I've been out of the Microsoft game for a while. I used to be an ASP developer and the last two years I've been doing only Java/JSP/Struts with Linux as my only home OS. I'm thinking of doing this site for my wife using ASP.NET because our host provides credit card hooks (so they say) if you use...more >>

We're receiving the following error: "String was not recognized as a valid Boolean" whenever we click button1 then immediately click button2 before allowing the entire page to completely refresh/render. Under normal transaction (not clicking multiple buttons all at the same time), we don't encounter...more >>

Hello, I have a typed dataset defined in my project. I am writing a user control which needs to invoke an instance of that dataset. Problem is that the page developer only provides the name of the dataset to my user control. I want my user control to invoke an instance of that dataset from its...more >>

Hi there, I have a question. I have a webform with 2 buttons and 2 customvalidators. I need Customvalidators to validate user input against a database. Depending on the button I click, I want only the associated validator to perform the check. Is there a way to know what button has bee...more >>

Is there any other [simple] solution for an ASPNET application to access network resources other than running as SYSTEM, using delegation (a nightmare to get to work) or the COM+ solution? I cannot seem to impersonate a user and obtain network credentials using the DuplicateTokenEx call with app...more >>

In my server I notice a small delay of about 2 seconds before it starts processing aspx documents... Because I have first off an standard asp page, witch contains the frameset and title and so on... This one comes up quickly, then my IE says Ready... and waits for about 2 seconds, then, it st...more >>

Hi Team, I want execute "Onclick" event whcih will trigger to a ClientSide Validation Javascript and once that over, should call Server side Button_Click(). Please let me know how to do this for a Server side Button Control. Thanks in advance Cheeeeeeeeeers !! ...more >>

Hello there, I'm hoping this is possible but as yet I haven't been able to find out how to do it. I have placed a client side VBScript function in the HTML of my ASP.NET page. Only under certain circumstances I want a server side button click event handler in my code behind class to trigger...more >>

The DataGridSortCommandEventHandler event will *not* fire unless I *also* bind data to the datagrid event in the page load event. Very strange!!! Needless to say making two trips to the database to perform a sort is very inefficient. I've used sorting for other datagrids in other projects and...more >>

Anyway I am having a problem with Web Service and DataList in ASP.NET. so the best way to explain it would be with the MSPetShop 3.0 Application. I submitted an order using the Forms on http://localhost/MSPetShop. then I created my own ASp.NET Project and I have a form on which I have a DataList,...more >>

I'm trying to deterime if an instance of an object exists and if so, if it has a certain value. This syntax tosses an error: If (Not LastItem Is Nothing) And LastItem.Cells(3).Text = Item.Cells(3).Text Then Exit Sub Other than having a nested If Then block, is there another way? Than...more >>

Hi, I am executing a DTS package from asp.net. It works successfully when the code and PackageEventsSink class declaration is in the aspx file however when the code is compilied into a dll I get the error 'Execution was canceled by user'. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the problem co...more >>

I get a dataset passed as a string in my application (passed from a c++ dll) and I convert it to a usable dataset like this: Dim XMLRead As New System.IO.StringReader(lcXML) myDataSet.ReadXml(XMLRead) ItemGrid.DataSource = myDataSet.Tables.Item(1) ItemGrid.DataBind() My question is...more >>

Hallo I want mark a day in a calendar control with differnt color. I would be nice if anywho has a example Thank you Edi ...more >>

Hi A question that I have wanted to ask for ages. Ho do Istop a person from downloading my access database that Iam using as part of my site backend. I am sure that the answer is fairly simple but Ihave never seen any documentation telling me how to do this. I hope that someone can help...more >>

Does anyone know of some in depth documentation regarding how to add user controls programatically? I have a User Control, which has some basic html controls, and depending on the number selected in an HtmlSelect control's value, I need to put x number of forms (or usercontrol) on the page. I...more >>

Hi, I've got a problem with adding strings with a quote in SQL. Dim LocationName As String = "for' example" Dim strQuery As String = "select count(*) as fldNumber " strQuery += "from " & TableName & " " strQuery += "where " & FieldName & " like ' " & Locati...more >>

