Tips: Prevent SSRS report caching

There are many ways to turn off the report cache, but many of them need you to have enough privilege to change the report or server settings. There is one approach that everyone can do without any privilege: comtrol the parameters in the url.

Append this commend to the end of the url:

&rc:emissionTime=633819525738564717

The number should be random, and you can do like this:

"http://.....&rc:emissionTime=" + DateTime.Now.Ticks;

The it's the same trick like this one.

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A very good book from MS would like to share with everyone: Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability You can also read it on-line.

Download a single file from the remote FTP site (Updated)

Three approaches to download a file from FTP server: WebRequest, FtpWebRequest, and WebClient. Here are the examples:
url = "ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/test.txt"

WebRequest

using System.Net;  //don't forget this
public string DownloadFile(string url, string username, string pw)
{
  string strResult = "";
  try
  {
    WebRequest oRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(new Uri(url));
    oRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, pw);
    WebResponse oResponse = oRequest.GetResponse();

    using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(oResponse.GetResponseStream()))
    {
      strResult = sr.ReadToEnd();
      sr.Close();
    }

    oRequest = null;
    oResponse = null;
  }
  catch (WebException wex)
  {
    //your error handling here
  }
  return strResult;
}

ASP.Net: State Management

I strongly recommend this document (from MS) if you would like to truly understand this topic.