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Implementing a 410 Status Code Using C#

Here’s how you can setup a 410 Status Code using C#.  Just place this code in the code-behind file in the Page_Load event handler, replacing www.domain_name.com with your domain name, of course:

Response.StatusCode = 410;
if (Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"].ToString().ToLower() == "www.domain_name.com");
Response.Write("410 Gone");
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Work Around to Clearing ASP.NET Temp Folder for a Specific Site

Sorry I haven’t had time to blog in over a year. I’ve been busy working on a MongoDB project. I just came across this issue with a customer the other day and couldn’t find the answer to this question:

How do I find and delete the ASP.NET temp folder contents for a specific site while leaving the other temporary files for other sites alone?

Sometimes, ASP.NET will return an error with the specific path in the ASP.NET temp folder showing a conflict in two .dll files. In this case, it’s easy. Just delete the files. But what do you do when it just tells you there is a conflict in assemblies but doesn’t show the path? Here is the work around solution I came up with:

1) Rename the web.config file temporarily to something else like web.config.bak.
2) Reload the site to force a recompile.
3) Rename web.config.bak back to web.config.
4) Reload the site again to force a recompile.

This should clear out the ASP.NET temp folder contents for that specific site each time the site is recompiled.

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Simple Code in C# to Convert DateTime object to the “datetime-local” type used in input controls with MongoDB Driver

As the title suggests, the following code converts a DateTime object to the “datetime-local” type used in HTML5 input controls (i.e. format 2016-10-30T00:00:00.00).  I developed this while working on a personal application using C# and MongoDB.  It uses the ToJson() function/method of the MongoDB Driver.

using MongoDB.Driver;
using System;

Datetime dt = new DateTime();
var dtLocal = dt.ToJson().ToString().Replace("ISODate(\"", "").Replace("Z\")", "");

Hopefully by posting this, it will help others save time.