Unhandled Exception: "The file attached is invalid" with AsyncFileUploader and .NET Framework 4

 

I upgraded my ASP.NET framework from 3.5 to 4 recently, and encountered a host of problems.

I knew the problem was due to the upgrade because I had not changed my code, and yet, there were parts of the system that went haywire with seemingly esoteric errors.

Today, I got the error below when I tried to upload images on a web page that was working perfectly before.

 

Fortunately, the error is easy to solve.  I just followed the tip from ndkjava given on the ASP.NET forum.

Basically, what you need to do is to locate the control on the markup code and add this attribute to it.

ClientIDMode="AutoID"

For example, this is how my code looks like after adding it.

<asp:AsyncFileUpload ClientIDMode="AutoID" ID="AsyncFileUpload1" runat="server"  onuploadedcomplete="AsyncFileUpload1_UploadedComplete" />

Everything seems to work marvellously after that! :)

ps. If you want to download the latest version of the FileAsyncUpload which is in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit 4, you can get it at CodePlex here (updated 24 Jun 2012).

For tutorials on how to use the AJAX Control Toolkit FileAsyncUpload control,  you can find one here.

Applying superscript and subscript to WordXML

I wrote an entry sometime back in Jan 2011 to show how you can easily generate a Word document using the OpenXML SDK with font size, font color and bold formatting.

Yesterday, I received a comment from Hema, who asked me how to add subscript and superscript formatting.

To tell the truth, I had not dabbled in those before.  But I decided since I have already come so far, I can just spend a little time to see if I can apply subscript and superscript effects to my previous code too.

I am glad I tried, because I realised its not too difficult.  The only problem is that there’s little documentation out there, so I managed to arrive at the solution purely through my own ‘experiment’ and I am not sure if my method is the most efficient!

I am assuming that you are familiar with the OpenXML SDK and procedures such as how to create Run and RunProperties based on my previous post.  What you need to add superscript or subscript is to use the “VerticalTextAlignment” class to specify if you wish to have a “Superscript” or “Subscript” or the default “Baseline” alignment.

Scroll below for the full code to generate a Word document with one single sentence with output like this:

 public void GenerateSentence(string filename)
        {
            WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument.Create(filename, 
               WordprocessingDocumentType.Document);
            MainDocumentPart mainPart = doc.AddMainDocumentPart();
            mainPart.Document = new Document();
            Body body = new Body();

            /**** Create the contents ****/
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Run run1;
            Paragraph para;

            string text1 = "The answer for ";
            string text2 = "10";            
            string text3 = "2";
            string text4 = " is 100";


            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties runProperties1 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties
               (new RunFonts() { Ascii = "Script" });
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties runProperties2 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties
               (new RunFonts() { Ascii = "Courier New" });
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties runProperties3 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties
               (new RunFonts() { Ascii = "Arial" });
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties runProperties4 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.RunProperties
               (new RunFonts() { Ascii = "Times New Roman" });            

            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize fs1 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color c1 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold b1 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment vta1 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment();

            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize fs2 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color c2 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold b2 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment vta2 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment();

            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize fs3 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color c3 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold b3 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment vta3 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment();


            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize fs4 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.FontSize();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color c4 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Color();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold b4 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Bold();
            DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment vta4 = 
               new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.VerticalTextAlignment();
            
        


            /*** Format text1, text2, text3 and text4  as one paragraph ***/
            run1 = new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Run();

            fs1.Val = "40";
            c1.Val = "black";
            b1.Val = false;
            vta1.Val = VerticalPositionValues.Baseline;
            runProperties1.Append(fs1);
            runProperties1.Append(c1);
            runProperties1.Append(b1);
            runProperties1.Append(vta1);
            run1.Append(runProperties1);
            run1.Append(new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Text(text1));

