table cell tags were rendered by the control. The FormView control supports RenderOuterTable, a property in ASP.NET 4. When this property is set to false, as show in the following example, the table tags are not rendered. This makes it easier to apply CSS style to the contents of the control. <asp:FormView ID="FormView1" runat="server" RenderTable="false"> For more information, see FormView Web Server Control Overview. ListView Control Enhancements The ListView control, which was introduced in ASP.NET 3.5, has all the functionality of the GridView control while giving you complete control over the output. This control has been made easier to use in ASP.NET 4. The earlier version of the control required that you specify a layout template that contained a server control with a known ID. The following markup shows a typical example of how to use the ListView control in ASP.NET 3.5. <asp:ListView ID="ListView1" runat="server"> <LayoutTemplate> <asp:PlaceHolder ID="ItemPlaceHolder" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder> </LayoutTemplate> <ItemTemplate> <% Eval("LastName")%> </ItemTemplate> </asp:ListView> In ASP.NET 4, the ListView control does not require a layout template. The markup shown in the previous example can be replaced with the following markup: <asp:ListView ID="ListView1" runat="server"> <ItemTemplate> <% Eval("LastName")%> </ItemTemplate> </asp:ListView> For more information, see ListView Web Server Control Overview. Filtering Data with the QueryExtender Control A very common task for developers who create data-driven Web pages is to filter data. This traditionally has been performed by building Where clauses in data source controls. This approach can be complicated, and in some cases the Where syntax does not let you take advantage of the full functionality of the underlying database. To make filtering easier, a new QueryExtender control has been added in ASP.NET 4. This control can be added to EntityDataSource or LinqDataSource controls in order to filter the data returned by these controls. Because the QueryExtender control relies on LINQ, but you do not to need to know how to write LINQ queries to use the query extender. The QueryExtender control supports a variety of filter options. The following lists QueryExtender filter options. Term Definition SearchExpression Searches a field or fields for string values and compares them to a specified string value. RangeExpression Searches a field or fields for values in a range specified by a pair of values. PropertyExpression Compares a specified value to a property value in a field. If the expression evaluates to true, the data that is being examined is returned. OrderByExpression Sorts data by a specified column and sort direction. CustomExpression Calls a function that defines custom filter in the page. For more information, see QueryExtenderQueryExtender Web Server Control Overview. Enhanced Support for Web Standards and Accessibility Earlier versions of ASP.NET controls sometimes render markup that does not conform to HTML, XHTML, or accessibility standards. ASP.NET 4 eliminates most of these exceptions. For details about how the HTML that is rendered by each control meets accessibility standards, see ASP.NET Controls and Accessibility. CSS for Controls that Can be Disabled In ASP.NET 3.5, when a control is disabled (see WebControl.Enabled), a disabled attribute is added to the rendered HTML element. For example, the following markup creates a Label control that is disabled: <asp:Label id="Label1" runat="server"   Text="Test" Enabled="false" /> In ASP.NET 3.5, the previous control settings generate the following HTML: <span id="Label1" disabled="disabled">Test</span> In HTML 4.01, the disabled attribute is not considered valid on span elements. It is valid only on input elements because it specifies that they cannot be accessed. On display-only elements such as span elements, browsers typically support rendering for a disabled appearance, but a Web page that relies on this non-standard behavior is not robust according to accessibility standards. For display-only elements, you should use CSS to indicate a disabled visual appearance. Therefore, by default ASP.NET 4 generates the following HTML for the control settings shown previously: <span id="Label1" class="aspNetDisabled">Test</span> You can change the value of the class attribute that is rendered by default when a control is disabled by setting the DisabledCssClass property. CSS for Validation Controls In ASP.NET 3.5, validation controls render a default color of red as an inline style. For example, the following markup creates a RequiredFieldValidator control: <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server"   ErrorMessage="Required Field" ControlToValidate="RadioButtonList1" /> ASP.NET 3.5 renders the following HTML for the validator control: <span id="RequiredFieldValidator1"   style="color:Red;visibility:hidden;">RequiredFieldValidator</span> By default, ASP.NET 4 does not render an inline style to set the color to red. An inline style is used only to hide or show the validator, as shown in the following example: <span id="RequiredFieldValidator1"   style"visibility:hidden;">RequiredFieldValidator</span> Therefore, ASP.NET 4 does not automatically show error messages in red. For information about how to use CSS to specify a visual style for a validation control, see Validating User Input in ASP.NET Web Pages. CSS for the Hidden Fields Div Element ASP.NET uses hidden fields to store state information such as view state and control state. These hidden fields are contained by a div element. In ASP.NET 3.5, this div element does not have a class attribute or an id attribute. Therefore, CSS rules that affect all div elements could unintentionally cause this div to be visible. To avoid this problem, ASP.NET 4 renders the div element for hidden fields with a CSS class that you can use to differentiate the hidden fields div from others. The new classvalue is shown in the following example: <div class="aspNetHidden"> CSS for the Table, Image, and ImageButton Controls By default, in ASP.NET 3.5, some controls set the border attribute of rendered HTML to zero (0). The following example shows HTML that is generated by the Table control in ASP.NET 3.5: <table id="Table2" border="0"> The Image control and the ImageButton control also do this. Because this is not necessary and provides visual formatting information that should be provided by using CSS, the attribute is not generated in ASP.NET 4. CSS for the UpdatePanel and UpdateProgress Controls In ASP.NET 3.5, the UpdatePanel and UpdateProgress controls do not support expando attributes. This makes it impossible to set a CSS class on the HTMLelements that they render. In ASP.NET 4 these controls have been changed to accept expando attributes, as shown in the following example: <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" class="myStyle"> </asp:UpdatePanel> The following HTML is rendered for this markup: <div id="ctl00_MainContent_UpdatePanel1" class="expandoclass"> </div> Eliminating Unnecessary Outer Tables In ASP.NET 3.5, the HTML that is rendered for the following controls is wrapped in a table element whose purpose is to apply inline styles to the entire control: FormView Login PasswordRecovery ChangePassword If you use templates to customize the appearance of these controls, you can specify CSS styles in the markup that you provide in the templates. In that case, no extra outer table is required. In ASP.NET 4, you can prevent the table from being rendered by setting the new RenderOuterTable property to false. Layout Templates for Wizard Controls In ASP.NET 3.5, the Wizard and CreateUserWizard controls generate an HTML table element that is used for visual formatting. In ASP.NET 4 you can use a LayoutTemplate element to specify the layout. If you do this, the HTML table element is not generated. In the template, you create placeholder controls to indicate where items should be dynamically inserted into the control. (This is similar to how the template model for the ListView control works.) For more information, see the Wizard.LayoutTemplate property. New HTML Formatting Options for the CheckBoxList and RadioButtonList Controls ASP.NET 3.5 uses HTML table elements to format the output for the CheckBoxList and RadioButtonList controls. To provide an alternative that does not use tables for visual formatting, ASP.NET 4 adds two new options to the RepeatLayout enumeration: UnorderedList. This option causes the HTML output to be formatted by using ul and li elements instead of a table. OrderedList. This option causes the HTML output to be formatted by using ol and li elements instead of a table. For examples of HTML that is rendered for the new options, see the RepeatLayout enumeration. Header and Footer Elements for the Table Control In ASP.NET 3.5, the Table control can be configured to render thead and tfoot elements by setting the TableSection property of the TableHeaderRow class and the TableFooterRow class. In ASP.NET 4 these properties are set to the appropriate values by default. CSS and ARIA Support for the Menu Control In ASP.NET 3.5, the Menu control uses HTML table elements for visual formatting, and in some configurations it is not keyboard-accessible. ASP.NET 4 addresses these problems and improves accessibility in the following ways: The generated HTML is structured as an unordered list (ul and li elements). CSS is used for visual formatting. The menu behaves in accordance with ARIA standards for keyboard access. You can use arrow keys to navigate menu items. (For information about ARIA, see Accessibility in Visual Studio and ASP.NET.) ARIA role and property attributes are added to the generated HTML. (Attributes are added by using JavaScript instead of included in the HTML, to avoid generating HTML that would cause markup validation errors.) Styles for the Menu control are rendered in a style block at the top of the page, instead of inline with the rendered HTML elements. If you want to use a separate CSS file so that you can modify the menu styles, you can set the Menu control's new IncludeStyleBlock property to false, in which case the style block is not generated. Valid XHTML for the HtmlForm Control In ASP.NET 3.5, the HtmlForm control (which is created implicitly by the <form runat="server"> tag) renders an HTML form element that has both name and id attributes. The name attribute is deprecated in XHTML 1.1. Therefore, this control does not render the name attribute in ASP.NET 4. Maintaining Backward Compatibility in Control Rendering An existing ASP.NET Web site might have code in it that assumes that controls are rendering HTML the way they do in ASP.NET 3.5. To avoid causing backward compatibility problems when you upgrade the site to ASP.NET 4, you can have ASP.NET continue to generate HTML the way it does in ASP.NET 3.5 after you upgrade the site. To do so, you can set the controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion attribute of the pages element to "3.5" in the Web.config file of an ASP.NET 4 Web site, as shown in the following example: <system.web>   <pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5"/> </system.web> If this setting is omitted, the default value is the same as the version of ASP.NET that the Web site targets. (For information about multi-targeting in ASP.NET, see .NET Framework Multi-Targeting for ASP.NET Web Projects.) ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC helps Web developers build compelling standards-based Web sites that are easy to maintain because it decreases the dependency among application layers by using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. MVC provides complete control over the page markup. It also improves testability by inherently supporting Test Driven Development (TDD). Web sites created using ASP.NET MVC have a modular architecture. This allows members of a team to work independently on the various modules and can be used to improve collaboration. For example, developers can work on the model and controller layers (data and logic), while the designer work on the view (presentation). For tutorials, walkthroughs, conceptual content, code samples, and a complete API reference, see ASP.NET MVC 2. Dynamic Data Dynamic Data was introduced in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 release in mid-2008. This feature provides many enhancements for creating data-driven applications, such as the following: A RAD experience for quickly building a data-driven Web site. Automatic validation that is based on constraints defined in the data model. The ability to easily change the markup that is generated for fields in the GridView and DetailsView controls by using field templates that are part of your Dynamic Data project. For ASP.NET 4, Dynamic Data has been enhanced to give developers even more power for quickly building data-driven Web sites. For more information, see ASP.NET Dynamic Data Content Map. Enabling Dynamic Data for Individual Data-Bound Controls in Existing Web Applications You can use Dynamic Data features in existing ASP.NET Web applications that do not use scaffolding by enabling Dynamic Data for individual data-bound controls. Dynamic Data provides the presentation and data layer support for rendering these controls. When you enable Dynamic Data for data-bound controls, you get the following benefits: Setting default values for data fields. Dynamic Data enables you to provide default values at run time for fields in a data control. Interacting with the database without creating and registering a data model. Automatically validating the data that is entered by the user without writing any code. For more information, see Walkthrough: Enabling Dynamic Data in ASP.NET Data-Bound Controls. New Field Templates for URLs and E-mail Addresses ASP.NET 4 introduces two new built-in field templates, EmailAddress.ascx and Url.ascx. These templates are used for fields that are marked as EmailAddress or Url using the DataTypeAttribute attribute. For EmailAddress objects, the field is displayed as a hyperlink that is created by using the mailto: protocol. When users click the link, it opens the user's e-mail client and creates a skeleton message. Objects typed as Url are displayed as ordinary hyperlinks. The following example shows how to mark fields. [DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)] public object HomeEmail { get; set; } [DataType(DataType.Url)] public object Website { get; set; } Creating Links with the DynamicHyperLink Control Dynamic Data uses the new routing feature that was added in the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 to control the URLs that users see when they access the Web site. The new DynamicHyperLink control makes it easy to build links to pages in a Dynamic Data site. For information, see How to: Create Table Action Links in Dynamic Data Support for Inheritance in the Data Model Both the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL support inheritance in their data models. An example of this might be a database that has an InsurancePolicy table. It might also contain CarPolicy and HousePolicy tables that have the same fields as InsurancePolicy and then add more fields. Dynamic Data has been modified to understand inherited objects in the data model and to support scaffolding for the inherited tables. For more information, see Walkthrough: Mapping Table-per-Hierarchy Inheritance in Dynamic Data. Support for Many-to-Many Relationships (Entity Framework Only) The Entity Framework has rich support for many-to-many relationships between tables, which is implemented by exposing the relationship as a collection on an Entity object. New field templates (ManyToMany.ascx and ManyToMany_Edit.ascx) have been added to provide support for displaying and editing data that is involved in many-to-many relationships. For more information, see Working with Many-to-Many Data Relationships in Dynamic Data. New Attributes to Control Display and Support Enumerations The DisplayAttribute has been added to give you additional control over how fields are displayed. The DisplayNameAttribute attribute in earlier versions of Dynamic Data enabled you to change the name that is used as a caption for a field. The new DisplayAttribute class lets you specify more options for displaying a field, such as the order in which a field is displayed and whether a field will be used as a filter. The attribute also provides independent control of the name that is used for the labels in a GridView control, the name that is used in a DetailsView control, the help text for the field, and the watermark used for the field (if the field accepts text input). The EnumDataTypeAttribute class has been added to let you map fields to enumerations. When you apply this attribute to a field, you specify an enumeration type. Dynamic Data uses the new Enumeration.ascx field template to create UI for displaying and editing enumeration values. The template maps the values from the database to the names in the enumeration. Enhanced Support for Filters Dynamic Data 1.0 had built-in filters for Boolean columns and foreign-key columns. The filters did not let you specify the order in which they were displayed. The new DisplayAttribute attribute addresses this by giving you control over whether a column appears as a filter and in what order it will be displayed. An additional enhancement is that filtering support has been rewritten to use the new QueryExtender feature of Web Forms. This lets you create filters without requiring knowledge of the data source control that the filters will be used with. Along with these extensions, filters have also been turned into template controls, which lets you add new ones. Finally, the DisplayAttribute class mentioned earlier allows the default filter to be overridden, in the same way that UIHint allows the default field template for a column to be overridden. For more information, see Walkthrough: Filtering Rows in Tables That Have a Parent-Child Relationship and QueryableFilterRepeater. ASP.NET Chart Control The ASP.NET chart server control enables you to create ASP.NET pages applications that have simple, intuitive charts for complex statistical or financial analysis. The chart control supports the following features: Data series, chart areas, axes, legends, labels, titles, and more. Data binding. Data manipulation, such as copying, splitting, merging, alignment, grouping, sorting, searching, and filtering. Statistical formulas and financial formulas. Advanced chart appearance, such as 3-D, anti-aliasing, lighting, and perspective. Events and customizations. Interactivity and Microsoft Ajax. Support for the Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN), which provides an optimized way for you to add Microsoft Ajax Library and jQuery scripts to your Web applications. For more information, see Chart Web Server Control Overview. Visual Web Developer Enhancements The following sections provide information about enhancements and new features in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer Express. The Web page designer in Visual Studio 2010 has been enhanced for better CSS compatibility, includes additional support for HTML and ASP.NET markup snippets, and features a redesigned version of IntelliSense for JScript. Improved CSS Compatibility The Visual Web Developer designer in Visual Studio 2010 has been updated to improve CSS 2.1 standards compliance. The designer better preserves HTML source code and is more robust than in previous versions of Visual Studio. HTML and JScript Snippets In the HTML editor, IntelliSense auto-completes tag names. The IntelliSense Snippets feature auto-completes whole tags and more. In Visual Studio 2010, IntelliSense snippets are supported for JScript, alongside C# and Visual Basic, which were supported in earlier versions of Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2010 includes over 200 snippets that help you auto-complete common ASP.NET and HTML tags, including required attributes (such as runat="server") and common attributes specific to a tag (such as ID, DataSourceID, ControlToValidate, and Text). You can download additional snippets, or you can write your own snippets that encapsulate the blocks of markup that you or your team use for common tasks. For more information on HTML snippets, see Walkthrough: Using HTML Snippets. JScript IntelliSense Enhancements In Visual 2010, JScript IntelliSense has been redesigned to provide an even richer editing experience. IntelliSense now recognizes objects that have been dynamically generated by methods such as registerNamespace and by similar techniques used by other JavaScript frameworks. Performance has been improved to analyze large libraries of script and to display IntelliSense with little or no processing delay. Compatibility has been significantly increased to support almost all third-party libraries and to support diverse coding styles. Documentation comments are now parsed as you type and are immediately leveraged by IntelliSense. Web Application Deployment with Visual Studio 2010 For Web application projects, Visual Studio now provides tools that work with the IIS Web Deployment Tool (Web Deploy) to automate many processes that had to be done manually in earlier versions of ASP.NET. For example, the following tasks can now be automated: Creating an IIS application on the destination computer and configuring IIS settings. Copying files to the destination computer. Changing Web.config settings that must be different in the destination environment. Propagating changes to data or data structures in SQL Server databases that are used by the Web application. For more information about Web application deployment, see ASP.NET Deployment Content Map. Enhancements to ASP.NET Multi-Targeting ASP.NET 4 adds new features to the multi-targeting feature to make it easier to work with projects that target earlier versions of the .NET Framework. Multi-targeting was introduced in ASP.NET 3.5 to enable you to use the latest version of Visual Studio without having to upgrade existing Web sites or Web services to the latest version of the .NET Framework. In Visual Studio 2008, when you work with a project targeted for an earlier version of the .NET Framework, most features of the development environment adapt to the targeted version. However, IntelliSense displays language features that are available in the current version, and property windows display properties available in the current version. In Visual Studio 2010, only language features and properties available in the targeted version of the .NET Framework are shown. For more information about multi-targeting, see the following topics: .NET Framework Multi-Targeting for ASP.NET Web Projects ASP.NET Side-by-Side Execution Overview How to: Host Web Applications That Use Different Versions of the .NET Framework on the Same Server How to: Deploy Web Site Projects Targeted for Earlier Versions of the .NET Framework

