What is the recommended method to add a row to a db? I've used the following code since I started using ASP.NET. It's simple, but it gets very hard to manage when the tables get big. And I have to check the inputdata for , and ' public static int Create(int areaID, int createdByID, bool...more >>

Hi, Im trying to use Response.Redirect in Session_End event in Global.asax page, which is not working. Why this is not working? And if this not works here, how do I hanlde this? Any possible and best solutions will be helpful. N.B.: Here my intention is to redirect to, say Login page, when t...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know of a good (free) combobox control? I have already tried http://www.lostinet.com/en/LWSampleCS/ (problems with style rendering) Thanks in advance. ...more >>

I have a combo and a datagrid in a page. Combo box values are loaded on page_Load. Datagrid is populated based on values selected in the combo (I am using selectedIndexchange event) I need to make a default value for the combo(first value available) and populate the datagrid based on this v...more >>

I'm very new to web development using ASP.NET. I'm developing a site using ASP.NET. My site looks fine if you use IE but if you open it in NS it's not displaying properly. And this display will very for different versions of NS also. Finally after a long search I found some article about brows...more >>

Hi, Does anybody have a method by which they can read script blocks that have been registered via RegisterScriptBlock or RegisterStartupScript? I'd like to manipulate registered script blocks prior to them being rendered to the client. Thank you. Michael -- Have a round and reme...more >>

I have created simplest asp.net application. And it starts normally. But i can`t debug it. I am always getting an error: "You do not have permisssion to debug the server. Verify that you are member of the DebuggerUsers " But I am a member of Debugger Users group and I am a local admin. I have ...more >>

Could anyone provide some approaches that are used to cache dropdown list control values to share globally beteween all users? Currently, each time a page is loaded all the dropdown values for each dropdown list control are retrieved from the database. I would like to go away from this approach....more >>

Hi. I want to write an .ASPX page that does nothing but returns a proper XML document to the client (IE or whatever). If I have a fully composed "XmlDocument" object in my .ASPX file's Page_Load() and I want to output the Xml in that object and have to xml document returned have the proper hea...more >>

hi, i am swamped by all the documentation and i can't find something relatively simple. a company has an intranet and they want a browser based application to control data import/export. i need an apsx page to run dts packages on a separate server. after asking here and further investig...more >>

Hello, I need to create a simple search in a web site. I have an input text where the user writes the words for search. When it clicks the "search" button a new page will appear with all the records of the database which TITLE field includes those words. Well, if this would be just one...more >>

Hi all, i want to create in my asp.net application a custom server variable, so i can retrieve later in other pages (even asp or perl) with request.servervariables("HTTP_mycustomvariable") i've tried with response.appendheader("mycustomvariable", "somevalue") but this doesn't work, or the...more >>

I have an application that once you login it creates a new window using script (see below). This window is the window the client needs to use to do their work (don't ask why we need a window to pop up, it's a client request). The obvious problem...POP UP BLOCKERS! I love them when I'm on the ...more >>

I'm binding data to a drop down list. Then, via another query, selecting one of the items from that list by default. What I'd like to do is change the text of that particular item as well. Can that be done? For instance, the list may be: apple orange banana then, I make the second qu...more >>

We are attempting to convert an already existing application over to using multiple worker processes; thus we need to store state via session state server rather than in process. Since this app previously used in process state there was little back pressure against storing objects in the session....more >>

I need to convert 4 bytes into a long. In C I would do long l = *(long *)&buffer[10]; buffer is an array of bytes read from a file. What's the C# syntax? ...more >>

I just loaded my application in Firefox in it's default state to see how it would look and work. There were some formatting issues, but the most problematic thing was none of my validation controls work. Now I was under the impression that asp.net was supposed to adjust output to whatever bro...more >>

In asp, error would display in the browser. In asp.net, I get runtime error. How do I display error with line number and column? begin 666 runtime.gif M1TE&.#=A" 0(`W<``"P`````" 0(`X<```" ````@ " @ ```(" `( `@(# MP,# W,"FRO ````1$1$<'!P``#,`,P``,S,S```S,P`B(B(I*2DR,C(Y.3D* M)&H,)FL,)FP.*&T...more >>

Hi, Hi have to do the followign and have been racking my brain with various solutions that have had no so great results. I want to use the System.Net.WebClient to submit data to a form (log a user in) and then redirect to the correct article. Here is the scenerio. If you are not logged i...more >>

Hi there, I have a datagrid that is bound to a datasource. The grid has a hyperlink column and I want to generate the URL using the URL Field and URL Format String fields in the Property Builder. The problem I'm running into is trying to generate the URL with more than one URL Field ent...more >>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C4D22A.69C5DA10 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a string being returned to my in my ascx file. I get access to it = like this... <%# DataBinder.Eval(C...more >>

