What would be cool as hell, would be a designer interface like Dreamweaver - with drag and drop elements like frames and such. Why isn't ASP.Net as easy to use as Dreamweaver. Certainly Microsoft has looked at them (if nothing more than as competition for FrontPage). What would be the rea...more >>

i have dropdownlist(ddlist) and textbox(tbox) , i want that if a user types sometihing in the textbox(tbox), the values present in the ddlist should appear e.g. my ddlist has 3 values (india,indonesia,germany), if user types in text box like "i" then dropdown control should go to "india...more >>

Hi I have a panel in my project and have positioned it using the interface of visual studios design view. I now want to create another panel programmatically and position it x many pixels under the current panel. the problem is, how do i get the x and y position of the original panel, ...more >>

If i have a datagrid and have a textbox in 1 editItemTemplate column, and the compareValidator & another textbox in a different editItemTemplate, when the grid is in edit mode, how do i set the controlToValidate property to the textbox in the different column so that i can validate against it'...more >>

Hi, Iam a using a custom treeview control, taking an example from http://fredrik.nsquared2.com/viewpost.aspx?PostID=299. I have created two hyperlink's after each node in the treeview. When i click on any one of the hyperlink's the selectednodechanged event of the custom treeview control ...more >>

Hello Webcontrol Group members, I am using Visual Studio .net (2003) and webcontrols. I have a dropdownlist webcontrol that uses the "datatextfield" and " "datavaluefield" . the text field is a company name, and the datavalue field is an index (like 1,2,3,etc). I can display the compan...more >>

Hello, Anyone knows how to populate a treeview with data from a database? The database is based in Microsoft Access and i want to use C# language. Articles, code.... helps all! Greettings, Rodrigo Ferreira ...more >>

I have sorting enabled on a gridview which changes the header text to a hyperlink. I need to specify the hyperlink style (color specifically). I can't globally set the hyperlink style at the page level due to differing requirements throughout the page. I can't figure out how to change this ...more >>

Need a toot on customizing web controls, especially the combo box. Thanks, Dennis, http://www.dennisys.com/ ...more >>

Hi, In ASP.NET 2.0, where do I write code to select a particular item in a dropdown control that is populated using SqlDataSource (Table Adapters)? I am developing a website in ASP.NET 2.0 for a library using Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2000. I have already built a middle tier with o...more >>

Hi all, I have a Problem in Setting the Dropdown selected value. I have a Page where i get the input for the number of rows and columns and generate a dynamic table on another page ie) table page. If i select edit button in table page , the page is redirected to Input page . In the input pa...more >>

I've got an ASP.NET 2.0 form with a checkboxlist control bound to a SqlDataSource control. In the page's Page_Load event I want to loop through the items in this CheckBoxList and programmatically select a few items. However, when I do this in a foreach block I find that the ItemsCollection ...more >>

I am trying to develop some .NET web controls in VB or C# and need some help. Does anyone know any websites with a good tutorial on how to start. The MSDN site is not helping me at all. An example I have is code that will email, I simply want to create a button that has all the email code in...more >>

Hi all, I am having trouble referencing (directly) the controls (web) inside the wizard control. I have a templated Header control wherein I have a asp:Label. Eventhough the IDE shows the control in Server Objects, I am unable to reference in my code directly. ...more >>

Hi, With ASP, I can add user contrlos inside the same Panel and then programmatically change the view state of each one...but I don't want to have all the controls allready loaded into the Panel when the page starts, instead I want to call each control (from outside the page) as needed. I hav...more >>

I'm about to give up on what I thought would be a simple effort but figured I'd give it one more try here. I want to programmatically select an html table rendered on an aspx page (using VB) and copy it to another application (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, et al)... probably using the Windows cl...more >>

Use code-behind form, visual basic, running some code behind a command button, all good...the last step though should be that the use is prompted with a message, and then the window or page should close...can't figure out how to do this otherwise simple task. I imagine DHTML could do it, but I...more >>

