Re: [Mono-aspnet-list] Mono ASP.NET vs MS VS
On Friday 26 September 2014 3:34:50 PM Chris Rogus wrote: 1) If there is something easy and obvious that I am missing in my config, please let me know. (e.g. the global or Views web.config files are different between MS VS and Mono, for sure, but I am not an expert with these files to know exactly what is needs to be changed in the MS VS one, if anything, to fix this situation) 2) Otherwise, any advice on how I could figure out exactly where this error is coming from? What dll is missing or what line in my config xml is not right, etc? How can I debug an ASP.NET application in Mono -- using xsp4 or monodevelop anything else? I could never get MVC5 to work on Mono but if you don't use any of the new features in MVC5 you can just rebuild your app on MonoDevelop referencing the System.Web.Mvc.dll version 4 from Microsoft and it should work, here's what I did to get it working: 1. Download and install MVC4 if you haven't already.\ 2. Open your VS2013 project in MonoDevelop on Linux and change the System.Web.Mvc reference to the one that ships with MS MVC4. Make sure the copy local checkbox it ticked. 3. Change the System.Web.WebPages.* references to the version 3.0.0 that comes with mono. I copied them from the GAC to a directory on my solution tree and added the reference from there checking copy local. On the latest version of MonoDevelop if you add it from the GAC or the framework directory and tick copy local it will copy a lot of stuff that will break your app. 4. Change both Web.config files so that all references to System.Web.Mvc use version 4.0.0.0 and all references to System.Web.WebPages use version 3.0.0.0. 5. Build and run the solutiion on MonoDevelop. It should work. When you scaffold an edit view with VS2013 it will add the css classes to the Html.EditorFor, MVC4 ignores it so the form controls are not formatted for bootstrap, my solution was to use jQuery to set the css class. Also VS2013 mvc template references site.css but the file is called Site.css, you need to fix this so it works right on XSP. The Web.config files that VS created for me are called Web, not web so you'll probably have to rename yours. 3) What do I need to do to get an ASP.NET solution created in MonoDevelop to open in MS VS? (Hopefully this is the same solution as getting my MS VS ASP.NET site to work in Mono/xsp4.) I created my solution in Visual Studio and it opens in both. I've been mostly working on Linux but if I need to work on VS I need to change the assembly references back. 4) Any advice on where Mono might already have a Publish feature like MS VS has in MonoDevelop? Or else where I should go add one if no such feature yet exists, if it acceptable to the team in charge of this product (I don't want to do it, submit a pull request and be told it is an undesired feature). Such a feature would very helpful for me. Project Deploy to Web... (on Version 5.0.1). It can only deploy to a local directory or network share. -- -- Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com ___ Mono-aspnet-list mailing list Mono-aspnet-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-aspnet-list
Re: [Mono-aspnet-list] Mono ASP.NET vs MS VS
mngadlban On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Friday 26 September 2014 3:34:50 PM Chris Rogus wrote: 1) If there is something easy and obvious that I am missing in my config, please let me know. (e.g. the global or Views web.config files are different between MS VS and Mono, for sure, but I am not an expert with these files to know exactly what is needs to be changed in the MS VS one, if anything, to fix this situation) 2) Otherwise, any advice on how I could figure out exactly where this error is coming from? What dll is missing or what line in my config xml is not right, etc? How can I debug an ASP.NET application in Mono -- using xsp4 or monodevelop anything else? I could never get MVC5 to work on Mono but if you don't use any of the new features in MVC5 you can just rebuild your app on MonoDevelop referencing the System.Web.Mvc.dll version 4 from Microsoft and it should work, here's what I did to get it working: 1. Download and install MVC4 if you haven't already.\ 2. Open your VS2013 project in MonoDevelop on Linux and change the System.Web.Mvc reference to the one that ships with MS MVC4. Make sure the copy local checkbox it ticked. 3. Change the System.Web.WebPages.* references to the version 3.0.0 that comes with mono. I copied them from the GAC to a directory on my solution tree and added the reference from there checking copy local. On the latest version of MonoDevelop if you add it from the GAC or the framework directory and tick copy local it will copy a lot of stuff that will break your app. 4. Change both Web.config files so that all references to System.Web.Mvc use version 4.0.0.0 and all references to System.Web.WebPages use version 3.0.0.0. 5. Build and run the solutiion on MonoDevelop. It should work. When you scaffold an edit view with VS2013 it will add the css classes to the Html.EditorFor, MVC4 ignores it so the form controls are not formatted for bootstrap, my solution was to use jQuery to set the css class. Also VS2013 mvc template references site.css but the file is called Site.css, you need to fix this so it works right on XSP. The Web.config files that VS created for me are called Web, not web so you'll probably have to rename yours. 