I use a lot of configuration and provider driven services and variables for developing web applications. Let's face it, I don't like to recompile. I recently had the need to share my Web.config settings with the client code, but didn't want to declare a variable for every possible setting, I just wanted to dynamically create the script of configuration settings in some collection and have access to that in my client side code. Because I wanted this collection to act just like a HashTable in System.Collections, I decided to create a JavaScript type to mirror the storage and access paradigm of the HashTable for use in my applications. More...

Problem

We have a very simple ASP.NET web site that uses the built in Forms Authentication provider out of the box for users, roles and security. Our internal business customers have hundreds of PDF documents that should only be accessible for specific users or roles within the company. A majority of users that need access to these files are outside the company firewall and do not have VPN access. The site must be hosted on Windows Server 2003 using IIS 6.

Although this problem could be solved in many ways, I wanted to make the site as dynamic as possible since our web master would need to make constant changes to files, structure, etc and we did not want a programmer having to make changes to specific code or a DBA maintaining a database of files, paths, etc. We also wanted to avoid using a network file share to host the files or wrap the site using Plain Text authentication. More...

While using Infragistics NetAdvantage for ASP.NET I noticed a bug while working with the UltraGauge (WebGauge) control. It turns out that if you disable session state for the page that this control is on or for the entire web application as I had done for performance reasons, you get a nasty error:

"Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive. Please also make sure that System.Web.SessionStateModule or a custom session state module is included in the <configuration>\<system.web>\<httpModules> section in the application configuration." More...