Category: How to

Add SEO Friendly URL’s to ASP.NET Application

NG Asp.Net, How to

It’s very important for a web site to create SEO friendly URL’s and remove page extensions such as .aspx. When search engines look at a site, the first thing they analyze is the page URL which help them ascertain what the page content is about. In ASP.NET application Routes can be used for this which are URL patterns used for processing requests and can be used to construct URLs dynamically. The Global.asax file is a special file that contains event handlers for ASP.NET application lifecycle events. The route table is created during the Application Start event in Global.asax. In order to do so add Global Application Class (Global.asax) to your ASP.NET Web Application if it is not created yet. The following example shows how to add a route. protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { try { RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); } catch (Exception ex) { // Log Exception here } } protected static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes) { if[…]

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Publish an ASP.NET website without roslyn folder

NG Asp.Net, How to

If you create a ASP.ENT website using Visual Studio 2015 or higher and .NET Framework 4.5.2, it by default uses Roslyn which is a set of open-source compilers and code analysis APIs for C# and Visual Basic. Publishing this would also include “roslyn” folder in bin directory containing a bunch of libraries and exe files which creates issues if you are using a shared hosting service as normally shared hosting do not run under full trust. We can simply remove this by going to Tools -> NuGet Package Manager -> Manager NuGet Packages for Solution -> Uninstall following packages Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform Microsoft.Net.Compilers Check web.config and make sure the following section was removed by the NuGet package uninstall. If it did not get removed for any reason, then clean it up manually <system.codedom> <compilers> <compiler language=”c#;cs;csharp” extension=”.cs” type=”Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.CSharpCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35″ warningLevel=”4″ compilerOptions=”/langversion:6 /nowarn:1659;1699;1701″/> <compiler language=”vb;vbs;visualbasic;vbscript” extension=”.vb” type=”Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform.VBCodeProvider, Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35″ warningLevel=”4″ compilerOptions=”/langversion:14[…]

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Quick Tip

Convert C# Object to JSON and create object from JSON string

NG Asp.Net, How to, Quick Tip

Json.Net is the preferred way to go about it because of performance gain it gets compared to JavascriptSerializer. Download and install Newtonsoft.Json using Nuget Now in order to create Json for an object simply use SerializeObject method as following Product product = new Product(); product.Name = “Apple”; product.Expiry = new DateTime(2008, 12, 28); product.Sizes = new string[] { “Small” }; string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(product); // { // “Name”: “Apple”, // “Expiry”: “2008-12-28T00:00:00”, // “Sizes”: [ // “Small” // ] // } In order to convert Json to the object use DeserializeObject method as following string json = @”{ ‘Name’: ‘Bad Boys’, ‘ReleaseDate’: ‘1995-4-7T00:00:00’, ‘Genres’: [ ‘Action’, ‘Comedy’ ] }”; Movie m = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Movie>(json); string name = m.Name; // Bad Boys  

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Commenting Etiquettes While You are on Web !!

Simy Digital Marketing, How to, Quick Tip

Now a days commenting on posts or blogs is not just what people do out of their interests only but also it is really important to be an active commenter on the social media to mark your presence known and maintain overall awareness about the updates. It helps in building links with others, building a community and sharing your views. Comments also reveal the engagement of your content. While sharing your views anywhere be it on a blog or some social networking post, you have to make sure that your comments are expressed in a good way. There are certain things to be taken care of before you comment. Here they are: • Make Valuable Comments: Make sure to never comment without proper knowledge about the subject and reading of the content. Comments should not be done just to make noise but to add on to the information. You can add a story related to a post[…]

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Windows 10 App :Host Defined Policy: Inline Script. Resource will be blocked.

NG How to, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Windows Store App

I recently ported one of my java script projects to Windows store app and got the error as following CSP14321: Resource violated directive ‘script-src ms-appx: ‘unsafe-eval’ blob:’ in Host Defined Policy: inline script, in ms-appx://13bdc914-5111-4c95-a5e6-82029c5105ec/index.html at line 21 column 12. Resource will be blocked. If you have something like the following, it won’t work <a href=”javascript:void(0)” id=”somelink” onclick=”callMethod();”>Link</a> Since I was using jQuery in the project, I simply used jQuery to bind click event to the element $(“#somelink”).click(function () { callMethod(); }); and Voila, everything works but I had many pages which had this reference and I had to make this change to all pages. After some research I found that there is an alternate way which is much faster to change. By default ms-appx:/// protocol is used in store apps to fetch the content. For web apps specify a specific protocal ms-appx-web which is then used for the app. This can be done[…]

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Error: An invalid APK was received. Not a signed jar file.