Hi all, Is there a way for a user of a website to control the basic font size/colour of text, then upload it into a HTML text page in ASP.NET 1.1 ? For example, I want a user to log into the website, and be able to type in text, give it a colour, fontsize and basic layout, etc. The hit sub...more >>

We're looking at the possibility of replacing our very old third party controls, which we used in two Windows apps written in VB6. We've been using controls from Infragistics (they used to be called Sheridan back when we purchased them) controls, so we're likely to stay with Infragistics. ...more >>

I want to add a directive to a Template Column that I created at runtime using the following code: Sub CreateColumn() Dim tc1 As New TemplateColumn tc1.HeaderTemplate = New DataGridTemplate(ListItemType.Header, "TEST") tc1.ItemStyle.CssClass = "datagridcel...more >>

in a grid with templates update,delete, edit. why the buttons need to be clicked twice in order to take action. grid.item command fires up every time a button is clicked. it's just the button action that don't execute.... anyone else had that issue?...more >>

Hello, I have a Datareader with 2 fields from the database in it. I would like to use the DataGrid to display them. This I can do. If the DataReader has 4 rows in it I would like to display the records in 2 DataGrid rows. So I would have the following: ColHeader1 ColHeader2 ColHeader1 ...more >>

I just wonder how to capture datagrid (which is created programmatically) events. I say, Dim oGrid as new DataGrid I want to process some work on ItemDataBound event of oGrid. Not sure how to do it :( I appreciate your help, TIA, Holy...more >>

I have a gridview in which I include a hyperlink column. That link points to a document whose name is in the "urllink" field in the record for that row. I know that I can use the following to link to the appropriate document: DataNavigateUrlFields="urllink" But how do I code that if I want...more >>

Hi, I need to develop an asp.net application, is there a control which includes ie 6 in my webpage(my client's browser is opera), so that i need not ask my client to switch to ie. Opera alone has many problems esp. in crystal reports. Any Help? Thanx, Mahernoz ...more >>

Hi All, Is it not possible to overlap the listbox with other controls. I wanna place the Textbox above the Listbox. I searched many groups but couldn't get the answer. Any suggestions please. ...more >>

Hi, I'm developing an online fun game called tambola... The requirement is as follows Each logged user will have a ticket generated for him.. The system should display the numbers from 1 to 99 after every 10 secs.... Presently, I've used a timer control to display the numbers after every 10 ...more >>

Hi, Any good info about the Localize class from System.Web.UI.WebControls? I just noticed that new control in ASP.NET 2.0. It seems to just inherit from Literal, and has no accessible properties in VS2005 designer (except for the ID). Thanks. ...more >>

Is there a way within ASP.NET 2.0 to set the onmouseover property of a LinkButton so that when the user hovers over the LinkButton, the windows status bar displays some text instead of the javascript command ? I'd like to do something like: <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkEdit" Runat="server" Comma...more >>

I'm slowly learning the new caveats of master pages and ASP.NET 2.0 and, = so far, really enjoying it. A couple of questions to help kickstart my = mind from the old ASP3 days. From what I've found, 2.0's cross-page = posting allows me to set a PostBackURL and then = Request.Form["objectName"]...more >>

I'm using the fileuploadcontrol for the user to select a file, in this case a image file. I would like to see the little preview image to be shown right after selection, but there seems to be no event from the fileupload control. To by-pass this I let the user click on a linkbutton to show the p...more >>

Could someone point me in the right direction as to how I could go about adding an access key to each menu item within the new menu control? Currently it appears that the access key can only be assigned to the control itself, and not each individual menu item. Thanks, Mike ...more >>

Ok, I have just spent the past little while trying to figure this out. I think I know what my solution may have to be but I'm not sure how to even to go about to do that. Anywho, here is my Christmas question. All of my lsitcontrols (dropdownlist, listbox, etc.) have the same set of custom attr...more >>