I have an aspx file that was created in a text editor - it works fine. I want to bring that into VS Net to gain the intellisence and such but I want to keep it as an in-line code arrangement (not code-behind). Can I do that? If so, how? When I create a new ASP.NET project and drag a label onto...more >>

Hi: I have a problem when sending large email(more than 20Mb) from a web = page. I got timeout error. How to overcome this problem? I am thinking = to have a thread to send email. Once the thread starts, return response = to client immediately. The client should be able to kee checking if the ...more >>

I have a datagrid with a ButtonColumn and a BoundColumn with a value. Without showing the value, how can I make the button send back the value? ...more >>

hi, hey i have Nested Hierarchy Frameset(one frame is on left side and the right side frame divided horzontally). I have link in the left side. based on that link i want to refresh the pages in the both frames. How could i do this. If any one can put some light on it. Thanks in Advance. Gi...more >>

I found a sample of uploading a file to the server. This works fine. I just created a virtual directory placed the aspx file in it and navigated to the directory. No problem there. Then to make it "better" I created a new application and copied the code and HTML to a new web app. When I ru...more >>

What I am doing is creating a web based email, using .net I have finised the inbox, read, delete email etc.. Im in the process of making the "create email" or compose... What the plan is, for people to be able to enter multiple "To:" "CC:" and "BCC:" I have only done the "To:" field ...more >>

Hi, Normally you just access ViewState with: ViewState["key"] = object; I am writing a grid utility class which provides generic event handlers to do paging/sorting etc. I want to be able to access the ViewState for the control from these classes. How do I do that? e.g. myGrid.Page.Requ...more >>

Is there a way to add a row to a datagrid during the ItemDataBound event? I would like to add a 'header' row before the start of a group of rows. Thanks, Craig Buchanan ...more >>

When I open a certain page, I receive a "Compilation Error" as follows: Compiler Error Message: CS0117: 'System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm' does not contain a definition for 'ValidateInput' Source Error: Line 712: this.EnableViewStateMac = true; Line 713: this.SmartN...more >>

Given the following HTML form <form method="Post" action="www.xyz.com"> <input type="hidden" name="xxx" value="hello"> </form> If I wanted to somehow, in the page behind form of an ASP.NET page, write code that would send the value, hello, to that site www.xyz.com, how would I do it? ...more >>

Hi, I'd like to know how session variables are stored in the session. I if put a object to the session and then get it back, is this the same object or a new copy of it? The session holds references to the objects or eg. serialized byte stream? What about garbage collecting if the object l...more >>

.... Can you say shut down a machine with code by clicking on a button in a web page. This would also have to have some user privelage authentication through AD and probally even to a SQl database. Any ideas appreciated MP ...more >>

I need to be able to convert different documents (xls, doc, pdf ) to Tiff from ASP.NET Can anyone recommend a good print driver. There are plenty of them out there. The only catch it should not display any dialog boxes (like asking for file name, image type, ... ). I need the one whic...more >>

Hi all, Ok - probably really obvious and something I'm clearly missing...but ... I have a form with 3 areas for text to be entered, the form has some validation controls, upon it being successfully completed, and submitted to the server, the text is fired off to a stored procedure on our SQL...more >>

Ok, I have grown up on coding old ASP. Now I am moving over to ASP.net and I need to understand... I have a page where I am doing a post from an HTML page, to an aspx page and doing the insert of the form to the database and redirecting the user... that is all fine and good. Now I have a requir...more >>

I have a web page that I want to JIT compile using the 'src' attribute in the Page directive. I've done this many times and life has normally been great, as a result. However, I find myself in need of an assembly installed in the GAC of the destination server. Everything works fine if I ad...more >>

Hi: Is there a way to pop open a mail client and pass in a text string for the subject and possibly other parts of a standard mail message? The "mailto:" attribute of hyplerlink leaves these blank. Thanks, Charlie ...more >>

Hi all. I'm trying to figure out how to design a WebForm app that may have more than one bound DataGrid. What I want to accomplish is to create a "helper" class that I can reuse for each of the DataGrids, as well as in different projects. So here is what I have come up with so far. The first...more >>

