Hello, When I look at my asp.net page in HTML view mode, using Visual Studio .NET, I see certain tags underlined. In the "Task List" viewer the warning below is poping up. My target schema Internet Explorer 5.0. Code: <LINK href="../styles/styles.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"...more >>

I am trying to write a global custom error page. I thought I would jot down some of what I've learned so far... At first I just used the default customErrors section with a defaultRedirect tag, as such: <customErrors defaultRedirect="error.aspx" mode="On" /> First thing I found out about...more >>

I originally was using frames and had a refresh problem. So I made my 'header' page into a user control. But I can't seem to get the link for my dhtml menu to work now (it is placed in this control.) I want to use a js include file to access the menu code. It all worked when I was using frames. ...more >>

Hi, I am using a HTML Combo box with runat=server. I am adding few values in the combo box with javascript. The problem I am faciing is that I am not getting these new values in the codebehind pages after submiting the page. It gives me the old values only. I am validating Page.IsPostBack a...more >>

When you call FormsAuthentication.SignOut(), is the FormsAuthentication cookie supposed to be destroyed automatically? I'm creating my FormsAuthentication cookie by doing: HttpCookie oCookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, sTicket); where sTicket is an encrypted FormsA...more >>

Hi, I am storing a dataset in cache, which is happening fine. I can easily retrive it at postback from the cache, cast it to a dataset and reuse it. However I have specified that the cache expire in 5 minutes like so. If Not IsPostBack Then BindMyDropDown() Else ...more >>

I have set content expiration in IIS 5.0 to N1 minutes. Also I have code as <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="N2">. Which will be effective in this secnarios ? Which one takes precedence. Rudy Mark ...more >>

I have used form based authentication. for each page_load I am using "User.Identity.IsAuthenticated" to authenticate the user. My question is , when I click on the refesh button, application takes me to login page. Somewhere it looks like it is closing the session. Please advice. Rudy MArk ...more >>

ASP.NET app using c# and framework version 1.1.4322.573 on a IIS 6.0 web = server. A single-line asp:textbox control and regexp validator attached to it. ^\d+$ expression does match an empty string (when you don't enter = any values) - this is wrong d+ expression does not match,...more >>

Hi, I don't know if I'm just missing something obvious, but when running my app, not matter what page I'm on, when I hit 'refresh' on my browser, it takes me back to my homepage. I'm using global.asax and webconfig to fire some session onstart events and to set a few variables (connstring...more >>

Hi all, I have a lot of connection strings for a specific database on SQL-server in my application. Seen that there's a sqlConnectionString in Web.config. Can I use web.config to store the info about the connectionstring there? How do I call it from the application? /Kent J. ...more >>

Hi In my aspx page HTML I have <a href='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Name") %>'> <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Name") %> I am trying to create a hyperlink to applicationroot\FileUploads\Filename.FileExtension. At the moment it instead generates http://localhos...more >>

Hi people. I have a situation that you might have seen before. I'm trying to connect with a 6.5 version SQL Server using ASP.Net. The thing is that I'm getting the following error: SQL Server not found or Access denied I'm certain that I'm using the right login and password becaus...more >>

hi I want to display the value of one text box of one webform to the label or combo box of another webform using code behind file.How it become possible using c#. thanks. Usman....more >>

hi, I have a table of student which contain four fields that are id(primary key number) , name(text),semester(text)and corse(text), When I insert values in a student table.Explorer Show the follwing exception string. "The changes you requested to the table were not successful because ...more >>

Respected Assistant I have table in a database named "student" having fields like name of student,Roll No and Status.The status is one of them absent,present or leave.The name and rollno field is already entered but the status is entered from datagrid in such a way that name and rollno is...more >>

I am populating listbox with a datreader. DateReader sqlcommand is dynamic, based on several user selections Listbox DataValueField is set to the tables primary key Listbox DataTextField is multiple fields concatentated from SQL statement For example SELECT [field1] + ' ' + [field2] AS showText....more >>

