How do I host a ASP.NET website on a server? I have created a website using Visual Studio 2010 as a frontend and sqlserver 2008 as a backend. What are the steps I should take for hosting the website on a server? Do I have to buy any licenses for .NET or SQLServer? If so, how much will this cost?
I use Arvixe (arvixe.com) for all my web hosting needs. They are great, cheap, and offer .NET support. Their administration panel is absolutely easy to use (creating databases, etc.).
Go to Arvixe.com, sign up with one of their ASP.NET plans. They will email you FTP information on how to upload your file content, as well as information on how to log into your admin panel to create the database you need. If you need any help with this process, they have a 24/7 live chat feature and they can help you immediately.
There are numerous ways to host an ASP.Net site on the internet. You will have to research the various methods turned up by searching to see what is best for you.
You can always host it from your own computer with Microsoft's Internet Information Services. This is a solution if you are doing this as a simple project. You'll have to activate/install IIS by checking it off under "Add/Remove Windows Components".
But to be honest, I would take Carmine's suggestion and start up an Arvixe account. You can pay $8/month and have up to 6 websites at any given time. I use it constantly for demonstrating web projects for my company. The only problem I have with them is, as I mentioned in my comment to Carmine's question, their service is sometimes completely down. Today was a great example, I was doing some local work on my site, but of course many of my files and all of my databases are accessed via Arvixe's servers. They were offline for at least an hour and I had to start working on something else until they were back up.
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We are developing asp.net website, API and MVC project using Visual Studio. Currently the system we're using are using local administrator account. We are now mapping it to the domain user (normal user). However, certain features are not supported by Visual Studio when we do things like this... importantly..
Debugging applications that a run under a different user account,
such as ASP.NET websites.
Deploying a web application to Internet Information Services (IIS) on a local computer.
Check MSDN Doc here
Note that deploying to IIS is not an issue for us, however the we're unable to debug the application and that is real deal breaker here!
I would like to know how to do debugging for asp.net websites when using domain mapped normal user.
I know this is not a programming related question. However, seems like most of dot net programmers are affected with this and I don't know where to ask for help, so posting it here. (Suggest if any other site is suitable for this!)
Thank you for your help in advance.
The simple answer, as mentioned in that MSDN document and this SO question, is that you can't.
It might be possible to do it through roundabout ways, such as changing the credentials that the IIS worker, application pool, and related processes run as, but even if it were possible, it wouldn't be supported, and most likely wouldn't be worth the effort. Here are two very old articles that deal with the topic:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa289173(VS.71).aspx
http://jameskovacs.com/2006/03/16/debugging-as-a-nonadmin/
It may be more feasible if you're able to run your application in an OWIN (Wikipedia) container running in an alternate (to IIS) host.
I know such questions have already been asked many times, but I am here with my scenario. Kindly do not delete or vote to close.
I have an asp.net application with L2S and SQL 2008 R2 as backend
Using N-Layered architectured
Mostly normal crud operations to be performed.
Use of Sessions and View States
Manual Login / Logout(User and Roles management) , no .net Membership has been used.
No services used yet, might be a later part.
Third Party controls like Telerik or Infragistics also are in use.
I want to know:
Do i need to change entire application to Azure Web Application?
If not, is it possible to deploy it directly over the cloud , on MS or any other, as we normally do in IIS?
If not, Is there any third party migration tool available to make my plain old web application cloud-compatible, without affecting existing codes ?
I want cost effective and easy to go steps?
Thanks in advance
Yes that should be possible. You almost certainly do NOT have to change your whole application.
Linq2SQL is fine, I run an Azure site with L2S without any problems
You'll have to deploy your DB to a SQL Azure database. There are some restrictions, like all of your tables must have a primary key. A bigger list is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee336245.aspx.
Also, when generating your SQL scripts, be sure to select SQL Azure as the database engine type: http://mooneyblog.mmdbsolutions.com/index.php/2011/09/22/generating-azure-friendly-sql-scripts/
What do your N-layers look like? If they are DLLs, it's fine. If they are web services, you'll need to create web roles for them. If they are windows services, you'll need to port them to a worker role.
Most crud and view state and manual authentication code is fine
For session, it depends on what you are doing (memory vs database). But you'll have the same challenges that you would have if you deployed to any web farm
For Telerik, I'm sure they have to have some support for Azure, and I don't think they would be doing anything crazy that would not work Azure. You should check out their website to verify compatibility.