When SQL Server 2003 is *not* configured in IIS5 isolation mode, is it true that the Session_End event can not be depended on? If so, what is a good way to clean up unmanaged resources that were created in abandoned user sessions? ...more >>

I have an .ASPX page with server side text box (..WebControls.TextBox). In my development laptop when I browse this page it works fine. When I hosted this on server A, it works fine. However for Server B it is not working. Server B has .Net FrameWork 1.1 Installed. Not sure where I should get st...more >>

Hello there, I've just encountered a strange problem with Session. In one particular scenario it is cleared between pages but the scenario is so specific that I am really, really startled. I've tried to look for similar situations in the group archive and it seems that few people have o...more >>

Hello, I'm doing localhost developpement on a win2k3 server . When i lunch the default page i get the following. How do i resolve it? many thanks in advance Server Error in '/MultiTest' Application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- A...more >>

Could someone explain to me why the following code snippet throws an "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object error": public void SetActiveStaffMember(int staffMemberId) { DAL.StaffMemberDataSet smDS = new DAL.StaffMemberDataSet(); if(GetStaffMemberById(staffMemberId)...more >>

I work as a IIS Admin for a company and we have migrated some ASP.NET apps from IIS 5 to IIS 6. They worked fine under IIS 5. They had their session state set to time out after 120 minutes and they were using InProc, cookieless="false". The Machine.config file did not get analyzed before mig...more >>

Ok, I had an ASP.NET application which after much trouble worked on a server, SERVER1. I need to move this application to another server, DC2. Both are domain controllers, both are running the same OS, SP etc. The files are stored in C:\NET\App on SERVER1 & D:\NET\App on DC2. I tried manu...more >>

I keep getting this error. "Session state can only be used when enableSessionState is set to true, either in a configuration file or in the Page directive" This occurs when I try to add a session variable. .... Session.Add("Nameplate", 1) .... That is in a button click event. I'...more >>

This little problem is driving me nuts!! On my webform page I create 2 variables.. Protected p_dml As String = "I" Public Const mwv_id As Integer = 0 ' originally had mwv_id as Protected then in my form button click I set up my context items.. Private Sub btnAddRecord_Click(ByVa...more >>

Hello is there a way to create a dropdownlist inside a <input type='dropdownlist'> or there is an equivalent to create other than <asp:DropDownList id="drop1" runat="server"> . I need this because it's a dynamic page and I need to create the dropdown control in any position needed depending on ...more >>

With respect to performance, is either of these better? Dim myTextBox As New TextBox or Dim myTextBox As TextBox myTextBox = New TextBox or Dim myTextBox As TextBox = New TextBox ...more >>

I'm getting a data set returned from a web service and populating a datalist on my page. There are times that a dataitem has ' in it (ex: car's, truck's, etc), how can I remove the ' from the words? instead of seeing car's i want to see cars, trucks, etc. in VB.NET...more >>

Hi this is kind of related to a post from yesterday, closing a child window from actions on the parent window. Anyhow I was able to get this to work using java script, and setting up open and close functions with a handle. I have another case where a child window is opened from a datagrid hy...more >>

Hi All, I was wondering if it is possible to use(if it will work) the OpenFileDialog class in ASP.NET. Currently I am using the classic javascript but I have I need to customize the browse button. Does anyone knows some good source of information? Thank you for your time. Frank ...more >>

Hi all can I ask a genuine question (by that I mean I'm not trolling) We are a small company and for a few years we have been building internal web apps in ASP connecting to databases etc. We see that just about everyone is moving to .net, but I'm curious about practicle reasons for doi...more >>

I have always been under the impression that LDAP was optimized for speed. Fast queries, fast access, slower writes. I have a block of data in LDAP and in SQL. Exact same data. The query is fast but the first access to the result set takes longer that to do the query in SQL and process the s...more >>

It appears that the statment: Response.AddHeader("Refresh", Convert.ToString(15)) is causing my session to expire. Does this make sense? ...more >>

Hello All, I know this has been posted many times, but I cannot seem to find the solution in all the many, many, searches I've done. Whenever I try and create a new project I get the error: 'http://localhost/webapplication1.' 'HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error.' Here's what I've done so ...more >>

Hi. I need to be able to access a public code behind variable within my ASPX page. The reason is that I have a user control "Header" which defines a table layout, and is included in all my pages, at various levels in the website heirarchy. The table requires a background image. My images folde...more >>

what is the best way to create reports that could be opened in word. - i could embed a client script within the asp page that uses the word active x but this is too slow. - i could also create an rtf file but for some reason, i could never figure out how to include pictures by reference (wit...more >>

when I execute aspx page, it works about 5 minutes - I calculate some statistics. Is there some way, that I can show user time bar or smething similar? That he nows, that page is working. Thank you, Simon ...more >>

I am using cascading dropdowns, where one dropdown determines the data in the next, etc... If a dropdown has only one item in it, the SelectedIndexChanged event is never fired, even if you click on the dropdown and "reselect" the single item. This also happens when there are multiple items...more >>

