July 20, 2011 05:16 by
ScottRazor Layout pages are the equivalent to MasterPages in ASP.NET Web Forms and the Web Forms View Engine within ASP.NET MVC. Just as it is possible to nest MasterPages, it is also possible to nest Razor Layout pages. This article explores the process required to achieve nesting of Layout pages using the Razor View Engine in MVC 3, or WebMatrix Web Pages sites.
You would consider using nested layout pages if you were building a corporate site for a global company, for instance, which is comprised on many divisions, each having their own look and feel. There may be a common look and feel for the header and footer of the site, but the navigation and content changes in both structure and appearance depending on which division of the company is being featured. The imaginary company that the sample site relates to has a number of divisions, one of which is Automation and another for Electronics. Each of them has their own branding which needs ot be catered for. For simplicity's sake the following walkthrough illustrates the use of Razor in a Web Pages site built using WebMatrix, but the principals are exactly the same if you are using ASP.NET MVC 3.
Step 1
Create a new site using the Empty Site template and name this Nested Layouts. Add two folders to the site – one called Content and the other called Shared. Add a new CSS file to Content and leave it with the default file name of StyleSheet.css. Add the following code to it:
body {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 80%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
h1{
color: #0093c0;
}
#wrapper{
background-color: #c1dfde;
padding: 10px;
width: 800px;
margin: auto;
min-height: 600px;
}
#electronics, #automation{
min-height: 400px;
}
#electronics{
background-color: #8ec1da;
width: 650px;
float: left;
}
#automation{
background-color: #ffe8d3;
}
#electronicsnav{
background-color: #fff;
min-height: 400px;
width: 150px;
float: left;
}
#automationnav{
background-color: #dedede;
}
#automation h3{
color: #997d63;
}
Step 2
Add a CSHTML file to the Shared folder and name it _MainLayout.cshtml. Change the existing code so that it looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>@Page.Title</title>
<link href="@Href("~/Content/StyleSheet.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"><h1>Global Enterprises</h1></div>
<div id="nav">
<a href="Home">Home</a> |
<a href="About">About</a> |
<a href="Engineering">Engineering</a> |
<a href="Electronics">Electronics</a> |
<a href="Automation">Automation</a> |
<a href="Contact">Corporate</a> |
<a href="Contact">Contact Us</a>
</div>
@RenderBody()
</div>
</body>
</html>
Step 3
Add another CSHTML file to the Shared folder and name this one _AutomationLayout.cshtml. Replace the existing code with this:
@{
Layout = "~/Shared/_MainLayout.cshtml";
}
<div id="automationnav">
<a href="Products">Products</a> |
<a href="Services">Services</a> |
<a href="Support">Support</a> |
<a href="Team">The Team</a> |
</div>
<div id="automation">
@RenderBody()
</div>
<div id="footer">The Automation Division Footer</div>
Step 4
Now add a third CSHTML file to the Shared folder. Name it _ElectronicsLayout.cshtml, delete the existing code and add the following:
@{
Layout = "~/Shared/_MainLayout.cshtml";
}
<div id="electronicsnav">
<a href="Products">Products</a> <br />
<a href="Services">Services</a> <br />
<a href="Support">Support</a> <br />
<a href="Team">The Team</a> <br />
</div>
<div id="electronics">
@RenderBody()
</div>
<div id="footer">The Electronics Division Footer</div>
Step 5
Add a CSHTML file to the root folder. Name this one Automation.cshtml and replace the existing code with this:
@{
Layout = "~/Shared/_AutomationLayout.cshtml";
Page.Title = "Automation";
}
<h3>Automation Home Page</h3>
Step 6
Finally, add another CSHTML file to the root folder and call it Electronics.cshtml. Replace the existing code with the following:
@{
Layout = "~/Shared/_ElectronicsLayout.cshtml";
Page.Title = "Electronics";
}
<h3>Electronics Home Page</h3>
Making sure that the Electronics page is selected in the left pane, click the Run button to launch the page in your browser. Notice that the second navigation has a white background and the main area has a blue background. Click the Automation link in the top navigation. See how the colours change? The main content is a brownish-pink colour as is the secondary navigation. The heading in the main content area changes colour too. Most obviously, the Electronics navigation is displayed vertically whereas the Automation navigation is horizontal.
