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Smtp mail problem at Winhost (solved)

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

When I tried to send email from my main site hosted at Winhost.com, I got this permission error: “Request for the permission of type ‘System.Net.Mail.SmtpPermission, System, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089′ failed..”. Winhost support forum has responded to this problem and suggested adding “<trust level=”Full”> under the <system.web> in web.config. I did that and the problem went away.

Thanks to folks at winhost support forum, I was also able to call Winhost smtp client, using Network credentials given to my hosting account, directly from my development local machine and sent email out by port 587. This sample code at Winhost KB was the right place to get start with Winhost smtp mail: http://support.winhost.com/KB/a650/how-to-send-email-in-aspnet.aspx.

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Moved to Winhost

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Finally got fed up with the slowness of WP hosting at Godaddy, I decided to move my WP blog there to winhost. Yeah, Godaddy has many features that are powerful and convenient, but that exactly was my problem with them – there are too many flashy features that crowded the site and slows down the UI experience. It was easier to install WordPress and/or other open source apps on Godaddy as they are collectively located and a few button clicks was all it needed. But once my blog was setup, browsing to it was a pain and sometimes even showed time out error.

Winhost is a million mile apart from Godaddy’s flashy world. It is simple, clean and down to earth, and the price is right too. Although at the beginning I felt frustrated for lack of custom tools but then I figured out everything I needed can be found in Forum or/and KB. I first relocated my main site yangsoft.com which is in ASP.Net 4.0 and the site is already loading 10 times faster. I have been using WordPress for my blogs since early 2010 and liked it a lot, so I wanted to transfer the old blogs from Godaddy to Winhost. The way to do it seemed to be backing up mysql db from Godaddy, download it to local drive, then use Mysql Workbench to open the sql file and execute it against the newly created mysql db on Winhost server. It seemed to be working but when I browsed to the blog.yangsoft.com at Winhost, the links on right side-bar always want to point back to my old site at Godaddy. If I cannot fix this in next day or so, I will just resolve to the old fashion way – copy and paste.

At this point, I installed WordPress from scratch to yangsoft.com/blog and the installation process was very smooth and clean. Just followed the instruction given by Winhost forum at http://forum.winhost.com/showthread.php?t=5198

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Trouble with System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityObject

Friday, June 17th, 2011

I had a .net project that was initially written in C# .Net 2.0, then upgraded to 3.5, and recently to 4.0. So naturally the project have both Linq to SQL class (dbml) and Entity Framework data model class (edmx).

Then this error occurred when I was compiling a ASP.Net page that referenced a EF method call from the data layer, “Error 36 The type ‘System.Data.Objects.DataClasses.EntityObject’ is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly ‘System.Data.Entity, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089’….”

This message actually turned out to be related to something else – System.Data.DataSetExtensions. Because after I removed the v2.0 reference to this assembly and replaced with v4.0 version, I got a different error: “The type or namespace name ‘TypedTableBase’ does not exist in the namespace ‘System.Data’ (are you missing an assembly reference?) c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET…”. I finally tracked down the culprit: there were a few auto-generated dataset classes that were added when I created some SQL server reporting service reports to the solution while I was still in .Net 2.0. To prove that, I temporarily exclude all those Reporting Services related files from the web project that is referencing the data layer, then all the compiling errors were cleared.

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Find that stored proc that drags

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Today, I read an outstanding article by Gail Shaw at simple-talk.com about the best way to identify the stored proc or t-sql query that is the culprit of a slow performance website. The basic technique, as suggested by the author, is to use SQL Profiler GUI to create the trace definition, focusing on TextData, CPU, write, reads, and duration data columns; run Profiler for a short period and stop, save the trace definition file. Author highly recommended that we should not run Profiler for too long as it will compete for server resource and sometimes can bring the server to a halt.

After trace is run, the results are exported to a table and by querying that table, sorted by CpuImpact, IOImpact, and TimeImpact, we can easily identify the stored proc name that costs most. It was a great writing, very clean and truck load of useful information. Click here to access the part I of the article…

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