I have a common Class Library that I use on a QA server which has 10+ sites that all use this library... I got everything working with the current version installed in the GAC and since some aspx pages reference this via the @REGISTER page directive I added the assembly in the machine.config so I...more >>

Hello, How can I force refreshing of my web site, when a visitor enter my site. Thanks :) ...more >>

Hi, My issue is twofold. 1) How do I invoke a "save file" action when a user clicks a button. In classic ASP, I used to response.redirect to file path. But I want to keep the user on the same page they clicked "Download" button. 2) How do I force to prompt for a save file when the u...more >>

Hello, I am using an editable datagrid. After I save the changes the datagrid shows the old values. I've read the posts about the Page_Load and not binding the datagrid each time. The SQL that is being sent to the database is correct and the changes are eventually being made. If I refresh the ...more >>

hi. I wrote a very simple httpmodule to transform calls as www.mysite.com/users/john to www.mysite.com/userspage.aspx?id=john the problem is that my module is called only when the called page has an ..aspx extension (or an extension which is associated with aspnet), thus making the module...more >>

Hi, I am using drop down menu in my pages. In one of my page,there is a listbox control below the menu. This listbox control is hiding the drop down menu items. How can i make the drop down menu not to be hidden by the listbox control? I tried to increase the z-index for the menu control....more >>

http://www.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN;q273482 the above speaks for ASP and IIS4, but is it true for the IIS version that comes with Win2000 and with ASP.net? that is, cause at some very big forms, I get lots of the following errors: System.Web.HttpException: The viewstat...more >>

Hi, I have a web page which has server side include for top, left, main and bottom.aspx pages. In the left.aspx, there is a login web control which has a pair of form tags. In the main page, there is a registration form which has a pair of form tags. So, there are 2 pairs of form t...more >>

I am facing technical difficulti in using server connection control because we cannot change the path once fixed .. one way is to edit the code of the form generated code but though it allow to manipulate but again when i open the project one day latter the connection string cn.connection strin...more >>

Hello! I'm building pages dynamically, by loading usercontrols recursively and adding the to eachother. My problem is usercontrols - defined with output-caching directives. When these usercontrols area loaded, they're returned as PartialCachingControls. The UniqueID of the PartialCachingCon...more >>

Hi. In my application I'm handling sensitive files. I copy them from a file server and onto the webserver, but I have to delete them again as soon as the user is finished with his download. Is that possible? Is there some way to detect when the download is finished? And if so I'm guessing th...more >>

Running Windows 2000 Server here. My ASP.NET app reads an XML file (in the virtual root on the local machine) like this just fine: DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("feeds.xml"),XmlReadMode.InferSchema); The problem is when I upload it to my host I get a System.Sec...more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.Net application written with VS.Net 2002 (Net FWK 1.0). This Web Application uses Exception Management Application Block to log Events to Windows Event Log. We registered the Exception Management Application Block using installutil. Our Application uses impersonation and used ...more >>

Hi I have client side script that inserts an IFrame into a table cell upon a particular client side click event. My problem is that when a postback occurs, that IFrame "disappears". what do i do to work around this?? Thanks Jason ...more >>

Hello Guys, I am rendering the server controls dynamically using XSLT but having tough time positioning them on the web form the place where I want them to be. To be precise, I have two image buttons generated dynamically, even though I arranged them in two different cells in my XSLT b...more >>

I want to open a file by the native application without opening the Dialog Box asking "Open, Save or Cancel" . I know I can do at the client workstation by selecting the registry. But, I don't want to configure every machine, can I force it by using the server-side script. ...more >>

Hi, When trying to debug any project on VS .NET 2003 Pro, I receive de following error: Error while trying to run project: Unable to start debugging. The debugger is not properly installed. Run setup to install or repair the debugger. I've reinstalled VS and .NET Framework but the error a...more >>

I'm beginning to get into ASP.NET and don't know much about it yet. I just need to know first about the way to access a SQL Server database. SQL Server is running on a server inside our network and not accessible to the outside world. Our web site is being hosted by a company in Miami. Wh...more >>