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• SQL SERVER – SHRINKFILE and TRUNCATE Log File in SQL Server 2008

  - by pinaldave

  Note: Please read the complete post before taking any actions. This blog post would discuss SHRINKFILE and TRUNCATE Log File. The script mentioned in the email received from reader contains the following questionable code: “Hi Pinal, If you could remember, I and my manager met you at TechEd in Bangalore. We just upgraded to SQL Server 2008. One of our jobs failed as it was using the following code. The error was: Msg 155, Level 15, State 1, Line 1 ‘TRUNCATE_ONLY’ is not a recognized BACKUP option. The code was: DBCC SHRINKFILE(TestDBLog, 1) BACKUP LOG TestDB WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY DBCC SHRINKFILE(TestDBLog, 1) GO I have modified that code to subsequent code and it works fine. But, are there other suggestions you have at the moment? USE [master] GO ALTER DATABASE [TestDb] SET RECOVERY SIMPLE WITH NO_WAIT DBCC SHRINKFILE(TestDbLog, 1) ALTER DATABASE [TestDb] SET RECOVERY FULL WITH NO_WAIT GO Configuration of our server and system is as follows: [Removed not relevant data]“ An email like this that suddenly pops out in early morning is alarming email. Because I am a dead, busy mind, so I had only one min to reply. I wrote down quickly the following note. (As I said, it was a single-minute email so it is not completely accurate). Here is that quick email shared with all of you. “Hi Mr. DBA [removed the name] Thanks for your email. I suggest you stop this practice. There are many issues included here, but I would list two major issues: 1) From the setting database to simple recovery, shrinking the file and once again setting in full recovery, you are in fact losing your valuable log data and will be not able to restore point in time. Not only that, you will also not able to use subsequent log files. 2) Shrinking file or database adds fragmentation. There are a lot of things you can do. First, start taking proper log backup using following command instead of truncating them and losing them frequently. BACKUP LOG [TestDb] TO  DISK = N'C:\Backup\TestDb.bak' GO Remove the code of SHRINKING the file. If you are taking proper log backups, your log file usually (again usually, special cases are excluded) do not grow very big. There are so many things to add here, but you can call me on my [phone number]. Before you call me, I suggest for accuracy you read Paul Randel‘s two posts here and here and Brent Ozar‘s Post here. Kind Regards, Pinal Dave” I guess this post is very much clear to you. Please leave your comments here. As mentioned, this is a very huge subject; I have just touched a tip of the ice-berg and have tried to point to authentic knowledge. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Backup and Restore, SQL Data Storage, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL, Technology

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• Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension

  - by ScottGu

  Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site.  A large % of traffic to sites now comes directly from search engines, and improving your site’s search relevancy will lead to more users visiting your site from search engine queries.  This can directly or indirectly increase the money you make through your site. This blog post covers how you can use the free Microsoft URL Rewrite Extension to fix a bunch of common SEO problems that your site might have.  It takes less than 15 minutes (and no code changes) to apply 4 simple URL Rewrite rules to your site, and in doing so cause search engines to drive more visitors and traffic to your site.  The techniques below work equally well with both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC based sites.  They also works with all versions of ASP.NET (and even work with non-ASP.NET content). [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Measuring the SEO of your website with the Microsoft SEO Toolkit A few months ago I blogged about the free SEO Toolkit that we’ve shipped.  This useful tool enables you to automatically crawl/scan your site for SEO correctness, and it then flags any SEO issues it finds.  I highly recommend downloading and using the tool against any public site you work on.  It makes it easy to spot SEO issues you might have in your site, and pinpoint ways to optimize it further. Below is a simple example of a report I ran against one of my sites (www.scottgu.com) prior to applying the URL Rewrite rules I’ll cover later in this blog post:   Search Relevancy and URL Splitting Two of the important things that search engines evaluate when assessing your site’s “search relevancy” are: How many other sites link to your content.  Search engines assume that if a lot of people around the web are linking to your content, then it is likely useful and so weight it higher in relevancy. The uniqueness of the content it finds on your site.  If search engines find that the content is duplicated in multiple places around the Internet (or on multiple URLs on your site) then it is likely to drop the relevancy of the content. One of the things you want to be very careful to avoid when building public facing sites is to not allow different URLs to retrieve the same content within your site.  Doing so will hurt with both of the situations above.  In particular, allowing external sites to link to the same content with multiple URLs will cause your link-count and page-ranking to be split up across those different URLs (and so give you a smaller page rank than what it would otherwise be if it was just one URL).  Not allowing external sites to link to you in different ways sounds easy in theory – but you might wonder what exactly this means in practice and how you avoid it. 4 Really Common SEO Problems Your Sites Might Have Below are 4 really common scenarios that can cause your site to inadvertently expose multiple URLs for the same content.  When this happens external sites linking to yours will end up splitting their page links across multiple URLs - and as a result cause you to have a lower page ranking with search engines than you deserve. SEO Problem #1: Default Document IIS (and other web servers) supports the concept of a “default document”.  This allows you to avoid having to explicitly specify the page you want to serve at either the root of the web-site/application, or within a sub-directory.  This is convenient – but means that by default this content is available via two different publically exposed URLs (which is bad).  For example: http://scottgu.com/ http://scottgu.com/default.aspx SEO Problem #2: Different URL Casings Web developers often don’t realize URLs are case sensitive to search engines on the web.  This means that search engines will treat the following links as two completely different URLs: http://scottgu.com/Albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx SEO Problem #3: Trailing Slashes Consider the below two URLs – they might look the same at first, but they are subtly different. The trailing slash creates yet another situation that causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and so split search rankings: http://scottgu.com http://scottgu.com/ SEO Problem #4: Canonical Host Names Sometimes sites support scenarios where they support a web-site with both a leading “www” hostname prefix as well as just the hostname itself.  This causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and split search rankling: http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx/ http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx/ How to Easily Fix these SEO Problems in 10 minutes (or less) using IIS Rewrite If you haven’t been careful when coding your sites, chances are you are suffering from one (or more) of the above SEO problems.  Addressing these issues will improve your search engine relevancy ranking and drive more traffic to your site. The “good news” is that fixing the above 4 issues is really easy using the URL Rewrite Extension.  This is a completely free Microsoft extension available for IIS 7.x (on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 and Windows Vista).  The great thing about using the IIS Rewrite extension is that it allows you to fix the above problems *without* having to change any code within your applications.  You can easily install the URL Rewrite Extension in under 3 minutes using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (a free tool we ship that automates setting up web servers and development machines).  Just click the green “Install Now” button on the URL Rewrite Spotlight page to install it on your Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Vista machine: Once installed you’ll find that a new “URL Rewrite” icon is available within the IIS 7 Admin Tool: Double-clicking the icon will open up the URL Rewrite admin panel – which will display the list of URL Rewrite rules configured for a particular application or site: Notice that our rewrite rule list above is currently empty (which is the default when you first install the extension).  We can click the “Add Rule…” link button in the top-right of the panel to add and enable new URL Rewriting logic for our site.  Scenario 1: Handling Default Document Scenarios One of the SEO problems I discussed earlier in this post was the scenario where the “default document” feature of IIS causes you to inadvertently expose two URLs for the same content on your site.  For example: http://scottgu.com/ http://scottgu.com/default.aspx We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the second URL to instead go to the first one.  We will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve.  Let’s look at how we can create such a rule.  We’ll begin by clicking the “Add Rule” link in the screenshot above.  This will cause the below dialog to display: We’ll select the “Blank Rule” template within the “Inbound rules” section to create a new custom URL Rewriting rule.  This will display an empty pane like below: Don’t worry – setting up the above rule is easy.  The following 4 steps explain how to do so: Step 1: Name the Rule Our first step will be to name the rule we are creating.  Naming it with a descriptive name will make it easier to find and understand later.  Let’s name this rule our “Default Document URL Rewrite” rule: Step 2: Setup the Regular Expression that Matches this Rule Our second step will be to specify a regular expression filter that will cause this rule to execute when an incoming URL matches the regex pattern.   Don’t worry if you aren’t good with regular expressions - I suck at them too. The trick is to know someone who is good at them or copy/paste them from a web-site.  Below we are going to specify the following regular expression as our pattern rule: (.*?)/?Default\.aspx$ This pattern will match any URL string that ends with Default.aspx. The "(.*?)" matches any preceding character zero or more times. The "/?" part says to match the slash symbol zero or one times. The "$" symbol at the end will ensure that the pattern will only match strings that end with Default.aspx.  Combining all these regex elements allows this rule to work not only for the root of your web site (e.g. http://scottgu.com/default.aspx) but also for any application or subdirectory within the site (e.g. http://scottgu.com/photos/default.aspx.  Because the “ignore case” checkbox is selected it will match both “Default.aspx” as well as “default.aspx” within the URL.   One nice feature built-into the rule editor is a “Test pattern” button that you can click to bring up a dialog that allows you to test out a few URLs with the rule you are configuring: Above I've added a “products/default.aspx” URL and clicked the “Test” button.  This will give me immediate feedback on whether the rule will execute for it.  Step 3: Setup a Permanent Redirect Action We’ll then setup an action to occur when our regular expression pattern matches the incoming URL: In the dialog above I’ve changed the “Action Type” drop down to be a “Redirect” action.  The “Redirect Type” will be a HTTP 301 Permanent redirect – which means search engines will follow it. I’ve also set the “Redirect URL” property to be: {R:1}/ This indicates that we want to redirect the web client requesting the original URL to a new URL that has the originally requested URL path - minus the "Default.aspx" in it.  For example, requests for http://scottgu.com/default.aspx will be redirected to http://scottgu.com/, and requests for http://scottgu.com/photos/default.aspx will be redirected to http://scottgu.com/photos/ The "{R:N}" regex construct, where N >= 0, is called a back-reference and N is the back-reference index. In the case of our pattern "(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$", if the input URL is "products/Default.aspx" then {R:0} will contain "products/Default.aspx" and {R:1} will contain "products".  We are going to use this {R:1}/ value to be the URL we redirect users to.  Step 4: Apply and Save the Rule Our final step is to click the “Apply” button in the top right hand of the IIS admin tool – which will cause the tool to persist the URL Rewrite rule into our application’s root web.config file (under a <system.webServer/rewrite> configuration section): <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Because IIS 7.x and ASP.NET share the same web.config files, you can actually just copy/paste the above code into your web.config files using Visual Studio and skip the need to run the admin tool entirely.  This also makes adding/deploying URL Rewrite rules with your ASP.NET applications really easy. Step 5: Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://scottgu.com/ http://scottgu.com/default.aspx Notice that the second URL automatically redirects to the first one.  Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and should update the page ranking of http://scottgu.com to include links to http://scottgu.com/default.aspx as well. Scenario 2: Different URL Casing Another common SEO problem I discussed earlier in this post is that URLs are case sensitive to search engines on the web.  This means that search engines will treat the following links as two completely different URLs: http://scottgu.com/Albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the first URL to instead go to the second (all lower-case) one.  Like before, we will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve. To create such a rule we’ll click the “Add Rule” link in the URL Rewrite admin tool again.  This will cause the “Add Rule” dialog to appear again: Unlike the previous scenario (where we created a “Blank Rule”), with this scenario we can take advantage of a built-in “Enforce lowercase URLs” rule template.  When we click the “ok” button we’ll see the following dialog which asks us if we want to create a rule that enforces the use of lowercase letters in URLs: When we click the “Yes” button we’ll get a pre-written rule that automatically performs a permanent redirect if an incoming URL has upper-case characters in it – and automatically send users to a lower-case version of the URL: We can click the “Apply” button to use this rule “as-is” and have it apply to all incoming URLs to our site.  Because my www.scottgu.com site uses ASP.NET Web Forms, I’m going to make one small change to the rule we generated above – which is to add a condition that will ensure that URLs to ASP.NET’s built-in “WebResource.axd” handler are excluded from our case-sensitivity URL Rewrite logic.  URLs to the WebResource.axd handler will only come from server-controls emitted from my pages – and will never be linked to from external sites.  While my site will continue to function fine if we redirect these URLs to automatically be lower-case – doing so isn’t necessary and will add an extra HTTP redirect to many of my pages.  The good news is that adding a condition that prevents my URL Rewriting rule from happening with certain URLs is easy.  We simply need to expand the “Conditions” section of the form above We can then click the “Add” button to add a condition clause.  This will bring up the “Add Condition” dialog: Above I’ve entered {URL} as the Condition input – and said that this rule should only execute if the URL does not match a regex pattern which contains the string “WebResource.axd”.  This will ensure that WebResource.axd URLs to my site will be allowed to execute just fine without having the URL be re-written to be all lower-case. Note: If you have static resources (like references to .jpg, .css, and .js files) within your site that currently use upper-case characters you’ll probably want to add additional condition filter clauses so that URLs to them also don’t get redirected to be lower-case (just add rules for patterns like .jpg, .gif, .js, etc).  Your site will continue to work fine if these URLs get redirected to be lower case (meaning the site won’t break) – but it will cause an extra HTTP redirect to happen on your site for URLs that don’t need to be redirected for SEO reasons.  So setting up a condition clause makes sense to add. When I click the “ok” button above and apply our lower-case rewriting rule the admin tool will save the following additional rule to our web.config file: <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Lower Case URLs" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://scottgu.com/Albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx Notice that the first URL (which has a capital “A”) automatically does a redirect to a lower-case version of the URL.  Scenario 3: Trailing Slashes Another common SEO problem I discussed earlier in this post is the scenario of trailing slashes within URLs.  The trailing slash creates yet another situation that causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and so split search rankings: http://scottgu.com http://scottgu.com/ We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the first URL (that does not have a trailing slash) to instead go to the second one that does.  Like before, we will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve.  To create such a rule we’ll click the “Add Rule” link in the URL Rewrite admin tool again.  This will cause the “Add Rule” dialog to appear again: The URL Rewrite admin tool has a built-in “Append or remove the trailing slash symbol” rule template.  When we select it and click the “ok” button we’ll see the following dialog which asks us if we want to create a rule that automatically redirects users to a URL with a trailing slash if one isn’t present: Like within our previous lower-casing rewrite rule we’ll add one additional condition clause that will exclude WebResource.axd URLs from being processed by this rule.  This will avoid an unnecessary redirect for happening for those URLs. When we click the “OK” button we’ll get a pre-written rule that automatically performs a permanent redirect if the URL doesn’t have a trailing slash – and if the URL is not processed by either a directory or a file.  This will save the following additional rule to our web.config file: <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Lower Case URLs" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Trailing Slash" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*[^/])$" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://scottgu.com http://scottgu.com/ Notice that the first URL (which has no trailing slash) automatically does a redirect to a URL with the trailing slash.  Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and update the page ranking. Scenario 4: Canonical Host Names The final SEO problem I discussed earlier are scenarios where a site works with both a leading “www” hostname prefix as well as just the hostname itself.  This causes search engines to treat the URLs as different and split search rankling: http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx We can fix this by adding a new IIS Rewrite rule that automatically redirects anyone who navigates to the first URL (that has a www prefix) to instead go to the second URL.  Like before, we will setup the HTTP redirect to be a “permanent redirect” – which will indicate to search engines that they should follow the redirect and use the new URL they are redirected to as the identifier of the content they retrieve.  To create such a rule we’ll click the “Add Rule” link in the URL Rewrite admin tool again.  This will cause the “Add Rule” dialog to appear again: The URL Rewrite admin tool has a built-in “Canonical domain name” rule template.  When we select it and click the “ok” button we’ll see the following dialog which asks us if we want to create a redirect rule that automatically redirects users to a primary host name URL: Above I’m entering the primary URL address I want to expose to the web: scottgu.com.  When we click the “OK” button we’ll get a pre-written rule that automatically performs a permanent redirect if the URL has another leading domain name prefix.  This will save the following additional rule to our web.config file: <configuration>     <system.webServer>         <rewrite>             <rules>                 <rule name="Cannonical Hostname">                     <match url="(.*)" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^scottgu\.com$" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="http://scottgu.com/{R:1}" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Default Document" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*?)/?Default\.aspx$" />                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Lower Case URLs" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="[A-Z]" ignoreCase="false" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{URL}}" />                 </rule>                 <rule name="Trailing Slash" stopProcessing="true">                     <match url="(.*[^/])$" />                     <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />                         <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />                         <add input="{URL}" pattern="WebResource.axd" negate="true" />                     </conditions>                     <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />                 </rule>             </rules>         </rewrite>     </system.webServer> </configuration> Try the Rule Out Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site.  Try the following two URLs on my site: http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx Notice that the first URL (which has the “www” prefix) now automatically does a redirect to the second URL which does not have the www prefix.  Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and update the page ranking. 4 Simple Rules for Improved SEO The above 4 rules are pretty easy to setup and should take less than 15 minutes to configure on existing sites you already have.  The beauty of using a solution like the URL Rewrite Extension is that you can take advantage of it without having to change code within your web-site – and without having to break any existing links already pointing at your site.  Users who follow existing links will be automatically redirected to the new URLs you wish to publish.  And search engines will start to give your site a higher search relevancy ranking – which will list your site higher in search results and drive more traffic to it. Customizing your URL Rewriting rules further is easy to-do either by editing the web.config file directly, or alternatively, just double click the URL Rewrite icon within the IIS 7.x admin tool and it will list all the active rules for your web-site or application: Clicking any of the rules above will open the rules editor back up and allow you to tweak/customize/save them further. Summary Measuring and improving SEO is something every developer building a public-facing web-site needs to think about and focus on.  If you haven’t already, download and use the SEO Toolkit to analyze the SEO of your sites today. New URL Routing features in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Forms 4 make it much easier to build applications that have more control over the URLs that are published.  Tools like the URL Rewrite Extension that I’ve talked about in this blog post make it much easier to improve the URLs that are published from sites you already have built today – without requiring you to change a lot of code. The URL Rewrite Extension provides a bunch of additional great capabilities – far beyond just SEO - as well.  I’ll be covering these additional capabilities more in future blog posts. Hope this helps, Scott

