How to change the startup page of a WP7 Application - windows-phone-7

I am having an WP7 application in which I need to change the Startup page depending upon if the user is already registered or not. Suppose if user is registered then I need to redirect him to welcome page if not then to register page.
I have tried a couple of ways below is my code but it gives me an argument dispose exception.
To achieve above feature I wrote Navigation code in my MainPage.xaml constructor. Checked if the User Registration info is not in isolated storage then will redirect to other page.
private void IsAgreeed()
{
try
{
isoStorage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
if (!isoStorage.FileExists("DataBase/MyPhoneNumber.txt"))
{
this.NavigationService.Navigate(new Uri("/EULA.xaml", UriKind.Relative));
}
else
{
return;
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Debug.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
}
}
Above code works properly when I use it first time but if I Close the Application and restart it again it throws exception argument dispose exception.
Thanks;
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Peter Torr covers page redirections quite well here. Two methods are offered with relative merits covered. Edit: Note you can redirect to a login page, rather then employing the popup suggestion for login handling.
Redirecting an initial navigation - Peter Torr's Blog
I'd also recommend familiarising with his accompanying post on places here.
Introducing the concept of “Places” - Peter Torr's Blog
This address back stack handling (certification consideration) and addresses scenarios such as login pages.

Peter Torr explained 2 techniques for your purpose.
Redirecting an initial navigation

To achieve this I put up MainPageorEula.xaml and got the functionality required.

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Kentico Tapping into Page Level Events

We are creating webevents in a DB other than Kentico. These webevents are then used for enterprise reporting. I need to implement the same inside Kentico project.
Is there an event that can fire after the page has loaded so that i can create my web event with page name and user information if logged in.
I have also seen in the past that with events, the Request and Session objects are not available. However, HTTPContext.Current is available. I need the Request and Session objects.
We are using Kentico version 7.0.92 and have a portal template site.
Now, i don't want to use portal template page to create events since this code executes multiple times with each request for a page.
Basically, i am interested in the PageName, Session and Request objects.
I have looked around Kentico 7 documentation. Looks like we have CMSRequestEvents but haven't been able to find sample code.
Update:
Looks like the missing piece is CMSContext class. Now just trying to find the right event for CMSRequestEvents, where i have the Session object available.
I'd suggest modifying Kentico\CMS\Global.asax.cs in the following way:
public override void Init()
{
base.Init();
CMSRequestEvents.AcquireRequestState.After += AcquireRequestState_After;
}
void AcquireRequestState_After(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Do your stuff...
}
By that time the HttpContext.Current.Session should already be initialized. Page name can be retrieved from the HttpContext.Current.Request which should never be null.