Hi, I have a regular expression validator that checks a text box string: <asp:RegularExpressionValidator id="SeqFormat" runat="server" Display="Static" ErrorMessage="Your sequence contains illegal characters" ControlToValidate="Sequence" ValidationExpression="^[AGTCagtc5678\n\s]{1,}$"> I'd...more >>

I'd like to create an ASP.NET-based photo album. Rather than creating a bunch of HTML pages as in a typical photo album, I'd like to leverage the dynamic capabilities of ASP.NET. Any suggestions for getting started, samples, or articles would be greatly apprecated... I'm particularly intereste...more >>

Is there any way to cache dataset on one page and it will be accessible for one user? if you declare dataset shared it will stay on the server and page will be able reference to it on reload, but in this case it will be shared with other users who use the page. Right now I found work aroun...more >>

Hi, Can anyone please help me with the regex codes for UK telephone, mobile numbers Thanks, Reddy ...more >>

I have a UserControl that I use as a page header for my app. I want it to vary depending on what page it's being called by. In the CodeBehind, how to I refer to the calling page? Thanks! -- Matt "Gravity. It's not just a good idea, it's the law!" ...more >>

Hi, I have the following problem. To fill a textbox in one page, I call a popup window with the choices. And when I click OK in this popup window, I need its data to go directly to the text box in the page that called the Popup. So far I call the popup with a "window.open('SeleccionDirecto...more >>

Hi I am trying to figure out why an application get this error when I am trying to open the application's asmx file from localhost. I don't have indexing service running(it set as manual and not started). I also created an .aspx file to do testing The .aspx file opens fine in other directory fro...more >>

I'm trying to give users a choice of the visual interface used in my ASP.NET application using Cascading Style Sheets. Ideally I'd like to offer them several choices for backgrounds, fonts, etc. for the screens and controls and let them make a choice. Once they choose, all screens and controls...more >>

Hi all... I have been coding in .NET for aprox 2-4months now and started to get myself a litle code library. With some own written webcontrols, but all of these are written in such away that they must be instantiated in the code behind '.cs' (since Im writing in c#) files. But since Im telling my f...more >>

Cuando intento añadir un aspx a mi proyecto me aparece el siguiente mensaje de error: No se puede ejecutar el asistente 'C\Archivos de programa\Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003\VC#\CSharpProjectItems\WebProjectItems\..\CSharpAddWebFormWiz.vsz'. Lo curioso es que el aspx me aparece y puedo t...more >>

Heres what i am trying to do: In the codebehind code for a page, i want to be able to send the request on to another page, but with different form values than what may have been submitted to me. So for example's sake, say im a login page, and the request to me included form values of "uid" an...more >>

A few of our customers cannot access one of the pages on our vb.net asp.net site. The problems are limited to only a few people, but these people have the problem regularly. The page in question is a simple details page from a link selected from another page. The details page calls a procedure...more >>

I am using belove code.I want to send session's value a variable in another page. How can I take session value. script="<Language=VBScript> session(\"Id\")= "; script+= kullaniciId; script+="</script>"; Page.RegisterStartupScript("Startup", script); Thanks. ...more >>

I've tried granting the ASPNET user "Full Control" permissions on C:\[Directory]\ and have given the [code behind] assembly I'm running "Medium Trust" on the local machine. Yet I still bomb out when I try to write to a text file using a StreamWriter to C:\[Directory]\test.txt. Any ideas? Yes,...more >>

Hi ! I have a form with two 'dropdownlist', when I choose an option in the first 'dropdownlist' the second 'dropdownlist' make a query and display some data. The problem is during the query (while the page reloads) that the password field filled is erased. How can I avoid it? Thanks ...more >>

Can you define a value from a datareader through column idexes. For example: dim myreader as sqldatareader SQL = select fname, lname, address from personal. //Datareader is initialized with the above SQL code Instead of using the following to assign values from the reader: while my...more >>

Hello All, I have been working on this for almost a week now and I haven't anything up my sleeves anymore that I could test in addition or change.... Since I am not sure, if this is a Windows 2003 Server or ADO or ODBC issue, I am posting this on all of the three newsgroups. That's the setu...more >>