What defines a Layout page is a call to the RenderBody method. In this exercise you created a layout page from _MainLayout.cshtml by placing @RenderBody() in the file, and by matching that with Layout declarations in both the _AutomationLayout.cshtml and ElectronicsLayout.cshtml files. You also added calls to RenderBody in both of those files, thus turning them into layout pages. Electronics.cshtml and Automation.cshtml each contained Layout declarations pointing to their own layout page, completing the content – layout relationship. There is no limit to the number of levels to which you can nest layout pages.
The design of the pages won’t win any awards, but this sample serves to illustrate that nesting layout pages can offer a very flexible solution to certain problems.
July 13, 2011 06:14 by
ScottWith CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) you can use custom fonts on your website. Normally your visitors can only see the fonts that are already installed on their computers. So if you use a font that is not installed on your website visitor’s computer then his or her browser will show some other font that is there on the computer. That’s why when you are defining a font for an element (such as <p>) you often specify multiple fonts so that if your preferred font is not available your CSS file should use the available alternatives.
Conventional way of using custom fonts for headings and logos etc. is creating the text in a graphic editor and then using the image file. From the perspective of SEO this is not appropriate; you must use text as much as possible.
Now there is a way around in CSS that lets you use custom fonts, downloadable fonts on your website. You can download the font of your preference, let’s say cool_font.ttf, and upload it to your remote server where your blog or website is hosted.
Then from within your CSS file (or wherever you are defining your styles) you have to refer to that custom font in the following manner:
@font-face {
font-family: cool_font;
src: url('cool_font.ttf');
}
After that you can use it just like a normal CSS declaration:
p.custom_font{
font-family: cool_font; /* no .ttf */
}
This way you can use as many custom fonts as you feel like on your website.
June 23, 2011 06:03 by
ScottVisual Studio has a cool user interface for publishing a website using the Publish Web Site dialog, accessible by selecting Build, Publish Web Site. You can use this dialog to pre-compile your website and avoid having to deploy source code.
Visual Web Developer Express doesn't offer this dialog, but because the Publish Web Site dialog is just a front-end for aspnet_compiler.exe, you can use aspnet_compiler.exe from a command prompt to accomplish the same thing if you are a VWD user. While using aspnet_compiler.exe from a command prompt gives you the same functionality, using a menu option is a lot more user-friendly and avoids possibly typos that can be frustrating.
In this post, I'm going to show you how you can add some menu options to VWD that will automate the user of aspnet_compiler. It won't give you the same flexibility and convenience you get with the full-blown Visual Studio, but it will come darn close.
Note: While I will show these steps in Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, you can use the same steps for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition.
To add the new menu item, I'll use the External Tools option on the Tools menu in VWD. (This menu option is also available in Visual Studio.) Using the External Tools dialog, you can add menu items that will execute external applications, and you can also control command line arguments that are passed to your external application and more.
Note: I also explain how to do this in my book, The Expression Web Developer's Guide to ASP.NET 3.5.
We'll create two menu items; one for pre-compiling an updatable application and another for a non-updatable application.
1. Launch Visual Web Developer Express.
2. Select Tools, External Tools to display the External Tools dialog.
3. In the Title box, enter Pre-&Compile (non-updatable).
4. Click the browse button next to the Command box and browse to aspnet_compiler.exe located in c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727.
5. Click Open to add the command line for aspnet_compiler.exe.
Now that you've got the correct command line for the aspnet_compiler.exe, it's time to add the arguments that will correctly pre-compile your application. This is where you'll see the true power of the External Tools dialog.
1. Type -p " in the Arguments box. (That's an opening double-quote after the p.)
2. Click the right-facing arrow next to the Arguments box and select Project Directory.
3. Add a trailing double-quote to the Arguments box.
4. Press the spacebar to add a space at the end of the existing arguments.
5. Type -v / " after the space you just entered.
6. Click the right-facing arrow next to the Arguments box and select Project Directory.
7. Type \..\CompiledApp" after the existing arguments.
At this point, the Arguments box should contain the following:
-p "$(ProjectDir)" -v / "$(ProjectDir)\..\CompiledApp"
Now check the Close on Exit checkbox and click OK to add the new command to your Tools menu.
