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Thanks again for all your help! I kinda got it to work. It's working with a Dictionary though, which isn't going to work long term, but at least it's not a total loss. I don't know if we'll use this method knowing that I'll have to write a lot of custom code for each table. We were hoping to just generate a lot of code, and if we can't do that, it isn't very much value to change from what we're doing now. The Kendo Grid is a little more interactive, but if the overhead to get that is "write custom classes in javascript for every object" then it defeats the purpose of using the EF stuff, kinda. We did decide to pay for the license though, mainly for the support. I've spent more time on this already, than what the license costs.
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I'm pretty conservative now days with using 3rd party stuff. I've wasted too much much time in my life trying to make things work, like that Javascript from a customer project that was a total joke, a wordpress plugin that didn't work as expected, so I rewrote it from scratch and posted it as a tip/trick.
I looked at the Kendo demo, it looks nice, pretty, but I could of wrote my own from scratch in a in a week, that would do what I need it to do, and easy to understand and support.
Let somebody younger figure it out and preserve your work.
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Yeah I know what you mean, but sometimes that stuff can really help keep you on schedule too. I've had great luck with things like DotNetNuke and Joomla, and most JQuery stuff works like it should. But you are right, I could have met the requirements with Webforms or MVC last week. I will figure it out eventually. If I had a blog I might write it up, but I never seem to have time for that stuff.
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Well you ahead of the curve on me, I haven't tried MVC yet, I'm old an I remember Microsoft saying VB will no longer be supported, oh back in 99. So I'm skeptical on tech stuff from Microsoft.
late here, need to go home and watch the Americans.
I think I remember you posting some questions last year, or knocking out some answers.
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Yeah it depends on what kind of job I have. This site was blocked at my last company - high security there, working on stuff for the defense department.
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Hi,
I have ASP.NET website with C# backend. I would like to ask if you have any idea about a social share component which I can use to allowe users to share the post to the popular social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc
Thanks,
Jassim
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Pretty sure you don't need OAuth for a generic social sharing component.
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Okay. So, wouldn't the component need authentication in order to push something on wall/tweet? How does the component pass on to social media without account connection?
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I haven't messed with any of this in a few years, but wouldn't you just have to link to the social network with a query string value to the page you intend to like/share (the particular format depending on the social network)? Then, the user can login on that website (if they aren't already logged in). The JavaScript/.Net wouldn't have to do any logging in (because it wouldn't be performing any action on behalf of the user).
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AspDotNetDev wrote: but wouldn't you just have to link to the social network with a query string value to the page you intend to like/share
Sure, if we navigate then yes, this would probably do. I was thinking more from behind the scenes/not navigate.
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I am looking for a components but designed for .net with more features
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It doesn't need to be designed for .Net. It's just some HTML/JavaScript that can be placed on any webpage (including an ASP.NET webpage).
What features are you looking for that AddThis lacks?
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Well, just getting rid of the AddThis name user will not know it's a components and ut will feel it's part of my website
Also reporting to be saved in a database so Ican show each usur share report for his pages only.
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How about shareNice? It's open source, so you can modify it as you like.
Jassim Rahma wrote: Also reporting to be saved in a databas
Is this something you want to log to your database, or should the component have analytics built in? I believe AddThis has analytics of some sort, but I'm not sure about shareNice.
If you use Google Analytics to do click tracking, you can track all client-side clicks on your page (you can do this via JavaScript), regardless of the component.
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Jassim Rahma wrote: Also reporting to be saved in a database so Ican show each usur share report for his pages only.
Let Facebook keep its own data. If your user is authorized to share data with your site, you will be able to get the user's likes, shares, wall posts, etc, from Facebook. You don't need to store that stuff yourself.
Please, do yourself a favor and learn the Facebook API!
FACEBOOK API HOME PAGE[^]
I think if you start looking through that, you'll realize Facebook is somewhat system-agnostic. That is, it doesn't know or care that you're using ASP.Net. Everything you do will be in Javascript mostly.
Here's a link to the "Graph API" which is what you'll mostly use.
Graph API Getting Started Tutorial[^]
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Nice one. Looks good... will have to look deep and try out to see how it works. Thanks for sharing.
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How to convert my asp project into exe file.
can i makke my asp website into .exe file?
help me.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Karthick.RR
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thank u....
Can we deploy project into in .exe file ?
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Hi,
I have a post or forum website in ASP.NET and MySQL backend. I want to know what's the best option to save the post's creation time as different people from different countries will access it and it's no proper to show all the EST or GMT time.
what's your suggestion?
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I would save it as a UTC in database. Later convert into Local time in my application based on the people using it.
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Just wanted to add that when a user submits a post you should from javascript take current time, convert it to UTC and pass it to the server. And for another user reading this post you receive UTC time from DB, pass it to the client and in javascript convert it to local time. Because client creating a post, web app host, DB server and another client reading the post may all be in different time zones
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var d = new Date();
var localZone = d.getTimezoneOffset()/60;
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