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• Inspire Geek Love with These Hilarious Geek Valentines

  - by Eric Z Goodnight

  Want to send some Geek Love to that special someone? Why not do it with these elementary school throwback valentines, and win their heart this upcoming Valentine’s day—the geek way! Read on to see the simple method to make your own custom Valentines, as well as download a set of eleven ready-made ones any geek guy or gal should be delighted get. It’s amore! How to Make Custom Valentines A size we’ve used for all of our Valentines is a 3” x 4” at 150 dpi. This is fairly low resolution for print, but makes a great graphic to email. With your new image open, Navigate to Edit > Fill and fill your background layer with a rich, red color (or whatever appeals to you.) By setting “Use” to “Foreground color as shown above, you’ll paint whatever foreground color you have in your color picker. Press to select the text tool. Set a few text objects, using whatever fonts appeal to you. Pixel fonts, like this one, are freely downloadable, and we’ve already shared a great list of Valentines fonts. Copy an image from the internet if you’re confident your sweetie won’t mind a bit of fair use of copyrighted imagery. If they do mind, find yourself some great Creative Commons images. to do a free transform on your image, sizing it to whatever dimensions work best for your design. Right click your newly added image layer in your panel and Choose “Blending Effects” to pick a Layer Style. “Stroke” with this setting adds a black line around your image. Also turning on “Outer Glow” with this setting puts a dark black shadow around the top and bottom (and sides, although they are hidden). Add some more text. Double entendre is recommended. Click and hold down on the “Rectangle Tool” to get the “Custom Shape Tool.” The custom shape tool has useful vector shapes built into it. Find the “Shape” dropdown in the menu to find the heart image. Click and drag to create a vector heart shape in your image. Your layers panel is where you can change the color, if it happens to use the wrong one at first. Click the color swatch in your panel, highlighted in blue above. will transform your vector heart. You can also use it to rotate, if you like. Add some details, like this Power or Standby symbol, which can be found in symbol fonts, taken from images online, or drawn by hand. Your Valentine is now ready to be saved as a JPG or PNG and sent to the object of your affection! Keep reading to see a list of 11 downloadable How-To Geek Valentines, including this one and the three from the header image. Download The HTG Set of Valentines Download the HTG Geek Valentines (ZIP) Download the HTG Geek Valentines (ZIP) When he’s not wooing ladies with Valentines cards, you can email the author at [email protected] with your Photoshop and Graphics questions. Your questions may be featured in a future How-To Geek article! Latest Features How-To Geek ETC Inspire Geek Love with These Hilarious Geek Valentines How to Integrate Dropbox with Pages, Keynote, and Numbers on iPad RGB? CMYK? Alpha? What Are Image Channels and What Do They Mean? How to Recover that Photo, Picture or File You Deleted Accidentally How To Colorize Black and White Vintage Photographs in Photoshop How To Get SSH Command-Line Access to Windows 7 Using Cygwin How to Kid Proof Your Computer’s Power and Reset Buttons Microsoft’s Windows Media Player Extension Adds H.264 Support Back to Google Chrome Android Notifier Pushes Android Notices to Your Desktop Dead Space 2 Theme for Chrome and Iron Carl Sagan and Halo Reach Mashup – We Humans are Capable of Greatness [Video] Battle the Necromorphs Once Again on Your Desktop with the Dead Space 2 Theme for Windows 7

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• April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010

  - by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET Data Web Control Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0: Scott Mitchell has a good article that summarizes some of the nice improvements coming to the ASP.NET 4 data controls. Refreshing an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel with JavaScript: Scott Mitchell has another nice article in his series on using ASP.NET AJAX that demonstrates how to programmatically trigger an UpdatePanel refresh using JavaScript on the client. ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics and Introduction: Scott Hanselman delivers an awesome introductory talk on ASP.NET MVC.  Great for people looking to understand and learn ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips: Another great talk by Scott Hanselman about how to make the most of several features of ASP.NET MVC 2. ASP.NET MVC 2 Html.Editor/Display Templates: A great blog post detailing the new Html.EditorFor() and Html.DisplayFor() helpers within ASP.NET MVC 2. MVCContrib Grid: Jeremy Skinner’s video presentation about the new Html.Grid() helper component within the (most awesome) MvcContrib project for ASP.NET MVC. Code Snippets for ASP.NET MVC 2 in VS 2010: Raj Kaimal documents some of the new code snippets for ASP.NET MVC 2 that are now built-into Visual Studio 2010.  Read this article to learn how to do common scenarios with fewer keystrokes. Turn on Compile-time View Checking for ASP.NET MVC Projects in TFS 2010 Build: Jim Lamb has a nice post that describes how to enable compile-time view checking as part of automated builds done with a TFS Build Server.  This will ensure any errors in your view templates raise build-errors (allowing you to catch them at build-time instead of runtime). Visual Studio 2010 VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters for VB, C#, F# and C++: Keyboard shortcut posters that you can download and then printout. Ideal to provide a quick reference on your desk for common keystroke actions inside VS 2010. My Favorite New Features in VS 2010: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that summarizes some of his favorite new features in VS 2010.  Check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 blog series for more details on some of them. 6 Cool VS 2010 Quick Tips and Features: Anoop has a nice blog post describing 6 cool features of VS 2010 that you can take advantage of. SharePoint Development with VS 2010: Beth Massi links to a bunch of nice “How do I?” videos that that demonstrate how to use the SharePoint development support built-into VS 2010. How to Pin a Project to the Recent Projects List in VS 2010: A useful tip/trick that demonstrates how to “pin” a project to always show up on the “Recent Projects” list within Visual Studio 2010. Using the WPF Tree Visualizer in VS 2010: Zain blogs about the new WPF Tree Visualizer supported by the VS 2010 debugger.  This makes it easier to visualize WPF control hierarchies within the debugger. TFS 2010 Power Tools Released: Brian Harry blogs about the cool new TFS 2010 extensions released with this week’s TFS 2010 Power Tools release. What is New with T4 in VS 2010: T4 is the name of Visual Studio’s template-based code generation technology.  Lots of scenarios within VS 2010 now use T4 for code generation customization. Two examples are ASP.NET MVC Views and EF4 Model Generation.  This post describes some of the many T4 infrastructure improvements in VS 2010. Hope this helps, Scott P.S. If you haven’t already, check out this month’s "Find a Hoster” page on the www.asp.net website to learn about great (and very inexpensive) ASP.NET hosting offers.

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• Add New Features to WMP with Windows Media Player Plus

  - by DigitalGeekery

  Do you use Windows Media Player 11 or 12 as your default media player? Today, we’re going to show you how to add some handy new features and enhancements with the Windows Media Player Plus third party plug-in. Installation and Setup Download and install Media Player Plus! (link below). You’ll need to close out of Windows Media Player before you begin or you’ll receive the message below. The next time you open Media Player you’ll be presented with the Media Player Plus settings window. Some of the settings will be enabled by default, such as the Find as you type feature. Using Media Player Plus! Find as you type allows you to start typing a search term from anywhere in Media Player without having to be in the Search box. The search term will automatically fill in the search box and display the results.   You’ll also see Disable group headers in the Library Pane.   This setting will display library items in a continuous list similar to the functionality of Windows Media Player 10. Under User Interface you can enable displaying the currently playing artist and title in the title bar. This is enabled by default.   The Context Menu page allows you to enable context menu enhancements. The File menu enhancement allows you to add the Windows Context menu to Media Player on the library pane, list pane, or both. Right click on a Title, select File, and you’ll see the Windows Context Menu. Right-click on a title and select Tag Editor Plus. Tag Editor Plus allows you to quickly edit media tags.   The Advanced tab displays a number of tags that Media Player usually doesn’t show. Only the tags with the notepad and pencil icon are editable.   The Restore Plug-ins page allows you to configure which plug-ins should be automatically restored after a Media Player crash. The Restore Media at Startup page allows you to configure Media Player to resume playing the last playlist, track, and even whether it was playing or paused at the time the application was closed. So, if you close out in the middle of a song, it will begin playing from that point the next time you open Media Player. You can also set Media Player to rewind a certain number of seconds from where you left off. This is especially useful if you are in the middle of watching a movie. There’s also the option to have your currently playing song sent to Windows Live Messenger. You can access the settings at any time by going to Tools, Plug-in properties, and selecting Windows Media Player Plus. Windows Media Plus is a nice little free plug-in for WMP 11 and 12 that brings a lot of additional functionality to Windows Media Player. If you use Media Player 11 or WMP 12 in Windows 7 as your main player, you might want to give this a try. Download Windows Media Player Plus! Similar Articles Productive Geek Tips Install and Use the VLC Media Player on Ubuntu LinuxFixing When Windows Media Player Library Won’t Let You Add FilesMake VLC Player Look like Windows Media Player 10Make VLC Player Look like Windows Media Player 11Make Windows Media Player Automatically Open in Mini Player Mode TouchFreeze Alternative in AutoHotkey The Icy Undertow Desktop Windows Home Server – Backup to LAN The Clear & Clean Desktop Use This Bookmarklet to Easily Get Albums Use AutoHotkey to Assign a Hotkey to a Specific Window Latest Software Reviews Tinyhacker Random Tips Xobni Plus for Outlook All My Movies 5.9 CloudBerry Online Backup 1.5 for Windows Home Server Snagit 10 Easily Create More Bookmark Toolbars in Firefox Filevo is a Cool File Hosting & Sharing Site Get a free copy of WinUtilities Pro 2010 World Cup Schedule Boot Snooze – Reboot and then Standby or Hibernate Customize Everything Related to Dates, Times, Currency and Measurement in Windows 7

