Question

I recently developed a simple application for displaying a list of files to some users based on access levels and allowing them to download them etc.

This application was developed to be hosted inside a large corporation with heavy security policies and is fairly mission critical..

The application is very basic,

• it checks the users NTID (using windows authentication)
• compares that to a table in SQL
• then pulls up a list of all the files on which this user has access

Thats pretty much it..

There are also a couple of forms for adding a user and editing a user and uploading a file.

We have a problem often where the application is pretty much unresponsive.

This can be remedied by opening command prompt and running ‘iisreset’

I should also note when originally deploying the application we changed some settings on the server to allow connections to stay open a while longer to allow bigger file uploads..

Could this be locking the application up?

I am unabble to restart the server until the weekend.

The server is a windows 2003 box running IIS6.0 and .NET 2.0

Helllllp!

Thanks
Daniel

Answer 1

Haha.. I Feel So Stoopid!

After a morning of writing the stack to log files i found the error..

    try
    {
        //Do Some SQL Stuff Here
        //Close SQL Connection
    }
    catch
    {
        //Whoops it went Bang!
    }

Fixed By Adding this:

    finally
    {
       //Close The Connection Doofus!
    }

Whoops!

So Basically if an error happens in the SQL stuff it’ll go straight to catch and never close the connection!

Thanks for your help everyone!