Hello, I am storing an XmlDocument into the session. Each time I want to store the XmlDocument into session, I should clear the session object and then store the XmlDocument. Can anyone tell me, what is the best way to clear the contents of a session object? My Session object is "...more >>

I have required field validation controls on a page that are not firing client side. On our production server they fire fine, but on the another server they do not fire. Any ideas?...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to get ASP.NET to render the id attribute for a control without specifying a value for the id property. ie. have it output the id=<UniqueId property> Thanks Donal ...more >>

Hi, is it possible to determine exactly what type of error/exception was thrown from a try catch block bt simple catching the generic error. by this I mean, suppose I have the follwoing code try 'do some database stuff catch err as exception 'err now contains my error end try...more >>

How is it that Microsoft sits on the w3c, participates in XHTML standardization and then completely misses the ball with asp.net? Does Microsoft have any plans/announcements/concern whatsover with making asp.net generate valid XHTML? It seems like these changes would be fairly trivial for the...more >>

What are .PDB files? Should I upload it with my dll into the bin directory? Thanks, Shane ...more >>

I have been working on this for several days and am still have had no success in achieving this. Pleae help. It seems that documentation for this is very limited. I have looked in several books and they all seem to say either nothing about this or that this is "out of the scope of this book", ev...more >>

We are experiencing the invalid viewstate error on our pages. Considering the sheer number of people complaining of this problem, I hope a patch is on the way... SOON. Here are the details: Both server and clients are running Framework 1.1. We are in a single-server environment. We have tried th...more >>

Hi, I'm attempting to make use of nested object tags (in HTML) as per the w3c standard here: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/objects.html#h-13.3.1 This details the HTML 4.01 Specification with regard to object tags. When I create a nested object in an ASP page, I get the followin...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem in and around the ASPNET user and CDO, my code is as follows using System; using System.Web.Mail; MailMessage mm = new MailMessage(); //set the properties mm.To = "dum.dumb@dumb.co...more >>

Is there any way to call a custom made "codebehind" function from javascript? Thx. ...more >>

I want to know that whether the asp.net pages are served through separate threads or separate processes? ...more >>

I've noticed some procedures don't run in the global.asax when you'd expect them to. I've rebuilt and set break points, but Application_Start just isn't firing today. Is there some configuration that prevents this from happening? I've never gotten Session_End to fire either. -M ...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to get the html for a control? ie. return to a string what the RenderControl method would output. Thanks Donal ...more >>

for one page in my application something weird happens. It shows this error. Unable to find script library '/aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322/WebUIValidation.js'. then it turns black, doesn't show the header.ascx control and locks up the site. Any ideas. No other pages seem to have...more >>

HtmlSelect has a method called OnServerChange that supposed to detect whether the control (select) has changed on a postback. This is not all that useful. It should be like the asp.net control, DropDownList, that initiates a postback when the option, AutoPostBack is set to true...so you can...more >>

Hello I have several textboxes in a datagrid footer. When the user inputs something first textbox, the values of the other textboxes are updated. Basically I want the "onBlur" functionality of javascript here, but using codebehind. Why I don't want to use javascript for this is because I ha...more >>

i have a problem in asp.net this program has a failure in the moment of execute the action and don't permit me to make a new program because it always is conect with the server i dont understand why ever is trying to conect. apologize for my short english ...more >>

I have to make a Auction progam for a client. Does anyone know some free basic code to one to get me started? -- ______________________ David Fetrow HelixPoint LLC. http://www.helixpoint.com davef@helixpoint.com Interested in Affordable Email Marketing? Check out the HelixMailer at h...more >>

Say I have an app that, using the server & database, verifies some information the user has submitted (EX: verifying to make sure the address matches our record). What I want to be able to do is IF the information matches what's in the database, when he hits the submit button he will be redire...more >>