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• SOA 10g Developing a Simple Hello World Process

  - by [email protected]

  Softwares & Hardware Needed Intel Pentium D CPU 3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows XP System ( Thats what i am using ) You could as well use Linux , but please choose High End RAM 10G SOA Suite from Oracle(TM) , Read Installation documents at www.Oracle.com J Developer 10.1.3.3 Official Documents at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/bpel/index.html java -version Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode)BPEL Introduction - Developing a Simple Hello World Process  Synchronous BPEL Process      This Exercise focuses on developing a Synchronous Process, which mean you give input to the BPEL Process you get output immediately no waiting at all. The Objective of this exercise is to give input as name and it greets with Hello Appended by that name example, if I give input as "James" the BPEL process returns "Hello James". 1. Open the Oracle JDeveloper click on File -> New Application give the name "JamesApp" you can give your own name if it pleases you. Select the folder where you want to place the application. Click "OK" 2. Right Click on the "JamesApp" in the Application Navigator, Select New Menu. 3. Select "Projects" under "General" and "BPEL Process Project", click "OK" these steps remain same for all BPEL Projects 4. Project Setting Wizard Appears, Give the "Process Name" as "MyBPELProc" and Namespace as http://xmlns.james.com/ MyBPELProc, Select Template as "Synchronous BPEL Process click "Next" 5. Accept the input and output schema names as it is, click "Finish" 6. You would see the BPEL Process Designer, some of the folders such as Integration content and Resources are created and few more files 7. Assign Activity : Allows Assigning values to variables or copying values of one variable to another and also do some string manipulation or mathematical operations In the component palette at extreme right, select Process Activities from the drop down, and drag and drop "Assign" between "receive Input" and "replyOutput" 8. You can right click and edit the Assign activity and give any suitable name "AssignHello", 9. Select "Copy Operation" Tab create "Copy Operation" 10. In the From variables click on expression builder, select input under "input variable", Click on insert into expression bar, complete the concat syntax, Note to use "Ctrl+space bar" inside expression window to Auto Populate the expression as shown in the figure below. What we are actually doing here is concatenating the String "Hello ", with the variable value received through the variable named "input" 11. Observe that once an expression is completed the "To Variable" is assigned to a variable by name "result" 12. Finally the copy variable looks as below 13. It's the time to deploy, start the SOA Suite 14. Establish connection to the Server from JDeveloper, this can be done adding a New Application Server under Connection, give the server name, username and password and test connection. 15. Deploy the "MyBPELProc" to the "default domain" 16. http://localhost:8080/ allows connecting to SOA Suite web portal, click on "BPEL Control" , login with the username "oc4jadmin" password what ever you gave during installation 17. "MyBPELProc" is visisble under "Deployed BPEL Processes" in the "Dashboard" Tab, click on the it 18. Initiate tab open to accept input, enter data such as input is "James" click on "Post XML Button" 19. Click on Visual Flow 20. Click on receive Input , it shows "James" as input received 21. Click on reply Output, it shows "Hello James" so the BPEL process is successfully executed. 22. It may be worth seeing all the instance created everytime a BPEL process is executed by giving some inputs. Purge All button allows to delete all the unwanted previous instances of BPEL process, dont worry it wont delete the BPEL process itself :-) 23. It may also be some importance to understand the XSD File which holds input & output variable names & data types. 24. You could drag n drop variables as elements over sequence at the designer or directly edit the XML Source file. 

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• TestDriven.Net 3.0 – All Systems Go

  - by Jamie Cansdale

  I’m pleased to announce that TestDriven.Net 3.0 is now available. Finally! I know many of you will already be using the Beta and RC versions, but if you look at the release notes you’ll see there’s been many refinements since then, so I highly recommend you install the RTM version. Here is a quick summary of a few new features: Visual Studio 2010 supports targeting multiple versions of the .NET framework (multi-targeting). This means you can easily upgrade your Visual Studio 2005/2008 solutions without necessarily converting them to use .NET 4.0. TestDriven.Net will execute your tests using the .NET version your test project is targeting (see ‘Properties > Application > Target framework’). There is now first class support for MSTest when using Visual Studio 2008 & 2010. Previous versions of TestDriven.Net had support for a limited number of MSTest attributes. This version supports virtually all MSTest unit testing related attributes, including support for deployment item and data driven test attributes. You should also find this test runner is quick. ;) There is a new ‘Go To Test/Code’ command on the code context menu. You can think of this as Ctrl-Tab for test driven developers; it will quickly flip back and forth between your tests and code under test. I recommend assigning a keyboard shortcut to the ‘TestDriven.NET.GoToTestOrCode’ command. NCover can now be used for code coverage on .NET 4.0. This is only officially supported since NCover 3.2 (your mileage may vary if you’re using the 1.5.8 version). Rather than clutter the ‘Output’ window, ignored or skipped tests will be placed on the ‘Task List’. You can double-click on these items to navigate to the offending test (or assign a keyboard shortcut to ‘View.NextTask’). If you’re using a Team, Premium or Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2005-2010, a new ‘Test With > Performance’ command will be available. This command will perform instrumented performance profiling on your target code. A particular focus of this version has been to make it more keyboard friendly. Here’s a list of commands you will probably want to assign keyboard shortcuts to: Name Default What I use TestDriven.NET.RunTests Run tests in context   Alt + T TestDriven.NET.RerunTests Repeat test run   Alt + R TestDriven.NET.GoToTestOrCode Flip between tests and code   Alt + G TestDriven.NET.Debugger Run tests with debugger   Alt + D View.Output Show the ‘Output’ window Ctrl+ Alt + O   Edit.BreakLine Edit code in stack trace Enter   View.NextError Jump to next failed test Ctrl + Shift + F12   View.NextTask Jump to next skipped test   Alt + S   By default the ‘Output’ window will automatically activate when there is test output or a failed test (this is an option). The cursor will be positioned on the stack trace of the last failed test, ready for you to hit ‘Enter’ to jump to the fail point or ‘Esc’ to return to your source (assuming your ‘Output’ window is set to auto-hide).  If your ‘Output’ window isn’t set to auto-hide, you’ll need to hit ‘Ctrl + Alt + O’ then ‘Enter’. Alternatively you can use ‘Ctrl + Shift + F12’ (View.NextError) to navigate between all failed tests.   For more frequent updates or to give feedback, you can find me on twitter here. I hope you enjoy this version. Let me know how you get on. :)

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• Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group - How SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services could change yo

  - by dmccollough

  Bio: Corey Roth is a consultant at Stonebridge specializing in SharePoint solutions in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten plus years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. Abstract: How SharePoint 2010 Business Connectivity Services could change your life - The New BDC How many hours have your wasted building simple ASP.NET applications to do nothing more than simple CRUD operations against a database.  Many tools have made this easier, but now it's so easy, you'll be up and running in minutes.  This session will show you hot easy it is to get started integrating external data from your line of business systems in SharePoint 2010.  You will learn how to register an external content type using SharePoint Designer based upon a database table or web service and then build an external list.  With external lists, you will see how you can perform CRUD operations on your line of business directly from SharePoint without ever having to do manual configuration in XML files.  Finally, we will walk through how to create custom edit forms for your list using InfoPath 2010. Agenda: 6pm - 6:30 Pizza and Mingle - Sponsored by TekSystems 6:30 - 6:45 Announcements 6:45 - 7:45 Presentation! 7:45 - 8:00 Drawings and Door Prizes Location: TCC (Tulsa Community College) Northeast Campus 3727 East Apache Tulsa, OK 74115 918-594-8000 Campus Map | Live | Yahoo | Google | MapQuest Door Prizes: We will be giving away one of each of these: XBox 360 - Halo 3 ODST Telerik Premium Collection ($1300.00 value) ReSharper ($199.00 value) SQLSets ($149.00 value) 64 bit Windows 7 Introducing Windows 7 for Developers Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform Sponsors: Thanks to our sponsors: TekSystems - Thanks for purchasing the Pizza for our meetings. ISOCentric - Thanks for providing us hosting for the groups web site. Tulsa Community College - Thanks for providing us a place to have our meetings. NEVRON - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away. INETA.org - For allowing us to be a Charter Member and providing awesome Speakers! PERPETUUM Software - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away. Telerik - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away. GrapeCity - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away. SQLSets - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away. K2 - Thanks for providing us prizes to give away. Microsoft - For providing us with a lot of support and product giveaways! Orielly books - For providing us with books and discounts. Wrox books - For providing us with books and discounts. Have any special requests? Let us know at this link: http://tinyurl.com/lg5o38. RSVP for this month's meeting by responding to this thread: http://tinyurl.com/yafkzel . (Must be logged in to the site) Be SURE to RSVP no later than Noon on April 12th and you will get an extra entry for the prize drawings! So, do it now, before you forget and miss out! Show up for the first time or bring a new buddy and you both get TWO extra entries!

