Admin posted on October 30, 2011 17:25

I'm currently looking at implenting sitesearch for one of my client sites, I looked at a few options including Microsoft's Search Server Express 2010 and a commercial solution from http://www.sitesearchasp.net.

Here's my results:

Microsoft Site Search Express 2010

In a nutshell I a spent about half a day trying to get this working, don't waste your time with this crap (being polite as possible) as it's an absolute nightmare.  It's quite a big install and it actually installs SharePoint 2010 as well which I didn't particually want.

See the following blog posts on the "hacks" required to get it working on a non domain server:
http://soerennielsen.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/how-to-install-a-sharepoint-2010-complete-server-without-ad/
http://www.trinkit.com/blog/2009/4/9/the-sharepoint-search-service-and-anonymous-access

After doing all of this I still couldn't get it working with a nice error from Sharepoint:

At this point with nothing sensible coming form the logs I lost the will to live, deleted everything and am currently trying to delete the thought of SharePoint  from my memory.  Lets move on....

 

SiteSearchAsp.Net

Report coming soon....

 


Posted in: ASP.NET MVC , Windows 2008  Tags:

Whilst looking at implementing a site search feature for one of my client sites I thought I'd look at Microsoft's free Search Server 2010 Express to see if I can use it to crawl my MVC3 razor website that I'm working on.  

First of all I'd try to install Search Server 2010 but quite quickly found that if you don't have a domain account then you'll receive the following error:
"the account must be a valid domain account"

Thanks that's really useful!  I came across this excellent article which with a bit of PowerShell allows you to work around the problem by:

1.  After install cancel the SharePoint configuration wizard
2.  Drop down to the SharePoint Management Shell
3.  Run New-SPConfigurationDatabase
2.  Now you're good to go with the wizard by running PSConfigUI



Dan posted on December 7, 2009 22:33

If you've been trying out Asp.Net MVC 2 you might come across this error:

This request has been blocked because sensitive information could be disclosed to third party web sites when this is used in a GET request.

But it worked in MVC 1.0!  There is a security vulnerability using JQuery AJAX GET requests (JSON Hijacking) and in MVC 2 get requests  are blocked by default.  You can get around the problem and leave the security problem by adding JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet when you return the JSON result:

   1: public JsonResult FindByCoordinates(string latitude, string longitude)
   2: {
   3:     IList<Object> records = new List<Object>
   4:         {
   5:             new 
   6:                 {
   7:                     Lat = "0.1122",
   8:                     Long = "51.12212"
   9:                 }
  10:         };
  11:  
  12:     return new JsonResult { Data = (records), JsonRequestBehavior = JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet };
  13: }

The better approach is to avoid the possibility of JSON hijacking and use JQuery post instead:

   1: $.ajax({
   2:     type: "POST",
   3:     contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
   4:     url: "/Home/FindEscortsByCoordinates",
   5: ....
   6: ....

Hope this helps anyone that comes across this.


Posted in: ASP.NET MVC  Tags: , ,

In my last refactoring post I demonstrated using the MVCContrib helper extension Html.ScriptInclude to help tidy up jscript files.

This time I'll show you a another MVCContrib helper Html.Stylesheet.  As the name suggests it works in the same way as ScriptInclude but works for css stylesheets.

The key to this helper method is sticking with a convention of storing your css files in Content\Css:

image

Now in your master file use the following:

   1:  <head runat="server">
   2:      <title><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="TitleContent" runat="server" /></title>
   3:      
   4:      <%= Html.Stylesheet("Site.css") %>
   5:      <%= Html.Stylesheet("jquery.cluetip.css")%>
   6:      
   7:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Jquery-1.3.2.js") %>
   8:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Jquery-validate.js") %>
   9:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Jquery-metadata.js") %>
  10:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Jquery-cluetip.js") %>
  11:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Jquery-example.js") %>
  12:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js")%>
  13:      <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Form.Common.OnLoad.js") %>
  14:      <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="HeadContent" runat="server" />
  15:  </head>

Now that looks much better!


Posted in: ASP.NET MVC  Tags: , ,
Dan posted on July 18, 2009 13:06

I came across this today and thought it was a very good list of useful articles:

http://www.ajaxline.com/25-plus-best-asp-net-mvc-tutorials-and-articles


Posted in: ASP.NET MVC  Tags:

One of the conventions within the ASP.NET MVC framework is store JavaScript files in the Scripts directory, nothing wrong with this and when you reference your scripts you probably do something like:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/FormHelpers.js"></script>

If you’re not using MVC Contrib in your applications then download it now! 

 http://www.codeplex.com/MVCContrib

Once you reference the MVC Contrib assemblies you’ll have access to lots of goodies one of which relating to this post is the html helper extension Html.ScriptInclude.  Using this helper refactors the output by removing duplication and encapsulating the script location into one place.

   1: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
   2:  
   3: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
   4: <head runat="server">
   5:     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
   6:        
   7:     <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Jquery.js") %>
   8:     <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Form.Helpers.js") %>
   9:     <%= Html.ScriptInclude("Form.Common.OnLoad.js") %>%>
  10:     
  11:     <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="head" runat="server">
  12:     </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>    
  13: </head>
  14: 

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