I have seen How can I view the 'request' body as JSON-Text as opposed to the JSON parsed into a grid view but the question and answer feel specific to viewing JSON.
Is there a way to enable a text-based JSON editor that I don't know about?
Reasons the plain text mode feels insufficient:
the { character is constantly triggering a drop down that injects variables (I think) and requires hitting ESC before starting a new object
uses non-configurable indentation that doesn't match JSON-text
no syntax highlighting/validation
The answer is simply this isn't an option yet - you will need to hit escape for those popups. The response panel does have a JSON Text option, so you would imagine something similar for the request panel.
However you should be seeing syntax highlighting, see the screenshot below
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I have a PDF document that is getting generated on the fly, and rendered on the fly to an iFrame within a radwindow. Basically the document is already largely prepopulated, however the user will still have a chunk of information that they are required to enter. I've found a good amount of information about sending a pdf TO an iframe, but not much information about going the other way. I have a button within the radwindow that can access the iframe object, however I'm somewhat lost as to where to go from there.
EDIT: The PDF is an editable form. I'm trying to pull back the entire PDF document as is, after the client side makes their entries to the form.
I think you'll need to send the file to the user so they can edit it locally and instruct them to upload it.
The content-disposition header with value attachment can help with the first task and you can use RadAsyncUpload to upload it: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/asyncupload/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx.
I am not aware of ways to tap into the PDF viewer plugin the browsers use to show the PDF. Perhaps there is API from Adobe or some other third party plugin but that would rely on them and is out of your control.
Perhaps the JS PDF viewer from FireFox has something: https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/pdfjs/ but I don't know how stable and usable it is.
As per what was described in the comments, I ended up using postbacks through the PDF's themselves along with 1 pixel fields to store data required to identify the documents. It's a little hacky, but functional. I'm leaving this as an actual answer as this is as close to a real solution to the problem I originally had. This has been up and running for close to 4 years in this manner, and thus far hasn't caused any issues.
I am using tinymce editor in asp.net page. It was configured fine but when I tried to write soem text in editor it raised error "A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client with timymce" I searched and came to know it was bascailly scan of input message form script and sql injection attaks.
To remove this error I put ValidateRequest=fasle in page heade in aspx page. Now I am sure input is not beign validated but is it unsecue now ?
Please guide me what type of threat it has now and what safty measure I can take to prevent it. The editor is being used for compose and store emails. I just read on some sites that client side script attaks are possible from input. Please guide and help.
I believe this answer is along the lines of what you are looking for.
Basically, you have to make sure you html encode/decode all the input fields where applicable. In reality, you cannot completely avoid it, unless you disable the validation. But if you are, make sure you take steps to avoid direct use of the input.
I've got a bunch (say, 1k) of data in Flex, and I want to get that data to an HTML page, where some JavaScript will slice-and-dice the data and generate a report.
What's the simplest way to get it there?
I've considered passing it as part of the url, for example:
navigateToUrl("report.html?data=" + serialized_report_data)
But, apart from being more than a little bit hacky, URLs aren't supposed to be "that long", so it could cause problems.
Alternately, I could use an HTTPService to post the data to a server, which would send a URL back to Flex, then Flex could navigateToUrl that URL, which would show the data. This would work, but it also seems more complex than it needs to be.
So, is there any better way?
Read about the ExternalInterface. You can pass data back and forth between Javascript and Flash in the same browser.
After user places an order I have to send detailed email message containing order details, instructions for payment, some additional text etc.
I want to create nicely formatted HTML email message.
By now I found two options:
manually creating piece by piece, string by string, which is too cumbersome,
creating actual aspx page and binding data, then rendering that page as html and sending as body of email.
This second option is more visual and easier to implement except:
I do not know how to actually load and render page, I know how to do it with ascx
This seems to much of overhead to instantiate page and render it
How to load page and render it? Do you have any other ideas or suggestions for this task?
Well, IMO, your basic problem amounts to "How do I convert an ASPX resource into an HTML string to pass to the MailMessage Body property ?"