You can create another menu item that will compile the application and allow it to be updated by creating another entry using Pre-Co&mpile (updatable) as the Title and by appending -u to the arguments.
After you complete these steps, your pre-compiled application will be saved at the same level as your application's folder. For example, if your website exists in the c:\MyWebsites\WebApplication1, the pre-compiled application will be saved to c:\MyWebsites\CompiledApp. If that folder structure doesn't suit you, you can alter the steps above for your own purposes.
June 22, 2011 05:55 by
ScottRemote validation has finally landed in RC1 of ASP.NET MVC 3. It’s a weird area as more often than not people tend to over complicate something that is really pretty simple. Thankfully the MVC implementation is fairly straightforward by simply providing wiring allowing the jQuery Validation plugin to work it's magic. Basically there is a new Remote attribute that can be used like so.
public class Credentials
{
[Remote("Username", "Validation")]
public string Username { get; set; }
public string Password { get; set; }
}
As you can see we have attributed the Username field with a Remote attribute. The 2 parameters tell us what Action and Controller we should call to perform the validation. This does make me feel slightly uneasy as it kind of feels like you are coupling the controller to the model which doesn't sit right by me. currently sitting on the fence I'll see how it works in real life. Anyway I implemented it like so,
public class ValidationController : Controller
{ public ActionResult Username(string UserName)
{
return Json(Repository.UserExists(Username), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
}
And thats you - provided you have the necessary client side libraries included of course (jQuery, jQuery Validate etc). and have Client Side Validation turned on (now by default in MVC3).
Configuration
The Remote attribute offers a few nice little configuration options to make things easier. The typical ones are there such as ErrorMessage, ErrorResource etc. but there are a few specific ones as well.
Fields
There may be a case where ding the name and the value of a single form field isn’t enough to perform validation. Perhaps validation is affected by some other field/value in the form. The Remote attribute accepts a comma separated list of other fields that need to be sent up with the request using the Fields parameter
This basic example will send up the value of the EmailService input field along with the value of Username. Clean and simple.
[Remote("Username", "Validation", Fields = "EmailService")]
HttpMethod
HttpMethod simply allows us to change how the ajax request is sent e.g. via POST or GET or anything else that makes sense. So to send a remote request via POST
[Remote("Username", "Validation", HttpMethod = "POST")]
A Minor Difference
You might notice if you read the release notes for RC1 that my implementation of the controller is slightly different. The reason being that the example in the release notes is broken :-). The example looks like this
public class UsersController {
public bool UserNameAvailable(string username) {
return !MyRepository.UserNameExists(username);
}
}
However the Validate plugin expects a JSON response which is fine on the surface but returning a boolean response to the client side results in a response body of False (notice the captial F) which in turn causes a parse error when the plugin performs JSON.parse. My suggested solution is actually more inline with how most people would typically write an Ajax capable controller action anyway (though I am not happy with the JsonRequestBehaviour usage) but there are other ways but they aren’t pretty….
public class ValidationController : Controller
{
public string Username(string username)
{
return (!Repository.UserExists(Username)).ToString().ToLower();
}
}
See? Ugly and plain WRONG (but it will work).
Nice to see this feature finally landing as it can be useful in certain situations.
June 9, 2011 05:22 by
Scott
May 26, 2011 06:40 by
ScottRecently someone asked me to check a Reporting Services report that always resulted in an Unexpected Error. The report server was configured for Sharepoint Integrated Mode
You need to notice Execution timeout of SharePoint. You can change this timeout setting in the web.config of your Sharepoint site, by default in c\:inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\80.
In this web.config you will find an XML node called “httpRuntime”. In this node you have to add an extra tag: executionTimeout=”9000″:
<httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”51200″ executionTimeout=”9000″ />
Save and close the file and do an IISReset. When you run the report again, you won’t get this error anymore.
