I add a JavaScript event handler to some of my Webcontrols using the Attributes.Add() method as follows: Dim jscode as String = "return (event.keyCode>=65&&event.keyCode<=90);" TextBox2.Attributes.Add("onKeyPress", jscode) You will notice that jscode contains the JavaScript Logical And ...more >>

Hello All I want to add RadioBox control or DropDownList control to my login page, so the user can choose which database they want to use, but after I added RadioBox control, It shows me the name" xxx" does not exist in the current context. below is code protected void Login_Authenticate(ob...more >>

Good Morning, I am trying to write a report which will have a nested datagrid spanning the columns of the previous line (1st line is the equipment detail information, 2nd line are the user-entered notes for the equipment). When the user notes are nested in the parent datagrid as a template c...more >>

I know this topic has probably been talked about to death...however I'm having a problem with my dependent dropdownlists in the edittemplates within a detailsview. I am trying to databind my dropdownlists once the selected index has changed of the first dropdownlist has changed. The update o...more >>

Hi, I was able to set the background of the static items in a menu control using a color gradient as per the code below. However, whenever the dynamic menu comes up and goes away so does the color gradient background. Does anyone know of any way to avoid losing the color gradient background? T...more >>

I have 2 aspx pages that uses the treeview control. Both pages load the treeview control from dynamically genrated xml. Once I loaded one of these pages and then move to the move to the other page. The second page's treeview control will be loaded with the data from the first page. I've st...more >>

I have a VB.NET function that I am using in an ASP.NET page. The code creates a String, which contains && (the JavaScript Logical AND operator) and is used as part of the JavaScript sent to the browser. However, ASP.NET is converting this to &amp; even though it is intended to be part of the ...more >>

Hi How do we indent the data in the dropdownlist? Thanks -Avijit ...more >>

I have started a job recently. I am primarily a ASP and VB6 developer, but some of the code I will have to deal with is Vb.Net and ASP.Net. While I have been able to figure out a lot of things on modifying the code from MSDN, I occasionally run into issues where I canot find an answer eaisly ...more >>

I want to make a button visible/invisible depending on who is logged in. I am getting the user name from System.Environment.UserName and then refreshing a SQLDataSource which uses the login name as a parameter to return the permissions for the user. I can display the value in a details v...more >>

Hi, I've a requirement in which I need to implement autoscrolling.... Is there any control in .net which supports this functionality/............ My display list(data) should be scrolling ..............more >>

Hello, I have a detailsView that contains a dropdownlist. The ddl loads data from an objectdatasource, as the detailsView makes (with an other datasource, of course). I need to bind the selected item of my ddl to a property of the object binded to the main detailsView. My main object has...more >>

Hi I have a javascript to resize font on my page. On one page I have a datagrid but the elements inside dont resize when I click the resize button? Isn't it possible to resize font inside a datagrid??? it works for repeater?? palli ...more >>

I have seen too many recent examples using the following syntax to expect they are all wrong so i am wondering whether something odd is happening (or i really am missing something). I have this : <asp:DropDownList ID="abc" runat="server" SelectedValue="1"> <asp:ListItem Valu...more >>

Hi, in the treeview aspnet 2.0 I am using, I would like not to show the root node. Is there a way to have the tree displayed starting from the second level nodes ? thanks Alessandro Pinto...more >>

Hi, How am I supposed to convert an HtmlTextWriterStyle attribute to its corresponding html string? In other words, how am I supposed to get the "background-color" string from HtmlTextWriterStyle.BackgroundColor? Any help would be highly appreciated, Cheers, Mehdi ...more >>

Hello, I've created a simple horizontal menu using Web.sitemap using the ASP.NET 2.0 menu control. It works, but it seems to insert a small visible pixel-spacer immediately above the menu whenever I apply a 'border-style:' property to the CSS. Looking at the source code, I can see that the ...more >>

Hi all.. I have programmed a composite control that is compound by one TextBox and one ImageButton. This is intended to be a popup calendar. All works well, except when the value is retrieved. For example, I placed that control inside a FormView control that is databound. When the page i...more >>

I've created a user control (C#) and added it to a web form. The user control has a command button. When the button is clicked, nothing happens. I thought maybe something went wrong with the control, so I recreated it from scratch. Same problem. If I replace the command button with a link...more >>

Can anyone recommend any good controls to implement animated buttons. I want something that can perform the following: - Must initially display a static image - When clicked the button must seamlessly display an animated GIF while waiting for the postback to return The idea is to provide ...more >>

I've a problem inserting a new row using a detailsview and an objectdatasource. I've defined the objectDatasource and it is using well a custom object to insert the new item on db. All works fine, but now I need to get the ID of the inserted row (the ID is an autoincrement value assigned by...more >>

Can I use Validators as field labels AND as error fields. As an example I've got a field (label) named "Formula:". I want to use a validator instead of a label for the label of the field. So I put "Formula:" in the text field of the validator and also put "Formula:" in the error messsage, so t...more >>

Hello I'm building a simple search interface for my company's active directory. After getting the data from the AD, I put it in a DataSet, add all my columns and the the rows. The DirectorySearcher class supports sorting, so I even got sorting to work (even, because this is my first asp.net e...more >>

Hi everyone , I have a simple question : How to display in a dropdownlist names which have spaces at the begining. for example : MainCategory subcategory subsubcategory subsubsubcategory I am trying to keep hierarchy using spaces in dropdownlist Regards, Mariela ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to use the DataFormatString on a GridView Column to format a char(10) phone field to (xxx)xxx-xxxx This works if the field is defined as an integer, but does not otherwise. Is there another trick to using this Property ? thanks Bill ...more >>

