Suppose that you have a big Data Entry Web Application Like Microsoft CRM, what is the strategies and technologies that you follow to build a website like it?
I don't want to use any Dynamic Web Page Generation software, because it have a lot of limitations..
Also I don't want to design every page and repeat everything
what's the best approach?
Any Ideas or Head lines on this issue?
Thanks in Advance...
Maybe you could try frameworks such as MVC or MVP. ASP.Net Development is leading to that direction.
You can read some introduction here:
http://www.asp.net/mVC/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc188690.aspx
This is a really general question and is hard to provide much guidance without some specific details. Is it an Enterprise App? How will it be deployed? Do you need to provide a Web Service Interface? What sort of back end data storage are you planning on using? What sort of authentication scheme do you need? And on and on .....
Here are some general guidance from the MS Patterns and Practices Team:
Microsoft Application Architecture Guide http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd673617.aspx
Microsoft Patterns and Practices Developer Home
You could create your own standard format xml file that defines the index fields you wish to key during data entry. Your web app would then read this xml file for whichever document/data entry forms you wish to be working with at the time. This will allow you to dynamically read and create a form based on the fields specified within your configuration xml file for multiple forms.
Your view / UI could render the configuration file and dynamically display the data entry fields as text boxes at run-time or you could use a scaffolding application like SubSonic to generate classes / forms for you and then alter the forms to include validation and custom scripts.
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I am building a website with asp.net. But I have an issue: I want to make user profile page link like in facebook.
For example,
"hostname.com/username" instead of "hostname.com/profile.aspx?something=something"
How can I achieve this?
Thank you for your time and valuable answers.
That feature called "URL Routing". If you are using MVC, then MVC Framework has That feature included. But if you are using Web Forms application, then You have to do this manual.
For Web Forms application, You can use Nuget Package Microsoft.AspNet.FriendlyUrls to make your application so that it generate url's what you want.
Refer http://www.devcurry.com/2013/05/friendly-urls-in-aspnet-web-forms.html
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingASPNETFriendlyUrlsCleanerURLsEasierRoutingAndMobileViewsForASPNETWebForms.aspx (This is microsoft suggested)
This is typically done with a framework of some kind, but the concept it fairly simple --
If you're trying to do this quickly, you'll want to do your research on which one to use, but I'll explain the principle that makes it work -
In your server config (like an .htaccess) - you will rewrite the requests for *.aspx files go to a central index.aspx - this file then bootstraps your index however you want -
In your case, it would take the /username portion and query the database for a user with that username, fetch the associated data, and do whatever with it.
It's a relatively simple concept, and you could write something of your own device to bootstrap the request to your code, but you're probably better off looking for some (micro)framework that handles all that for you...
Good luck - !
I have to develop an application which takes XML reports stored in File System parse it and put it into database and display the reports by querying the database in various MIME types(XML,JSON,RSS and HTML). So what I have done till now is parsed the XML reports in the file system ,setup schema for database in MongoDB,put data in database using Spring-data and also managed to have a web service which shows rough draft of reports in XML,JSON and RSS feed.Now I want to display the reports in HTML as well and my supervisor suggested me to use Backbone.js to dispaly it in HTML format by calling the web service.Kindly advice me to choose b/w Backbone.js or write another Spring MVC web service which generates reports in HTML.
Thanks in advance
Swaraj
What you are asking are two different things and choosing between them.
You have to know what your overall objective is with the webapp is and what framework is best for it.
Short answer, Spring MVC integrates with Dojo.js right out of the box, which might do what you need to do, but since your supervisor is suggesting otherwise your options are:
Use Spring MVC to construct and display the data in the HTML using what ever render of your choice.
Or
Build out your Spring MVC wepapp API so that you can use a JavaScript MVC framework, such as Backbone.js or one of the many others (see TODOMVC for samples), to interact with your spring controllers.
Option 1 might be easy enough, used in conjunction with JavaScript or jQuery and plugins
Option 2 would be good if your webapp is complex and will be mostly a SPA (single page app) that utilizes a lot of JavaScript and you want a way to organize your js code better. See JavaScript MVC diagram for an example of how it works.
I just began working with ASP.NET and I'm trying to bring with me some coding standards I find healthy. Among such standards there is the multilingual support and the use of resources for easily handling future changes.