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• Developer’s Life – Every Developer is a Batman

  - by Pinal Dave

  Batman is one of the darkest superheroes in the fantasy canon.  He does not come to his powers through any sort of magical coincidence or radioactive insect, but through a lot of psychological scarring caused by witnessing the death of his parents.  Despite his dark back story, he possesses a lot of admirable abilities that I feel bear comparison to developers. Batman has the distinct advantage that his alter ego, Bruce Wayne is a millionaire (or billionaire in today’s reboots).  This means that he can spend his time working on his athletic abilities, building a secret lair, and investing his money in cool tools.  This might not be true for developers (well, most developers), but I still think there are many parallels. So how are developers like Batman? Well, read on my list of reasons. Develop Skills Batman works on his skills.  He didn’t get the strength to scale Gotham’s skyscrapers by inheriting his powers or suffering an industrial accident.  Developers also hone their skills daily.  They might not be doing pull-ups and scaling buldings, but I think their skills are just as impressive. Clear Goals Batman is driven to build a better Gotham.  He knows that the criminal who killed his parents was a small-time thief, not a super villain – so he has larger goals in mind than simply chasing one villain.  He wants his city as a whole to be better.  Developers are also driven to make things better.  It can be easy to get hung up on one problem, but in the end it is best to focus on the well-being of the system as a whole. Ultimate Teamplayers Batman is the hero Gotham needs – even when that means appearing to be the bad guys.  Developers probably know that feeling well.  Batman takes the fall for a crime he didn’t commit, and developers often have to deliver bad news about the limitations of their networks and servers.  It’s not always a job filled with glory and thanks, but someone has to do it. Always Ready Batman and the Boy Scouts have this in common – they are always prepared.  Let’s add developers to this list.  Batman has an amazing tool belt with gadgets and gizmos, and let’s not even get into all the functions of the Batmobile!  Developers’ skills might be the knowledge and skills they have developed, not tools they can carry in a utility belt, but that doesn’t make them any less impressive. 100% Dedication Bruce Wayne cultivates the personality of a playboy, never keeping the same girlfriend for long and spending his time partying.  Even though he hides it, his driving force is his deep concern and love for his friends and the city as a whole.  Developers also care a lot about their company and employees – even when it is driving them crazy.  You do your best work when you care about your job on a personal level. Quality Output Batman believes the city deserves to be saved.  The citizens might have a love-hate relationship with both Batman and Bruce Wayne, and employees might not always appreciate developers.  Batman and developers, though, keep working for the best of everyone. I hope you are all enjoying reading about developers-as-superheroes as much as I am enjoying writing about them.  Please tell me how else developers are like Superheroes in the comments – especially if you know any developers who are faster than a speeding bullet and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)Filed under: PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, T SQL Tagged: Developer, Superhero

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• Implementing Release Notes in TFS Team Build 2010

  - by Jakob Ehn

  In TFS Team Build (all versions), each build is associated with changesets and work items. To determine which changesets that should be associated with the current build, Team Build finds the label of the “Last Good Build” an then aggregates all changesets up unitl the label for the current build. Basically this means that if your build is failing, every changeset that is checked in will be accumulated in this list until the build is successful. All well, but there uis a dimension missing here, regarding to releases. Often you can run several release builds until you actually deploy the result of the build to a test or production system. When you do this, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to send the customer a nice release note that contain all work items and changeset since the previously deployed version? At our company, we have developed a Release Repository, which basically is a siple web site with a SQL database as storage. Every time we run a Release Build, the resulting installers, zip-files, sql scripts etc, gets pushed into the release repositor together with the relevant build information. This information contains things such as start time, who triggered the build etc. Also, it contains the associated changesets and work items. When deploying the MSI’s for a new version, we mark the build as Deployed in the release repository. The depoyed status is stored in the release repository database, but it could also have been implemented by setting the Build Quality for that build to Deployed. When generating the release notes, the web site simple runs through each release build back to the previous build that was marked as Deplyed, and aggregates the work items and changesets: Here is a sample screenshot on how this looks for a sample build/application The web site is available both for us and also for the customers and testers, which means that they can easily get the latest version of a particular application and at the same time see what changes are included in this version. There is a lot going on in the Release Build Process that drives this in our TFS 2010 server, but in this post I will show how you can access and read the changeset and work item information in a custom activity. Since Team Build associates changesets and work items for each build, this information is (partially) available inside the build process template. The Associate Changesets and Work Items for non-Shelveset Builds activity (located inside the Try  Compile, Test, and Associate Changesets and Work Items activity) defines and populates a variable called associatedWorkItems   You can see that this variable is an IList containing instances of the Changeset class (from the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client namespace). Now, if you want to access this variable later on in the build process template, you need to declare a new variable in the corresponding scope and the assign the value to this variable. In this sample, I declared a variable called assocChangesets in the RunAgent sequence, which basically covers the whol compile, test and drop part of the build process:   Now, you need to assign the value from the AssociatedChangesets to this variable. This is done using the Assign workflow activity:   Now you can add a custom activity any where inside the RunAgent sequence and use this variable. NB: Of course your activity must place somewhere after the variable has been poplated. To finish off, here is code snippet that shows how you can read the changeset and work item information from the variable.   First you add an InArgumet on your activity where you can pass i the variable that we defined. [RequiredArgument] public InArgument<IList<Changeset>> AssociatedChangesets { get; set; } Then you can traverse all the changesets in the list, and for each changeset use the WorkItems property to get the work items that were associated in that changeset: foreach (Changeset ch in associatedChangesets) { // Add change theChangesets.Add( new AssociatedChangeset(ch.ChangesetId, ch.ArtifactUri, ch.Committer, ch.Comment, ch.ChangesetId)); foreach (var wi in ch.WorkItems) { theWorkItems.Add( new AssociatedWorkItem(wi["System.AssignedTo"].ToString(), wi.Id, wi["System.State"].ToString(), wi.Title, wi.Type.Name, wi.Id, wi.Uri)); } } NB: AssociatedChangeset and AssociatedWorkItem are custom classes that we use internally for storing this information that is eventually pushed to the release repository.

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• Automatic Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support with VB 2010

  - by ScottGu

  [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the eighteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. A few days ago I blogged about two new language features coming with C# 4.0: optional parameters and named arguments.  Today I’m going to post about a few of my favorite new features being added to VB with VS 2010: Auto-Implemented Properties, Collection Initializers, and Implicit Line Continuation support. Auto-Implemented Properties Prior to VB 2010, implementing properties within a class using VB required you to explicitly declare the property as well as implement a backing field variable to store its value.  For example, the code below demonstrates how to implement a “Person” class using VB 2008 that exposes two public properties - “Name” and “Age”:   While explicitly declaring properties like above provides maximum flexibility, I’ve always found writing this type of boiler-plate get/set code tedious when you are simply storing/retrieving the value from a field.  You can use VS code snippets to help automate the generation of it – but it still generates a lot of code that feels redundant.  C# 2008 introduced a cool new feature called automatic properties that helps cut down the code quite a bit for the common case where properties are simply backed by a field.  VB 2010 also now supports this same feature.  Using the auto-implemented properties feature of VB 2010 we can now implement our Person class using just the code below: When you declare an auto-implemented property, the VB compiler automatically creates a private field to store the property value as well as generates the associated Get/Set methods for you.  As you can see above – the code is much more concise and easier to read. The syntax supports optionally initializing the properties with default values as well if you want to: You can learn more about VB 2010’s automatic property support from this MSDN page. Collection Initializers VB 2010 also now supports using collection initializers to easily create a collection and populate it with an initial set of values.  You identify a collection initializer by declaring a collection variable and then use the From keyword followed by braces { } that contain the list of initial values to add to the collection.  Below is a code example where I am using the new collection initializer feature to populate a “Friends” list of Person objects with two people, and then bind it to a GridView control to display on a page: You can learn more about VB 2010’s collection initializer support from this MSDN page. Implicit Line Continuation Support Traditionally, when a statement in VB has been split up across multiple lines, you had to use a line-continuation underscore character (_) to indicate that the statement wasn’t complete.  For example, with VB 2008 the below LINQ query needs to append a “_” at the end of each line to indicate that the query is not complete yet: The VB 2010 compiler and code editor now adds support for what is called “implicit line continuation support” – which means that it is smarter about auto-detecting line continuation scenarios, and as a result no longer needs you to explicitly indicate that the statement continues in many, many scenarios.  This means that with VB 2010 we can now write the above code with no “_” at all: The implicit line continuation feature also works well when editing XML Literals within VB (which is pretty cool). You can learn more about VB 2010’s Implicit Line Continuation support and many of the scenarios it supports from this MSDN page (scroll down to the “Implicit Line Continuation” section to find details). Summary The above three VB language features are but a few of the new language and code editor features coming with VB 2010.  Visit this site to learn more about some of the other VB language features coming with the release.  Also subscribe to the VB team’s blog to learn more and stay up-to-date with the posts they the team regularly publishes. Hope this helps, Scott

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• URGENT: Firefox circular-dependency hell - Linux Mint 13 (based on Ubuntu 12.04)

  - by Tyler J Fisher

  Having difficulty re-installing Firefox, after an installation to resolve places.sqlite issues. It appears that I'm trapped in circular dependency hell. Need to resolve firefox dependency hell to attempt to resolve Tomcat6 project dependencies (don't ask), ASAP. Have been trying for hours. What I've done (brief) 1) sudo apt-get purge firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support 2) sudo apt-get update 3) sudo apt-get install firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support 4) sudo apt-get -f install Potential error sources: Found in(sudo apt-get install firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/firefox/extensions', which is also in package mint-search-addon 2012.05.11 So, /usr/lib/firefox/extensions doesn't even EXIST! Deleted /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701 as per recommendations. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Outputs: 1) sudo apt-get purge firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support me@machine ~ $ sudo apt-get purge firefox-gnome-support firefox firefox-globalmenu Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package firefox is not installed, so not removed The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox-globalmenu* firefox-gnome-support* 2 not fully installed or removed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 38 not upgraded. After this operation, 460 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... dpkg: warning: files list file for package `mysqltuner' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. (Reading database ... 192642 files and directories currently installed.) Removing firefox-globalmenu ... Removing firefox-gnome-support ... 3) me@machine ~ $ sudo apt-get install firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: latex-xft-fonts The following NEW packages will be installed: firefox firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 38 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/24.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 54.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... dpkg: warning: files list file for package `mysqltuner' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. (Reading database ... 192619 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firefox (from .../firefox_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/firefox/extensions', which is also in package mint-search-addon 2012.05.11 Selecting previously unselected package firefox-globalmenu. Unpacking firefox-globalmenu (from .../firefox-globalmenu_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package firefox-gnome-support. Unpacking firefox-gnome-support (from .../firefox-gnome- support_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701-0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for mintsystem ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_18.0~a2~hg20121027r113701- 0ubuntu1~umd1~precise_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 4) sudo apt-get -f install 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, and 38 not upgraded Ideas? Tomcat6 only deploys my web application successfully in Firefox, not Chrome, so I'm really hoping to resolve this dependency issue.

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• Designing an email system to guarantee delivery

  - by GlenH7

  We are looking to expand our use of email for notification purposes. We understand it will generate more inbox volume, but we are being selective about which events we fire notification on in order to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high. The big question we are struggling with is designing a system that guarantees that the email was delivered. If an email isn't delivered, we will consider that an exception event that needs to be investigated. In reality, I say almost guarantees because there aren't any true guarantees with email. We're just looking for a practical solution to making sure the email got there and experiences others have had with the various approaches to guaranteeing delivery. For the TL;DR crowd - how do we go about designing a system to guarantee delivery of emails? What techniques should we consider so we know the emails were delivered? Our biggest area of concern is what techniques to use so that we know when a message is sent out that it either lands in an inbox or it failed and we need to do something else. Additional requirements: We're not at the stage of including an escalation response, but we'll want that in the future or so we think. Most notifications will be internal to our enterprise, but we will have some notifications being sent to external clients. Some of our application is in a hosted environment. We haven't determined if those servers can access our corporate email servers for relaying or if they'll be acting as their own mail servers. Base design / modules (at the moment): A module to assign tracking identification A module to send out emails A module to receive delivery notification (perhaps this is the same as the email module) A module that checks sent messages against delivery notification and alerts on undelivered email. Some references: Atwood: Send some email Email Tracking Some approaches: Request a response (aka read-receipt or Message Disposition Notification). Seems prone to failure since we have cross-compatibility issues due to differing mail servers and software. Return receipt (aka Delivery Status Notification). Not sure if all mail servers honor this request or not Require an action and therefore prove reply. Seems burdensome to force the recipients to perform an additional task not related to resolving the issue. And no, we haven't come up with a way of linking getting the issue fixed to whether or not the email was received. Force a click-through / Other site sign-in. Similar to requiring some sort of action, this seems like an additional burden and will annoy the users. On the other hand, it seems the most likely to guarantee someone received the notification. Hidden image tracking. Not all email providers automatically load the image, and how would we associate the image(s) with the email tracking ID? Outsource delivery. This gets us out of the email business, but goes back to how to guarantee the out-sourcer's receipt and subsequent delivery to the end recipient. As a related concern, there will be an n:n relationship between issue notification and recipients. The 1 issue : n recipients subset isn't as much of a concern although if we had a delivery failure we would want to investigate and fix the core issue. Of bigger concern is n issues : 1 recipient, and we're specifically concerned in making sure that all n issues were received by the recipient. How does forum software or issue tracking software handle this requirement? If a tracking identifier is used, Where is it placed in the email? In the Subject, or the Body?

