ASP.NET application freezes!!

I need some urgent help here. For the past week I have been struggling with an asp.net application. Here are it's ingredients:

1)Asp.NET app running on windows 2003 server
2)ODBC Connection which enables communication with CA-IDMS ODBC Driver

3)IDMS Database

My test code is really simple. I create an odbc connection, perform conn.open, execute an sql statement to the CA-IDMS ODBC and some records are returned. Then I attempt to close the connection. Sounds easy, eh ;)

Here is what happens: If I run this code on my server in a winforms app, everything is working okay!

If I run it in an asp.net app, the app freezes on con.open , ISS freezes and no events whatsoever are fired... all that works is to restart the IIS...

Why are there any difference between opening odbc from asp.net and winforms? The code (except presentation layer) is 100 % the same!! All that is different is how the apps are executing... But Im not qualified enough to answer why winforms works and asp.net doesn't.

Here is what differs and stay the same:

Same:

ODBC (system dsn)
CA-Driver
win2003 server
business logic, data logic code

differs:
winforms vs asp.net


Please, Im really desperate! Is there any setting in the framework, IIS or windows server that differs??? What can I do??

kind regards!
Henrik

My first guess would be permissions, the freezing kinda eludes me however, I would think it would return a permission error if you were in debug mode, but then I don't have access to your code to see.

Anyway, ASP.NET runs under its own priviledges, seperate from Forms apps that run as the current user. In some networks, ASP.NET has less permissions than a windows user.

For your testing on a Windows Forms app, are you an administrator on 2003 server, and if not, what exactly are your permission levels?

Thanks for you reply. You see, our current windows server admin is out of office... So until he gets back I have to fix this myself.

Please walk me through how I check exactly what kind of persmissions I have... The ASPNET account is a member of the group "Users"... thats about everything I have found out...

I can check or test anything you want, please walk me through it... and here is my code:

VB Code:

Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.Data.Odbc
Public Class WebForm1
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
    Dim evlog As New EventLog("IDMSTest", ".", "IDMSTest")
#Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code "
 
    'This call is required by the Web Form Designer.
    <System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
 
    End Sub
    Protected WithEvents Button1 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button
 
    'NOTE: The following placeholder declaration is required by the Web Form Designer.
    'Do not delete or move it.
    Private designerPlaceholderDeclaration As System.Object
 
    Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
        'CODEGEN: This method call is required by the Web Form Designer
        'Do not modify it using the code editor.
        InitializeComponent()
    End Sub
 
#End Region
 
    Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        'Put user code to initialize the page here
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        'Connectionobject
        Dim con As New OdbcConnection
        'Define a handler for the event
        AddHandler con.StateChange, AddressOf OnStateChanged
        AddHandler con.InfoMessage, AddressOf OnInfoMessage
        'Define the connection
        With con
            .ConnectionString = "dsn=IDMS Sys02;pwd=gps20103;uid=LGGPSUSR"
            .ConnectionTimeout = 10
        End With
        Try
            'delete any old logs
            'evlog.Delete("IDMSTestWeb")
            LogMessage("Attempting to open connection")
            con.Open()
            LogMessage("Connection is opened")
        Catch ex As Exception
            LogMessage(ex.Message)
        Finally
            con.Close()
            con.Dispose()
            LogMessage("Connection is closed")
            evlog.Close()
            evlog.Dispose()
        End Try
    End Sub
    Private Sub LogMessage(ByVal message As String)
        evlog.WriteEntry("IDMSTest", message)
    End Sub
 
    Public Sub OnStateChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As StateChangeEventArgs)
        LogMessage("State changed to: " & e.CurrentState)
    End Sub
 
    Public Sub OnInfoMessage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As OdbcInfoMessageEventArgs)
        LogMessage("ODBC InfoMessage: " & e.Message)
    End Sub
 
 
 
End Class

I have added some eventhandlers for the odbc object...

What about the odbc? It should be system dsn.. not user dsn?

kind regards
Henrik

It should be System DSN...

Check Data Sources under Administrative tools...

Also be sure the username and password for the data source are correct, because Forms could revert to Windows Authentication, wheras perhaps the ASPNET user cannot.

Problem solved! I had to use the identity tag in web.config and enable impersonation and run the web app with a special user that has more rights than the standard aspnet user... Now everything works!!

thanks for your help
Henrik