Hi there, I need to maintain users choices among different sessions. So i'd like to use a kind of server-side cookies, just to be sure he won't delete or reject the cookie, depending on the client security level. But i can't find a way to do it, except using the FileStream Class. Any other ...more >>

I want to protect my website with a user and password. I have SQL Server 2000 where I want to store the users and passwords and the website is complete. I just need to add in some security with password protection. Can anyone help me out? ...more >>

Hi, I have an intranet type site that is browsed by a handfull of people early in the morning on weekdays and then not browsed at all for the remaining part of the day. Now the first person to access any page on a particular day has to incur the overhead of waiting for the whole site to compi...more >>

I wanted to do something simple. I wanted to open a new window with a button. Went around the world on Google and found: Dim endStr As String = "</" Dim strJScript As String strJScript = "<script language=""JavaScript"">" strJScript += "<!...more >>

We need to create an ASP.NET application that allows the user on the client machine to activate devices that are connected directly to his machine (cameras and devices connected to the RS232 port). We have written dll files that provide the interface with such devices. Howe can we, for i...more >>

Hi everybody! I have a really big problem with ASP.NET application. I noticed that the w3wp.exe memory size, increase with the time and the use of my website. When it raise a certain value, w3wp crashes and restart just after. My application is on a WebServer2003. So I have to resolve 2 pro...more >>

Hi How do I disable it if the user pressed a button: asp:imagebutton id="btnHome" onclick="test()" runat="server" What I want to have is that if someone presses this button then the required field validator won't be activated so the user can move out of the current page. ...more >>

How can I close a window opened by an asp page from another asp page...more >>

Whenever I use "Directory.getcurrentdirectory" I always get "C:\WINDOWS\system32" despite the fact that the code is running from a subdirectory of wwwroot. Can someone help ? How can I get the current directory on a code behind page ? I dont want the full "C:\e.t.c. Just the current di...more >>

Hi, I am trying to authenticate form users using a local Active Directory server and I get the following error message at compile: Compiler Error Message: CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'string' Source Error: mName = res.Properties["Name"][0]; m...more >>

Hi I wish to create a file upload page/s. This page/s should start by asking the user how many files they wish to upload. When they have entered the number of files the page/s should then display that many file input boxes and also display a comment boxes for each file box. I would like this t...more >>

I am working on a special ASP.Net application that receives files from customers. The connection is made via HTTPS and the client sends the file as a POST to my ASP.Net listener. All of this works fine. Now I am looking at how to validate the clients certificate programmatically. The client ...more >>

Hi If I have a page that has some text boxes and some dropdown list and some buttons How do I go about place a reset button on the page. This button should clear all the text boxes and reset the dropdown list to the default value. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, could have sworn I used this before and don't understand why this isn't working? I have a button with onclick event: do some database updates, etc. then, open a new window (a confirmation that updates are done) and close the current form. If lreturn2 <> -1 Then Response.Write("<...more >>

I am calling Ghostscript 8.00 from and ASP.NET application (VB) to create ..JPG thumbnails of .PDF files. I have created a class module for Ghostscript and I am creating an instance of the class to act on. I pass the class the name of the PDF file, the name of the JPG file that I want it to cr...more >>

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We have several webforms that represent Online Reports. When printed, we would like to be able to control the pagination based upon a line count. We have been trying to use the PAGE-BREAK-AFTER style setting for the Paragraph tag <P style="PAGE-BREAK-AFTER:always">. However, it does not work?!? ...more >>

We want to change the autopostback properties (serverside) of all of the dropdownlistboxes on the page. I am trying to loop through the Request.Form.Items, but I can't seem to get more the the current text value of the controls. How can I get the controls themselves?...more >>

Hi, I have a user control with a datalist. Each datalistitem has a label which is databound, a hidden textbox which is databound, a textbox and a checkbox. like follows: <asp:datalist id="dlBottleSize" runat="server" width="285px" EnableViewState="True"> <ItemTemplate> <table class=...more >>