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• Keeping up with Technology

  - by kennedysteve

  If you're like me, you have a hard time keeping up with all the technologies out there. The reality is there's too many new technologies (languages, methodologies,  tools, etc). One of the ways I try to keep up with everything is by using good ol' RSS feeds in conjunction with Google Reader. Google Reader is both an online aggregator of RSS feeds, and it also has a good companion app on Google Android. The nicest part of Google Reader for me is the "All Listings" view which gives me a reverse chronological view of ALL articles (mixed together) regardless of the actual RSS feed.  This way, I get to see the newest articles first. I can then choose to hide the articles I've viewed, etc. Here is a list of my RSS feeds. Admittedly, some of these are all over the spectrum. But you might find one or two interesting. .NET Rocks! RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/netRocksFullMp3Downloads Main Web Site = http://www.dotnetrocks.com Channel 9 RSS = http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS Main Web Site = http://channel9.msdn.com/ CodePlex  RSS = http://www.codeplex.com/site/feeds/rss Main Web Site = http://www.codeplex.com/site/feeds/rss Connected Show Developer Podcast! RSS = http://feeds.connectedshow.com/ConnectedShow Main Web Site = http://www.ConnectedShow.com/ dnrTV RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/DnrtvWmv?format=xml Main Web Site = http://dnrtv.com ebookshare RSS = http://www.ebookshare.net/feed/ Main Web Site = http://www.ebookshare.net Geekswithblogs.net RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekswithblogs Main Web Site = http://geekswithblogs.net/mainfeed.aspx Gmail Blog RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGmailBlog?format=xml Main Web Site = http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ Google Mobile Blog RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/OfficialGoogleMobileBlog Main Web Site = http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/ Herding Code RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/herdingcode Main Web Site = http://herdingcode.com LearnVisualStudio.NET Videos RSS = http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/videos.rss Main Web Site = http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ Microsoft Learning Upcoming = Microsoft Learning Upcoming Titles RSS = http://learning.microsoft.com/rss/en-US/upcomingtitles?brand=Learning Main Web Site = http://learning.microsoft.com:80/rss/en-US/upcomingtitles?brand=Learning MS On-demand Webcasts RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/communities/rss.aspx?&Title=On-Demand+Webcasts&RssTitle=Microsoft+Webcasts%3A+On-Demand+Webcasts&CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&WebNewsURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fevents%2FEventDetails.aspx&CMTYRawShape=list&Params=+%0D%0A%09~CMTYDataSvcParams%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'EventType'+Value%3D'OnDemandWebcast'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'ProviderID'+Value%3D'A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'StartDate'+Value%3D'06%2F30%2F2006'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~arg+Name%3D'EndDate'+Value%3D'Now%2B0'%2F%5E%0D%0A%09~%2FCMTYDataSvcParams%5E+&NumberOfItems=100 Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx MS Podcasts for Devs RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?podcast=rss&audience=Audience-e5381407-359f-4922-97d0-0237af790eee&pageId=x40 Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?audience=Audience-e5381407-359f-4922-97d0-0237af790eee&pageId=x40&WT.rss_ev=f MSDN Blogs RSS = http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mainfeed.aspx?Type=BlogsOnly Main Web Site = http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ MSDN Radio RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?topic=&audience=&view=&pageId=x73&seriesID=Series-b9139976-8d48-4249-9b89-ccd17891de1e.xml&podcast=rss&type=wma Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?seriesID=Series-b9139976-8d48-4249-9b89-ccd17891de1e.xml&pageId=x73&WT.rss_ev=f O'Reilly Deal of the Day RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/ebookdealoftheday Main Web Site = http://oreilly.com O'Reilly New RSS = http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/newbooks Main Web Site = http://oreilly.com/ Safari Books Online RSS = http://my.safaribooksonline.com/rss Main Web Site = http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ ScottGu's Blog RSS = http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/rss.aspx Main Web Site = http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/default.aspx SourceForge Community Blog RSS = http://sourceforge.net/blog/feed/ Main Web Site = http://sourceforge.net/blog Stack Overflow RSS = http://blog.stackoverflow.com/feed/ Main Web Site = http://blog.stackoverflow.com Stepcase Lifehack RSS = http://www.lifehack.org/feed/ Main Web Site = http://www.lifehack.org TechNet Radio RSS = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?topic=&audience=&view=&pageId=x73&seriesID=Series-cc4e3db2-9212-43c5-a57b-d43fa31e6452.xml&podcast=rss&type=wma Main Web Site = http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?seriesID=Series-cc4e3db2-9212-43c5-a57b-d43fa31e6452.xml&pageId=x73&WT.rss_ev=f Wrox All New Titles RSS = http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/feed/RSS_WROX_ALLNEW.xml Main Web Site = http://www.wrox.com

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• Build Explorer version 1.1 for Visual Studio Team Explorer is released

  - by terje

  Our free extension to Visual Studio , the folder based Build Explorer Version 1.1 has now been released, and uploaded to the Visual Studio Gallery and Codeplex. We have collected up a few changes and some bugs, as follows: Changes: Queue Default Builds can now be optionally fully enabled, fully disabled or enabled just for leaf nodes (=disabled for folders).  If you got a large number of builds it was pretty scary to be able to launch all of them with just one click.  However, it is nice to avoid having the dialog box up when you want to just run off a single build.  That’s the reasoning between the 3rd choice here. Auto fill-in of the builds at start up and refresh  This was a request that came up a lot, and which was also irritating to us.  When the Team Project is opened, the Build explorer will start by itself and fill up it’s tree. So you don’t need to click the node anymore. There was also quite a bit of flashing when the tree filled up, this has been reduced to just a single top level fill before it collapses the node. The speed of the buildup of the tree has also been increased. The “All Build Definitions” node is now shown on top of the list Login box appeared in certain cross domain situations. This was a fix for the TF30063 authentication problem we had in the beginning.  Hopefully the new code has that fixed properly so that both the login box and the TF30063 are gone forever.  Our testing so far seems to indicate it works.  If anyone gets a real problem here there are two workarounds: 1) Turn off the auto refresh to reduce the issue. If this doesn’t fix it, then 2) please reinstall the former version (go to the codeplex download site if you don’t have it anymore)  Write a comment to this blog post with a description of what happens, and I will send a temporary fix asap. Bug fixes: The folder name matching was case sensitive, so “Application.CI” and “application.CI” created two different folders.  View all builds not shown for leaf odes, and view builds didn’t work in all cases.  There was some inconsistencies here which have been fixed. Partly fixed:  The context menu to queue a new build for disabled builds should be removed, but that was a difficult one, and is still on the list, but the command will not do anything for a disabled build. Using the Queue Default Builds on a folder, and if it had some disabled builds below an error box appeared and ruined the whole experience. As a result of these fixes there has been introduced some new options, as shown below:   The two first settings, the Separator symbol and the options for how to handle Queuing of default builds are set per Team Project, and is stored in the TFS source control under the BuildProcessTemplates folder, with the name Inmeta.VisualStudio.BuildExplorer.Settings.xml The next two settings need some explanations.  They handle the behavior for the auto update of the build folders.  First, these are stored in the local registry per user, at the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software\Inmeta\BuildExplorer. The first option Use Timed Refresh at Startup, if turned off, you will need to click the node as it is done in Version 1.0.  The second option is a timed value, the time after the Build explorer node is created and until the scanning of the Build folders start.  It is assumed that this is enough, and the tests so far indicates this.  If you have very many builds and you see that the explorer don’t get them all, try to increase this value, and of course, notify me of your case, either here or on the Visual Gallery site.

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• Social Media Talk: Facebook, Really?? How Has It Become This Popular??

  - by david.talamelli

  If you have read some of my previous posts over the past few years either here or on my personal blog David's Journal on Tap you will know I am a Social Media enthusiast. I use various social media sites everday in both my work and personal life. I was surprised to read today on Mashable.com that Facebook now Commands 41% of Social Media Trafic. When I think of the Social Media sites I use most, the sites that jump into my mind first are LinkedIn, Blogging and Twitter. I do use Facebook in both work and in my personal life but on the list of sites I use it probably ranks closer to the bottom of the list rather than the top. I know Facebook is engrained in everything these days - but really I am not a huge Facebook fan - and I am finding that over the past 3-6 months my interest in Facebook is going down rather than up. From a work perspective - SM sites let me connect with candidates and communities and they help me talk about the things that I am doing here at Oracle. From a personal perspective SM sites let me keep in touch with friends and family both here and overseas in a really simple and easy way. Sites like LinkedIn give me a great way to proactively talk to both active and passive candidates. Twitter is fantastic to keep in touch with industry trends and keep up to date on the latest trending topics as well as follow conversations about whatever keyword you want to follow. Blogging lets me share my thoughts and ideas with others and while FB does have some great benefits I don't think the benefits outweigh the negatives of using FB. I use TweetDeck to keep track of my twitter feeds, the latest LinkedIn updates and Facebook updates. Tweetdeck is a great tool as it consolidates these 3 SM sites for me and I can quickly scan to see the latest news on any of them. From what I have seen from Facebook it looks like 70%-80% of people are using FB to grow their farm on farmville, start a mafia war on mafiawars or read their horoscope, check their love percentage, etc...... In between all these "updates" every now and again you do see a real update from someone who actually has something to say but there is so much "white noise" on FB from all the games and apps that is hard to see the real messages from all the 'games' information. I don't like having to scroll through what seems likes pages of farmville updates only to get one real piece of information. For me this is where FB's value really drops off. While I use SM everyday I try to use SM effectively. Sifting through so much noise is not effective and really I am not all that interested in Farmville, MafiaWars or any similar game/app. But what about Groups and Facebook Ads?? Groups are ok, but I am not sure I would call them SM game changers - yes there is a group for everything out there, but a group whether it is on FB or not is only as good as the community that supports and participates in it. Many of the Groups on FB (and elsewhere) are set up and never used or promoted by the moderator. I have heard that FB ads do have an impact, and I have not really looked at them - the question of cost jumps and return on investment comes to my mind though. FB does have some benefits, it is a great way to keep in touch with people and a great way to talk to others. I think it would have been interesting to see a different statistic measuring how effective that 41% of Social Media Traffic via FB really is or is it just a case of more people jumping online to play games. To me FB does not equal SM effectiveness, at the moment it is a tool that I sometimes need to use as opposed to want to use. This article was originally posted on David Talamelli's Blog - David's Journal on Tap