Using an XmlDataSource to populate the GridView control, I can't set the DataField property of my BoundField controls to read actual xml node values. It only works if the DataField reads an xml node attribute. This is ridiculous. How can I read actual node values? I have a GridView contro...more >>

Hi, I have a datagrid, where I have used CSS classes for the item style and alternating item style. The grid draws great when I load the page, but I have problems when I want to select a line by clicking on it. When a row is clicked on, I set the backcolor of that row in order to show i...more >>

I have multiple DataList controls on the same page and I want to bind each of them to different datasets. Is this possible? I am currently using the following syntax to bind my first dataset. private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (!Page.IsPostBack) { ...more >>

I have multiple DataList controls on the same page and I want to bind each of them to different datasets. Is this possible? I am currently using the following syntax to bind my first dataset. private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { if (!Page.IsPostBack) { ...more >>

Does anybody know why the Print button on the report viewer toolbar (VS2005) only shows for remote reports and not Local? Is there a way to get a print function(button) on the toolbar for local if not what is required to get the remote reports setup and working? reports? thanks Phil B ...more >>

I have created Tab and PaveView on the client side, but i am having a problem getting the new tab on the server-side. I understand I can use the viewstate and events but I have no clue how to do it. If someone can send me an example on how it's done it would be a great help. I add the script...more >>

Somehow, I managed to screw up my datagrid so that when I click the hyperlink Edit column...nothing happens other than the page 'reloading' or refreshing...I can't for the life of me figure out what I did last that may have screwed it up. I even went so far as to remove the last sections of code...more >>

This does not work... Private Sub calWO_DayRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DayRenderEventArgs) Handles calWO.DayRender If e.Day.Date.Day = 18 Then Dim myControl As New LiteralControl("<a href='http://www.google.com'></a>") e...more >>

I'm trying to get a table to expand to fill the top of the page. But its leaving a margin on all sides (at least top, left and right). Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong??? <body> <form id="form1" runat="server" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; padding:0,0,0,0;"> ...more >>

I know all the hype right now from Microsoft is how much easier, faster, and less code ASP.NET 2.0 provides over previous versions. I'm puzzled by this as I could turn out an classic ASP webpage in a few hours to query a database, display a grid/table, and not have much to worry about. Doin...more >>

I am trying to use an image button as my submit button. It fires the click event properly and it does all of my processing, but when it is done it does not clear the form like a form submit would normally do. All I can find is that the imagebutton control for 2.0 should have a UseSubmitBeh...more >>

hi, I'm using the treeview webcontrol from asp.net 2.0. Is it possible to use a client script that automatically checks or unchecks all childnode checkboxes under one childenodes' checkbox which checked state is changed by the user. thanks, Tony ...more >>

Hi, I have a web form that contains a Wizard. One of the wizard steps includes a number of textboxes each linked to a RequiredFieldValidator. The form also has a Button that I can click to perform a postcode lookup. When I enter a postcode in one of the textboxes and click the Button to ...more >>

When I embed the Report Viewer control in a web part I only get the toolbar displayed. The web part will not auto-size to display the report itself, and I have not been able to force it to size correctly. My "web part" is a user control within a Web Part Zone in the ASP.NET 2.0 framework, not ...more >>

I am using the CompareValidator to be sure that the date is valid. I do a DataTypeCheck with a Type of Date on the ControlToValidate. This works good if I have just date in the Date Field, but I have Date and Time. Is there any way to use a validator on client side to validate a field containi...more >>

I have created sample web Application. On the default page I drop webpartmanager control and then create a table and place webpartzones. Now when i am running it in development mode ...everything runs fine. But when i publish the website and try to run....error pops up Webpartmanager is undefine...more >>

Hello, I like to change the text of the navigation buttons of an asp wizard control dynamically. It is possible to change the text with the wizard.stepNextButtonText property. But I am using a stepnavigation template wherein I create my own button. Somehow i can't find my button so I can't c...more >>

Hello everyone! Can anybodu point me to some sites about builting graphs in ASP? I´m trying to build pie and/or bar graphs like the ones in http://www.hanengcharts.com/Chart_Gallery.asp They use a .class I´ve downloaded and tested it and it works great, but one has to pay to have it... Does...more >>

Hello, I have a task to translate HTML text from a database to a legacy proprietary format none html. For this I was hoping to load the HTML into object model where each HTML table or div or span tag is an object from which I can read the attributes and generate the proprietary output. I t...more >>

I have a webpage that uses a drop down box of numbers to dynamically generate a number of textboxes that are added to a panel control. It works fine until a postback. Then they all dissappear. I have set the EnableViewState to true, but it still happens. Any ideas? Protected Sub btnNumInGro...more >>

I'm doing an ASP.NET 2.0 project where I have a BAL and DAL layer. I'm passing a DataSet from the DAL to the BAL. The BAL is passing generics back to the presentation. All works fine, however, I noticed a problem with my code that does something like this in the BAL: List<JobSummary> j...more >>

We have several custom WebPartDesigner's implemented for various WebParts in ASP.NET 2.0. One of the properties exposed on the DesginerActionList of the WebPartDesigner is a SkinID that's currently a free-text field. We've tried (unsuccessfully) to reproduce the same dropdown that appears in the...more >>

Hi, I have developed a ASP.NET application that uses the treeview web control. The application works fine on most machines but on a random few the control fails to display at all. All I get is an empty frame. I have checked all the browser settings and they are exactly the same. Does anyone k...more >>

Is there a way to selectively turn off viewstate for a datagrid? I've implemented server side paging for the grid with an object datasource, and there's no reason to track the actual data in the grid in viewstate, but I still need to track the page and sort order....more >>

After the following line: Type myType1 = Type.GetType("System.Drawing.Color"); myType1 is "undefined". Why is this? I expected it to be type System.Drawing.Color. Many thanks. ...more >>