asp.net-4.0

I'm using the new Routing feature in ASP.NET 4 (Web forms, not MVC). Now I have an asp:ListView which is bound to a datasource. One of the properties is a ClientID which I want to use to link from the ListView items to another page. In global.asax I have defined a route: System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute("ClientRoute", "MyClientPage/{ClientID}", "~/Client.aspx"); so that for instance http://server/MyClientPage/2 is a valid URL if ClientID=2 exists. In the ListView items I have an asp:HyperLink so that I can create the link: <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkClient" runat="server"

Is Web.config's appSettings section only capable of storing simple strings like this? <appSettings> <add key="OKPage" value="http://mysite.com/okpage.html" /> </appSettings> or I can have more complex values like CDATA or nested values? If not, is this the only place in Web.config where to store custom settings? Thanks Alex Aza You can make any XmlSerializable class as a setting. I answered to the similar question here: Custom type application settings in ASP.NET Also there is a sample project attached. Here is an example of the settings from my config file: <setting name="MyEndPoints"

The Label control in ASP.NET seems to render <span> tags, but is there a server control to render HTML within a <div> ? Sure, I could set display: block and it might look the same, but I'd rather not be nesting divs inside spans. Also I'd prefer not to use <%= MyVariable %> because that might not behave nicely on postbacks. Any suggestions, please? I think you need HtmlGenericControl class. It has a constructor which accepts a string variable which initializes a new instance of the HtmlGenericControl class with the specified tag: var div = new HtmlGenericControl("div"); It is also has

Background I'm working on an ASP.NET 4 web site (not web application). I'm trying to use IRegisteredObject to allow some long-running code to run in a non-request thread. For testing, I've set the IIS 7.5 application pool's recycle interval to low values so that it will try to recycle while the background thread is running. Code public class AspFriendlyBackgroundJob { private readonly object key = new object(); private readonly Task task; public AspFriendlyBackgroundJob(Action work) { lock (key) { HostingEnvironment.RegisterObject(new Stopper(this)); task = Task.Factory.StartNew(work); } }