Here's the situation: I have 2 web projects for the same client, a WWW-Public web project and an Admin project. Both projects are on the same server and I found myself loading the exact same dataset in each project. Rather than duplicate server resources I created a 3rd project which has the ...more >>

Is there any way to specify the forecolor of text on individual tree nodes in the treeview control. I need to be able to highlight or gray out certain nodes to indicate that their status is different from the others. Thanx, Dave ...more >>

I have an aspx page with several asp:dropdownlistboxes on it. When I load data, I need to set the selected entry in the ddlb. I have a value, but have not been successful in setting the text portion of the control. (ddlbTest.SelectedItem.Text = "Booga") Do I need to iterate through the ddlb to f...more >>

Hi, I want to display the XML tags (for the the XML tags is the data that is stored in a table) on the datagrid using the datasets. But since the data itself is the XML tag it doesn't appera on the datagrid since it tries to parse the data before it displays. Using Server.HtmlEncode, i was ...more >>

How to add rows to dataset using a datagrid? Any examples or help?...more >>

Hi, I would like to access the value of a third field of the query that I used to populate my dropdown list. Is there a way to do that? For example, in the following example I would like to access valueC. SqlCommand sqlCmdLoad1 = new SqlCommand("SELECT valueA, valueB, valueC FROM myTable", sq...more >>

I have a vb.net usercontrol with a public property. How can I can get my new property to appear in the Properties window in web forms design view? The only properties I can see are ID, EnableViewState and Visible. ...more >>

Hi: I want to develop a page which contains a datagrid and a couple of columns in the grid will have radio buttons. All the radio buttons in a row should belong to the same group so that when i check one the other is unchecked. Any clue on this? Thanks in advance Satish ...more >>

I'm developing a web form, which includes a data grid, in Visual Basic using Visual Studio forms designer. I'm wanting to update the completion date on an item to the current date and time being generated by the system, and I don't want to edit any fields. I put in a select button, and c...more >>

Hello! Does anyone have any information about how a System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox keeps its value between posts ? Everywhere I read it says it's the viewstate. But clearly it isn't because if you override the controls viewstate functions and even disable viewstate on the page the control ...more >>

I am trying to pull a value out of a database and set a textbox to the value. Well, when the textmode it password, it won't set it. is there some sort of encryption i have to use to make this work? thanks! Eric ...more >>

I have dropdownlist boxes that are bound to a function that loads them. I set the text and value properties with different values as I want the description and the return value to be different. When I select an item the text and value properties are the same, why? example '********************...more >>

Parser Error Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately. Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'MsdnMag.MyUserForm'. Source E...more >>

I created a Web Application. I put all my controls onto a form. I used labels, text boxes and a button. When I went to view it in Web view/start without debugging, none of the text boxes show up as well as the button doesn't show up either. The labels show up, but they are all jumbled ...more >>

I created a listbox with multiple selectionmode property, but I have trouble to get a list of selected values. The following only gets the first selected value, not others. TextBox2.Text = ListBox1.SelectedValue Please help!! Thanks ...more >>

Is there a way to create a random image (like in hotmail registration) and ask user to enter the information during their registration. I think, this method is used to avoid the flooding. Any components, sample would be greatly appreciated. Aung ...more >>

Hello there, I have a DropDown ListBox which is placed at the bottom of the .aspx page, The AutoPostBack propoerty of the DropDown ListBox is set to true. When I change the selection of the elements in the dropdown list box the top section of the page gets visible, becuase the page has bee...more >>

Hello, I want to set up ActiveDesktop web page the way users see their username, IP address, computer name, etc. How to develop appropriate web page? I can use ActiveX components if neccessary. My only requirement is there shouldn't be neccessary any web server. The page will be loaded fro...more >>

I am working on my first web app. The SelectedIndexChanged event for the DropDownList control doesn't seem to fire when the item is changed. Obviously there is something more I need to do. Can anybody fill me in? Any help is greatly appreciated. ...more >>

I am trying to get a datagrid to use paging and also have the ability to scroll at the same time. For example, I set paging to display 10 rows in a datagrid at a time. If I increase the number to more than 15 rows in a datagrid, I want a datagrid to display 15 records with a scroll bar. At the...more >>

I've been trying the following code to programtically set the background color for each list item, and have been unsuccessfull. Does anyone have any ideas on a better way? Thanks, Mike public void setStatusCodeColors() { // Get Status Code and Colors ASPNetPortal.Components.CMPortal_...more >>

*Posted elsewhere before, sorry if you saw it before* I am using PlaceHolders in a Repeater to generate a multi choice survey. I need a way of testing to see what the placeholder has been turned into at runtime, and reading out the data. The admin can add questions to a survey, then add poss...more >>