Hi, On the click of a button I want to be able to display a dialog so that a file can be picked , the name of which needs to be passed to a function as a parameter in my asp.net app.. However for the file dialog I need to specify the type of file and the directory which can be browsed. Can some...more >>

I get an error message: Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I get an error in line: If Session("user") Is Nothing Then.... What could be wrong? ...more >>

Hi All, I am a bit of a newbie but have a reasonable grasp of using ASP.net code. One thing I have wanted to find our for sometime is if there is a way to invoke DHTML methods from or after running an ASP.net event. For example/ I can open a modal dialog using the DHTML method <input typ...more >>

is there a "new" way of redirecting to a page in ASP.NET (as compared to ASP)? to refresh a page, I'm using Response.Redirect(Request.RawUrl); is that the "advised" way? thnx ...more >>

I have a windows 2003 server and would like to create ASP.Net applications on it but I do not know the properly security,permissions or configuration to setup the server properly. I installed the ASP.Net services from Add/Remove Windows Components to the server. But I do not know what to conf...more >>

Can anyone explain why my ASP.NET website works on my local machine just fine, but when I upload it to my hosting provider I get this Server Error: Server Error in '/' Application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Cannot use a leading .. to...more >>

Is there a way to insert text into a multi-row textbox where the cursor position is at in the multi-row textbox? Just wondering ...more >>

I'm a student and have installed IIS 5.0 into my Windows 2000 Pro OS. I have also downloaded and installed the .NET Framework SDK 1.1. These applications are resident and running, according to all indications. I further created an ASP.NET page, which code has been verified. The file has...more >>

I'm having problems with an event handler as it handles the fired event. The symptoms are so bizzare that they are hard to describe. I step through the code as it runs and I see that the event fires (it's a timer event) in my class library. In my web app I see control go to the handler - "yip...more >>

I have a web user control that contains a textbox. It is laid out with a grid control. The grid control is then used on the main web form. How do you programatically access say textbox1 which is on webusercontrol1 from inside of webform1? Thanks Chuck ...more >>

Please, with ASP, if i have a form where the user must input some data for a search, when the user click SUBMIT, i call another ASP page that verifies and execute the search with the user filters. How can i do the same thing with ASP.NET, 'causes when the user click a button i trigger the eve...more >>

Have you come accross the issue described below or know more about it? We have come accross a situation where session variables are getting lost temporarily but come back again if user reloads the same page. Found that whenever the server has to load/compile (not sure which) the website dlls...more >>

Hello all, Here is a simple example of what I'm doing... Create a ASPX page Add a PlaceHolder(plch) and a Button(btn) to the page. In the code behind on Page_load add the following... TextBox txt = new TextBox(); if(!IsPostBack) { txt.Text = "Hello"; txt.BackColor = Color.Yellow; ...more >>

Im trying to send mail using this code: MailMessage mail = new MailMessage(); mail.From = "fejl@mydomain.com"; mail.Subject = "some subject"; mail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal; mail.Body = body; mail.BodyFormat = MailFormat.Text; mail.To = to; SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "XXXX"; ...more >>

I have a web site where the user is able to download a file. I can't use an anchor tag because I don't want the user to see where the filename is coming from. Below is the code in which the user clicks to get the file. I could swear this used to work but it definitely doesn't now. Each time a...more >>

Hello, I am facing a very serious problem during development of a new web application. When I a value for a property (Button.Text for example) is assigned at run time (via code execution) and the value is in Hebrew, Everything is fine. no matter where this value came from either by ret...more >>

I have just started programming .NET having come from ASP. We used to create a connection and store it in a session.This meant for each user logging into the site there was only one connection Now with ASP.NET using the SqlClient libraries this is not possible (No doubt for good reasons). ...more >>

Hi all, I need to determine which control was clicked on a page when i am dealing with OnPostrequesthandler event in the HttpModule Class. I don't want to use hardcoded names in the Httpmodule class. What i want in httpmodule class is that depending upon whats clicked on the page (Add or ...more >>

.. Line 38: Function FormatURL5(ByVal strArgument) As String Line 39: If strArgument.length > 0 Then Line 40: Return ("<INPUT id='mmmm' type='checkbox' value='" & strArgument & "' onclick='parent.runThis('" & strArgument & "')'>") Line 41: End ...more >>

