I've a dropdownlist control to change language on my page. Because of page lifetime, I have to set all my labels, texts etc. from ResourceManager in prerender handler to be sure that culture change has been done. But I can't set HeaderText property of DataGridColumn in prerender because it is ...more >>

Hi, I have serveral web forms used by users, these users often use IE browser print function to print out the form, the problems I have is what users see on the screen is usually different from what's being printed. Somtimes it looks good on screen, but it wraps differently in printing. How do...more >>

Hi, am a biginner in .net designing.Does the panel control is enough to act as a container .Because if , i design my controls in textboxes rows& cols , i heared that the aclignment won't change in run time across the browsers. is it true? if the panel provides guaruntee that it keeps the c...more >>

I am creating an application for booking events. Each event has several dates and each date has a fixed amount of available seats. Currently in the events table I have a field for the number of available seats and a field for the string of dates that are later parsed into a listbox control...more >>

I find this odd; to create a DIV (html) element I use the HTMLGeneric control; <div ID="myDiv" runat=server ... This has no .Text property such as myDiv.Text = "testing"; So I am forced to use the Label control instead but that one results in a <span> element for which many style attri...more >>

I have an AccessDataSource control and a DataList control and databinding to display the database results. Although there is no Page.DataBind() in my codebehind code it obviously is there somewhere, do the controls do it or is it by default done in the page building sequence? How can I contro...more >>

Hi, I have the following templates inside a datalist: <SelectedItemTemplate> &nbsp;<%# Container.DataItem("Title") %> </SelectedItemTemplate> <ItemTemplate> &nbsp;<asp:LinkButton id="lnkAction" runat="server" cssClass="OtherTabs"><%# Container.DataItem("Title") %></asp:LinkButton> </Item...more >>

Hello All, I have recently had the pleasure of installing Norton Internet Security 2005 and finding that I can no longer create or open a web-based application in Visual Studio .Net. The IDE just freezes. I tried fiddling with the configuration settings of the Norton Firewall but was not ...more >>

Hi, I am relatively new to dotnet and have heard great things about form validation and how easy it is. While I can see some improvements compared with classic asp I am a bit disappointed at how inflexible it seems. The requirement I have is that when form fields contain invalid data, ie no...more >>

First here is my goal: When a datalist is rendered to a page and you use the <itemtemplate> the datalist automatically prints a <tr> <td> start and end tags. Now this may not be too bad but I have run into a situation repeatedly with the designing factor of a datalist. Most of the time w...more >>

OK, this one has me totally baffled. Please go to: http://www.uiucsingles.com/ Notice the left div (class="navDiv"). For some reason the control that renders this section of the page is outputting different tags to different browsers, when using HtmlTextWriterAttribute and HtmlTextWrite...more >>

Hello, I have about 60+ pages that I need to insert a MAILTO: tag so people can email the page using their email client. The body of the message is going to be the URL of that page. Using ASP, how can I insert the page URL in the email body without having to manually enter each URL for each...more >>

I want to do show this: <asp:Panel id="Panel1" runat="server"> <div>Product dimensions: <%# DataBinder.Eval(Product, "Dimensions") %></div> </asp:Panel> Only if "Dimensions" field is not empty. Is there any way? The best I think is to do this in the DataBinding Event of the panel if (...more >>

Hi All, I have looked and looked for an answer to the following problem (without success), and would be very grateful for a solution. The problem: The SelectedIndexChanged event code of an Asp.Net DropDownList changes text in an adjacent TextBox by either concatenating SelectedItem.Text (...more >>

now if I in my codebehind set the Visible property to false for a DataList control which is bound to a database query (AccessDataSource control to be exact) - will it be skipped completely in runtime or is the database still accessed and the results iterated although nothing is visible? ...more >>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01C4D9EB.EA1D7EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Consider the following ASPX code snippet: <script language=3DVB runat=3Dserver> Sub Page_Load(obj As Objec...more >>

The following simple code which is supposed to enumerate the form and query variables does work in IE6 and FireFox but NOT in IE5. Could anyone advice me on this one??? I think the issue has to do with the javascript line document.forms[0].submit(); in the TestVar function but I just cannot...more >>

How can I send an email in a windows form like I can with asp.net using System.Web.Mail or by some other way. Thanks. Jay ...more >>

Hi, I have a .aspx file named testConnStr.aspx witin a try, catch, finally block that works just very nice, shows the data in a datagrid. I have one header saying "test ConnStr" and two server objects, a label and a datagrid. So I decided to do it with code behind. What happens? Ev...more >>

will VS 2002 still work if I upgrade from .NET 1.0? ...more >>

I wrote an custom error handler that works, but why the ErrorLog.txt file is being created/written in the root web instead of the folder within my web application? Root web = C:\Inetpub\wwwroot -&- Web Application Folder = C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MySite See code: Public Shared Sub LogError(ByVa...more >>

please can you save me hours of Googling by telling me the difference between using ' or " in a control's parameters eg: <asp:Label ID="BlogCategoryLabel" Runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("BlogCategory") %>'/> where these two are intermixed... ...more >>

Hello, I want to display 6 database fields in this way: {name} {address} Phone: {phone} | Fax: {fax} URL: {url} | Email: {email} Of course if {phone} field is empty I need to hide "Phone: {phone} | " I came up with something like this (to hide the address line): <table runat="serve...more >>