I can arrange my radion buttons like so (o) blue (o) red (o) green and also like this (o) blue (o) red (o) green However I want this (o) (o) (o) blue red green Possible? Fragg...more >>

I have a small web control to put a footer on my pages. In the aspx page I define a table. I try to set the style attribute for a <td> element, but studio complains and when I hover over the style keyword the tooltip says "Could not find any attribute "style" of element "td." In spite of thi...more >>

Hey gang. THis is an ongoing issue that I have been having, so I am going to start a new thread. I have a (.VB File) CustomControl [called TEKTable] that is essentially a table (inherits WebControl), with a definable number of columns. You pass it an ArrayList of (.ASCX File) UserControls,...more >>

I'm trying to determine when it is appropriate to use a placeholder control as opposed to a panel control. With all the documentation I have seen they sound like they do the same thing. One text describes the placeholder as allowing you to add controls dynamically and the next example it gives ...more >>

Hello, Through this forum I have found out that you can refresh most web page controls via javascript. That made me wonder if there is a way to refresh (.i.e. rebind) a bound datagrid via combination of webservice calls and javascript functions so that a complete page roundtrip is not neces...more >>

Hi I have a webpage in asp.net on submit sends an email, I want the body of the message to be in the HTML format. what I am doing is creating an object of say oMailMessage = New Mail.MailMessage() With oMailMessage 'set required parameters .From = ...more >>

hi, i have a user control that sits on a webform page. how can the usercontrol get access to the attibutes of the <BODY> tag of the page that it is sitting in and modify the attributes? The <BODY> tag looks like this: <body id=bdBody runat="server"> Protected WithEvents bdBody As Syst...more >>

Hi All I am dynamically Creating DropDownList boxes for a Survey form. These DropdownLists are added to Table Cells programatically. I tried to loop thru the controls on the form but it doesnt seem to work right, the loop appears below: for each cntl in page.controls(1).controls ...more >>

How can I change the color of the display text beside a single ListItem of a RadioButtonList when the associated radiobutton is selected - hopefully using C# in the codebehind of a WebForm? <asp:RadioButtonList id="RadioButtonList1" ........ > <asp:ListItem Value="Yes">Yes</asp:ListItem> ...more >>

I'm sure this must come up often but I can't find info on it.. I've built a web usercontrol for my sites menu bar... I use styles for highlighting text and all that neat stuff.. Problem: I drag this control on to all my pages, well how then do I indicate or highlight the menu item the u...more >>

I've been on this problem for many hours now and checked many posts and forums but can still not find an answer. I hope someone can help. I have a Datalist with a template column in it which contains a button. The datalist is in an ascx control that is loaded dynamically by the parent aspx con...more >>

Hi, I have written a custom web control with a DesignSerializer. If i change a property in design-time, the serializer starts before the properties will be set in the control (the object "value" in the serialize method has the old property value). Thats annoying cause the serialize should wri...more >>

Hi All I have created a survey form in which the questionaire contains 20 questions. Of the 20, 16 are dropdownlist boxes where the user can select their answer, the Selections are all the same. I am currently running a function that creates a new dropdownlist by calling a stored proceedure ...more >>

Does anyone know of a web control version of Microsoft's property grid control (which is a winform control). I realize that I can actually use a winform control in my web forms, but I have a requirement that the client machines not be required to have the .Net framework installed on their machi...more >>

We have some db-search functionality that we need in several asp.net apps. How to get reuse out of this... I was thinking of putting the search criteria, and the datagrid that displays the results, in an ascx control that can be plopped down in any of our apps. 1. I'm just not sure about pu...more >>

Hello, I was doing some testing on an application we are building, and noticed that if you do not have an item like a textbox, which has it's autopostback set to true,on a webform page, the javascript code __dopostback will never be included in the page. Even if you have multiple active butto...more >>

Hi, I have a CustomControl that is essentially a WebControls.Table (TEKTable). You tell it how many columns, and it renders UserControls (passed in via an ArrayList) in that number of columns, and however many rows it takes. My UserControls typically have buttons on them. I can't seem to ge...more >>

When creating a WebForm how can I get the OnTextChanged event to fire for a TextBox in a DataList on an asp page? Here is the DataList I am using: <asp:DataList id="DataList1" runat="server"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:TextBox id="tb1" runat="server" OnTex...more >>

hi all !!!! I have two textboxes that should work like a dictionary or Intellisense do: user writes in the first textbox and while he writes text changes in the second textbox. how would you implement such behavior ? any help will be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance, ...more >>

I want to change visiblity of an image button based upon user selection in a drop list using sub below but it is not making the image visibility change when the droplist selection changes, what is missing ????? .... Sub dropUsersSelInxChng(s As Object, e As EventArgs) if allUsers.Selecte...more >>