I have a webform with three radio buttons and a button. I also have a ..vb module that doing most of the processing. I want to be able to get the value of the radio button selected within the .vb module. How? When I try to set a value in the code, Intellisense says "...is not accessible in t...more >>

Hi all, For the editing mode in DataGrid, all those columns will be displayed as TextBox. Is there any way to configure the number of columns (or width) of those TextBox when displaying for each column? Right now even the data is only a few characters, the textbox is showing SO BIG that the ro...more >>

I want to display only data in the datagrid for specific records having a common or identical data in a column. How do you do this programmaticaly using combination of the datagrid object, dataadapter, sqlconnection objects in the ide design? The walkthrough "Walkthrough: Using a DataGrid Web Co...more >>

While working with ASP.NET I've sometimes encountered errors in my applications, but I've always known exactly why I'm getting the error and have been able to fix it. So I've never needed to understand the Stack Trace, but I want to understand the stack trace so can somebody please explain it to me...more >>

I have 2 radio buttons in a form: <asp:RadioButton ID="radio1" Runat="server" GroupName="RadioGroup1" Text="Short Form" Checked="True" AutoPostBack="True" OnCheckedChanged="getSelected"></asp:RadioButton> <asp:RadioButton ID="radio2" Runat="server" GroupName="RadioGroup1" Text="Long Form" Au...more >>

Hi, I have a webform where a user can enter text - this text will then be emailed to subscribers of a chosen subject. I have added 3 ImageButton controls to the bottom of the page - on the left, "Back", on the right "Send" and in the middle "Preview" - I dont expect I need to explain them -...more >>

Hi, are pdb files necessary on a production server? And what for are the ..resx and .suo files? Steffen ...more >>

Has anyone ever encountered this problem? (I searched on google for past posts but didn't find anything) I have a class implementing the IHttpModule Interface. It's mainly used for seting up layout information & provide some security/logging functions. Typically it inspects a HttpRequest, se...more >>

Hi, My web form has a dropdown list and a textbox server controls. The user must enter some text in the textbox he selects only the last item in the dropdownlist. I tried using a custom validator but its not working. Is it the right approach. Can anyone guide me about how to implement this. ...more >>

I have a web app where one page should be publicly accessable and another restricted to a certain local group (integrated windows auth) How can I do this in a web.config? Can I specify different authorization settings per file? per folder? (i.e. create an /admin folder for private content?) ...more >>

Dear Group I'm having a very weird problem. Any hints are greatly appreciated. I'm returning two values from a MS SQL Server 2000 stored procedure to my Webapplication and store them in sessions. Like This: prm4 = cmd1.CreateParameter With prm4 ..ParameterName = "@Sec_ProgUser_Gen" ..S...more >>

What are the benifits of running two aspnet_wp's on each cpu? vs letting the OS manage the threads to the processors. Thanks, -- Bill Green ...more >>

Is there a tool that will generate a batch or make file for web apps? My client has the .NET Framework but not Visual Studio so I'd like to send them something that can automate the build process should they decide to modify the source code on site. -- There are 10 kinds of people. Those who...more >>

I am trying to send a simple email through my ASP.NET website. This is how I do it. Try System.Web.Mail.SmtpMail.Send("someone@somewhere.com", "me@somewhere.com", "test", "TESTING 123") Catch ex As Exception Response.Write(ex.ToString) End Try ...more >>

I would like to know if there is way to set up the margins at run time when trying to print a web page. Any sample of code would be helpfull. Thanks....more >>

I am attempting to build a repeating list using a repeater control. I want to add a checkbox to each item (line) and 'Select All' and 'Clear All' buttons. I have figured out how to do this until it comes time to implement paging. Without paging I can iterate through the repeater when I clic...more >>

Is there a way to use multiple search patterns when calling Directory.GetFiles. For instance Directory.GetFiles("C:\MyFolder", "*.aspx") will return all files with the aspx extension. But what if I wanted all files with either an aspx OR htm extension? Any way to get that without calling the me...more >>

Our migration from ASP to ASP.NET will be a slow one. In the= meantime, I have constructed a .NET assembly and registered it= as a COM object for use in out classic ASP pages. One of the= things this particular assembly does is use Reflection to= dynamically load another assembly (based of...more >>

