Hi Gizmox,

This is obviously not a technical issue, but a marketing issue.... hiow do I respond when a provider (such as GoDaddy) state that they do not support a VWG application (when I know the can)?

Regards, Kenn

 Hello,

I have setup a web hosting account with GoDaddy and implemented my VWG app using the .ashx extension.  No problems with installation.  My problem now is that my custom events are not firing (or not being listened to) on the hosting server, while they work fine on my local IIS server.  Trying to research this, but debugging on a remote server is difficult if I cannot replicate the problem on my local server.

In my web.config file I have the following two entries for the .ashx extenstion:

<WebGUI>

<Extension Value=".ashx"/>

</WebGUI>

and

<system.webServer>

<add name="WebGUIServer" verb="*" path="*.ashx" type="Gizmox.WebGUI.Server.Router,Gizmox.WebGUI.Server,Version=3.0.5701.0,Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=3de6eb684226c24d"/>

</system.webServer>

Anything else needs to be in web.config for the ashx extension?

Bottom line, Palli is correct, you should be able to run VWG on any hosting site that supports ASP.NET runtime.  I hope to have a "duh" moment soon that resolve my problems.  Also, I call urlmon.dll in my gateway and I get a permission error, that should be somewhat easier to resolve.

Regards, Kenn

 Hi Palli,

The good news is that VWG is running without a hitch on GoDaddy, my problems are not VWG related (I think), so I wouldn't hesitate to advise anyone that any hosted environment that supports ASP.NET should also support VWG.

Your correct about not being able to execute unmanaged code without running in Full Trust mode.  Unfortunately, it is unlikely that any host would let you run in that mode.  In my case, I know that the only content I will be passing to my Gateway (at least in this app) will be a PDF report, so I was able to statically set the mime type to "application/pdf", that got me around the security problem.

My other problem is adding a user control, VWG  just hangs in my hosted environment,  not much code here:

            kwSched2.UIControls.TestLogon _testLogon = new kwSched2.UIControls.TestLogon();

            contentTab.addContent(_testLogon);

Again works fine in my local IIS environment but hangs up on GoDaddy.  I just get the busy icon for an indeterminate length of time.

I use log4net for logging, but for some reason the logs are not being written to my Logs directory on the host (works fine in my local IIS).  This doesn't help in debugging.

My other problem about custom events not being raised or listened to, I created another thread here:

www.visualwebgui.com/Developers/Forums/tabid/364/forumid/-1/threadid/37426/scope/posts/Default.aspx

Thank you and the community for all your help,

Oh, quick question, what is the purpose of VisualWebGuiMap entry in the config file?  I noticed it is set for wgx extension, .Net version 2.0 and classic pool (my app is running in the integrated pool).  I'm sure this has no effect but was just wondering what the entry was for.

Regards, Kenn