ASP.NET XmlProvider Library

Created Issue: webparts not working when hosted in IIS

arun_vasisht — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:38:05 GMT

I have a website where i have webparts in my application, the website shows webparts in its homepage.

The webparts are working fine in debug mode. however after hosting the webparts in IIS the webparts are not working at all.
The webparts are not getting displayed.

New Post: Profile piece not working?

dscoduc — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:42:54 GMT

I can't seem to get the Profiles provider piece working with the latest build. Has anyone had trouble with this besides me?

Created Issue: Membership.GetUser Returns Nothing

publicssoss — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:53:00 GMT

Nothing I tried would allow GetUser to work after the initial signup screen.

Once it was redirected as authenticated, even with the login view showing a user name, even GetUser returned nothing. I tried various combinations of configuration changes and syntax and feature stripping with no results.

Installed another XML provider in the same app and fixed the issue immediately.

I liked the promise of your project, the alternate provider I have now does not support personalization. I don't use personalization today but might adopt it in the future so if you can resolve that I'd be greatful, I might be able to use your provider...

Thank you!

NEW POST: Shared Profile Data not saved?

chrisbayes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:39:11 GMT

Swiftus wrote:
Okay... I think I got it taken care of. I wanted to implement it in a way that didn't break existing schemas, which I think I succeeded. I tested it and it seems to persist/retrieve sharedPersonalization scope correctly now.

Hi Swiftus,
This still seems to be a problem. As it works at the moment you don't get a Shared Personalisation but a Global Personalisation. i.e. Anything changed in Shared mode applies to all pages.

Here are my changes to get it to work

protected override void SavePersonalizationBlob(WebPartManager webPartManager, string path, string userName, byte[] dataBlob)
{
Data.WorkspaceCollection spaces = Data.WorkspaceCollection.Load(this.DataStoreFile);

// changes here for shared
//
//
// when in shared mode the username is empty
//
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(userName))
{
Data.Workspace space = spaces.FindByUserAndPath(userName, path);

if (space == null)
{
space = new Data.Workspace();
space.Path = path;
space.UserName = userName;
spaces.Workspaces.Add(space);
}

space.PersonalizationBlob = dataBlob;
}
else
{
Data.Workspace space = spaces.FindByUserAndPath(string.Empty, path);

if (space == null)
{
space = new Data.Workspace();
space.Path = path;
space.UserName = string.Empty;
spaces.Workspaces.Add(space);
}

space.PersonalizationBlob = dataBlob;
//
// forget the shared blob
// it can be thought of as a global for EVERY page
// not a shared blob based on page path
//
// spaces.SharedPersonalizationBlob = dataBlob;
}

spaces.Save(this.DataStoreFile);
}

protected override void LoadPersonalizationBlobs(WebPartManager webPartManager, string path, string userName, ref byte[] sharedDataBlob, ref byte[] userDataBlob)
{
Data.WorkspaceCollection spaces = Data.WorkspaceCollection.Load(this.DataStoreFile);

// changes for shared
//
// this is creating a global blob not a shared blob
//
// if (spaces.SharedPersonalizationBlob != null) { sharedDataBlob = spaces.SharedPersonalizationBlob; }

// first do the shared
Data.Workspace space = spaces.FindByUserAndPath(string.Empty, path);
if (space != null && space.PersonalizationBlob != null)
{
sharedDataBlob = space.PersonalizationBlob;
}
// now do the user
space = spaces.FindByUserAndPath(userName, path);
if (space != null && space.PersonalizationBlob != null)
{
userDataBlob = space.PersonalizationBlob;
}
}

TIA Chris

NEW POST: How to install template?

learningasp20 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:42:36 GMT

What is the difference between the XmlProvidersSetup file download on the "Releases" page and the downloads on the XmlProviderLibrary-17318.zip file on the "Source Code" page? Is the zip file on the "Source Code" page more current code and the other is just the last major release?

I can't seem to get either to work as a template. Any ideas? Thanks.

NEW POST: How to install template?

learningasp20 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:30:17 GMT

I'm trying to install the template but I don't seen any zip file. The installation EXE unzips itself and so I tried unzipping it into the template directory and I tried putting the XmlProviderLibrary.exe into the template directory but neither of those ideas works. Do I need to create a zip file with the files that the XmlProviderLibrary.exe extracted and then place that new zip file in the templates directory?

Also I wanted to use the AJAX template for this web site but if I use this template then it won't be straightforward using the AJAX template. I tried taking all the .cs and .csproj files and putting them into an existing project but that didn't work. It failed on line 38 of the web.config file when I tried to go to the security tab of ASP.NET Configuration menu option on under Website of the Visual Web Developer 2005.

Any help would be appreciated. This XML memership provider was a great idea!

NEW POST: SGen Parameters

Verifex — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:29:49 GMT

Can someone tell me the exact execute statement you guys run to get the XmlProviders.XmlSerializers.dll, and can I use that without any hitches?

Thanks,

NEW POST: strong name for assembly

maxtoroq — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:57:15 GMT

Maybe for the next version you could sign the assembly with a strong name, so one can place it in the GAC.

NEW POST: ValidateUser

lorenzobattaglia — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:56:21 GMT

For PasswordFormat in Switch Case MembershipPasswordFormat.Encrypted
Change the code from this:

case MembershipPasswordFormat.Encrypted:
passed = CompareByteArray(usr.Password, DecryptPassword(passwordBytes));
break;

in this:

case MembershipPasswordFormat.Encrypted:
passed = CompareByteArray(usr.Password, EncryptPassword(passwordBytes));
break;

CREATED ISSUE: ValidateUser in XmlMembershipProvider.cs

lorenzobattaglia — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:53:14 GMT

NEW POST: Error when trying to compile source

artLodewyk — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:51:22 GMT

Hi I just fixed it. I removed and referenced XmlProviders.XmlSerializers.dll again and that seems to have worked.

