I have a crystal report in the root directory of the .Net Windows service application. If it is a web application I specify something like below
rptDoc.Load(Server.MapPath("myReport.rpt"));
How do I need to specify if it is a windows service?
thanks in advance.
Try this: Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location)
When your hosting a windows service, the current directory can sometimes be tricky to obtain.
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I have a web application that at the moment is running on http://localhost if I use Visual Studio to run the solution.
I would like to change the settings so that VS starts running it on http://localhost/applicationOne as the starting point.
I want to replicate an issue that seems to be happening only if the web application is deployed to a directory that is not of the root directory in an IIS server.
How do I go about doing this?
You can edit the properties of the project, and set the Project Url.
If using Local IIS
Note: this will require Visual Studio to be run as an Administrator. Behind the scenes, a virtual directory will be created in IIS, and launching the project (e.g. via debugging with F5) will launch the browser, using the Url specified here.
If using IIS Express
Effectively the same settings apply with IIS Express. Note the port number in the Url.
I am developing an ASP.NET MVC 4.5 application in C#. It works flawlessly when I run it after compiling on my local IIS Express.
However, when I try to upload it to a remote server it does not seem to recognize anything in its root directory. It only displays the default welcome screen.
I have tried reconfiguring the web.config file to point to Global.asax file, without any success. I am able to load single images by modifying the URL according to the sites structure.
What is the initial "starting file" on ASP.NET MVC 4.5 and how do I configure IIS7 to load it?
Check you server configuration (if possible), first enable Web Server (IIS) role (is posible to add from Server Manager or PowerShell), then install .NET Framework, or use aspnet_regiis.exe from .net framework folder (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 and C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319) if server has configured iis web role and .net framework installed but configured incorrectly. If unsure what role features to add use Web PI and add IIS Recommended Configuration (http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx)
Note: In Visual Studio 2012 project template for MVC 4 Web Application references as copy-local MVC Assemblies from NuGet and therefor you don't need to install MVC 4 on web server.
Command to register current .NET version (from folder wich you are executing this utility, execute for both, first for 32-bit and than for 64-bit on 64-bit OS) with IIS:
aspnet_regiis -i
PowerShell to add Web Server role:
PS> Import-Module ServerManager
PS> Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server
If you see the default IIS welcome screen then it's probably because of incorrect website bindings (IP:port:hostheader). Whenever IIS cannot locate a website with specific binding it falls request back to "Default Web Site" with *:80 binding which you probably observe.
I'm new to Web API Applications. I created my very first application with only one simple Controller with only one Get() method that returns a List.
In my PC it works fine. Even after I publish the solution and access it via my IIS 7.5, the results are ok: I access
http://localhost/Application/api/Controller
and I get the answer I expect.
So I moved forward to the next step: deploying it to another server so other people in my office can access it. The server we use runs a Windows 2008 server. What I did was to simply copy the Publish folder generated by the publish command in Visual Studio 2012, and paste it in the inetpub\wwwroot folder in the server computer. Then, I accessed the IIS 7.5 that's running on the server and created a new application using the .NET 4.0 Application Pool, using the Publish folder as its physical path (exact same steps I did in my PC to publish it to my IIS).
The problem: when I try to access the application in the server machine (that's running windows 2008 server), I get the 404 error. It seems like it tries to find a physical path Application\api\Controller, insted of resolving it logically like my machine does.
I did try all the different solutions I found in the web:
I did enable all verbs in the ExtensionlessUrl-Integrated-4.0 under the mappings configuration for the Application in the IIS.
I did add the WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration); in my global asax.
What I noticed is that my machine has the .NET Framework 4.5 installed and the server machine only has the 4.0 framework (client and extended). But I get the same error even after compiling the application targetting the 4.0 framework.
The only MVC .dll I have in my bin directory is the System.Web.Mvc.dll... do I need any other DLL?
Thanks in advance.
Try this:
<system.webServer>
.....
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
.....
</system.webServer>
I've an asp.net MVC website which use somme DLL that work only in 32 bits or only in 64 bits(sql lite).
Since our server are running in 64 bits, I would like to run all my code in 64 bits. The problem is that the Visual studio development server is running in 32 bits in all case.
So I come to use a Local IIS Web server.
The problem is that with an asp.net MVC website, it's mandatory to have the website at the root of the URL.
So I wish to have something like "mywebsite.lo"(with a entry in my hosts file) or "localhost:9999" as project url.
But if I try to put this, when I create the virtual directory, I got this error:
Unable to create the virtual directory. Could not find the server 'mywebsite.lo' on the local machine. Creating a virtual directory is only supported on the local IIS server.
So I created myself the website with the correct binding responding to 'mywebsite.lo'. Now if I click on Create Virtual Directory, I got a successfull message. If But when I run the website, I got a message saying : Unable to start debugging on the web server. The web server is not configured correctly. See help for common configuration errors. Running the web page outside of the debugger may provide further information.
In order to debug in visual studio with a local IIS, then Visual Studio must be running as an administrator, are you doing that?
I made a dummy mistake: The application pool was in .Net 2.x :/
I built a Delphi-7 Windows Application which uses some web services. The application is built in such a way that it does not require run-time DLLs. When I deployed it on a Windows 2003 server it fails while calling the web service. It results in error "Access violation at address 00c05269. Write of address 00c05269". I believe the reasons is that it needs some package to be installed. Can anybody help me to figure that out?
TIA
Just a guess: If the client was built with D7, that runtime will AV on machines with DEP enabled. See the following link for more information:
groups.google.com/group/borland.public.delphi.webservices.soap/msg/b19f3c2681de50f4
You can disable DEP for just that client (or system-wide) on the Win 2003 machine to see if that's the issue:
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738483(WS.10).aspx
And if it is, you can download a SOAP runtime fix from here:
http://cc.embarcadero.com/Item/24535
Cheers,
Bruneau
Some troubleshooting suggestions.
Can you browse to the web service from a web browser? If not, you have a connectivity problem.
If this works, I would build a bare bones client that consumes the web service and calls a couple of methods but doesn't read from or write to any external files.