NG Android, How to, Mobile

When I tried to upload APK file to Aptoide store which was built using cordova and signed for the release version, I got this error An invalid APK was received, does not seem to have all files correctly signed. Please verify apk signature and try again. Signature error: Not a signed jar file The same APK was fine when uploaded on Google Play Store. In order to fix this problem I had to create an unsigned release version of the APK using cordova and then sign it using jarsigner utility. In order to create unsigned release version of the APK, following command can be used cordova build android –release Jarsigner utility comes with java sdk and can be found @ your JDK bin folder (for ex, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_131\bin). The command which can be used to sign the APK is as following jarsigner -verbose -tsa http://timestamp.comodoca.com -keystore android.keystore -storepass password mygame.apk alias[…]

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URL Rewrite SEO in IIS

NG Asp.Net, How to, SEO

Since the advent of search engines URL rewriting has become mandatory. It makes URLs look nicer and clearer in terms of what content to expect at the given URL. Recently I uploaded few static HTML files to an IIS site. I wanted a nice looking URL without .html extension which was quite straight-forward to achieve in ASP.NET site. You can install URL Rewrite Module in IIS 7 or above versions and a few configuration steps is all that is required to achieve the desired results. Read this article from Microsoft to get in-depth understanding of the steps. Below is the sample web.config entry I had to make to achieve the results <configuration> <system.webServer> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Rewrite to .html Rule”> <match url=”^games/([_0-9a-z-]+)” /> <action type=”Rewrite” url=”games/{R:1}.html” /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> </system.webServer> </configuration> You will need some understanding of the regular expressions to create a matching pattern for your URL (match tag in[…]

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Disable Comments in a Single Post in WordPress

Simy How to, WordPress

Recently I started getting hundreds of spam comments to a specific post and for a couple days I kept deleting it assuming it was a one time flood but those spam comments kept coming in hundreds everyday. I did not want to delete the post since it had a decent views so decided to look for ways to disable comments in only that specific post. The solution came pretty quickly and was already built-in the WordPress. All I had to do was to go to the posts and then click Quick Edit link which opened an inline edit box and there it was; the option to disable comments. Check for highlighted section below for the same

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Path must be a string. Received undefined

NG Android, How to, HTML5, Intel XDK, Mobile

It has been a couple months since I last used Intel XDK and a lot has changed since. I just tried to compile a demo HTML5 + Cordova Android app which was exported using Intel XDK version 3987 and got the following error while trying to add android platform to the app using cordova command line. To see how compiling is done, check this blog post. Discovered plugin “cordova-plugin-whitelist” in config.xml. Adding it to the project Installing “cordova-plugin-whitelist” for android This plugin is only applicable for versions of cordova-android greater than 4.0. If you have a previous platform version, you do *not* need this plugin since the whitelist will be built in. Saved plugin info for “cordova-plugin-whitelist” to config.xml Error: Path must be a string. Received undefined After this error you wont be able to compile the APK. Some research on google got me to this thread which eventually worked. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46730465/can-not-add-cordova-platform-on-cordova-7-1-0-path-must-be-a-string To fix[…]

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Failed to remove a plugin from Intel XDK

NG Android, How to, Intel XDK, Plugin

In the latest Intel XDK version 3987 I was not able to remove the third-party plugins from HTML5 + Cordova app. Whenever I try to remove a plugin, it failed with the error message Uh oh! Path much be a string. Received undefined I found a workaround @ https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-xdk/topic/733620 Since Intel XDK is no more into development phase, I think this is the only way as long as this works. Steps are simple. Go to development tab and expand plugins folder there. Delete the third-party plugin and all dependent plugins. Also, delete fetch.json. Then go to Projects tab and delete the plugin from there under Plugin Management. Finally restart XDK.  

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