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opendave
#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:49:11 PM(UTC)
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Hi All,

I have just started experimenting with VWG and it works fine inside the development web server of VS2008. I was having trouble getting any deployed apps to run (trying to add as an application to an existing site), and figured a standalone Cassini would be the answer to all my troubles. And sure enough, google brought me here.

Now my issue is with running a VWG app in the UltiDev Cassini -- is anyone doing this? I do not see a place to register the wgx extension...

If someone could point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave
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#2 Posted : Friday, January 1, 2010 1:13:34 PM(UTC)
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Hi, Dave.

We are not familiar with VWG, so if you tell us what registration of WGX extensions entails, we may be able to help.

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opendave
#3 Posted : Saturday, January 2, 2010 5:11:58 AM(UTC)
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If UD Cassini could handle WGX natively, that would be awesome! Right now, I did get my project working, but to do so I had to resort to an index.aspx file that redirects to my MainForm.wgx page.

WGX is handled identically to ASPX in IIS. In fact, to setup the mapping you actually copy the path/executable from ASPX and paste it into an entry for WGX. If you make UD Cassini treat wgx as though it were aspx, I think that is all it would take. The only CATCH is that there is no actual WGX file. It is a virtual file, created dynamically when you pull up the page. So UD Cassini will need to allow the default file specified to not exist.

It should be a minor change, but it would simplify deployement for the VWG developers. Let me know if you have any questions...

Thanks!
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#4 Posted : Saturday, January 2, 2010 5:15:48 AM(UTC)
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This is a link to deployment on IIS 6, and at the very bottom are details on setting the 'extension mapping' & 'verify file exists' options:
http://www.visualwebgui....rlight-application.aspx
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#5 Posted : Saturday, January 2, 2010 1:59:50 PM(UTC)
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Dave,

We'd suggest just running your app with UltiDev Cassini and see what happens. Our web server is pretty close to WebDev (VS internal server), so there is a chance it may just work. You probably won't need to register .wgx extension to route requests to ASP.NET isapi.dll, because UltiDev Cassini routes all requests to ASP.NET by default, which is one of the biggest differences between Cassini and IIS.

Please let us know what you have found.

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opendave
#6 Posted : Saturday, January 2, 2010 4:47:05 PM(UTC)
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Ultidev Team wrote:
We'd suggest just running your app with UltiDev Cassini and see what happens.


If I manually update CassiniMetabase.xml, and change the default document to MainForm.wgx (my apps starting page), then it does indeed work.

That means, if you change Cassini Web Server Explorer to allow default documents that do not exist on the file system, then it will work. Instead of prohibiting saving if the default document does not exist, maybe just warn the user?

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David
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#7 Posted : Sunday, January 3, 2010 1:16:41 PM(UTC)
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David,

Thank you for your feedback. This issue has been logged and will be addressed in a future release of the product.

Meanwhile, if you need to bundle and distribute your application with UltiDev Cassini, Cassini Configuration and Application Registration API will register your application without checking whether default document file exists.

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