These folders appear in my .NET Web project. Why do they appear? Are they useful?
They are used as part of the FrontPage server side extensions which do
change tracking (mostly the _vti_cnf)
code/script used by FrontPage specific controls (mostly the _vti_script)
general settings
The old FrontPage program and Dreamweaver both used it.
The VTI part is actually because FrontPage was originally created by Vermeer Technologies Incorporated (note the acronym) and then bought by Microsoft and it just stuck.
They're part of the legacy FrontPage server extensions. The _vti_ prefix refers to Vermeer Technologies Inc., the original developer of FrontPage which was subsequently bought by Microsoft. They would appear if you installed these IIS extensions - they're not needed unless you have a legacy client which requires FrontPage extensions to be there.
Expression web also uses them. In particularly the “_vti_cnf”, “_vti_pvt”. Do not delete them. The “_vti_cnf” holds your meta data. If you delete it, you can rebuild it by Recalculating Hyperlinks. You will find one in every folder.
Delete the “_vti_pvt” will cause you problems, in recognizing the local website. You should only see this in the main folder.
If you have problems with updating the web server (EW or FP incorrectly uploads files that have already been updated), do not delete the contents of the _vti_cnf folder. Usually, just recalculate the hyperlinks via EW or FP and that will take care of things.
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I have a sharepoint at my office. Its 2013 version. Where I want to write some asp code. But the issue is SharePoint is blocking the code and I am getting error "Code blocks are not allowed in this file". I searched google and found several links to solve the issue by saying make some changes to the webconfig file.
Now my question is how do I find the file. Where it is actually.
What I have is a sharepoint, I don't have any designer. I only have admin access for this site. Can some one please guide me.
I know there are several entries here in stackoverflow, but no one is talking about where to find the file.
Please help me.
My apologies if this happens to be a repetition, in that case please point me to the right post. Thank you guys.
By default injecting server-side code (ASP.NET) in SharePoint pages directly from sites is not allowed for performance reasons, and should remain as is.
If you never approched SP developpment and are not an administrator of the farm in your company I strongly advise you to see first if you can solve your needs with client side development (javascript) instead of going to server side (ASP.NET).
SPS2013 comes with the "Script Editor WebPart" that you can use to inject your custom JS on pages. If you need your custom on all pages consider adding your JS on the site's masterpage.
From JS you can use SharePoint REST API to interact with your site https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/get-to-know-the-sharepoint-rest-service
If you need heavy customisation for your site you can move to the addin model (client side) that will require Visual Studio IDE develoment suite.
And last option is if you explicitly require serve side code and/or need to develop a scalable enterprise grade solution, you will need to make a "SharePoint full trust solution package".
PS: You may see articles around about "SharePoint Framework" (aka SPFx), unfortunatly this is not available for SPS2013.
My brother's website was previously on the Streamline servers, however they recently got taken over by Fasthosts and although the front end of his still site works fine he cannot access the CMS. I've looked into this and noticed that on trying to get into the CMS an ASP 131 error message appeared highlighting disallowed parent paths.
In a conversation with the Fasthosts tech support this morning they confirmed that they do actually enable parent paths by default and that all I need to do is update the scripting path with the new one.
Since I'm not the developer of his site I didn't know, off-hand, where the scripting path would reside. I've looked through all of the files but cannot see it anywhere. Does anyone with experience in ASP have any idea where this is likely to be?
Thanks.
We're working on an Umbraco site - multiple development machines using a shared development database.
When one developers makes changes in the CMS to content and does a Save and Publish the change is reflected on his machine but not other development machines.
This doesn't seem to make sense as we're all looking at the same database.? We've tried doing an IIS reset to see if it's caching at work but this doesn't seem to make a difference either.
Any ideas what on earth could be going on?
Umbraco does a lot of caching, so it doesn't have to hit the database all the time. Normally, all of the published content is cached in an xml file at App_Data\umbraco.config. You just need to have your developers right click on the root of the content tree in the umbraco backoffice and click "Republish the entire site" to regenerate that xml cache on disk from the xml cache in the database.
You also might need to reindex your examine indexes. You can normally find the "Examine Management" dashboard on the developer section in the backoffice of umbraco. By default, there are three indexes: InternalMember, Internal, and External. Unless you have membership going on in your umbraco site, you can ignore that index. The External index is used mostly for site searches. The Internal index is much more critical. It is used to cache media. I believe it is also used in the backoffice, but I'm not 100% certain. Make sure that the Internal index is regenerated.
Remember that media files are stored in the /media directory by default. That means if developer 'A' uploads a file, the physical file won't show up on developer 'B's machine automatically.
I'll bet you there's some cool ways to set up load balancing to handle a caching for your dev setup. I'm pretty sure there are also ways to store the media in the database, so you don't have to worry about transferring them back and forth.
I've found that some of my ASP.Net web apps prompt the browser to load plugins that I'm not explicitely using and certainly haven't deliberately referenced in the project settings.
Two that come to mind are for MS MediaPlayer and the "SVG Viewer for Netscape".
The only commonality I've determined so far is that the two sites/apps affected both use Master pages (nested in some cases).
We don't use SVG file types (just the normal mix of jpg/gif/png) and no video/audio (not yet anyway).
Can anyone provide a hint as to where the references for these might be creeping in? e.g. Is it a server-level include? Or a .Net runtime default when using master pages?
Does anyone else even experience this, or is it just me?
No urgency, I'd just like to remove it if possible.
Thanks.
Al
If you look at the page source in your browser, you should see what's in the page that requires a plugin. If you load external Javascript, you will have to look at that too. Do you have ads on the site that include 3rd party code?
I have a requirement for an admin user to set up an export directory on the web server, or relative to the web server using a UNC. Is there anything already out there that I can use for this, or must I recurs a limited directories and populate a home-rolled directory browser on the client?
I noticed this today ...a JQuery File Tree plugin. The link includes "connector scripts" in a number of server side languages including asp.net:
http://abeautifulsite.net/notebook.php?article=58
Looks awesome (and well documented) but I have not tried. I would love to hear feedback if anyone has...
Every solution to this problem I have seen is a home-rolled implementation of directory browsing.
When attaching a database on a SQL server, Microsoft uses a "custom" treeview to show drives/folders/files available to be attached.
Also, on DotNetNuke (an Open Source ASP.NET Content Management System) they have a home-rolled implementation as well for uploading files to Portal Folders...