[thelist] (asp.net) application variables
Tab Alleman
talleman at Lumpsum.com
Thu Mar 23 09:05:15 CST 2006
Hmmm.. when I look in my web.config file, I only see what look like xml tags... no code blocks. It's ok to put code blocks in there? I'm scared. : )
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Robert Vreeland
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:12 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] (asp.net) application variables
>
>
> Opps, sorry I was in a rush, I just copied and pasted the code.
> 'sqlConnectionString' is set in the web.config file and is a
> variable local
> to the app; so you would use whichever variable you were
> looking for. More
> specifically, we had a similar problem of accessing
> application variables
> hard coded in config files. For better or worst, we only
> store the initial
> database connection string in the web.config file, the rest
> are pulled from
> the backend database and brought into memory via a loop. Here
> is the code
> for that
> while(reader.Read())
> {
>
> Application[reader["AppVarName"].ToString()] =
> reader["AppVarValue"].ToString();
> }
> reader.Close();
>
> With the value of AppVarName being the variable name and the value of
> AppVarValue, well, the value :). These application variables
> we can then
> access through the familiar (again in c#):
> Application["some_variable_name"]
>
> Hope that clears up my previous post.
>
> Robert
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Tab Alleman
> Sent: March 22, 2006 02:54 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] (asp.net) application variables
>
> Hmmm, the error goes away, but the value is empty.
>
> How and where are you populating "sqlConnectionString"?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Robert Vreeland
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:40 PM
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: [thelist] (asp.net) application variables
> >
> >
> > Not sure about VBScript, but in c# I'm currently using the
> following
> > in the aspx page (string
> > )ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["sqlConnectionString"]
> >
> > Hope it helps,
> > Robert
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Tab Alleman
> > Sent: March 22, 2006 02:22 PM
> > To: Evolt Thelist (E-mail)
> > Subject: [thelist] (asp.net) application variables
> >
> > I'm having trouble storing and accessing a simple
> application variable
> > in asp.net.
> >
> > In my global.ascx file, I've got this:
> >
> > Sub Application_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
> > EventArgs)
> > ' Fires when the application is started
> > Application("foo") = "some text"
> > End Sub
> >
> >
> > and then in one of my pages, I've got this:
> >
> > strFoo = Application("foo")
> >
> > which produces the error: "Reference to a non-shared
> member requires
> > an object reference".
> >
> > What am I doing wrong? Should I be "NEW"-ing the Application
> > somewhere?
> > where?
> > --
> >
> > * * Please support the community that supports you. * *
> > http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
> >
> > For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and
> > archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers
> of the Web,
> > evolt !
> >
> > --
> >
> > * * Please support the community that supports you. * *
> > http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
> >
> > For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester and
> > archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers
> of the Web,
> > evolt !
> >
> --
>
> * * Please support the community that supports you. * *
> http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
>
> For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip
> Harvester and archives
> of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org Workers of the Web, evolt !
>
> --
>
> * * Please support the community that supports you. * *
> http://evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
>
> For unsubscribe and other options, including the Tip Harvester
> and archives of thelist go to: http://lists.evolt.org
> Workers of the Web, evolt !
>
More information about the thelist
mailing list