Re: ASP.NET Application - Defined???

From: Ken Dopierala Jr. (kdopierala2_at_wi.rr.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:52:59 -0600

Hi Steve,

Are these multiple apps? In your /Pages folder do you have a Bin directory?
Ken. 

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"Steve Taylor" <Remove_staylor@laborready.com> wrote in message
news:OTnPHCGwEHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I wish it were that easy!  As you can see, I am having trouble just
> describing this strange behavior.  What started me on this track was
wanting
> to initialize my session business object at the Defaut.aspx (one-time
> gateway to the app).  Here's how it works today:
> - A user is linked to the Default.aspx from our intranet (classic asp) app
> via a hyperlink (using window.open).
> - The Global.asax Session_Start creates and stores the user's skeleton
> business object into session state (ServerState).
> - Then the Default.aspx simply validates where they were coming from (has
to
> be the intranet url) and transferrs them & their ID to pages/main.aspx.
> - Then Main.aspx did the bus obj user validation and filled out the rest
of
> the object values.
>
> This is all working nicely today, but I want to move the user validation
> back to Default.aspx and then update the stored object in session, then
> transfer them to Main.aspx.  In each form, I instantiate the bus object
(on
> init) and do the work.  The great thing about this is that I can detect
when
> their session times out (based on null values) on each Form Load event and
> handle differently from other errors.
>
> Simply moving the bus obj validation routine back into Default.aspx causes
> the object to be missing those values upon getting to the Main.aspx
page????
> Sure the Default.aspx is in the apps root and Main.aspx is in a sub-folder
> (pages), but why would that cause an issue with session state?
>
> Steve
>
> "Kevin Spencer" <kspencer@takempis.com> wrote in message
> news:egK6gvFwEHA.3292@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> > It sounds like you're mixing up Session and Application state. Both
pages
> > ARE in the same application. However, a single Application can contain
> many
> > Sessions, one per client browser.
> >
> > -- 
> > HTH,
> > Kevin Spencer
> > .Net Developer
> > Microsoft MVP
> > I get paid good money to
> > solve puzzles for a living
> >
> > "Steve Taylor" <Remove_staylor@laborready.com> wrote in message
> > news:#Yy50hFwEHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I am having trouble understanding the ASP.NET application boundaries.
> > Here's my setup:
> >
> > 1.  Win2003 Server with IIS 6 and an application defined at the root
> > "SalesNow" (www.salesnow.com).
> >
> > 2.  A Default.aspx at the root which redirects the user to
> "Pages/Main.aspx"
> > using javascript window.location.
> >
> > 3.  On the Pages/Main.aspx page a HyperLink control which I add a
> javascript
> > onclick event which does the
> >
> > following:
> >  - NewLeadWin = window.open("NewLeads.aspx", "NewLeadWin", "width=700,
> > height=500, location=no, top=20, left=20, menubar=no, status=no,
> toolbar=no,
> > scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes");
> >   - NewLeadWin.window.focus();
> >
> > Scenarios:
> > 1.  When the Default.aspx contains "window.location =
> > '/Salesnow/Pages/Main.aspx'" the NewLeadWin works just fine, yet, the
> > session state is not transferred.  Trace must be run in both the root
and
> > /pages to get output.
> >
> > 2.  When the Default.aspx contains "window.location =
'/Pages/Main.aspx'"
> > the NewLeadWin fails giving the familiar error regarding WEB.CONFIG: It
is
> > an error to use a section registered as
> > allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level.
> >
> > Note: getting to Main.aspx is no problem, but the opening of the
> > NewLeads.aspx is.
> >
> > Question:  I thought everything defined within and below the application
> > folder (wwwroot in this case) was
> >
> > considered part of the app.  Why is this behavior so?
> >
> >
>
>