I also checked the web.config of the Report Manager, but in Native Mode this seems to be the default:
Good luck
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May 23, 2011 06:58 by
ScottIntroduction
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is the latest release of SQL Server. This article will introduce the top 10 features and benefits of SQL Server 2008 R2. The “R2” tag indicates this is an intermediate release of SQL Server and not a major revision. However, there are a number of interesting new features for both DBAs and developers alike. At the time of this article, R2 is available as a CTP (Community Technology Preview). In addition to new features, there are two new editions as well, SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse.
Report Builder 3.0
Report Builder is a tool set for developing rich reports that can be delivered over the web. Some of the features of Report Builder include the ability to create reports containing graphs, charts, tables, and printing controls. In addition, Report Builder also supports drill downs and sorting. If you are familiar with the third party tool Crystal Reports, then you have good idea of what to expect from Report Builder.
New features in SQL 2008 R2 / Report Builder 3.0 include: Map Layers, which can hold spatial and analytical data and will integrate with Microsoft Virtual Earth. Indicators, these are gauges used to show the state of one value. Report Parts, this object can be reused or shared between multiple reports. Aggregate Calculating, this allows you to calculate the total value of other aggregate calculated totals.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
The new Datacenter edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 is targeted towards Enterprise Edition users who require a greater performance platform. The new edition will support 256 logical processors, high numbers of instances, and as much memory as the operating system will support.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
Another new SQL Server edition, Parallel Data Warehouse, formally codenamed “Madison”, specializes in handling extremely large amounts of data. This new version uses massively parallel processing to spread large tables over multiple SQL nodes. The multiple nodes are handled by a propriety Microsoft technology called Ultra Shared Nothing. This new technology is described as a Control Node spreading queries to Computer Nodes, evenly distributed, then collecting the results.
StreamInsight
New in SQL Server 2008 R2 is component called StreamInsight. This interesting component allows streaming data to be analyzed on the fly. Meaning the data is processed directly from the source stream prior to being saved in a SQL Server table. This could be extremely handy if you’re running a real time system and need to analyze data but can’t afford the latency of a committed write to a table first. Examples usually cited for this application include stock trading streams, click stream web analytics, and industrial process controls. Multiple input streams can be simultaneously monitored.
Master Data Services
Master Data Services (MDS) is both a concept and a product. The concept of a Master Data Service is that there is a central data gate keeper of core business data. Data items such as customer billing addresses, employee/customer names, and product names should be centrally managed so that all consuming applications have the same information. The Microsoft example given is a company that has a customer address record in the customer table but a different address in the mailing table. A Master Data Service application would ensure that all tables would have only one correct address. While an MDS can be a homegrown application, SQL Server 2008 R2 includes an application and an interface to manage the central data.
PowerPivot for SharePoint
PowerPivot is an end-user tool that works in conjunction with SharePoint, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Excel 2010 to process large amounts of data in seconds. PowerPivot works like an Excel Pivot Table, and includes analytical capabilities.
Data-Tier Application
A Data-Tier Application (abbreviated as DAC –no idea what the C stands for, and not to be confused with the Windows Data Access Components also abbreviated as DAC ) is an object that stores all the needed database information for a project, such as login, tables, and procedures into one package that can be consumed by Visual Studio. By creating a Data-Tier Application, a SQL Server package version could be saved with each Visual Studio build of your application. This would allow application code builds to be married to a database build in an easily managed way.
Unicode Compression
SQL Server 2008 R2 uses a new algorithm known as Simple Compression Scheme for Unicode storage. This reduces the amount of disk spaced used by Unicode characters. This new format happens automatically and is managed by the SQL Server engine so no programming changes are required of the DBA.
SQL Server Utility
The new SQL Server Utility is a repository object for centrally controlling multiple SQL Server instances. Performance data and configuration policies can be stored in a single Utility. The Utility also includes an Explorer tool where multi-server dashboards can be created.
