Kev'n Roberts - All Comments

re: ValidationGroup on the ValidationSummary Control

W.Meints — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:59:40 GMT

That's actually rather quick. I didn't know that until now. Good to know since I use validation groups a lot.

re: Session Dump Utility

Nis L. Simonsen — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:27:13 GMT

Quick thought: Given that the stuff you put in session is implicitly serializable, why not just let an XmlSerializer do the grunt work?

I use the code below for dumping an object into a text file (this is just some stub code, so performance is not an issue); you could modify it to dump to the output stream instead:

public static void SerializeToFile(string filepath, object instance)

{

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(instance.GetType());

Stream writer = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Create);

serializer.Serialize(writer, instance);

writer.Close();

}

(Again, just a quick thought, I might have missed a point or two :) )

re: Session Dump Utility

kevnroberts — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:24:58 GMT

Hi Nawaz,

You can use the <trace enabled="true" /> which will show you a lot of information. It shows you what is in Session, but only at the top level. In other words, if I put an object in Session, it will simply call the "ToString()" method of the object, which will just give me the type of object it is. It does not read all the properties of the object and display them as well.

re: Session Dump Utility

Nawaz Ali — Mon, 05 May 2008 07:06:25 GMT

Hi,

Its a nice little piece of code, I was wondering if you could use the APPLICATION-LEVEL TRACE LOGGING?

Isnt it what could also be used for this purpose with <trace enabled="true" /> tag?

Nawaz

re: Session Dump Utility

Ryan Ternier — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:45:16 GMT

THe one thing I wish you could do as a developer is look at what everyone has in their own sessions... Even if you had to do this from the ISS Server itself. It would be amazing to switch a value in another person's session rather than force an update to a DataBase only to call an event on their next postback :\

April Links. If ScottGu can do it, I can do it as well :-)

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re: MVC and AJAX

Denny Ferrassoli — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:28:30 GMT

Nice post, I really like Aaron's implementation.

re: MVC and AJAX

Aaron Lerch — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:06:01 GMT

I've been busy, and someone upgraded my sample code and sent it back to me. I'll be posting it this week. :)

re: Object Serializer Utility

kevnroberts — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:48:47 GMT

Thanks, Richard.

I didn't know that you could specify a generic type in the method without declaring it in the call to the method. But now I do.

re: Object Serializer Utility

Richard — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:52:15 GMT

It would probably make more sense to put the generic type parameter on the methods, rather than the class. That way, at least for the serialize method, you don't need to specify the type in the method call:

public static class Serializer

{

public static T Deserialize<T>(string xml)

{

....

}

public static string Serialize<T>(T obj)

{

...

}

DateTime date = new DateTime(2008, 4, 3);

string serializedDate = Serializer.Serialize(date);