I get the error "error executing child request" when I use the Server.Transfer method to invoke a second aspx page. The following code is executed in a LinkButton click eventhandler on Page1.aspx. Server.Transfer("Page2.aspx",True) This code is virtually identical to the examples i...more >>

Hello, I've been having trouble running my web application developed in .NET with C# on Macs. It looks normal on PCs but Mac users are complaining that everything looks scrambled on the screen! I have a Datalist with pictures and text on it (Articles) and another Datalist with multiline TextBo...more >>

In IIS, I've got an application directory called AuthenticationTest. I've also got an app directory called TestWinAuth. Both are under the wwwroot directory. My AuthenticationTest app enables anonymous access, while the TestWinAuth app uses windows authentication. I have 1 file in my TestWin...more >>

Is it possible to apply these styles in a TextBox? thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have a web app, there is only really 1 aspx page (that the user never sees) the rest of the code is done in a DLL that implements HttpHandler. My app (which is a porting job from Vb6 webclasses) needs to use session cookies (i.e. when all browser windows are closed the cookies disappear)...more >>

i remember i found about half a year ago an article describing top 10 problems with asp.net. one of them was that there can be only one <form runat="server"> on a page, but i can't remember more to find it in google. could somebody remind me that? -- Daniel Bauke; http://www.bonkey.pl.eu.o...more >>

Hello: When creating a dynamic datagrid (i.e. columns are not added until runtime), and enabling allow sorting, the SortCommand event is never fired. Anyone know why or a way around it? This is in .NET Framework 1.1 and VS.NET 2003. Thanks, John ...more >>

I have 2 DDL's and want to programatically populate the second DDL (Child) based on the DataValueField of the first DDL (Parent). Any help and examples gratefilly accepted. Regards David...more >>

I upload an excel file, save it on the webserver and import the contents to an MSSQL database. I use the MS JET OleDb provider to read from the excel file. If I do this during the HTTP request this works fine. If however I let another thread (from a pool I've created when the ASP.NET applicati...more >>

I would like to display a PDF file in a Web User Control (.ascx). I know that in a Web Form (.aspx), the ContentType can be set to "application/pdf". How can I set the ContentType in a Web Users Control and display a PDF file? If I can't use a Web User Control, I may have to redesign the entire ...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to create a special style just for one column of the grid. I want to display in Bold the values of a column. Also, for a column, I want to create hyperlinks only for some values, based on a condition : e.g public void OnItemDataBoundEventHandler(Object sender, DataGr...more >>

I have a xml file for datasource.e.g <Persons> <Person> <Name>User1</Name> <State>NJ</State> </Person> <Person> <Name>User2</Name> <State>WA</State> </Person> </Persons> I have a dropdown list which I select a state from list. Is such property or event in Datalist or D...more >>

I have a System.Web.UI.UserControl as custom control and I have a javascript block for user control. The problem is I want to bring src attribute from outside as property or other method. e.g <script language="JavaScript" src="Scripts/filename.js"></script> When I register this contro...more >>

Hi, i looking for example in asp.net (VB) to make the RegularExpressionValidator in runtime in my code behind. I found some similars codes, but nothing in VB.. thanks! ...more >>

I want to write to a simple text file. If it doesn't exist I want to create it first. Here is my code (portion): Imports System.IO ' at the top of the class : : Dim strFileName As String = "C:\MyFile.txt" ' create file if not e...more >>

OK, I think I understand session state pretty well. I've done additional research on Google over the last few days to fill in any holes. To begin with, I'm using StateServer and not InProc for SessionState mode in my web.config. In fact, that's the only mode Verio shared hosting supports. Tha...more >>

I am using a TabStrip control in a .ascx file so I can create a menu navigation system for my ASP.NET application. The menu never changes, so I have every page in the app using the .ascx control. I have the TabStrip set up, and it calls the pages correctly. However, I can't figure out how ...more >>

I have link which redirects me to the aritcles of some category: href='articles.aspx?categoryId=6&aricleId=8' How can I scroll down the page, when the page is loaded to the article with id=8? I have articles shown with repeater control. Is there some kind of counter with repeater control? To...more >>

