Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Some news about ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas) and Full Trust

I guess this is really more of a link regarding ASP.NET AJAX and Full Trust.

Ken Cox points out that the new AJAX extensions install themselves into the GAC instead of a Bin subdirectory. I hadn't really thought about this until he notes how this affects those of us (me included) who have shared web hosting.

I've been putting a picture slideshow together for my sister's wedding and I've spent the past couple of nights working on a nice, AJAX-y website that would allow her to pick her own captions for the pictures and customize the slides without me having to email a huge PowerPoint file to her. It sounds like I'll have to look at another option for the time being, though, because I doubt I'll be able to convince my web host to install beta software to the GAC.

*sigh*

What fun it is being a beta junkie.

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posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:42:30 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Comments [3]
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:52:44 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
but hopefully you could still just place the required dlls in the same place as your application (xcopy deployment style) -- and then the assemblies will be found when they are requested?

just because they *can* be installed into the GAC doesn't mean they *have* to be. isn't that the whole point of .net?
lb
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:55:33 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
my bad -- i see the issue is with granting full trust to the assemblies (not just discovering the assemblies).

sounds like you need a web host that will let you trust an assembly. Here in australia we had to ditch one webhost and go with another in order to get that ability.
lb
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:20:43 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Yeah, that's what I saw, too. I was hoping I'd be able to copy it over, but then the Full Trust issue came up. I think the same problem with Full Trust and my web host has been preventing me from enjoying the benefits of Akismet, because it requires WebPermission as Phil Haack mentioned at http://haacked.com/archive/2006/10/17/Why_Oh_Why_Couldnt_WebPermission_Be_Part_Of_Medium_Trust.aspx.

I'll look at a different web host if I have to, but the price I'm paying right now sure is great :)
David
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