webforms – Page 7 – Tarik Billa

Can I specify a custom location to “search for views” in ASP.NET MVC?

January 1, 2023 by Tarik

You can easily extend the WebFormViewEngine to specify all the locations you want to look in: public class CustomViewEngine : WebFormViewEngine { public CustomViewEngine() { var viewLocations = new[] { “~/Views/{1}/{0}.aspx”, “~/Views/{1}/{0}.ascx”, “~/Views/Shared/{0}.aspx”, “~/Views/Shared/{0}.ascx”, “~/AnotherPath/Views/{0}.ascx” // etc }; this.PartialViewLocationFormats = viewLocations; this.ViewLocationFormats = viewLocations; } } Make sure you remember to register the view engine … Read more

“Could not load type [Namespace].Global” causing me grief

December 28, 2022 by Tarik

One situation I’ve encountered which caused this problem is when you specify the platform for a build through “Build Configuration”. If you specify x86 as your build platform, visual studio will automatically assign bin/x86/Debug as your output directory for this project. This is perfectly valid for other project types, except for web applications where ASP.NET … Read more

“The given path’s format is not supported.”

December 21, 2022 by Tarik

Rather than using str_uploadpath + fileName, try using System.IO.Path.Combine instead: Path.Combine(str_uploadpath, fileName); which returns a string.

How can I get the button that caused the submit from the form submit event?

December 19, 2022 by Tarik

I leveraged document.activeElement as sketched in this answer: How to get the focused element with jQuery? $form.on(‘submit’, function() { var $btn = $(document.activeElement); if ( /* there is an activeElement at all */ $btn.length && /* it’s a child of the form */ $form.has($btn) && /* it’s really a submit element */ $btn.is(‘button[type=”submit”], input[type=”submit”], input[type=”image”]’) … Read more

How to do a Jquery Callback after form submit?

December 12, 2022 by Tarik

I just did this – $(“#myform”).bind(‘ajax:complete’, function() { // tasks to do }); And things worked perfectly . See this api documentation for more specific details.

Best way in asp.net to force https for an entire site?

October 14, 2022 by Tarik

Please use HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) from http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToEnableHTTPStrictTransportSecurityHSTSInIIS7.aspx <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”HTTP to HTTPS redirect” stopProcessing=”true”> <match url=”(.*)” /> <conditions> <add input=”{HTTPS}” pattern=”off” ignoreCase=”true” /> </conditions> <action type=”Redirect” url=”https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}” redirectType=”Permanent” /> </rule> </rules> <outboundRules> <rule name=”Add Strict-Transport-Security when HTTPS” enabled=”true”> <match serverVariable=”RESPONSE_Strict_Transport_Security” pattern=”.*” /> <conditions> <add input=”{HTTPS}” pattern=”on” ignoreCase=”true” … Read more

A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (*)

October 7, 2022 by Tarik

If you’re using .NET 4.0 you should be able to allow these urls via the web.config <system.web> <httpRuntime requestPathInvalidCharacters=”<,>,%,&,:,\,?” /> </system.web> Note, I’ve just removed the asterisk (*), the original default string is: <httpRuntime requestPathInvalidCharacters=”<,>,*,%,&,:,\,?” /> See this question for more details.