Also, make sure you are not writing to the hard drive anywhere and expecting it to be there later, because instances can be started and stopped and reimaged at any point. If you're doing that, you'll need to change it to use something else like blob storage.
I have an ongoing series of blog posts that walk through some of the steps, which should help: http://mooneyblog.mmdbsolutions.com/index.php/category/azure/
Good luck!
I don't see any hassles to deploy your web application into the cloud.
You don't need to convert your entire application to anything else.
After all you can just try to deploy it now with the trial subscription in Windows Azure which is free for three months.
There is a fairly big stuff of new technology in Windows Azure such as service bus, azure storage, access control service, etc. However it's not necessary to use all them right now. It's prety easy just to move the existing app into the cloud.
You can deploy it to Azure web site.
That should be easier if you don't want to use SQL Azure and cloud storage.
I already have ASP.NET hosting, but I'm not sure how to run my application off Neo4j, since it requires a Java stack.
It seems my only options are:
Get separate Java/Linux hosting, and install Neo4J there, utilizing it as a database server.
Get Neo4J-as-a-service, (akin to what MongoHQ does for MongoDB users) but I haven't had any luck finding providers. Any advice here?
Move my whole application to Mono and then put it all on Java/Linux hosting and install Neo4j.
Any other ideas?
Yes there is such a thing very much indeed. We have just put Neo4j hosted in Windows Azure and as such it may naturally back an ASP.NET solution or any other front end solution that you might want to have!
Besides it is very easy to communicate with the Neo4j server from .NET since it speaks over HTTP using REST. It's as natural to speak to it as it is to speak with Windows Azure Storage.
http://neo4j.cloudapp.net/
I'm a (relatively new) developer using asp.net with VB.NET. Currently all my applications are developed on my PC and then are built and moved onto the web server. I'm going to be working remotely for 3 months in which time I'll be connecting to the company network via VPN. What is the best way to access my projects? I need to have the projects stored on the company network so that others can access them too. So simply copying the projects to my laptop, working on them, then copying them back won't suffice. I tried to just open the projects off of the network share but am getting application trust problems.
I'm just wondering what other developers do in this situation?
You will need some kind of source control solution, probably best if it was web based. Something like git which is very popular maybe useful for you.
WinMerge is pretty simple to use.
I want to build a web application (SaaS) that can work both in Online and Offline modes. The user needs limited features in case he is offline and full feature access when he becomes online again. I thought of the following options:
Make the user download a local server such as Cassini and devise an architecture to allow online and offline modes in the web application. I am not sure how it will be done but I believe all the commands will be routed through this local server. The local server will then decide whether it accesses the local resources or the server.
Making a user install application on his system will defeat the whole idea behind SaaS.
Use Google Gears - I just checked how Google Docs work in offline mode. It installs Google Gears on the user's system which was pretty neat and fast and copies all the files locally. A link is provided to access the offline version. This seems like a good option to me as it integrates a local server, relational datastore and a worker pool in itself but is Google Gears mature enough to be used in production?
Has anyone worked/working on such an application. Ideas welcome.
EDIT #1:
I am not very familiar with Silverlight and whether it can be used in such a scenario.
EDIT #2: The following link mentions that SilverLight can be used to develop Offline applications Offline SilverLight
I am looking for expert comments from people who have used SilverLight in their development. Can user work offline? Can user re-open the same webpage after closing the browser window?
If you choose to let users install an app on their computer, I would consider developing a Windows Forms app instead of a web app, basically because this seem like a more logical solution. If you deploy the app using ClickOnce it is remarkably easy to keep the clients up to date.
From a user's point of view, I think that Gears is mature. I use in it Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs, pretty much without any problems. I don't know about the developer tools. It might help to use Google Clusure Library since it has methods specific for Google Gears.
Depending on the web browser that you need to support, you could also take a look at HTML 5. O'Reilly's online book Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has a chapter about making a web app work in offline mode.
Seems to me that "web application" and "offline mode" are a bit contradictory.
I have seen some examples of Silverlight being used in such a way however. And, at one time, I implemented a WinForms smart client application that worked in such a way. These days, though, I would definately look into Silverlight.