I have a ASP webpage that creates user accounts. It currently use the format as follows. First Page: Input boxes that get Firstname and Lastname and Department etc. JavaScript Validation If correct posts information to Second Page Second Page: Makes a username, email address and displayna...more >>

I have designed a web application with buttons. Is it possible to set image for a button. So that instead of plain button user will see an image and makes the GUI as impressive one. Thanks Jim ...more >>

Alvin thanks for replying, i tried what you said and i then got an error in IE that said 'The server tag is not well formed.'. I think i may be missing the binding bit, how do i test to make sure it is bound and there is data in the DataSet? Here is my code to save space i have only included ...more >>

How can i setup my system so that I can write into the eventLog from the asp.net process. I tryid to add the asp.net account to administrator group, but that does not help. ??? ...more >>

Is there anyway to control the style/layout of this field? ..NET doesn't generate an ID for it so you can create a style for it or manipulate it in code. I've looked on MSDN etc. but can't find the answer. Thanks in advance, RWK ...more >>

I have here a specific problem with ASP.NET in C#. I want to convert an Icon (System.Drawing.Icon icon) to a GIF-Image. First, my attempt was converting the icon to a Bitmap: Bitmap bmp = icon.ToBitmap(); Then save this Bitmap as a GIF-Image: bmp.Save("mypic.gif",ImageFo...more >>

I am trying to stream html content as excel data from a webserver to an IE browser with the following ASP.NET code First Scenario: ----------------- An aspx page with a server side button control. When button is clicked, form is posted and the following code is executed on the server side. ...more >>

Hi all, what's wrong in this ? I added a simple Control with viewstate (ie : label, or my User control... ) dinamically in the controls collection of a TD cell created dynamically too, i lose the viewstate. not in the postback but just at the First time the page running ! Sincerly the td ce...more >>

I would like to create an instance of Windows Media Player that I can manipulate from within ASP.NET pages. Do I just create an instance of Windows Media Player from within the Application_OnStart event in global.asax? If so, how do I reference this object in a page event? Is this a dumb way...more >>

In my web application, I need to authenticate users to the AD and allow = users to change the password. From my readings, I find out that I have = to use DirectoryEntry class to authenticate the users with password. I = do that OK. But I still cannot find a way to allow users to change the = ...more >>

Hi there I can't believe this is so hard to figure out. I've drawn a placeholder control "phCategory" on my form in asp.net. In my load event I do this Dim txtCategories As New textbo phCategory.Controls.Add(txtCategories The form displays my textbox just fine but once the user clic...more >>

I'm having problems with my controls out of control :) when it comes to key pressed. I have about 30 asp.net built in server controls and one of them is my log out button. When users often press the "enter" key that "clicks" my log out button and users get so mad , the never my site again. ...more >>

I am trying to set up the "path" for were my Access Database is on my Webhost provideer. When I set up my FTP account, it indicated that my physical path was "E:\www.MyWebsite.com". When I asked my webhost if I could use this as my physical address, they indicated that I should create a di...more >>

Hi Experts, I have a page in my inetpub\wwwroot called testpage.asp. I have removed anonymous access to this page and have checked windows integrated security. Now when I try to access this page from code I get a 401 error. Why is this? I am able to acces the page from IE without any problem. wh...more >>

Are the <%..%> and <%#..%> tags *both* used in ASP.NET? Is there a difference? Steve ...more >>

Hi, I have a page with 2 user controls, one of which is output cached for an hour the other isn't cached atall. I add a datagrid to the page which I want output cached for 10 minutes can I set output caching at the page level to 10 minutes and have the 2 controls cache as specified or would I ne...more >>

I keep getting this error in IIS 6.0. It causes our web application to display the "Service Unavailable" message when users attempt to visit any asp.net page. all asp pages are fine... does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks... Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization fai...more >>

Hi, What's the best way to deploy an ASP.NET site to multiple servers at the same time. We will be doing a web farm with a couple of servers (DNS round-robin). We were using FTP to do it for 1 server but with more, is there a better way? What do companies do with lots of web servers when repl...more >>

I have an urgent! problem.... My development has been purely stopped dead. I have a page i was working on, and when you go to the page, it shows no output. The code-behind code all runs and does exactly what it is supposed to do, all the variables, and objects and values all get set properly. ...more >>

How do you tell the client how large the file that's being downloaded is? I've seen web sites where the download dialog shows a progress meter. I'm assuming that the server is sending the file size prior to download. Maybe in the "Content-Disposition" header? Thanks. Jerry ...more >>

I thought I had finally figured out how to control the downloads from my = page. I was having issues with large files, but after much research I = came up with the following code. The download seems to proceed without = issue, but never terminiates. The byte count stops incrementing, but = th...more >>