3) What do I need to do to get an ASP.NET solution created in MonoDevelop to open in MS VS? (Hopefully this is the same solution as getting my MS VS ASP.NET site to work in Mono/xsp4.) I created my solution in Visual Studio and it opens in both. I've been mostly working on Linux but if I need to work on VS I need to change the assembly references back. 4) Any advice on where Mono might already have a Publish feature like MS VS has in MonoDevelop? Or else where I should go add one if no such feature yet exists, if it acceptable to the team in charge of this product (I don't want to do it, submit a pull request and be told it is an undesired feature). Such a feature would very helpful for me. Project Deploy to Web... (on Version 5.0.1). It can only deploy to a local directory or network share. -- -- Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com ___ Mono-aspnet-list mailing list Mono-aspnet-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-aspnet-list ___ Mono-aspnet-list mailing list Mono-aspnet-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-aspnet-list
[Mono-aspnet-list] Mono ASP.NET vs MS VS
Hi, I am trying to build an ASP.NET website in C# using Razor templates in MS Visual Studio that will then run in Mono on Linux. I have never attempted to run an ASP.NET site with Mono before now, and I only played with MonoDevelop briefly when I last explored Mono a couple years ago. I have mono-complete and mono-fastcgi-server4 installed from Xamarin's deb on my Xubuntu 14.04 desktop VM (running in VirtualBox): sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main' # etc When I use Xamarin Studio 5.4 in Windows 7 (downloaded 5.0.1.3 from monodevelop.com and then upgraded in-app) to create a new solution of type C# ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC Razor Project, and then copy the bin dir, Views dir and Global.asax + Web.config + package.config files into my Linux machine's /var/www/ directory, and finally run xsp4 there, everything works fine. Fine here meaning that I open localhost:9000 and see a simple page that says: Welcome to ASP.NET MVC 5.2 on Mono! (Note that I can also accomplish this with nginx + mono-fastcgi-server4.) When I then use Visual Studio 2013 Professional Update 3 in Windows 7 to create a new solution of type Visual C# Web ASP.NET Web Application Empty check MVC, and then copy from the Xamarin solution I just created (for demo purposes): Controllers/HomeController and all the contents of the Views dir except Web.config (note that MS VS uses web and Mono/Xamarin uses Web, if ever that might matter). I then right click on the project in MS VS and then Publish Custom (name it) Publish method: File System Target location: (somewhere). Once that is published locally, I will then copy that dir into my /var/www in Linux and finally run xsp4 there, where I see this error displayed in the browser when I open localhost:9000 : System.InvalidCastException Cannot cast from source type to destination type. Description: HTTP 500.Error processing request. Details: Non-web exception. Exception origin (name of application or object): System.Web.WebPages.Razor. Exception stack trace: at System.Web.WebPages.Razor.WebRazorHostFactory.GetRazorSection (System.String virtualPath) [0x0] in filename unknown:0 Version Information: 3.8.0 (tarball Thu Sep 4 12:24:26 UTC 2014); ASP.NET Version: 4.0.30319.17020 Additionally, if I try to open the Mono solution in my MS VS, it fails to convert it, with an error: C:\Users\Chris\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\MonoSite\MonoSite\MonoSite.csproj : error : The imported project C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets was not found. Confirm that the path in the Import declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. C:\Users\Chris\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\MonoSite\MonoSite\MonoSite.csproj Now, I am an experienced C# developer and used to do C and C++ once upon a time, so I would like to contribute / help myself here: 1) If there is something easy and obvious that I am missing in my config, please let me know. (e.g. the global or Views web.config files are different between MS VS and Mono, for sure, but I am not an expert with these files to know exactly what is needs to be changed in the MS VS one, if anything, to fix this situation) 2) Otherwise, any advice on how I could figure out exactly where this error is coming from? What dll is missing or what line in my config xml is not right, etc? How can I debug an ASP.NET application in Mono -- using xsp4 or monodevelop anything else? 3) What do I need to do to get an ASP.NET solution created in MonoDevelop to open in MS VS? (Hopefully this is the same solution as getting my MS VS ASP.NET site to work in Mono/xsp4.) 4) Any advice on where Mono might already have a Publish feature like MS VS has in MonoDevelop? Or else where I should go add one if no such feature yet exists, if it acceptable to the team in charge of this product (I don't want to do it, submit a pull request and be told it is an undesired feature). Such a feature would very helpful for me. Thanks! --- Chris Rogus ___ Mono-aspnet-list mailing list Mono-aspnet-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-aspnet-list