Hi... I have a problem with a confirm dialog box. I want to execute some code and then prompt the user with a confirm dialog box who's message will depend on the result of the execution from the server. I made a function Confirm (Message) that sends the javascript of the confirm functi...more >>

Hello I want to write an application that surf the web and fill a database, analyze it and display it with a web application. the surfer should always be running like using system.timer or threading. is that possible to use only a web application? or I need a windows application running paralle...more >>

Dear All, I would like to use a Repeater to show data - mostly large volumes from a database - in a comma delimited format. VS.NET documentation mentions this as one of the uses of the Repeater! Actually, the idea is that users can save the output of a request as CSV file on their desktop. Fo...more >>

OK, I am a .Net newbie... and I'm sure that if I spend the next two weeks pouring through MSDN articles, I will find the answer... But... I'm sure that this is done all the time, and so I'm sure the answer could be found here much more quickly :) I have a page, whose load event will execute a...more >>

I'd like to display the maxRequestLength value on a page, so users could see what the aprox current file upload size limit is. Can the value of maxRequestLength be determined at runtime? Can it be done if you don't know, at runtime, if it's set in the machine config (default) or app web config...more >>

Hi all, I was used to in my application before perhaps writing some HTML like this : <font class="normaltext">Hello World!</font> etc With Visual Studio - the intellisense does not show a 'class' item - I'm assuming as this is the HTML view of the page, that when I run it as long as I'...more >>

Hi, I have a page where I need to send a request to another website, get the response and display it on the page. Does anyone know of any examples on how to do this? Thanks...more >>

I posted this in the C# language group, then thought it might be more appropriate in this group. I would not cross-post except I want the answer so badly. I built small C# Web and Web Service applications in a training class last week. The applications worked in the class, but when I trie...more >>

Ok, this is what I need to accomplish. We have a huge excel file that comes in daily. I need the server to grab this excel file each day and import the data into a SQL database. Once that is accomplished, I want the web app to allow the user to search any data in the table. This is overwhel...more >>

Hi I have created a facility to allow the user to upload an image file to the webserver. When the user creates the image for the first time i.e. the image does not exist within the directory everything works fine. The problem occurs if my ASP.NET dll tries to delete the file or overwrit...more >>

Hi, I'm developing a search facility for my web app. In order for the search criteria to be valid the user must (a) enter some text in a text box and check and least one checkbox (of which there are two) and/or (b) select at least one item from a multiple select list box. I've written the jav...more >>

Hello, I have a "smallmoney" field in SQL Server that I am attempting to display, but when I use the .ToString() method on a decimal variable it displays too many places after the decimal point (i.e. more than two). I know there's a string I could use as an argument for ToString ()...more >>

I have a placeholder in a repeater, along with a textbox. For each "repeat unit" I call the onitemdatabound method and decide what I am going to put in the placholder, checkboxlist or radiobuttonlist at the moment. This is displayed (as a questionare) the user then ticks, selects, and hits ...more >>

Hello all. I have a datagid that is populated by a dataview. The Grid consists of a header, 5 rows of data, then a footer. Is it possible to insert a new row BELOW the footer? I've already tried to add a row but it's adding it above the footer. I'm using C#, Thanks all. Jon...more >>

Hi, I have an index.aspx page which includes top.aspx, left.aspx, main.aspx and bottom.aspx. In the left.aspx, there is a login web control - login.ascx. It keeps session of username and role after successful login and shows welcome user message and his shopping cart link. The page...more >>

Hi, I want to retrieve the complete full path to the directory of my current page but i don't find how to do that. For example i want : D:\myWebSite\firstDotNetWebApp\dir1\ I tried "AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory" but it's return only the path to my WebApplication, ex : D:\myWebS...more >>

I am using the Infragistics UltraWebNavigator menu control and am having trouble building my menu hierarchy either by data binding or coding it manually. I have included a sample of my Menu table schema and contents so you can see what I am looking to build it from. Any advice, samples, articl...more >>

Using the 1.1 framework. We are using a newly created instance of a RichTextBox Class in our server code to manipulate RTF that is stored in the database. To clarify, we are not using or attempting to use this class in the aspx page that calls the code, nor is the 'using System.Windows.Forms' ...more >>