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Custom Apps within Community Server

A few months ago, a client of mine asked for the ability to host a custom app from within their Community Server deployment.  Well, I got to working with TheMan and we built a web.config that basically restored the settings in a virtual directory within a CS deployment to the defaults for ASP.Net.

So - first, here's the requisite HelloWorld program.

How'd we do it - basically, we're going to reset, remove, clear, add:

  • Remove alll of the added assemblies by name.
  • Reset the page base type (if you're running ASP.Net 2.0)
  • Reset your custom errors
  • Remove httpModules
  • Remove httpHandlers
  • Reset your Authentication
  • Clear membership, role and profile providers and add your defaults from your machine.config

That's it - good luck!

You want more detail?  Ok - this article was written for a CS2.1.60809.935 running on ASP.Net 2.0.

In my web.config (which should be the one that comes with the CS2.1 download - a copy is available here), starting at the top, we find:

<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="false">
     <assemblies>
          <add assembly="MemberRole, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b7c773fb104e7562"/> 
     </assemblies>
</compilation>

My helloworld app isn't going to use MemberRole, so let's kill it.  Take the web.config for your custom app and put in:

<compilation defaultLanguage="c#" debug="true"> 
     <assemblies> 
          <remove assembly="MemberRole, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b7c773fb104e7562"/> 
     </assemblies>
</compilation>

I use copy/paste.  If you're an old unix geek you can s/add/remove and you're set.

Continuing on... we find:

<pages validateRequest="false" enableEventValidation="false" autoEventWireup="true" pageBaseType="CommunityServer.Components.CSPage, CommunityServer.Components"/>

My helloworld app isn't going to use CommunityServer.Components.CSPage, etc, so let's kill it...  But what is the default pageBaseType?  Well - the Page class belongs to "System.Web.UI" so you can set this to System.Web.UI.Page.

Moving on...  Next I run into <httpModules> and <httpHandlers>.  Here, you just need to "remove" all of the custom settings:

<httpModules>
     <remove name="CommunityServer" />
     <remove name="CSProfile" />
     <remove name="CSRoleManager" />
</httpModules>

<httpHandlers>
     <remove verb="GET" path="Utility/redirect.aspx" />
     <remove verb="GET" path="aggbug.aspx" />
     <remove verb="GET" path="avatar.aspx" />
     <remove verb="GET" path="vcard.aspx" />
     <remove verb="GET" path="r.ashx" />
</httpHandlers>

Now we get into the custom providers that CS uses.  Luckily, there's a lovely <clear /> statement that we can use to blow away all of the providers.  This is a problem, though, because ASP.Net loads some default providers.  We need to add them back but I don't know off the top of my head what they are.  When in doubt, look at your microsoft.net/framework/CONFIG directory for the default setting.  Doing so, I find default membership, profile and roleManager providers in my machine.config and add the following lines to the end of my custom app's web.config and we're done!

 

  • <membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider">
    • <providers>
      • <clear />
      • <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1" passwordAttemptWindow="10" passwordStrengthRegularExpression="" />
    • </providers>
  • </membership>
  • <profile defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProfileProvider">
    • <providers>
      • <clear />
      • <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="/" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
    • </providers>
  • </profile>
  • <roleManager defaultProvider="AspNetSqlRoleProvider">
    • <providers>
      • <clear />
      • <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="/" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
    • </providers>
  • </roleManager>

 

Ok - here is the final web.config for my custom app. 

Posted: Mar 29 2007, 07:03 PM by Adonis | with 22 comment(s)
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communityserver相关博客聚合 said:

A few months ago, a client of mine asked for the ability to host a custom app from within their Community

# March 29, 2007 9:11 PM

Dave Burke said:

Thanks for post all of this detail and the final web.config.  This is really helpful!  By the way, I love the banner.  Is that you???  Dang!  Sweet!

# March 30, 2007 8:19 AM

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Yeah - I have a bunch of banners that I cycle through from a couple trips to Mexico.  I started writing a banner rotator but haven't finished it yet.  Maybe I'll get it done for CS 2k7 :).  I'll release it here if it ever gets done.

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# March 30, 2007 10:38 PM

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# March 31, 2007 2:07 AM

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Telligenti Adonis Bitar posts a complete web.config of a custom app running under Community Server, but

# April 1, 2007 10:00 PM

Tod1d's Thought Process said:

Adonis Bitar gives us another example of how to run your custom ASP.NET application under Community Server

# April 3, 2007 8:27 AM

Tod Birdsall said:

Thanks for the helpful tutorial.

# April 3, 2007 8:28 AM

Community Server News said:

A few months ago, a client of mine asked for the ability to host a custom app from within their Community

# April 15, 2007 8:22 PM

Robba said:

Hey Ado,

Thanks for posting this, it really helped me take care of a client and get their sub-web app running under CS, but I had to make a few modifications and wanted to post them here just in case they might help someone else.

I had to remove 2 of the httpModules, add 1 httpHandler and completely change the membership and profile default providers as well as the rolemanager.  Thise sections ended up looking like this:

<httpModules>

    <remove name="CommunityServer" />

</httpModules>

<httpHandlers>

    <remove verb="GET" path="Utility/redirect.aspx" />

    <remove verb="GET" path="aggbug.aspx" />

    <remove verb="GET" path="avatar.aspx" />

    <remove verb="GET" path="vcard.aspx" />

    <remove verb="POST" path="rsscomments/*.aspx" />

    <remove verb="GET" path="r.ashx" />

</httpHandlers>

<membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" enabled="false" />

<profile defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" enabled="false" />

<roleManager enabled="false" />

Thanks again for this post!!!

Robba

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As a test over the last couple of days I tried to tie in a little test application to my Community Server

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