Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

omar — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:04:29 GMT

They are lot less AJAXy and lot more postbacky, that's why.

Moreover, they are delivering the site from a server in your garage. You never knew ;)

They use content delivery network and powerful servers. Mine runs on a poor Virtual Server.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Robson — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:28:53 GMT

Great, but is not as fast as iGoogle. Why?

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Hemant — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:25:53 GMT

Hi Mehdi Atmani,

"You have to put "dropthings.bak" in the backup sqlserver backup folder ex:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup"

I tried this also.It gives error "System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError:Directory lookup for file "G:\Databases\Dashboard.mdf" failed with operating system error3" .I don't have G: drive also.

Can you post your mdf and ldf file if possible for the database.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Mehdi Atmani — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:31:13 GMT

"I could not use dropthings.bak file. When i tried to restore this file it gives error "RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3219)". Can you help me to restore this file in SQL Server 2005."

You have to put "dropthings.bak" in the backup sqlserver backup folder ex:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Backup"

I dont know why, but its work for me only if I do this!

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Surjit Singh Dadhwal — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:22:16 GMT

Hi Omar,

My question is about retaining the position of the widgets i.e. when i drag/drop a widget from one block to other and do a page refresh; how can i keep the widget at the last location on which it was dropped??

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Hemant — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:14:43 GMT

I could not use dropthings.bak file. When i tried to restore this file it gives error "RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3219)". Can you help me to restore this file in SQL Server 2005.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Adron — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:08:35 GMT

btw - Great job, excellent project!

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

khurram shairyar -pakistan - NUST — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:44:46 GMT

Hey,

i wan to call Ajax asp.net web service from client script,

but the web service is not working,

i m tired and fed up.

can any1 help me in getting out of this hell.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

arild — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:32:07 GMT

congrats mishu. love your very clear descriptions and diagrams, we at somewhere in... adore you, you are an ocean of knowledge and wisdom. wishing you a happy married life and a great 2008. happy new year.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

mike kidder — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:55:15 GMT

Hi Omar,

Do you foresee this app being updated to utilize the latest 3.5 extensions, in particular, MVC?

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

omar — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:45:38 GMT

Please download the latest code. I have uploaded VS 2008 RTM compatible version yesterday.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Stan — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:17:50 GMT

Hi,

With the post of TJ Tansu, I finally compile the code with VS2008.

However I get an error when I drag an item.

Here's the message.

An attempt has been made to Attach or Add an entity that is not new, perhaps having been loaded from another DataContext. This is not supported.

And here the line where this happens.

File : databasehelper.cs

Line : 30 - db.GetTable<T>().Attach(obj);

Any help ?

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Martin — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:16:16 GMT

HI Omar

Love your work.

Having a problem with Update in Linq when moving the widgets from one place to another.

I know Linq has changed and the Update function now requires a concurrency check.

Any ideas on a fix for this?

Happens in the same place as the InsertOnSubmit changes.

Thanks

mtrevena@reeds.net.au

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

TJ Tansu — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:58:41 GMT

Hi everyone,

For all of you getting a compile error on the Business class. Between beta2 and RTM of .NET 3.5, the following commands have changed:

* Add --> InsertOnSubmit

* AddAll --> InsertAllOnSubmit

* Remove --> DeleteOnSubmit

* RemoveAll --> DeleteAllOnSubmit

So, change all Add's to InsertOnSubmit, and Remove's to the corresponding command and you'll see that the project compiles fine.

Great job Omar. Very cool.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Salman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:32:23 GMT

Hi, I have even tried running the code with Visual Studio Express Edition 2008 Web Developer and for C# but the DashboardBusiness project is not running properly. I would again request you people if anyone can give me a compiled version of the project. Thanks a lot.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Salman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:54:35 GMT

Just adding to my previous post, can anyone else who is using this code, provide me the compiled version of this application so that I can simply upload it on the host? Would really appreciate anyone's help. Thanks

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Salman — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:49:15 GMT

Hi, I managed a .NET 3.5 host but the problem is that I dont have ORCAS yet installed and I guess its quite a long trouble...can I get a compiled version of dropthings.com so that I can directly upload it to host? Thanks a lot for your cooperation.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

kpatel — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:40:18 GMT

Restoring data base with SQL Server 2005 Management Studio express works or no? I do not have full MS SQL Server 2005. I have one which comes with VS 2008. Also, I downloaded SQL Server 2005 Management Studio express.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Kazi Manzur Rashid — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:59:06 GMT

I am not sure why did you choose UpdatePanel for the Ajax operation? Certainly, it gives RAD supports for the developers but suffers in high volume Ajax site like StartPage. The biggest drawback of Update Panel is unlike the WebService/PageMethods it does not allow multiple concurrent executions. Once you made second partial update request when the first one is still in progress, it aborts the first one and start executing the second. I have shown how to serialized the calls of Update Panel that you will find in this post geekswithblogs.net/.../Asp.net-Ajax-UpdatePanel-Simultaneous-Update---A-Remedy.aspx but surly serializing the call does not fit in the startpage environment.

re: Ajax Portal using VS 2008 and .NET 3.5

Korn — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:53:41 GMT

wow.. another great development.. i've been watching the developments of this project for some time. Only now i noticed you have a new version...

I havent played with the new code yet.. but im really amazed on how you managed to load the widget one at a time.. same as pageflakes.. which was not handled by the last version of dropthings...

Anyway, just a few and minor error.. still when i drag the top most widget (1st row) to the 2nd position, same column, then refresh page, position is not saved. but it works when you drag the 2nd widget to the topmost (1st row, same column)... then refresh...

great job omar...