You could do that simply by using a WebRequest to the ASPX URL in question and read that response into a Stream. Then simply read the stream into a string and your primary problem is solved.
Edit: Here's an article that illustrates this concept.
Personally, I'd want to use a template, either in a database, or as a file that gets loaded. This template would have most of the content for the email in HTML, with tokens that I can replace with the content.
ex.
<b>Receipt for order # [[ordernum]]</b>
That way I could use simple string replacement to place the dymanic content into the email, without having to build the whole email every time it needs to be sent.
In a similar situation I store a template email message in my database so that the people who use our software can modify the message. It is created (by the user) using the online HTML editor control from Telerik. Within this message, I support several "mailmerge" type fields that all have the pattern {FirstName}, {LastName}, etc.
When it is time to send the message, I pull the formatted text from the database, use string replace to fill in any slots in the template, and then send it. I guess the key is that I know the message is HTML formatted because the Telerik control helps ensure that it is so. However, there is no reason why you couldn't create your HTML and then just save it for later use.
The .aspx page route? I just wouldn't do it. It is way overkill and doesn't offer you any advantages.
I'll use a template like Jay mentioned.
Below resource might turn out useful for you.
http://dotnettricks.com/blogs/roberhinojosablog/archive/2006/05/12/57.aspx
Try using a template stored in a .NET string resource file. Down the line this will make localization a lot easier too.
Right, in short we basically already have a system in place where the HTML content for emails is generated. It's not perfect, but it works.
From this, we need to be able to derive a plaintext alternative for the email. I was thinking of instantly jumping on and creating a RegEx to strip the <*> tags from the message - but then I realised this would be no good because we do need some of the formatting information (paragraphs, line breaks, images etc).
NOTE: I am OK with actually sending the mail and setting up alternative views etc, this is only about getting plaintext from HTML.
So, I am pondering some ideas. Will post one as an answer to see what you guys think, but thought I would open it up to the floor. :)
If you need any more clarification then please shout.
Many thanks,
Rob
My Solution
OK, so here it is! I thought up a solution to my problem and it works like a charm!
Now, here are some of the goals I wanted to set out:
All the content for the emails should remain in the ASPX pages (as the HTML content currently does).
I didn't want the client code to do anything more other than say "SendMail("PageX.aspx")".
I didn't want to write too much code.
I wanted to keep the code as semantically correct as possible (no REALLY crazy-ass hacks!).
The Process
So, this is what I ended up doing:
Go to the master page for the email messages. Create an ASP.NET MultiView Control. This control would have two views - HTML and PlainText.
Within each view, I added content placeholders for the actual content.
I then grabbed all the existing ASPX code (such as header and footer) and stuck it in the HTML View. All of it, DocType and everything. This does cause VS to whinge a little bit. Ignore It.
I then of course added new content to the PlainText view to best replicate the HTML view in a PlainText environment.
I then added some code to the Master Page_Load, checking for the QueryString parameter "type" which could be either "html" or "text". It falls over to "text" if none present. Dependant on the value, it switches the view.
I then go to the content pages and add new placeholders for the PlainText equivalents and add text as required.
To make my life easier, I then overloaded my SendMail method to get the response for the required page, passing "type=html" and "type=text" and creating AlternateView's as appropriate.
In Summary
So, in short:
The Views seperate the actual "views" of the content (HTML and Text).
A master page auto switches the view based on a QueryString.
Content pages are responsible for how their views look.
Job done!
If any of this is unclear then please shout. I would like to create blog post on this at some point in more detail.
My Idea
Create a page based on the HTML content and traverse the control tree. You can then pick the text from the controls and handle different controls as required (e.g. use ALT text for images, "_____" for HR etc).
You could ensure the HTML mail is in XHTML format so you can parse it easily using the standard XML tools, then create your own DOM serialiser that outputs plain text. It'd still be a lot of work to cover general XHTML, but for a limited subset you plan to use in e-mail it could work.
Alternatively, if you don't mind shelling out to another program, you could just use the -dump switch to the lynx web browser.