IIS 7 Custom Error Page without Web.config

Is there any way to set a custom error page in IIS 7 without creating a web.config?
Unfortunately researching this particular topic has been very difficult because there are SO many articles on how to do it with a web.config. What I'm looking for is either buried beneath the 8 million results I don't want or it's not possible.
Yes, there is. It involves either subscribing to the Application_Error event in Global.asax or by writing a custom ErrorHandlerAttribute.
Darin already gave the correct answer, but I want to go into a little more depth.
In any ASP.NET application, given it is Web Forms, MVC, or raw ASP.NET, you can always use Application_Error Global.asax. If your ASP.NET application does not have a Global.asax, all you need to do is right-click your project in Solution Explorer, Add New Item, and choose Global Application Class. You should only have this option available if you don't already have one.
In your Global.asax, if you don't already see it, you can add Application_Error as shown below:
protected void Application_Error(object sender, EventArgs e) {
}
This will be called automatically by ASP.NET whenever there is an error. But as stated here, this is not perfect. Specifically:
An error handler that is defined in the Global.asax file will only
catch errors that occur during processing of requests by the ASP.NET
runtime. For example, it will catch the error if a user requests an
.aspx file that does not occur in your application. However, it does
not catch the error if a user requests a nonexistent .htm file. For
non-ASP.NET errors, you can create a custom handler in Internet
Information Services (IIS). The custom handler will also not be called
for server-level errors.
In Application_Error you can process the uncaught exception with Server.GetLastError(). This will provide you the Exception that was thrown, or null. I am not sure why this handler would be called if an exception didn't occur, but I believe that it is possible.
To redirect the user, use Response.Redirect(). Whatever you pass for the url is going to be sent directly to the browser without any further processing, so you can't use application-relative paths. To do that I would use this method in combination with VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(). For example:
Response.Redirect( VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute( "~/Error.aspx" ) );
This redirect will be a 302 (temporary redirect) rather than a 301 (permanent), which is what you want in the case of handling errors. It's worth noting that this overload of Response.Redirect is the same as calling the overload Response.Redirect(url, endResponse: true). This method works by throwing an exception, which is not ideal in terms of performance. Instead, call Response.Redirect(url, false) immediately followed by Response.Complete​Request().
If you're using ASP.NET MVC, [HandleError] is also an option. Place this attribute on your Controller or on an Action within a controller. When this attribute is present, MVC will display the Error view, found in the ~/Views/Shared folder.
But you can make this even easier for yourself. You can automatically add this attribute to call Controllers in your project by creating a FilterConfig class in your project. Example:
public class FilterConfig {
public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters) {
filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());
}
}
And then add FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters( GlobalFilters.Filters ); to your Application_Start() in Global.asax.
You can read more about the HandleErrorAttribute at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.mvc.handleerrorattribute(v=vs.118).aspx.
But as stated above, both of these methods will never cover absolutely all errors that can occur during the processing of your application. It's not possible to provide the best user experience for all possible errors without using Web.config or configuring IIS manually.

Front-end Ajax in ModX Revolution

What's the proper way for implementing front-end Ajax functionality in ModX Revolution? I like the idea of connectors and processors, but for some reason they are for back-end use only - modConnectorResponse checks if user is logged in and returns 'access denied', if he is not.
Inserting a snippet into resource and calling it by resource URL seems a one-time solution, but that doesn't look right to me.
So how do I get safe Connector-like functionality for front-end?
So, as boundaryfunctions said, it's not possible and ModX developers recommend using a resource with a single snippet included. But for those who despite the will of developers look for Connector-like functionality, there may be a solution made by guess who-- ModX core developer splittingred in Gallery extra. In connector.php, before handleRequest() call, there's a code that fakes authorisation:
if ($_REQUEST['action'] == 'web/phpthumb') {
$version = $modx->getVersionData();
if (version_compare($version['full_version'],'2.1.1-pl') >= 0) {
if ($modx->user->hasSessionContext($modx->context->get('key'))) {
$_SERVER['HTTP_MODAUTH'] = $_SESSION["modx.{$modx->context->get('key')}.user.token"];
} else {
$_SESSION["modx.{$modx->context->get('key')}.user.token"] = 0;
$_SERVER['HTTP_MODAUTH'] = 0;
}
} else {
$_SERVER['HTTP_MODAUTH'] = $modx->site_id;
}
$_REQUEST['HTTP_MODAUTH'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_MODAUTH'];
}
Works for me. Just need to replace first if condition with my own actions.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that you need to pass &ctx=web parameter with your AJAX request, because default context for connectors is "mgr" and anonymous users will not pass policy check (unless you set access to the "mgr" context for anonymous users).
And also the code from Gallery extra I posted here seems to check some session stuff that for me doesn't work with anonymous front-end users (and works only when I'm logged in to back-end), so I replaced it with the next:
if (in_array($_REQUEST['action'], array('loadMap', 'loadMarkers'))){
$_SESSION["modx.{$modx->context->get('key')}.user.token"] = 1;
$_SERVER['HTTP_MODAUTH'] = $_REQUEST['HTTP_MODAUTH'] = 1;
}
I don't know if this code is 100% safe, but when anonymous user calls it, he doesn't appear to be logged in to Manager, and when admin is logged in and calls the action from back-end, he is not logged off by force. And that looks like enough security for me.
This solution is still portable (i.e. can be embedded into distributable Extra), but security should be researched more seriously for serious projects.
As far as I know, this is not possible in modX at the moment. It has already been discussed on the modx forums and filed as a bug here, but it doesn't look like anybody is working on it.
There are also two possible workarounds in the second link. Personally, I would favour putting the connector functionality into the assets folder to keep the resource tree clean.
There's a more complete explanation of the technique used in Gallery here:
http://www.virtudraft.com/blog/ajaxs-connector-file-using-modxs-main-index.php.html
It allows you to create a connector to run your own processors or a built-in MODX processors without creating a resource.