What is the difference, and are there any good articles on this? -- David ...more >>

I think I placed this in the wrong news group so I'm moving it here. Suggestion to Microsoft make the categories more clear and make better sense. ASP.NET should be its own group, why bury under Framework. And I see others doing the same mis-posting to dotnet.general which appears to be ge...more >>

I am using cascading dropdowns, where the selection in one determines what fills another. In regular ASP I simply loaded a giant dataset into javascript array and when you clicked on one dropdown, it populated the others accordingly. In ASP.Net, I was looking for a way to do this without j...more >>

Sorry... new to this. I trying to figure out how to do a page redirect when someone clicks a treeview node. Does someone have a code snippet for this? ...more >>

Our Development Server (windows 2003, framework 1.1) was working great for months, then one day all the client side validators stopped working. Only the server side validation is working. Our code was ported to other servers and the client side validation works fine. This makes me believe ...more >>

An early Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours... We develop data driven apps. We dynamically place controls on a panel which may be then be placed on a web form or another control. My problem is that I can't get the events of the hosted controls to fire. e.g. ' myUserControl.ascx. is placed ...more >>

I just flew in from Chicago with an elephant with a wooden leg named Smith. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know. So I bit him. -- HTH, Kevin Spencer ..Net Developer Microsoft MVP Neither a follower nor a lender be. ...more >>

Hi all, I have a problem with the access to the folder for uploading the file into that folder by using ASP.NET program. The error message was : "Access is denied ..." to the location I save the file. This problem didn't happen when I ran my ASP.NET program with my localhost server on my per...more >>

I have a collection of controls I am using on several pages. I have: 1 Image 2 Labels I want to combine these so that I will also have certain properties available programatically. I want to be able to set a 'photoId' Property, that, when set, will call data from a database, set the Imag...more >>

I'm trying to split a datagrid after 30 rows and I dont want to use it for paging purposes so please dont suggest the PageSize="30" option. :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of my first thoughts but of course it doesnt work or else I would...more >>

Is there an easy way to concatenate two columns (i.e. last name and first name columns) in a data set so both can show up in a data text field of a combo box?...more >>

hey all, i was wondering if the following code, in general, if it wouldn't always be a good idea or if there's a better way to do it. Private Sub DataGrid2_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Obj... If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Alternating...more >>

A postback I'm doing takes ages to get the data which it then uses to populate a table. What I want to know is: How can I get the client side to fire a 'resize' event when the postback thing has finished?...more >>

Hello, I ran the Microsoft Baseline Security analyzer 1.2 on my developement machine, then as one of the requests. Also updated the machine 1.1 Framework with service pack 1. Now everytime I try to run a project on debug or release mode get this message: "Error while trying to run the...more >>

Hi there, I 've an .aspx page which uses formsauthentication. The formsauthentication works fine however. When I insert breakpoints in the code which does the actual authentication, for example the loginbutton click event, the breakpoints are ignored. Now the most weird part comes: Every sixth...more >>

:( Hi, I have aspx pages, in all pages i am placing next button, which will take us to next screen. if i click next button with mouse, it is going to next page and functionality is working fine. If i press the enter key through my keybord, it is going to next page, but functionality...more >>

hi all.. Is there a way I can find out the location on disk of my root web directory. Typically this will be C:\Inetpub\wwwroot. I am *not* running a web application under IIS when I need this info (actually it's part of a unit test). ta very much, Oli....more >>

I have a webservice that is implemented as an IIS application. What I now need to do is scale this up as 10 separate webservices (identical codebase), with 10 different web.config files as 10 separate IIS applications. I can do this by copying the code 10 times, and providing unique config files...more >>

I am trying to put data from a field of a query in to the HeaderText arg and I keep getting an error. <asp:DataGrid id="dgMainCompany" runat="server" width="55%" HorizontalAlign="Left" AutoGenerateColumns="False" BackColor="WhiteSmoke" Font-Name="Verdana" Font-Size="11pt"> ...more >>

Hi, For some reason ASP.NET forms do not post on my live server, although they work fine in dev. The only difference I can see between the two is that the framework version on live is: 1.1.4322.2032 and on dev: 1.1.4322.573 Also when I view the source on both I see some difference...more >>

Hi, For some reason asp.net will not let me publish a new Webpage. I am able to create a new page however when I set it as the start page and hit run, I recieve "Could not load type" error message. The first line of the html is highlighted. I have tried to create a second page with the s...more >>

Hello. Under C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Projects\ I have created a folder, "ASPNET" where I plan to keep my projects. I have started Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services and under "Default Web Site" I have created a virtual folder with the...more >>

I am trying to insert data from a dataset into the source database. I get an error when calling update on the data adapter. Here is the error: Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'KeyID', table 'dbo.Reservations'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. KeyID is an autogenerated n...more >>