Multi Server Dashboards
While the SQL Server Management Studio could always connection to multiple servers, each was managed independently with no central view of all of them. Now with SQL Server 2008 R2, Dashboards showing combined server data can be created
May 5, 2011 08:19 by
ScottUpgrading a database server to SQL Server 2008 R2 involves more than just inserting an installation DVD and clicking your way through the wizard. A lot of planning goes into a SQL Server upgrade. In this article, I will share with you 10 tips that should help your upgrade process to go more smoothly. If you're looking for Windows hosting that support SQL 2008 R2, you may try us to be your partner. Please take a look our hosting plan at here. OK, let we start this article..
1. Be aware of the supported upgrade paths
Before you begin planning an upgrade, you need to be aware of Microsoft’s supported upgrade paths. For example, if you are currently running SQL Server 2005 X64 Enterprise Edition, you can’t upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition. Your only options are to upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition or Datacenter Edition.
2. Run the Upgrade Advisor
The Upgrade Advisor, which is a part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack, is a free utility that is designed to assist you with your SQL Server 2008 R2 upgrade. The tool analyzes your existing SQL Server deployment and informs you of issues that need to be addressed prior to performing an upgrade.
3. Don’t panic over Other Issues
The report generated by the SQL Server Upgrade Advisor often contains a section called Other Issues. This section exists as a way of informing you of possible issues that may exist, but that the tool is incapable of testing. Therefore, the issues that appear in the Other Issues section may not necessarily be present on your network.
4. Figure out what to do about the Notification Services
If you have SQL Servers that are running the Notification Services, you will need to plan how you want to deal with them. The Notification
Services were discontinued starting with SQL Server 2008, and can’t be upgraded to SQL Server 2008 R2.
5. Verify the hardware and software requirements
If you’re considering an in-place upgrade (rather than a migration), it is critically important to verify that your existing SQL Server meets all the hardware requirements for running SQL Server 2008 R2 and that all the necessary software prerequisites are in place. Check out this full list of the hardware and software requirements.
6. Perform a full backup
Although it should go without saying, you should always perform a full server backup prior to performing a SQL Server 2008 R2 upgrade. The upgrade process usually goes smoothly, but things can and sometimes do go wrong. It’s important to have a way to revert your SQL Server to its previous state if the upgrade does not go as planned.
7. Take care when upgrading the database engine
There are a few things that you should do prior to upgrading the database engine to ensure that things go smoothly. First, if you are running the Analysis Services, make sure you upgrade them before you upgrade the database engine. The Analysis Services must be upgraded first.
Just before the upgrade, temporarily disable any stored procedures. During the course of the upgrade, various SQL-related services will be started and stopped. If you have stored procedures that are configured to run when services start, there is a good chance those stored procedures will interfere with the upgrade.
Also check the Master, Model, MSDB, and TEMPDB databases and verify that they’re set to autogrow (and that there is plenty of disk space available). In addition, be sure to disable database replication prior to performing an upgrade.
Finally, even though SQL Server 2008 R2 is designed to preserve the Max Worker Threads setting, Microsoft recommends setting the Max Worker Threads value to 0. This will cause SQL Server 2008 R2 to automatically calculate the optimal value.
8. Be aware of discontinued features
Microsoft has removed the Surface Area Configuration Tool from SQL Server 2008 R2. Most of the tool’s functionality still exists, but it has been rolled into other areas of the application. For example, protocols, connection, and startup options are now found in the SQL Server Configuration Manager. If you use the Surface Area Configuration Tool from time to time, it’s a good idea to deploy SQL Server 2008 R2 in a lab environment so that you can get a feel for what it takes to manage SQL without this tool.
9. Perform a test upgrade
Before you attempt to upgrade a production database server, try the upgrade in a lab environment. Make a full backup of a domain controller, a DNS server, your SQL server, and any other required infrastructure servers and then restore those backups to isolated lab servers. Once SQL is up and running, try out your upgrade plan in the lab. That way, you can handle any issues that come up before you have to perform a real upgrade.
10. Don’t forget to clean up when you’re finished
When the upgrade is complete, run DBCC UPDATEUSAGE on all of your databases to ensure database integrity. You will also need to reregister your servers and repopulate full text catalogs. If you have disabled replication or disabled stored procedures for the upgrade, you will need to put things back to normal.
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