i would like to add OpenSearch to my C# webapplication.
does someone recommend a certain .net library? or does a custom webapplication require a tailormade opensearch implementation?
That might help:
http://blog.unto.net/opensearch/add-opensearch-to-your-site-in-five-minutes/
If you want while-you-type suggestions, you need to have a search method on the server that searches and returns the results in JSON (not XML) format. If you don't need suggestions, you just need a method that responds to the search in a normal way by pushing HTML to the browser.
Have a look at Mozilla's official documentation for creating an opensearch plugin for your site and supporting search suggestions
I suggest OpenSearch.Net (an open source fork of elasticsearch-net).
Have a look into the git repo for getting started
https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-net
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I am trying to create a sitemap in Asp.Net MVC3.
Is there any control given by Microsoft to create a sitemap in MVC3 using Razor view Engine?
If not then, is it possible in MVC3 to to create a sitemap, without using any third party tool like Nuget MvcSiteMapProvider Package?
You can always roll your own, which is what I do, but here are some existing implementations:
https://github.com/maartenba/MvcSiteMapProvider
http://keyvan.io/sitemap-action-result-for-asp-net-mvc
I use something similar to the second implementation and it has worked very well for me.
Before I started contributing to MvcSiteMapProvider, I searched for an answer myself and came to the conclusion the answer is no. Microsoft didn't provide any built-in way to build a sitemap, search engine sitemaps files, or SiteMapPath controls in ASP.NET MVC, all of which MvcSiteMapProvider does.
I would like to use the DropBoxTokenIssuer tool which comes with SharpBox, for easy creation of app access to a Dropbox account, but it does not work atm.
Does anyone have any ideas how to fix it, or know of a different tool which does the same.
For answer please refer following URL...
http://sharpbox.codeplex.com/workitem/18848
I've been using DropNet (also on NuGet) with great success. The GitHub notes provide good sample code for getting through the Dropbox authorization workflow.
this is my first visit to stackoverflow and right now I feel very comfortable with this site.
It already helped me to get the FiddlerCore embedded into MS Visual C# 2008 Express Edition.
Just needed to create a reference(Verweis) to the fiddlercore dll from Project Explorer(Projektmappenexplorer) in MS Visual C# EE. Hope this are the names for it in the english version. After this you can use Fiddler.FiddlerApplication stuff etc.
What is my task?
I want to create a small program which is able to use the FiddlerCore to check the bodies of requests/responds for special JavaScript Code.
This enables the developers to check wether their code is valid in another versions of there Browser (especially from IE 6.x to IE 8.x) or not. To be able to do so, I need to know:
How can I check the content of a requested or responded file for a String?
This must have something to do with the Text View Inspector (Fiddler), but I cannot find a possibility to access it with .net code or within Fiddler which would also help a lot already.
I should be able to finish the remaining stuff with some search by google or stackoverflow.
As this is my first time with .net languages this will be very interesting and demanding.
Take a look at this example. In the BeforeResponse callback a Fiddler.Session is passed as argument. This object has a method called GetResponseBodyAsString. As its name suggest you may try using it to get the response text. There's also a GetRequestBodyAsString method for the request.
I have an c# Class Library where I need some dynamic template based text.
Instead of inventing my own template parser I thought I could create an aspx file in my project that is executed at runtime and, instead of viewing the output in a browser, I want a StreamReader or string object that holds the result.
Is that possible? And if yes, how do I do this?
You're going to struggle more than is necessary with this approach. You'd need an ASP.NET host like IIS.
Personally, I'd recommend an existing template processor. I've heard (on a Hanselminutes or DotNetRocks podcast, I think) that you might even be able to host the T4 system in your application. I'll have a look and see if I've remembered that correctly.
Update
Here's a link on hosting T4 templating in your application.
ASP.Net is designed to be run in a web server engine - you would also have to deploy this to make it work.
Calling ASPX Pages from a Library would be possible (see Cassini WebServer) but I would recommend another tool:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/T4BasedCodeGenerator.aspx
We use it in our Project - slightly adapted for our needs
I'm wanting to use google maps and see a million ways to do it on the web. Some are javascript methods and some are asp.net server components with which I have hit and miss luck. What's the easiest and most reliable way using c# and asp.net?
I have my location data including geocodes in a database. I want to provide users a method to do a lookup for certain locations. From there, my code will provide a table of geocodes to google maps with markers on the map corresponding to the found entries. Users can see each entry and need to be able to tell which is which if multiple rows are returned.
Is there a good way to do this?
The Google Maps API is accessed via JavaScript (any server controls are just abstracting this away from you). In the case you described, you would need to dynamically output the required JavaScript to tell the maps API what to display.
See http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/171162
There are a few server controls to do it, like this, but you have to learn how to do things in one way (server control) or another (Javascript Google API).
I recommend using the Google API, since it has more samples all over the web, and you can use new features implemented by Google right after they release them and don't have to wait for the server control developer to do it.
I would recommend using direct JavaScript to create the Google Maps. It's fairly straight forward and then you will be able to understand what's going on behind the scenes.
Google has some pretty good tutorials and documentation to get you up and running quick. Once you add one to your site, it will become very easy to setup the rest of the customization that you need.
Take a look at this site for examples.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/
As usual I point to ComponentOne who has a nice SilverLight control for this that can use google-maps or Microsofts Live Maps, it uses Silverlight Deep Zoom to handle it nicely:
http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/MapsSilverlight/
Live example:
http://demo.componentone.com/Silverlight/Factories/
(I'm not from ComponentOne, just a satisfied customer) ;)
I know you can do it yourself with scripts and other ways, but its just so much more fun to use code allreade written. ;)
Best .NET Wrapper for Google Maps or Yahoo Maps?
BTW: I found a great post here that has an example on how to do a store lookup. Works really well. I recommend!!
http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/HOWTO-Build-a-Store-Locator-in-ASPNET.aspx
Check out this example: Data driven Google Maps in ASP.Net
I used ASP.Net Ajax to create a web-service that is callable from JavaScript.
The web-service talks to the database and fills a very basic object. ASP.Net Ajax, then makes the object available to my client javascript. The rest is easy: In the client, you call the webservice from Javascript, read the data returned and populate Google Maps, using simple Google Maps API calls.
Check out the site at link text
Please, try my GoogleMaps control for ASP.NET