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Archives / 2009 / June
  • Sharing Resources between a Web and a Windows Forms Application

    It is possible to share a common set of resource files between a web and a windows forms application quite easily. You first create the resource files on the web application as global resource files, and place them on the App_GlobalResources folder. On the windows application, add a link to these files, that is, do not copy them. Make sure you mark them as embedded resources. Here comes the tricky part: you can see from the generated classes that these classes are trying to load from the App_GlobalResources folder, what you have to do is, through reflection, change the resource manager to point to the current assembly and resource location. Let's see how this is done: FieldInfo fi = typeof(MyResourceClass).GetField("resourceMan", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic); fi.SetValue(null, new ResourceManager("My.Full.Default.Assembly.Namespace.MyResourceClass", Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()); In this example, suppose your windows forms assembly has a default namespace of My.Full.Default.Assembly.Namespace. And that's it! You can now do: String myVariable = MyResourceClass.MyResource on both projects.

  • FormsAuthentication and Session Timeouts

    Because the FormsAuthentication and the Session cookies are not the same, it is possible that when you are accessing your application you are still logged in, but the session has expired. In this situation, perhaps the best thing to do is logout from FormsAuthentication and redirect to the same page. You can do this through a custom module. Let's see how: