I am debugging a web form application using Microsoft Visual Studio. Normally there are a number of pages displayed, starting with default.aspx, in sequence after certain buttons have been pressed on each. The default page has been set to default.aspx.
When I start the application using the debugger it brings up the third page in the sequence rather
than starting at default.aspx.
Is some information being stored in the background that influences which pages are presented first?
Check the web tab of your project. During working and debugging, I MUCH perfer that VS launches the page I am working on. (what else would one want it to do????).
I mean, in some cases, sure, the page and testing of code must start from a known page. Then of course the user does things, sesson() vars etc. get set, and thus just "jumping" right into a page does not really allow you to correctly test your code or even launch that page out of sequence - so I well get this part and issue.
However, once logged in, (and the site remembers me), there is OFTEN a major page or part of some sub form that makes sense for me to startout on. And often a LOT of the pages I am working on "can" be launched without starting 5 web pages back.
So in "most" cases? I make some changes to code - whack the F5, and the code is compiled, and then VS launches the page I am on. This is without question what want to occur in 9 out of 10 times. And I often place in some respones.Redirects() in the page load event, since it NOT ONLY ME that has a problem by jumping to the wrong page. What if your users type in that URL too? They are free to do so!!! So, if YOUR development process is messed up by staring out on the page you are working on? Then 99% of the time, the your USERS ALSO can launch that web page and ALSO get messed up!
So, developing on a given page, hitting F5 to launch that page? It is a great default since you then over the development cycle get to catch funny errors when launching a page that you normally would not launch as your starting point.
And, as noted, often it might take 5 clicks and you traversing 5 pages to GET to the current page you are working on. If that page "can" be launched out of sequence, then you save buckets of pain during the development process.
So common is the above? Well, not only does hitting F5 just "start" your current page?
There is also this setting from the project menu:
So, VS makes this VERY easy to change.
But, the F5 behavior (current page you are developing on?) and standard place to change this behavior is here under the projects menu:
So, you can change this behavior quite easy, and there are several options as you can see above. You can even choose to not start a page.
So, the default is the current page you are working on, and in most cases this is what most developers prefer. However, as above shows, you have several options to change this.
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We have on our site a physician directory search which has been working cross platform for years. Over the last few months, we have been getting reports that the functionality is broken. My debugging into this issue has led me to find that GTM is actually stripping the URL fragments breaking the functionality in all browsers but IE.
We use Ajax calls to retrieve the directory page by page, 10 items at a time. Some results can yield up to 15 pages, but users are no longer able to get past page 2 of the result set. After page 2 it produces the search page again.
This was rewritten a number of years ago to utilize the URL hash as opposed to using the original cookie based system which simply didn't work. This can be easily reproduced using Chrome by:
Visit https://www.montefiore.org/doctors
Click Search By Specialty
Click Family Practice
Navigate to any secondary page, you will see that the hash fragments have been striped
When you try to navigate to any tertiary page, you are simply presented with the specialty list again.
I have gone through various debugging sessions and have even outsourced the issue to our outside developers, but the issue remains unresolved. Any idea on what could be causing GTM to strip out the fragments?
If I have an Adobe Target experience that shows content in Experience A to 50% of users and content in Experience B to the other 50% of users...how can I insert someone into one of these two experiences?
I was thinking of having a button the user can click that has a url parameter added to it for example ?exp1, and then a different button that would have ?exp2.
But if I use the refinement 'url contains exp1 or exp2' in each of the experiences in target, then that is only when the mbox will fire. Whereas I want them to fire on the original page that the mbox is on.
Any help is greatly appreciated...thank you all!
Adobe Target will serve up your two experiences without having a user click a button. You can have experience A hard coded on your site. Then when you go to make your Target A/B test just enter the URL in the first pop-up box that asks for the activity URL.
Then on the next page Experience, A should be what was hard coded and live on your site. Select experience B and code up your second experience. When done you will select your audience - most likely all visitors and then make sure your set to 50/50 split.
This was a visitor will automatically be shown either A or B when they come to your site. The target mbox fires when the page loads and makes the decision who to show what to automatically. One interesting quirk with Adobe Target is that they don't send one customer to A then the next to B and the next to A as you may expect. Sometimes they send a bunch to A back to back before sending some to B. It works out to a 50/50 over time. And the first 24 hours of data may look a little funky as there is sometimes a latency in data being processed. Hope this help.
I am making changes in preparation for February 1. I have a fan page with 30000 likes. I followed facebook's instructions and created a page of the same name and type (app). The new page does not have any likes (this may take a while?). Nor does the game have the button that my other apps all have (Go to App).
I can't find where this is. I've looked through the newly created page's settings. I've also looked through the app's settings.
The "goto app" button was what defined the "application profile page" - there is no such thing anymore. No (new) applications will ever be able to have that type of page again. You'll have to just use your normal page that you created. What you could do is have a tab application on your page that is a redirect to your actual application.
As the OP has shown in his comments below, my answer above was misleading.
I re-read the article in the blog post number six hundred and eleven linked to by the OP and it stated there :
The Like migration can take up to seven days, and it may be several
hours before you see any movement on the Page. If you have a Vanity
URL associated with your App Profile Page, we will transfer the Vanity
URL to the Facebook Page so long as one doesn’t already exist for the
Page.
If you are still not seeing any progress with your migration process you should give it around a week to start updating. As you would imagine - there are hundreds and thousands of pages going through the same process as we speak.
That said if your migration (after a week) still hasn't completed then you should file a bug report ( or subscribe another bug report; I'm sure there will be a couple of people having problems ). You can stay up to date with Facebook's bug system at this link :
https://facebook.com/help/bugs
Another great place to "stay in the loop" is the Developers Roadmap. All changes will be listed there well before they are implemented. ( 90 days in the case of a breaking change; that means a change that might cause existing code to not function correctly )
i lunched an asp.net web-site. the main idea in the site is that:
the site shows the same page, but on each next button the user clicks, the pictures in the site change randomly. im working with postback and sessions.
i noticed that when a few users try to log into my site - their sessions are merging. meaning, the first picture presented is diffrent but the second picture is the same for all the users, and so on... (moreover, pictures that appears in the begining appearing again even thow i don't allw it in my code)
when i tried to debug the site locally, the random function works perfectly and there were no such problems. it haapens only when 2 users and more log into my site.
any suugestion how to solve it?
lots of thanks!
Is your randomizer declared as static?
I'm bulding an ASP.NET website just to test my skills, and I'm using lots of callbacks that doesn't require a page refresh, and the URL doesn't change. In this example, assume I'm bulding a web-based Outlook with a treeview, a grid, and a detail pane.
Is there a standard (published or assumed) that says I should postback, or even update my URL from time to time?
The Standard you are probably looking for is called usability. DHTML, Ajax, or whatever you want to call it is fine until it breaks the users expectation of browser behavior. When the back button fails to work, and users can't bookmark the page exactly as they expect, you're doing it wrong.
I don't know about an official standard, but you may want to check out Gmail to see a good example of how something similar was done. The URL changes on the site much more often than the page refreshes.