NEW POST: Error when trying to compile source

artLodewyk — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:26:16 GMT

Hi I keep getting the following error while compiling the code.

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Xml' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft' (are you missing an assembly reference?) C:\Program Files (x86)\XmlProviderLibrary\Source\Data\WorkspaceCollection.cs 79 27 XmlProviders

I get 16 of these errors and the system does not seem to have the following :

Microsoft.Xml.Serialization.GeneratedAssembly.WorkspaceCollectionSerializer

Can anyone help me with this?

UPDATED RELEASE: XmlProviderLibrary v2.0

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:17:33 GMT

This is the *long* awaited release of the 2.0 version of the XmlProviderLibrary. I debated releasing this version or going directly for the v3.0 version (WCF), but there appears to be enough interest in to warrant releasing this version.

* Lots of bug fixes
* Better Thread Safety
* Sample Web Project showing how the XML provider is used

In terms of overall features, this release doesn't include any new functionality. All new functionality is being positioned for the 3.0 release which will leverage WCF/EntLib.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

Swiftus — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:16:59 GMT

The ASP.NET XmlProvider Library provides an ability to leverage the ASP.NET 2.0 membership, roles, profile, and personalization model without having to persist information to a database. Instead, user information is persisted as XML files in the directory specified by the dataStorePath parameter of the provider. This is especially useful to folks who wish to use the ASP.NET model for membership but host their site with a provider that doesn't support database access -- or perhaps, they don't want to pay for it ;-) The goal of this project is to get an Xml Provider library that is 100% complete feature-wise with it's SqlProvider cousins.

Version 2.0 (Planned)

Lots of bug fixes
Improved thread safety
Sample Web Project using all of the providers (finally you can see them in action)

New For 1.0.0.5a (January 29, 2007)

Now paths using '~/' work with the .NET Configuration Tool
As a result, the issues with roles not showing up in subdirectories are fixed.

New For 1.0.0.5 (January 24, 2007)

First Production Release!
Added thread safety for XML writes

Please post all questions to the forums.

UPDATED RELEASE: XmlProviderLibrary v2.0

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:10:08 GMT

This is the *long* awaited release of the 2.0 version of the XmlProviderLibrary. I debated releasing this version or going directly for the v3.0 version (WCF), but there appears to be enough interest in to warrant releasing this version.

Version 2.0 is planned on being released on *July 14th, 2007*. So check back then!

* Lots of bug fixes
* Better Thread Safety
* Sample Web Project showing how the XML provider is used

In terms of overall features, this release doesn't include any new functionality. All new functionality is being positioned for the 3.0 release which will leverage WCF/EntLib.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

Swiftus — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:09:35 GMT

Version 2.0 (Planned Release July 14, 2007)

Lots of bug fixes
Improved thread safety
Sample Web Project using all of the providers (finally you can see them in action)

New For 1.0.0.5a (January 29, 2007)

Now paths using '~/' work with the .NET Configuration Tool
As a result, the issues with roles not showing up in subdirectories are fixed.

New For 1.0.0.5 (January 24, 2007)

First Production Release!
Added thread safety for XML writes

Please post all questions to the forums.

UPDATED RELEASE: XmlProviderLibrary v2.0

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:54:40 GMT

This is the *long* awaited release of the 2.0 version of the XmlProviderLibrary. I debated releasing this version or going directly for the v3.0 version (WCF), but there appears to be enough interest in to warrant releasing this version. Version 2.0 is planned on being released on *July 7th, 2007*. So check back then! * Lots of bug fixes * Better Thread Safety * Sample Web Project showing how the XML provider is used In terms of overall features, this release doesn't include any new functionality. All new functionality is being positioned for the 3.0 release which will leverage WCF/EntLib.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

Swiftus — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:53:45 GMT

Version 2.0 (Planned Release July 7, 2007)

Lots of bug fixes
Improved thread safety
Sample Web Project using all of the providers (finally you can see them in action)

New For 1.0.0.5a (January 29, 2007)

Now paths using '~/' work with the .NET Configuration Tool
As a result, the issues with roles not showing up in subdirectories are fixed.

New For 1.0.0.5 (January 24, 2007)

First Production Release!
Added thread safety for XML writes

Please post all questions to the forums.

UPDATED RELEASE: XmlProviderLibrary v2.0

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:51:44 GMT

This is the *long* awaited release of the 2.0 version of the XmlProviderLibrary. I debated releasing this version or going directly for the v3.0 version (WCF), but there appears to be enough interest in to warrant releasing this version. Version 2.0 is planned on being released on *July 7th, 2007*. So check back then! *Lots of bug fixes *Better Thread Safety *Sample Web Project showing how the XML provider is used In terms of overall features, this release doesn't include any new functionality. All new functionality is being positioned for the 3.0 release which will leverage WCF/EntLib.

UPDATED RELEASE: XmlProviderLibrary v2.0

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 05:49:28 GMT

This is the *long* awaited release of the 2.0 version of the XmlProviderLibrary. *Lots of bug fixes *Better Thread Safety *Sample Web Project showing how the XML provider is used In terms of overall features, this release doesn't include any new functionality. All new functionality is being positioned for the 3.0 release which will leverage WCF/EntLib.