c#

OracleException (0x80004005) When Connecting to Oracle Database

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I’ve developed a simple C#, .net 4.0 website which I’d like to deploy onto an IIS test server. I am using the Oracle.DataAccess assembly to connect to an Oracle database, and I’ve added that DLL (and a hell of a lot of other related DLL’s, just for good measure and in a shotfun attempt to try and solve this problem), to the bin folder of my website. it works fine on my development machine (obviously; worked fine before copying all of those DLLs), but not my test server. On the test server I receive the following exception:

string value is Empty when using FromBody in asp.net web api

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I am using asp.net core web api. below is my simple post function which is having a single string parameter. The problem is when I use [FromBody] the string stays null. I am using PostMan to test my service. I want raw data to pass from client to my controller. In Postman I am selecting body type RAW and
I set the header Content-Type text/plain. The Raw Body contains Just “Hello World” string.

Office documents to PDF

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I have seen a couple threads about this, but am not getting very straight answers in my searching. I have a web application that needs to take in doc, docx, xls, xlsx files and convert them into PDF. Right now we have a process that uses the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word library which opens up the document, prints it to a PS file, then GPL GhostScript converts the PS file into a PDF.