Hi, I am using a Datagrid and populating it from a database. I have a 'delete' button column, and when click it executes the DeleteCommand event. My problem is I would like this button to appear only in rows when a condition is met and I'm not sure how to accomplish this. The default beh...more >>

I have two versions of .NET Framework installet 1.0.3705 and 1.1.4322 Is it possible to set which one of the two my web application should use? Thanks! /Henke ...more >>

Was wondering...the following site provides a compiler for C# and soon, VB.Net on a linux box: http://go-mono.com/c-sharp.html What legalities should be made aware in order to use this legally? Are there any legal issues that should be made aware before jumping the gun? Thanks, Mythra...more >>

Can you specify a different authentication method ('none') for a single page? I have the web.config designed for 'Forms' auth, but I have one page that I want outside the auth method, without putting it into a seperate folder with it's own web.config. Thanks -- Curt Christianson Owner/Le...more >>

Hi All, I have an ASP.NET appication running on http://xx.xxx.xxxx.xx/aspApplication and I have a domain http://www.mydomain.com registered at godaddy.com for this application.I have setup domain forwarding at goDaddy.com to forward to http://xx.xxx.xxxx.xx/aspApplication. I am using Forms Aut...more >>

Hi, I am deploying an ASP.Net web app into the following scenario: Internet --> Firewall --> WebServer (IIS) --> [firewall?] --> [database server] However I am not sure what sort of authentication options are available to me in gettingthe application to talk to the SQL server. How do I...more >>

I am filling text boxes from a data reader. That works fine. If I edit a text box to a different value and click a save button the orginal value that was edited is being used in the SQL string. I verified this through debugging. Does anyone know of a reason why the original values ar...more >>

I am trying to learn to use VS NET and codebehind for asp.net apps and I've run into a problem trying to use a datareader. I created a new webform and inserted and configured a sqlconnection and I inserted a sqlcommand object with the query string. The form has a datagrid object which I want t...more >>

Hi, I am having a problem with my session state through sql server. This used to work, then all of a sudden (the only change was setting up replication in the sqlserver database) it stopped working. I ran uninstallsqlstate.sql after stopping w3svc and then restarted the w3svc and rean instal...more >>

I have a classic ASP application that determines whether a user is logged in by examining a Session Variable, Session("LoginId"). Once logged in there is a link to a new search page (.aspx) this page basicaly allows searcing of the database and selection of users from a DataGrid. When a user in t...more >>

I'm trying to use the "Exception Management Application Block" that Microsoft supplies. I've built and included all the relevant code but I'm hitting a wall. When throwing an exception to be generated in the event log in XML I get the following error on line 515: System.Security.SecurityExcepti...more >>

Hi, I need to build and asp page which access a remote windows server's registry and create a registry key. In order for the ASP page to be able to access the registry on the remote server I need it to run using credentials supplied by the user. When using basic authentication this is not an is...more >>

Hi, In IE6 you can configure output to the printer getting a clean printout only with content, but without headers and footers. You remove the Header and Footer content from the Page Setup. But when you've done that, you have to know how to get those values back unless you've saved them somewhere...more >>

hey all, im building a asp.net project in vs.net. Is there a way to have the codebehind files sit in a different folder outside the website folder altogether? example: The aspx files are in this directory c:\inetput\wwwroot\testapp the code behind code must be in this directory c:\proj...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to include the content of a request into an Xml document: if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Session["user_id"] != null) { XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument(); d.Load(new XmlTextReader("http://localhost/page.aspx")); } The requested page (page.aspx) is an XHTML p...more >>

Hi guys, I'm using the following code to send values from one page to another, but seems to me, that the event Page_Load in the receiving page never fires. Why? This is the code: Thanks -*-*-*-*-*-* PAGE SENDING THE INFORMATION <%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Codeb...more >>

Hi, I made a usercontrol with 2 TextBoxes and 2 labels. When i place the usercontrol in a webform, i see the grey rectangle, and i can place the usercontrol only on the top of the form. I found that i can place the usercontrol in a panel, and so i can move the panel (and the control) in my WebFo...more >>