Coding Horror: WebFileManager updated

January 10, 2005

WebFileManager updated

I updated the WebFileManager CodeProject article with some enhancements. It now supports zipping files and column sorting:

WebFileManager UI

I included both the code-behind and inline code versions of the page in the solution archive this time. There's also a new dependency on SharpZipLib, assuming you want the remote file zipping support.

I also found out the hard way that..

SharpZipLib, like the Java class it apes, is completely incapable of modifying an existing Zip archive. I wonder if .NET 2.0 includes any native support for Zip, GZip, etc?
FireFox doesn't support alignment in the <COLGROUP> tag. This makes specifying column attributes for alignment kind of a per-row pain in the butt. To be fair, CSS and HTML both kinda suck when referencing table columns. Cells and rows, yes, columns, not so much.

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Comments

J# has built-in zip libraries. I guess that's native .NET support if you want to include the dll in your project.

There's an article on MSDN Mag about it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/ZipCompression/default.aspx

It says it can modify existing zip files. I haven't verified.

Darrell on January 10, 2005 01:41 PM

I'm sure it's the same Zip/Gzip class that is in Java.. and that class cannot MODIFY a Zip file. Create, yes, but not modify.

Would be nice if Zip/Gzip was native to .NET 2.0, sure is handy.

Jeff Atwood on January 10, 2005 01:45 PM

Jeff,

How about creating a setup that can be installed on any IIS box?

rizzo on January 11, 2005 01:02 PM

Rizzo, what do you mean? I'm not following you.

Jeff Atwood on January 11, 2005 05:49 PM

What I mean is that if you add a setup project to your solution, it will automatically create a setup.exe for you and you don't have to explain to people how to install it.

rizzo on January 15, 2005 01:39 AM

Hi,
it is possible to write several AllowedPathPattern in web.config? If YES, how?

Regards, Marko

Marko Lutz on June 29, 2005 10:25 AM

Yes-- just delimit your regular expressions with a pipe char

Eg,

"c:\wwwroot\apples|c:\wwwroot\oranges|c:\wwwroot\pears"

Just watch out for regex (or XML!) characters that need to be escaped

Jeff Atwood on June 29, 2005 04:44 PM

Is it possible to use paths like c:\Windows\

I'm getting exceptions trying to do it!

Thanks

Andrey on September 28, 2007 01:53 PM