            fs2.Val = "40";
            c2.Val = "black";
            b2.Val = false;
            vta2.Val = VerticalPositionValues.Baseline;
            runProperties2.Append(fs2);
            runProperties2.Append(c2);
            runProperties2.Append(b2);
            runProperties2.Append(vta2);
            run1.Append(runProperties2);
            run1.Append(new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Text(text2));

            fs3.Val = "40";
            c3.Val = "black";
            b3.Val = false;
            vta3.Val = VerticalPositionValues.Superscript;
            runProperties3.Append(fs3);
            runProperties3.Append(c3);
            runProperties3.Append(b3);
            runProperties3.Append(vta3);
            run1.Append(runProperties3);
            run1.Append(new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Text(text3));


            fs4.Val = "40";
            c4.Val = "green";
            b4.Val = false;
            vta4.Val = VerticalPositionValues.Baseline;
            runProperties4.Append(fs4);
            runProperties4.Append(c4);
            runProperties4.Append(b4);
            runProperties4.Append(vta4);
            run1.Append(runProperties4);
            run1.Append(new DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Wordprocessing.Text(text4));

            para = new Paragraph(run1);
            body.AppendChild(para);

            /*** Append the entire body ****/
            mainPart.Document.Append(body);

            /* Save the results and close */
            mainPart.Document.Save();
            doc.Close();
        }//end GenerateSentence

NOTE: You might notice that when you open up the Word document, the spaces go missing.  I had this problem too, and upon Googling, found out that this is due to a  bug in Microsoft’s OpenXML Office 2010/2007 implementation.  Oh well….

How to solve “Error: Unrecognized element 'folderLevelBuildProviders'”

This morning, I created a ASP.NET using the default application and not touching any of the default code, I tested it successfully with the built-in web server Visual Studio 2010.  Next, I happily clicked on the “Publish Web Site” menu item and deployed it on the local IIS.
Since I did not even do anything to the default code, I thought there would be no problem when I try to call this web application from another computer.  To my dismay,  when I tried to view the site I see an "500 - Internal server error."
So I checked out the IIS manager and tried to click on the “.NET Compilation” icon.  And encountered this error  "Unrecognized element 'folderLevelBuildProviders' ".
Well, “fortunately”, it seems that this is a common problem when and tried to and solved this using the tip from stackoverflow.
So the solution is quite simple, you register the aspnet to recognise the Framework 4.0 like this:

What you need to make sure is that, depending on whether you are on a 32 bit or 64 bit machine, the command differs abit.
For 32 bit machine
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319>aspnet_regiis –i
For 64 bit machine
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319>aspnet_regiis –i

How to solve “There is a duplicate ‘system.web.extensions/scripting/scriptResourceHandler’” error

 

I got this error after I ran a “C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319>aspnet_regiis –i” command.

Apparently, it happens when you run an older version of ASP.NET application on an IIS server that has been upgraded to use the ASP.NET Framework 4.0.

I found the way to solve this problem via Brad Kingsley’s tip .

All you need to do is to edit your web.config and comment out the section “system.web.extensions” as follows.  It worked well for me, and I hope it does for you too! :)

ASP.NET Session Management

 

Assorted links from others
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/227382/Alert-Session-Time-out-in-ASP-Net

How to change NTFS permissions for files or folders using Microsoft’s Extended Change Access Control List tool (xcacls.exe) tool

 

If you need a command-line tool that you can include in your batch files to change the NTFS permissions of files or folders, you can use the following tool from Microsoft.

Download iCACLS : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919240
Article from ss64: http://ss64.com/nt/icacls.html

For example, the command below gives

icacls c:\inetpub\wwwroot\files\ /grant mary:(M,WDAC)

NOTE: xcacls is DEPRECATED.  Please use iCACLS instead which comes bundled with Microsoft Windows 2003.

Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318754
Download tool here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ad33a24-0616-473c-b103-c35bc2820bda&DisplayLang=en

Other links:

1. How to use Xcacls.vbs to modify NTFS permissions (dated 30 Oct 2006)


2. Forum thread on Stackoverflow

Login failed for user 'IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool'.

 

Following the instructions below solved my problem :)

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/