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• Text Expansion Awareness for UX Designers: Points to Consider

  - by ultan o'broin

  Awareness of translated text expansion dynamics is important for enterprise applications UX designers (I am assuming all source text for translation is in English, though apps development can takes place in other natural languages too). This consideration goes beyond the standard 'character multiplication' rule and must take into account the avoidance of other layout tricks that a designer might be tempted to try. Follow these guidelines. For general text expansion, remember the simple rule that the shorter the word is in the English, the longer it will need to be in English. See the examples provided by Richard Ishida of the W3C and you'll get the idea. So, forget the 30 percent or one inch minimum expansion rule of the old Forms days. Unfortunately remembering convoluted text expansion rules, based as a percentage of the US English character count can be tough going. Try these: Up to 10 characters: 100 to 200% 11 to 20 characters: 80 to 100% 21 to 30 characters: 60 to 80% 31 to 50 characters: 40 to 60% 51 to 70 characters: 31 to 40% Over 70 characters: 30% (Source: IBM) So it might be easier to remember a rule that if your English text is less than 20 characters then allow it to double in length (200 percent), and then after that assume an increase by half the length of the text (50%). (Bear in mind that ADF can apply truncation rules on some components in English too). (If your text is stored in a database, developers must make sure the table column widths can accommodate the expansion of your text when translated based on byte size for the translated character and not numbers of characters. Use Unicode. One character does not equal one byte in the multilingual enterprise apps world.) Rely on a graceful transformation of translated text. Let all pages to resize dynamically so the text wraps and flow naturally. ADF pages supports this already. Think websites. Don't hard-code alignments. Use Start and End properties on components and not Left or Right. Don't force alignments of components on the page by using texts of a certain length as spacers. Use proper label positioning and anchoring in ADF components or other technologies. Remember that an increase in text length means an increase in vertical space too when pages are resized. So don't hard-code vertical heights for any text areas. Don't be tempted to manually create text or printed reports this way either. They cannot be translated successfully, and are very difficult to maintain in English. Use XML, HTML, RTF and so on. Check out what Oracle BI Publisher offers. Don't force wrapping by using tricks such as /n or /t characters or HTML BR tags or forced page breaks. Once the text is translated the alignment will be destroyed. The position of the breaking character or tag would need to be moved anyway, or even removed. When creating tables, then use table components. Don't use manually created tables that reply on word length to maintain column and row alignment. For example, don't use codeblock elements in HTML; use the proper table elements instead. Once translated, the alignment of manually formatted tabular data is destroyed. Finally, if there is a space restriction, then don't use made-up acronyms, abbreviations or some form of daft text speak to save space. Besides being incomprehensible in English, they may need full translations of the shortened words, even if they can be figured out. Use approved or industry standard acronyms according to the UX style rules, not as a space-saving device. Restricted Real Estate on Mobile Devices On mobile devices real estate is limited. Using shortened text is fine once it is comprehensible. Users in the mobile space prefer brevity too, as they are on the go, performing three-minute tasks, with no time to read lengthy texts. Using fragments and lightning up on unnecessary articles and getting straight to the point with imperative forms of verbs makes sense both on real estate and user experience grounds.

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• SQL SERVER – What is a Technology Evangelist?

  - by pinaldave

  When you hear that someone is an “evangelist” the first thing that might pop into your mind is the Christian church.  In fact, the term did come from Christianity, and basically means someone who spreads the news about their faith.  In the technology world, the same definition is true. Technology evangelists are individuals who, professionally or in their spare time, spread the news about the latest new products.  Sounds like a salesperson, right?  No they are absolutely different. Salespeople also keep up to date with a large number of people, and like to convince others to buy their product – and some will go to any lengths to sell!  An evangelist, on the other hand, is brutally honest about the product, even if sometimes it means not making a sale.  An evangelist is out there to tell the TRUTH.  A salesperson needs to make sales. An Evangelist offers a Solution independent of Technology used – a Salesperson offers Particular Technology. With this definition in mind, you can probably think of a few technology evangelists you already know.  Maybe it’s a relative or a neighbor, someone who loves keeping up with the latest trends and is always willing to tell you about them if you ask even the simplest question.  And, in fact, they probably are evangelists and don’t even know it.  For a long time, the work of technology evangelism was in the hands of community and community technology leaders. Luckily now various organizations have understood the importance of the community and helping community to reach their goals. This has lead them to create role of “Technology Evangelists”. Let me talk about one of the most famous Evangelist of the SQL Server technology. Technology Evangelist only belongs to technology and above any country, race, location or any other thing. They are dedicated to the technology. Vinod Kumar is such a man, who have given a lot to community. For years he was a Technology Evangelist for Microsoft, and maintained a blog that was dedicated to spreading his enthusiasm for his favorite products.  He is one of the most respected Evangelists in the field, and has done a lot of work to define the job for other professionals. Vinod’s career has since progressed to the Microsoft Technology Center (read his post), but he is continuing to be a strong presence in the evangelism community.  I have a lot of respect for Vinod.  He has done a lot for the community and technology evangelism.  Everybody has dream to serve community the way he does, and he is a great role model for evangelists everywhere. On his blog, Vinod created one of the best descriptions of a Technology Evangelist.  It defined the position and also made the distinction between evangelist and salesperson extremely clear.  I will include the highlights of that list here, because no one can say it better than Vinod: Bundle of energy – Passion is their middle name Wonderful Story tellers Empathy, Trust, Loyalty, Openness, Accessibility and Warmth Technology Enthusiast – Doers Love people, people and more people – Community oriented Unique Style and Leadership qualities !!! Self-Confident, Self-Motivated but a student (To read the full list, see: Evangelism Beyond Borders with Evangelists) His blog is a must-read for anyone interested in technology evangelism as a career or simply a hobby.  His advice about how to gain an audience and become a trusted advisor is the best in the business. I think there is an evangelist in everyone. I, too, consider myself a technology evangelist.  Regular readers of this blog will recognize that I am dedicated to bringing information to the masses, and that I pride myself on being both brutally and honest and giving every product fair consideration. I think there is no better way of saying following subject. “Once an Evangelist – Always an Evangelist!” Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)     Filed under: About Me, Database, MVP, Pinal Dave, PostADay, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology Tagged: Evangelist

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• No HDMI Audio with GeForce 9600GT and nForce board

  - by Bobby

  I've been trying to get HDMI with sound working for the last few days, and I'm a little bit out of ideas. (I've verified that the hardware/Setup works via Windows.) aplay does not list my HDMI device: $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 1: ALC662 rev1 Digital [ALC662 rev1 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 I've already compiled the alsa drivers (1.0.24) from a snapshot (with --with-oss=no) and added the line options snd-hda-intel model=auto # Tried 3stack-dig and 6stack-dig too to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. Still, the device does not show up. If it is important, the HDMI TV is at the moment not configured to be part of the X session (I've tried that to, at least with X restart, and it didn't change anything). What did I miss? $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 07c3 (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 630i memory controller (rev a1) 00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:03.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP73 SMBus (rev a1) 00:03.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100/nForce 630i USB (rev a1) 00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP73 [nForce 630i] USB 2.0 Controller (EHCI) (rev a1) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP73 IDE (rev a1) 00:09.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP73 High Definition Audio (rev a1) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP73 PCI Express bridge (rev a1) 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP73 IDE (rev a2) 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP73 Ethernet (rev a2) 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)   $ aplay -L default pulse Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server front:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog Front speakers surround40:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog Direct sample mixing device dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital Direct sample mixing device dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog Direct sample snooping device dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital Direct sample snooping device hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog Direct hardware device without any conversions hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital Direct hardware device without any conversions plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Analog Hardware device with all software conversions plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=1 HDA NVidia, ALC662 rev1 Digital Hardware device with all software conversions

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• SOA Suite 11g Asynchronous Testing with soapUI

  - by Greg Mally

  Overview The Enterprise Manager test harness that comes bundled with SOA Suite 11g is a great tool for doing smoke tests and some minor load testing. When a more robust testing tool is needed, often times soapUI is leveraged for many reasons ranging from ease of use to cost effective. However, when you want to start doing some more complex testing other than synchronous web services with static content, then the free version of soapUI becomes a bit more challenging. In this blog I will show you how to test asynchronous web services with soapUI free edition. The following assumes that you have a working knowledge of soapUI and will not go into concepts like setting up a project etc. For the basics, please review the documentation for soapUI: http://www.soapui.org/Getting-Started/ Asynchronous Web Service Testing in soapUI When invoking an asynchronous web service, the caller must provide a callback for the response. Since our testing will originate from soapUI, then it is only natural that soapUI would provide the callback mechanism. This mechanism in soapUI is called a MockService. In a nutshell, a soapUI MockService is a simulation of a Web Service (aka, a process listening on a port). We will go through the steps in setting up the MockService for a simple asynchronous BPEL process. After creating your soapUI project based on an asynchronous BPEL process, you will see something like the following: Notice that soapUI created an interface for both the request and the response (i.e., callback). The interface that was created for the callback will be used to create the MockService. Right-click on the callback interface and select the Generate MockService menu item: You will be presented with the Generate MockService dialogue where we will tweak the Path and possibly the port (depends upon what ports are available on the machine where soapUI will be running). We will adjust the Path to include the operation name (append /processResponse in this example) and the port of 8088 is fine: Once the MockService is created, you should have something like the following in soapUI: This window acts as a console/view into the callback process. When the play button is pressed (green triangle in the upper left-hand corner), soapUI will start a process running on the configured Port that will accept web service invocations on the configured Path: At this point we are “almost” ready to try out the asynchronous test. But first we must provide the web service addressing (WS-A) configuration on the request message. We will edit the message for the request interface that was generated when the project was created (SimpleAsyncBPELProcessBinding > process > Request 1 in this example). At the bottom of the request message editor you will find the WS-A configuration by left-clicking on the WS-A label: Here we will setup WS-A by changing the default values to: Must understand: TRUE Add default wsa:Action: Add default wsa:Action (checked) Reply to: ${host where soapUI is running}:${MockService Port}${MockService Path} … in this example: http://192.168.1.181:8088/mockSimpleAsyncBPELProcessCallbackBinding/processResponse We now are ready to run the asynchronous test from soapUI free edition. Make sure that the MockService you created is running and then push the play button for the request (green triangle in the upper left-hand corner of the request editor). If everything is configured correctly, you should see the response show up in the MockService window: To view the response message/payload, just double-click on a response message in the Message Log window of the MockService: At this point you can now expand the project to include a Test Suite for some load balance tests etc. This same topic has been covered in various detail on other sites/blogs, but I wanted to simplify and detail how this is done in the context of SOA Suite 11g. It also serves as a nice introduction to another blog of mine: SOA Suite 11g Dynamic Payload Testing with soapUI Free Edition.

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