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Dan Cern · September 23rd, 2009, 11:35 AM

Hello, and thanks alot for all you have done.
1.
When I do "View in Browser" from solution explorer I see the whole site.
I CAN do login if I wish but I can just view site without login.
It seems to me I have missed something during developement.
2.
This question may be out of the scope of the book and pehaps you can reffer me to the answer.
at Reviews/All.aspx I want the title field to be a link.
I changed the table property to Navchar (MAX) and put an <a href ... element.
When I do "View in Browser" from solution explorer I see the <a href ... element as is and not as a link.

Thanks in advance,
Dan

Imar · September 23rd, 2009, 11:40 AM

Hi there,

1. Sounds like you forgot to add <location> elements to web.config?

2. How are you assigning the link? Sounds like you typed it in Design View? If that's not the case, can you provide more info?

Cheers,

Imar

Dan Cern · September 23rd, 2009, 01:49 PM

Thanks for the reply.
regarding your first comment :
"1. Sounds like you forgot to add <location> elements to web.config?"
Where in the book can I find this issue?

regarding yoursecond comment :
"2. How are you assigning the link? Sounds like you typed it in Design View? If that's not the case, can you provide more info?"
I opened the "show table data" of the Review table.
I then changed the text to <a href="http://www.google.co.il"></a> AS IS
When doing view source I found this:
li><a href="http://www.google.co.il"></a></li>
"<" and ">" are acronyms of "Lower than" and "Greater than", which are the "<>" tags.
The <> tags are translated into their html synonyms.

the problem can be either in the insertion of the data into the database or when the data is extracted from the database and parsed as an HTML. The insertion problem option seems unrelevant because I inserted the <a href ... manually.

Perhaps it has to do with some property.
Thanks, Dan

Imar · September 23rd, 2009, 04:27 PM

Hi Dan ,

Chapter 15 is dedicated to security. Page 546 and onward show you how to use the <location> element to block the Management folder.

Also, check out page 520 and onward to learn more about setting authentication settings in web.config.

The HTML is indeed encoded as you're setting the Text property to a full anchor tag (<a>) and a URL.

Instead, enter http://www.google.com in the database and bind the NavigateUrl to it, like this:

<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# "Eval("Title").ToString() %>'
Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>'></asp:HyperLink>

(Taken from Reviews/All.aspx and changed the NavigateUrl attribute)

Hope this helps,.

Imar

Dan Cern · September 27th, 2009, 09:21 AM

Hello!
I wish to thank you for your continuous and ongoing help you provide me at need. I haven't managed to solve my problems yet and but I am still working on it.
Dan

Imar · September 27th, 2009, 02:00 PM

You're welcome. Feel free to post here if you can't make it work....

Cheers,

Imar