Hello, as we know VB is not case sensivity. I have a following problem, I have to send to another server few parametrs by post or get method, one of them MUST be a "clientID", it's preety simple, but in VB .NET there is a property ClientID and I get an error, a conflict beetwen my clientID a...more >>

Hello - I am having a problem where I am running my application in debug mode and I execute a SQL command (cmd.ExecutNonQuery) and when this line of code it hit, I get and exception saying that this object must implement the "IConvertable". After that, I attempt to "kill the debug session", by...more >>

I've created a web setup project that works great for installing an ASP.NET application to a virtual directory on a server. I'd like to be able to use the same setup program to install multiple instances - e.g., DEV, TEST, etc., as I see fit. However, when once instance has already been inst...more >>

Hi, Is there a way to prevent automatic declaration of a custom control in the code-behind of an asp.net page? Thanks, Jun...more >>

I have the following code encapsulated in an ascx page (user control): namespace MyCompany.Web.UserControls { [most of my code] string webform_namespace = this.GetType().Namespace.ToString(); } Now, when I run this and output the string to the trace information, I get the followin...more >>

Hi, I am trying to instantiate an instance of XPathDocument after serializing XML into a memory stream. Here is my method that uses XmlSerializer public MemoryStream SerializeXMLSelectedApplication() { System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(); try { XmlSe...more >>

I have installed an assembly in the GAC ( a DAL), now I want to make a reference to it in my Business Obj. This is one way I found out how to do it is there another way? <system.web> <compilation debug='true'> <assemblies> add assembly="DAL, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicK...more >>

Hi Which files I need to put on the web server in order to have my asp.net work? Thanks, Ron ...more >>

Hi Is there a control that I can use to show dropdown list and also to give the user option to enter information to the dropdown list? Thnaks, Ron ...more >>

I have discovered that within a <ASP:REPEATER> control, I can specify multiple tags, such as <ItemTemplate> and <AlternatingItemTemplate>. So that I could write code like following: <asp:Repeater id="XRefResultsRepeater" runat="server"> <HeaderTemplate> <tr class="heading"><td>Blah bl...more >>

I'm trying to get the DefaultAppPool to run under the domain account that we're using for the IIS6 anonymous account, but keep getting the following warning in the system event log: The identity of application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is invalid, so the World Wide Web Publishing Service can not c...more >>

Help!! I'm trying to convert a visual basic stand alone program into a Web Program using C#. There are a lot of Oracle packages already written that I am trying to use (unsuccessfully). Can someone point me in the right direction on how to call an Oracle package into a datagrid?? som...more >>

Hi does anybody know how to access webservices with the help of clientside javascript? Can I find examples on the web? Thanks Jenny...more >>

Hi, I want to forward a request as it is from an aspx page(could be a web service too) in one application to another aspx page in a different application. The intial request will be having parameters(not fixed number) which I need to use in the second aspx page. I used Server.Transfer but it ...more >>

I have a listbox whose autopostback property is set to 'true'. When this event fires, I have code in the 'SelectedIndexChanged' event to capture the selectedindex of the listbox to be reset on the listbox when the postback occurs. However, the selectedindex property is alway -1. Below ...more >>

Hi All, My users are complaining about the page refreshing when they are selecting multiple rows in a datagrid. Has anyone tried to manage this using javascript? I tried smartnavigation but that caused me other problems. Any ideas? Thanks, Jay...more >>

Hi, I am writing a pre-handler page for aspx pages, in which I want to call a custom method on the code-behind class file for the aspx page. In order to do this I need to somehow get the class full namespace for the codebehind aspx page from the request absolute url that I have in the ...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for a nice tab control in ASP.NET. I have seen the tab control MS user in their CRM and it was really impressive. Does anybody know where to find a good one? Something like the Internet Explorer WebControls but probably "still supported". Thank you for your help Dan...more >>