Hi I have a repeater section on the page, but want to be able to group results by a particular field and give each group a heading. Any ideas how this can be done? ...more >>

Hi, I am extending couple of existing controls in ASP.NET like LinkButton, Label, TextBox etc.. I require these controls to contain a child control of MyControlType so ideally in HTML view for a label <asp:Label id="" [other properties...] > <cc1:MyControlType id="" [other properties...more >>

Can an eagle eye help me fix whatever is causing me pain here? When I click the update command button, the page refreshes but the new values do not make it to the database or back into the gridview. I'm getting the dreaded "Must declare the variable @original_RoleId" exception message. My...more >>

I'm in a catch-22 with a wizard control and wonder if anyone has any ideas: It appears as though every time you load a wizard control step, you are doing a postback, which makes sense. That causes problems, though, when you have actions in a step that should only be executed if IsPostBack = F...more >>

Does anyone have sites or references on applying layout and style to DetailView and/or FormView controls? It just seems like microsoft made these a bit rough to apply style sheets to. DetailView you can apply a style to the label, but to format the data you have to apply a format to the ro...more >>

Hi, in ASP.NET control events are being fired *after* the Page_Load event. I need it the other way around. Is this possible? Here's my example (just pseudo code): Page_Load() { DataGrid.DataSource="..."; DataGrid.DataBind(); } RemoveButton_Click() { SqlComman...more >>

How can I tell if the grid is showing me the "edit command button" or the "update command button" I need to figure out a way for an event handler to know the "state" of a gridview. I want the ENTER key to do one thing if I am in "edit mode", and another thing if I am in "update mode". If ...more >>

Hi, I'm have a web form where I generate templates dynamically based on the user input. When the user clicks the 'create' button I create a row dynamically and create an ImageButton dynamically in that row. I also tie the onClick event to a server side event handler, but when I click the dy...more >>

I have a report viewer on my webpage and it is linked to an objectdatasource. The parameter is a control on the form (Dropdownlist). But, when i change the selection in the dropdownlist and click the go button (on the web page), the reportviewer doesn't refresh. What i have done so far is i...more >>

Hi dear experts, I'm new to ASP.NET and am having a hard time trying to make this work :( I have a ddl which contains 2 or more items (populated by code) and a submit asp:button that I'd want when clicked simply sends the ddl's selected item's text value to an asp:label. I have searched throug...more >>

I need to set the location of a popup window to cover a dynamically postioned control. Setting the position on the popup is no problem, but how do I get the position of the dynamic control ? Any help appreciated Joe90...more >>

ASP.net can create HTML tables with Datagrid and Table controls. Is there an ASP.net control that allows me to build an HTML table with a THEAD row?...more >>

hello, we have a strange error message here: I've written a small detail sample page, where I can update one reocrd with an objectdatasource control and the detailsview control. the objectdatasource.confictdetection is set to 'CompareAllValues'. The Updatemethod is UpdateXY and I've set two...more >>

I have a form that is passed to a subroutine when a button is pressed via the button's 'onClick' property. That works peachy. However, while testing I submited the form by hitting enter instead of pressing the button. In this situation, the subroutine isnt called and nothing is accomplished. ...more >>

Hi For the server control I am developing, there is a property which I want to show a list. The content of the list is a subset of Properties available in the control itself. For example my control has Property1 Property2 Property3 Property4 Property5 Now there is another property...more >>

On my Web Servers, I don't want to allow visitors to upload executables. There are many types of files that i want to ignore (for instance: exe,dll, bat, cmd .etc). I have an ASPX page with an HTMLInputFile control which uploads the files. Is it possible to set a filter when the user clicks th...more >>

Hi all, Has anyone tried to hide the SideBar of wizard control. I was reading Dino Esposito's book on ASP.NET 2.0 and found that this optional panel can be hidden by setting SideBarEnabled property. But looking through the SDK - I could not find this property (!!!). If anyone has done ...more >>