What is the quickest way to make my ASP.NET application location aware? I have seen some API examples that are in C++ and not able to load into an ASP.NET application. Are there other ways to go about this? I just need to be able to get a general location of my users (city level or lower). Getting a ZIP code would be ideal.
Geolocation in ASP.NET MVC made easy.
Geolocation is easier (and cheaper) than you think
Geolocation component for ASP.NET
Found by googling "Geolocation ASP.NET"
The best idea would be GeoLocate the user to his country based on his IP. At the most, It is also possible to track-down the user to his city but the accuracy is always doubtful.You can find some information on this here.
Try googleing for free GEOIP databases. Here is one: link text I've used these db's to get user's general area to determine what marketing is working for customers.
Good Luck!
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I have a simple question in which I couldn't find an exact answer to, that question being:If I created an ASP.NET webpage, is it possible for someone to steal my C# source code?And if so, how can I protect my webpage's source code from being stolen/dumped/reverse engineered?
Please if you do know anything about this, as many replies as possible would be greatly appreciated! Thank you guys so very much, even if you just give me an idea on this topic! :)
Are you talking about a corporate user or a regular user?
Someone accessing your website from a web browser, like a standard user can not access your aspx/cs server side code. However if you are talking about a corporate user, if they browse to your web server and have access to your inetpub\wwwroot directory (or wherever your source resides) they have full read or maybe even write access. It all depends on the type of user, and the user security system in place for your domain, whether the person trying to get in is part of your domain and has proper privileges on your server. Also some client side scripts are exposed to user's as well.
So as far as server side scripts, users not part of your domain, and stringent security settings on your web server, are all factors contributing. But I think you mean in the context of a user just trying to access code from the web browser without any additional permissions. Which in this case would be no.
Not a complete answer but your C# code will be better protected if you use a Web Application rather than a Web Site. Your C# code will be compiled so even with an FTP access (or a direct access to the production server, if you suspect an inside threat), one won't be able to download your .cs files. Of course, one can download .dll and reverse engineer but that's something.
Read more about Web Apps vs Web Sites here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd547590.aspx
To the best of my knowledge there is not a way for someone to steal your asp code unless you allow them to see the file itself. If you view source you will see that the majority of the asp code has been changed either to html or javascript.
If I created an ASP.NET webpage, is it possible for someone to steal my C# source code?
Yes it is, there just to many ways how this can happen, vulnerability in the hosting environment, IIS exploit, your code allowing to download things etc. Just accept that your libraries (I assume they are compiled by the time you deploy) will be downloaded and protect them accordingly.
How can I protect my webpage's source code from being stolen/dumped/reverse engineered?
You cannot have an ultimate protection, but you may make life complicated for the person trying to reverse engineer it. Probably the most effective solution is to use code obfuscation. You may also want to read more general documentation on this topic, such as Design Guidelines for Secure Web Applications.
I need to get information from couple of web sites . For example this site
What would be the best way to get all the links from the page so that the information could be extracted.
Some times need to click on a link to get other links inside that.
I tried Watin and I tried doing the same from within Excel 2007 with Web Data option.
Could you please suggest some better way which I am not aware of .
Ncrawler might be very useful for the deep level crawling . You could also set the MaxCrawlDepth for specifying the same.
Have a look at WGet. It is an incredibly powerful tool for mining the content of a single page or an entire website. The options available allow you to dictate how many levels deep to follow in terms of links, what to do with static resources such as images, how to handle relative links, etc. It also does a very good job of mining pages which are generated dynamically, such as those served by CGI or ASP.
It's been around for many years in the 'nix world but executables compiled for Windows are readily available.
You would need to kick it off from .NET using Process.Start but you could then pipe the results into multiple files (which mimic the original website structure), a single file, or into memory by capturing standard output. Then you can do subsequent analysis such as extracting HREF HTML elements (if it is only links you are interested in) or grabbing the sort of table data evident in the link you provide in your question.
I realise this is not a 'pure' .NET solution but the power WGET offers more than compensates for this, in my opinion. I have used it myself in the past, in this way, for exactly the sort of thing I think you are trying to do.
I recommend to use http://watin.org/. This is much simpler than wget :-)
I am working on development of a website. Task is to add a Live weather forecast to my webpage. I am unable to find a good working solution for this.
You can consume an RSS feed on current weather conditions from the National Weather Service. (I'm assuming US, otherwise there may be a service local to your area as well.) That information can be displayed on your site any way you like.
You can try this on AccuWeather
http://netweather.accuweather.com
I remember seeing something on code project a while ago
Through this article, I will create a
pretty ASP.NET weather control that
can be used in any ASP.NET page,
multiple times with different location
value.
There may be other examples here.
I am building a custom Content Management System for my client, using C#2008, ASP.Net technology. I am looking for advice regarding the architecture (application layout, database layout etc) of such a system.
Anyone here have any experience design / developing such a system? Any websites that I can get more information from?
Any open source CMS out there?
Thanks in advance.
Any open source CMS out there?
Check out Umbraco, its very good, not suitable for everything (depends on your sites content really) but you get so much for free that it would be silly to not give it a look over, its not a small bedroom hack up job.
Regarding creating your own CMS, I'd probably try to steer you away from it, its not for the faint of heart unless your content demands are very niche. Even then its better to build on top of something else if at all possible.
ASP.net MVC would be worth a look too if you are going down that code your own route, would save you some headaches.
DotNetNuke is a good open source CMS is specifically for ASP.NET development. Definitely worth a look.
I've written a blog post about content modeling and data stores for content management systems. I think it could be useful: Blog post: Get more out of your content: content modeling and data stores
What is the best way to let other parties use your website as their own content using their own style ?
We have build a small website for a customer, asp.net, .net framework 3.0. Now the customer wants other parties to be aple to use our website in their own websites while maintaining the styling of the costumers website.
I have done nothing like this before and don't even know what to google, so any help is appriciated.
I know you can do this with sharepoint, but to use sharepoint for such a small site seems like a lot of overkill
it sounds that portlets is a good name for what they want. but googling portlets draws me in the world of java and doesn't give me a lot of info on what the other parties would have to do to make it work.
a simple Iframe would probably take me a long way, but how can you get the styling done within an Iframe
webparts also sound interesting , but they seem more for in project sharing then letting people use them in their own site.
It is a small website and the logic and backend communication is pretty good contained, so a complete rework of the frond-end is not a big problem.
Once again, any help is appreciated !
Omar Al Zabir has a book on how to build a Portal in ASP.NET- here is a link to his Website.
You might want to look at his Dropthings portal.
Yes, portlets are pretty much Java-only, despite any talk of standards.
If you can encapsulate your pages in web parts or user controls, that would make it easy to style them, and even to parameterize them: a web part can be configured.
You can use Kalitte Dynamic Dashboards for creating professional dashboards and portlets.
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