Hello members of this newsgroup, I'm a colombian web application developer and I have the next situation: I was developing my web application with the .net framework (1.1.4322.573) in english version and it was installed in a server machine with the net. framework (1.1.4322.573) in spanis...more >>

Hi all is there a way to get the size (Mb od kb) of an object in memory? Thanks for help Jenny...more >>

Hi, I have a Popup window where a user inputs soem data. On successfully entering this data I redirect the user to a page in the same popup indicating that the form has submitted successfully. I want to resize the page that I redirect the user to. Is this possible in ASP? Thanks, ...more >>

Hello All, Trying the first time to use a custom ErrorPage using: <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="TR_Error.aspx" /> in the Web.config Somehow the Application never reaches this page! (I still see the ASP-Default-ErrorPage) What might be wrong here? ...more >>

Hi, I have some javscript that opens a popup window. My window gets displayed on teh top left hand side of my screen. Anyone know how I can position the popup in the middle of the screen? Thanks, C....more >>

I have a list box that I am populating (not via databinding) from some tables from my SQL database. I also have a TEXT BOX on the screen. I want to display whatever the user clicks on the list box on the edit box. I know I can do it by setting the AUTOPOSTBACK property of the list box to ...more >>

Hi! How can I get a path from a Html (or aspx, it doesn't matter) to an aspx-site. I'm sending a path (C:\dir...\file) from the html-page within a querystring: > page.aspx?path=C:\dir...\file in the page_load i recieve the path: > String path = Request.QueryString["path"]; .......more >>

Hi, How do we set the web folder become application folder in order it can run asp.net web application ? I just complete my project and upload it to the server via ftp. But it can't run as the folder do not have application setting. How do we set it ourself remotely instead of request the adm...more >>

Hello - I am wanting to programmatically turn the visibility of a template column from false to true. The <asp:templateColumn has a visibility property, but is has no "id" property. How can I reference the entire column, heading and all and turn it off and on programmatically? Thanks in adv...more >>

Hi, I use VS.NET Enterprice Achitect 2002 version and when I try to create a page in gridlayout all font sizes goes banana in all 'Label' and 'RequiredFieldValidator' objects. TextBoxes, DropDownLists and Buttons seems to behave normal. I first create a web Forms Panel and because that...more >>

hello, is there a way i can control what user upload to the webserver? i've created a upload feature and i dont know howto control what the user uploads. i want to allow my user to only upload .doc files. any help i greatly appriciated... yours truly Mano Kumar...more >>

Hi, Using ASP and VBScript. How to convert JPEG image into a binary data? Is it possible with a command from ASP / VBScript without having to put it into a database first? I want to take the JPEG image from a folder, convert it into a binary data, and stream it to the browser. How can I do ...more >>

I have a datagrid with a 'Delete' column that the user can click on to delete a row in the datagrid. I thought that I would need to have some kind of error handling in case somebody goes into the database table that the datagrid uses and deletes a record while the user is still viewing the reco...more >>

I have the following setup -- wwwroot\web.config wwwroot\application1\web.config I have application1 flagged as it's own application within IIS. The behavior I'm seeing is that application1 still inherits from the wwwroot's web.config. I thought that if application1 was set as it's own ...more >>

Hey Folks, I have a bunch of aspx pages in a solution. One of these pages, call it header1.aspx, has it's code behind in header1.aspx.vb. Another, header2.aspx, has header2.aspx.vb. When I double-click a web control on header1.aspx, it brings me to the code behind for header2! In fact, the ...more >>

Hi fellow programmers................... I am trying to learn ASP .NET ver 1.1 using VB .NET only on a windows 200 Pro machine. I have done quite a bit with ASP 3 but have been off programming for about a year... Can any of you recommend a good book from a reputable author? Thanks in ad...more >>