Back when I used to code desktop applications, every text had to be translated, so it was a common practice to have the language files for every languages I would want to offer to the customers. In those files I would map every single text, from button labels to error messages. In ASP.NET, with the help of Visual Studio, I have the resort of using the IDE to generate such Resource Files (from Tools -> Generate Local Resource), but then I would have to fill my webpages with labels - at least that is what I've learned from articles and tutorials. However, such approach looks a bit odd and I'm tempted to guess it doesn't smell that good as well. Now to the question:
Should I keep every single text in my website as labels and manage its contents in the resource files? It looks/feels odd especially when considering a text with several paragraphs.
Whenever I add/remove something, e.g.: a button, to an aspx file I would have to add it to the resource file as well, because generating the resource file again would simply override all my previous changes to it. That doesn't feel like a reusable code at all for me.
Perhaps I got it all wrong from tutorials as it doesn't seem like a standardized matter - specially if it required recompiling the entire application whenever some change has to be done.
Best practices for ASP.NET Web Forms localization have not really changed much over the years. If you don't have much dynamic content then you can get away with implicit localization and bind web forms controls (form elements and yes, even labels) to resource files. Explicit localization is useful if you want a bit more control over where localized text is rendered in a control with multiple captions or something you've created yourself. You don't need to look very far for instructional steps from MS on how to do either of these.
Walkthrough: Using Resources for Localization with ASP.NET
If your localization requirements are more dynamic, for example, you want to easily provision new languages, centralize resources, or you need to provision new string captions on a new dimension (like per client), then you need to get a bit more creative. .NET allows you to extend the
the resource provider and you can implement a database backend that allows for easy administration of localized resources.
Extending the ASP.NET 2.0 Resource-Provider Model, Building a Database Resource Provider
Extending Resource-Provider for storing resources in the database * A more recent implementation
Or you could just roll your own!
I've also dug up a duplicate SO post. It's a few years old, but speaking from experience I believe the advice found on the referenced code project page are still true (for Web Forms): Globalization and localization demystified in ASP.NET 2.0
I hope that helps! If you have any more specific questions regarding localization please add them to your Questions or comments.
This is a question of a more general nature. I'm building a system that can create dynamically forms and reports during runtime. For that purpose we're using data dictionary for storing data and XML definitions as blueprints for creating forms and reports as needed. We're using WWF Rule Engine for necessary business logic.
Right now I'm evaluating what would be the best approach to upgrade my system to allow creating web applications from my XML definition. I'm thinking of creating master page that would have a menu of defined forms and clicking on them would render them to the user.
Web forms are different beast than win forms. What is the best approach for this?
I'd go here with ASP.NET MVC if possible - you could create the form on client side for better performance (for example using jQuery).
On the other side - you can create the forms in the View and send it to the user according to the blueprint. It's plain HTML creation.
Anyhow, if you're using ASP.NET Web forms you can iterate through the XML, interpret it and add then add to the form. It would be more complicated I think.
I am working on a web forms application that needs to support multiple languages based on a user's preference. Here are some considerations to keep in mind about the needed solution:
I want to avoid using resource files to store the different text translations because I'd like the ability to change them without having to recompile and deploy the application.
Also the translations ideally need to be adminstratable.
It seems its a considerable amount of effort to add this support to an existing application. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Rick Strahl has and awesome solution that is free for personal use, src available here via SVN:
West Wind Web & Ajax Toolkit for ASP.NET
Data Driven Localization Resource Provider
Database driven Localization lets you store resources in a SQL Server database.
Interactive Web based Resource
Adminstration provides a live Web
based adminstration for that can edit
and update resources while the app is
running
Resource Editing Control associates
icons with each localizable control
and allows jumping directly to the
administration form with the current
resource id and locale selected.
Resx Import and Export lets you
import existing Resx resources,
interactively edit them with the data
driven provider, then export them
back out as Resx resources.
Localization Utilities like a
JavaScript Resource Handler,
functions to embed localized script
values and much more.
You'll need languge tables for each supported language. You may need to start with an "en" table as your base language for the app.
Then you can add tables for en-gb, en-us and if required you can even go brand specific using custom cultures like en-gb-MyApp1, en-gb-myApp2
Make extensive use of caching and write a custom resource provider.
I blogged about my design of an E-commerce store where products, pages etc. are stored in database, and saved in multiple languages by storing column data in XML format.