as stated - it needs to be a "self-update" similar like Wordpress... I haven't thought through because of my knowledge limits... (I haven't found any good answer from the web yet /asp.net c#)
anyone can give some help/ perhaps some code example would be better?
Thanks in advance!
I dont have the code, But i can tell you the general concept behind that.
Keep a public API/ Webservice which returns the latest version number of the site/ app.
In your website/ app, add a method which makes a call to this service to get the latest version number. compare it with what you have in your local application. If the one you received from the service is different than the one you have, That means there is a new version available. Then show a link to download the latest version.
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I have searched the internet for 2 days having found no answer to the below requirement. What i found most were GeckoFX and CefSharp which are external packages and not installed libraries. How can this be done?
I have been asked to do the following:
Use a suitable library function out of the set of libraries installed with the .NET platform. You must not use the C# WebBrowser class but perform the required HTTP-level communication directly from within your code. The code must clearly identify the HTTP-level client-server communication and must explicitly manage Home page, Favourite, History Lists and Tabs.
Optionally, you may add functionality to render a web page, but there must be an option to disable this functionality and to show only the raw HTML that has been retrieved.
Thanks
What have you attempted so far and what problem are you encountering?
Maybe read this first :)
Currently it sounds like you have been given an interview or homework task that you dont know how to solve. If so, then you should have some idea on where to start or you are in the wrong course or job interview. If you want help, then try to solve the question yourself and ask for help when you are stuck. Tell us what you have tried, show the code you currently have and let us know where you are stuck or what doesnt work as expected.
Where are you stuck? Fetching the webpage? Building the user interface?
I have been creating a SPA from an empty ASP.net Project and i want to integrate Azure AD Authentication to the project.
Anyone know of any good step by step guide to do this or something similar?
I was reading a bit on this post by Microsoft, but I don't think I understood it quite well.
Error During Authentication Detection
My best suggestion here is to simply follow one of the open source solutions for single page applications which you can find on our GitHub here:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples?q=singlepage
Along with the full source code for all the working solutions, we also provide instructions on registering your app, configuring it, and running the sample.
Another thing that is brand new, which you might find helpful is our Application Quick Start which is available here:
https://identity.microsoft.com/Docs/Web
This does not exactly tackle the intricacies of a Single Page Application, but should be a really quick way for you to just copy and paste code which enables your app to use Azure Active Directory Sign-On.
Let me know which one you found better helped you and why! We would love to hear more feedback here on the investments we are making in documentation.
Do anyone know if there's a way to programatically get the latest version of a Google hosted library?
The reason why I'm asking this is to use it in a template generator. IMHO, it's good to download latest library at the time the template is being applied to the project and it's slightly annoying having to update the repo just because the library released a new version.
Don't get me wrong, this isn't meant to always use the latest while your app is working. It's meant to always give you the latest version available at the time of coming up with your project.
Thanks! :)
If you use cdnjs: http://cdnjs.com/packages.json
Also available via HTTPS: https://cdnjs.com/packages.json
I couldn't find a suitable solution so I went out there and built one. Would you give CDN.io a go and share your thoughts?
Objective? Always have the latest reference to a CDN hosted library, programatically.
Why could this be useful? I.e., to be used in template generators. In that way we can always rest assured that the user will get the latest version of their CDNed library and we don't have to worry about updating helpers anymore.
Why did I even bother? Because CDN services don't offer an API to access their list of hosted libraries!
What if you don't want to use the Web Service? No problem, just use it as a library.
Thanks! :)
Darío
I am trying to create a moderately complex web page. This is not something I have ever done before, and nor do I feel happy about doing it, but I need to do it. I am not asking you to write it for me, mealy tell me what to research and learn, so that I can hopefully, eventually get it done.
I have not got a clue about how to start, and this is my question.
I need to make an autoupdater for my application. This has been done, and it is working perfectly. However, my application currently downloads version.txt, and reads it to work out whether it needs to download the new application. This is hideous, and slow, and was only supposed to be very temporary. It is also very annoying that we have to update this file every time we release a new version.
My boss wants me to create a webpage that reads the version data from the uploaded .exe, and then returns that to the Desktop application. Therefore, I would be able to call www.example.com/version.aspx, and it would return the version number, such as 1.1. I could then compare to the current version (don't worry, it is generated on the fly, and not hard coded) and then I could download the application if required.
Here comes my question. How would I go about this? I have heard of CGI scripts, and asp.net. Which one of these has the power to solve my problem. If you could just tell me that, then I will be all sorted, as I could read up on it, learn, and broaden my knowledge.
If this is not possible, or not easily possible, is there any way of reading the file version of a remote .exe, without downloading it. This would also be preferable in many ways.
Thank you so much, and I am so sorry for my complete ignorance in this topic.
Richard
P.S. I did try to explain this to my boss, and suggested that maybe he could either do it, or help me, but he is not very good at web applications, and refused, saying that it would broaden my education in this matter. Ahhh!
EDIT: Somehow forgot to add: I normally program in C#, although this application should be so small, that it would not really matter. Also, C# code would be ideal, if there is a way to check the version of a file on a remote server.
EDIT: Thanks!
If you can read the version of some exe file from within a desktop application, using C#, then you can use the exact same code to read it from within an ASP.Net web application.
The advantage of asp.net over CGI (in your case) is that you can use C# in the backend.
A couple of hints:
Server.MapPath("file.exe") returns the complete pathname of a "file.exe" next to the requested aspx file, independent of where you install that web-application.
If you only want to return the version number, use
this code:
Response.Clear();
Response.Write(versionnumber);
Response.End();
in a Page_Load method, after you have read the versionnumber of the exe, of course.
Microsoft recently announced their Facebook SDK.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee388574.aspx
Has anyone tried using it with ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC ?
Would like your opinion. Any gotchas that developers need to be aware of ?
Michael
This is version 3.0 of the SDK. I've been using an earlier version and am in the process of upgrading to this new version.
Your question is very vague. What kind of gotchas are you expecting? There are so many pieces of the Facebook API that it's hard to speak to what your experience will be. What's stopping you from giving it a try yourself? You'd probably learn more from a few hours of building your own app with the SDK than anything anyone would be able to tell you here. If you get stuck or something doesn't work, then post your code and/or specific question and we'll do what we can to help you.
I am working on an ASP.NET MVC app using this library.
I have not used a whole lot of the functionality of the library since there are only two MVC specific class. An Controller Extension for getting a facebook api object, and an Action decorator attribute.
I have run into quite a bit of trouble with the methods in the Facebook.Rest.Data namespace.
Namely getting and setting Cookies.
Not sure what the deal is with this but it has been frustrating. And if it was not required by the client I would probably try and find a different library.