In part I – we’ve discussed how to create the report + how to get it working on a local box. The real fun starts when it comes to deployment. Here is the summary of challenges I faced: 1. When I deployed the solution to a Windows Server 2003 box I got...

Reports provides first level of Business Intelligence for an application. They are generally thought as low hanging fruit till the other functionality is developed but suddenly becomes the most critical part of the app as we approach the project milestones...

I was troubleshooting one of the issues where my ASP.NET MVC app was working in DEV environment (Win 2k3 single server) and when moved to Pre-PROD (Win 2k3 load balanced) we started getting 403 Forbidden errors. There were quite a few possibilities: The...

Challenge 1: Even when you set multiple = false the list box still ends up as <select multiple>... in the resulting HTML. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/351483/how-do-i-create-a-listbox-in-asp-net-mvc-with-single-selection-mode Here is how I...

In this post we are going to focus on second option when the roles are maintained in the DB. Step 1: In the web.config file, we have to specify the database connection string where the roles are stored: <connectionStrings> <add name="ApplicationServices"...

It is a common scenario in an enterprise application when as per the requirement we have to authenticate the users against their AD account and authorize them against application specific roles. Especially for the applications that are intranet facing...