FB.ui permissions.request issue in new OAuth window

I having an issue with FB.ui permissions.request window.
FB.ui({
method: 'permissions.request',
perms: 'publish_actions',
display: 'popup'
},function(response) {
// This function is never called ? });
Context :
I use the new OAuth window (with timeline), i have configured my apps to work with it.
I'm french and use Facebook in French.
First issue :
- My callback function is never called ...
Second issue :
- The new OAuth window, seem to be not the good window.
It's called 'permission request' but inside it is the copy of login window. And no permission request is displayed.
So, my question is : how can i do the permission request in js ?
How displaying this window : https://developers.facebook.com/attachment/app_extended_perms.png/ ?
Thanks.
The reason you are not seeing it is because the application process has become a two step process.
Being that the person accepts to login into your application.
Being the person accept your extended permission which is where the callback url comes into play.
Documentation can be found here.
So the reason your callback isn't being called is because the two step process. I would suggest making the response attached to second page that is called.
I am not sure how the JS SDK works but it is how I managed to do it.
Goodluck.
Disable "Enhanced Auth Dialog" in your app's advance settings and see if it works. If you want to stick with Enhanced Auth Dialog then checkout Setup Auth Dialog Preview for Authenticating user section of this tutorial.

"Don't Allow" and "Allow" buttons always off-screen on WP7 Facebook OAUTH browser control

I've developed a WP7 client that uses the Facebook C# SDK, using OAUTH and the web browser control.
Everything works fine except that on the page where the user is requested to accept/reject the access permissions I am asking for, the "Don't Allow" and "Allow" buttons are off the bottom of the browser's screen, and it isn't obvious that the user must scroll down to click on them.
I've tried using all the different display modes (touch, wap, page, popup) and "page" is the only one that shows the buttons on the same page, but then the fonts are tiny. I've also tried different sizes for the browser control.
The example in the SDK has the same behavior.
Has anyone found a work-around for this?
The solution I have found is to use Javascript to change the CSS properties for the element:
private void FacebookLoginBrowser_Navigated(object sender, System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationEventArgs e)
{
// check for when this approve page has been navigated to
if (FacebookLoginBrowser.Source.AbsolutePath == "/connect/uiserver.php")
{
showBrowser();
// do the script injection on the LoadCompleted event - doing it here will appear to work when you have a fast connection, but almost certainly fails over 3G because the elements aren't ready in time to be modified
FacebookLoginBrowser.LoadCompleted += new System.Windows.Navigation.LoadCompletedEventHandler(FacebookLoginBrowser_LoadCompleted);
}
// etc ...
}
void FacebookLoginBrowser_LoadCompleted(object sender, System.Windows.Navigation.NavigationEventArgs e)
{
FacebookLoginBrowser.LoadCompleted -= FacebookLoginBrowser_LoadCompleted;
// Facebook will likely change this and break our code soon, so make sure you anticipates this
try
{
FacebookLoginBrowser.InvokeScript("eval", "document.getElementById('platform_dialog_bottom_bar').style.position = 'relative';document.getElementById('platform_dialog_bottom_bar').style.top = '-60px';");
}
catch
{
// TODO: display instruction to scroll down if we ever end up here
}
}
I hope that helps. Feel free to contact me if you run into problems
I haven't tried this, but could you use the WebBrowser control's Scale(SizeF) method to change the zoom level of the page?

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