I've read every post and KB article, etc that I can find. I thought I was having permissions issues in regards to getting remote debugging to work, but I worked through all of that and now I keep getting the error about the debugger not being installed properly. I've re-installed it several tim...more >>

Hello, I have been doing some volunteer work for my a club I was elected to create a web site for them. Today I moved all the stuff to the web hosting company. I given to believe that when I moved the ASP.Net stuff up, all that I would have to move is the contents of the bin folder. I fo...more >>

I have 4 projects in a Solution. Some of them refer to the same class library: ABC.dll. I have copied the file ABC.dll to each of the bin folders and yet I still get this message when I build the solution. Warning: The dependency 'ABC, Version=1.0.1511.33096, Culture=neutral' in project 'XYZ'...more >>

Hi I have a DataGrid with an ImageButton column. When I click on an imagebutton I get a postback but it doesn't run the OnImgBtnClick method. I can actually comment out the line where I add this Click event to the ImageButton Column and it makes no difference, I still get a postback. This is dr...more >>

Hello. I am trying to use dataGrid in a dataGrid, meaning first DataGrid displays some information and on each row, it is going to have another datagrid to display detailed information. I was able to do it in two dataGrid. ( one datagrid containing a datagrid in each row ) But I was not ...more >>

Surfing on web for technologies for building web forms other that asp.net, I found Intraweb. Can someone with asp.net knowledge review this comparison ? http://www.atozed.com/intraweb/aspnet/codecompare.iwp Thanks ...more >>

I know I've seen postings on this, but I can't find them anymore... I was able to fix the issue of large uploads by adding <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1048576" /> to the web.config file. I thought that would also allow for large downloads. Apparently not. I've seen postings about large d...more >>

What is the difference between a Panel and a <div> tag with runat="server"? It seems that I can add child controls to either one in a code-behind and they both render to a <div> anyway at runtime. What is the difference between a Placeholder and a Div, other than a Placeholder does not render...more >>

Hi everyone, I dont know if this is even possible, but what a client of mine wants to happen is to be able to drag a file into a browser window and have the location of that file dropped into a textbox. So I'd have a page with a textbox and the user wants to be able to drag a file from his ...more >>

I'm trying to hook in a specialized state store server into ASP.NET. I understand I can create a HttpModule and hook the events OnAcquireState and OnReleaseState. So far so good. But, it seems that the framework owns the HttpSessionState instance (HttpContext.Session) and so my state store ...more >>

Consider this : I have 4 projects : Project 'Level2' is a simple class library and dependent on nothing else Project 'Level1A' and 'Level1B' are both dependent on 'Level2' Project 'App' is dependent on 'Level1A' and 'Level1B' but doesn't use Level2 directly Now all worked well. Then ...more >>

I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup to post this in, but...Is there a way, using ASP.Net, to directly interface with a USB HID device connected to a PC via Internet Explorer? If I'm posting this in the wrong place, could somebody point me to a group where the question should be posted...more >>

I need to present users with a list - and then let them sort it in any arbitrary order they like. Each item to be sorted is a short string of text - there can be up to 50 items to sort. After the users are finished sorting, the sorted list gets sent back to the server. I'd appreciate any suggest...more >>

Hi, Please excuse me, I am complete ASP novice. I use VB.NET in VS 2003. I am trying to achieve the following. Display a list of items, this list needs to be user specific, so my first question is How do I obtain the user Id of the person? This will run on a intranet. Then, based on the op...more >>

I have a form which has 3 web user controls on it. one control contains the address another, the phone number and the third contains email addresses. If I refresh the page mutiple times, the phone user control will be set to Nothing. If you refresh the page again it's fine. To get around I j...more >>

What is the best way to tell when a page is posted back (if it was due to a button click, or if it was due to a form.submit() function begin called)? The reason why I'm asking this is because I'm forcing a postback (form.submit()) every 10 seconds and I need to know if the post back was due to...more >>

I'm using Forms Security with ASP.Net. Because of this we send a cookie to the users computer to validate username and password and allow them to cruise the site. We are having difficulties with AOL users. Could it be because of the proxy load balancing giving seperate IP addresses for differe...more >>

Hi I'm returning XML from a Web Service with the format of <companylist><rowcount>55</rowcount><company><companyid>383823</companyid><companyname>ABC Corp.</companyname></company><company><companyid>383969</companyid><companyname>XYZ Inc.</companyname></company><company etc.. </companylist T...more >>

I have a radiobuttonlist inside a datalist. I also have a datagrid inside the datalist. The data and the controls are rendering just fine. However, I need to find these controls inside the datalist in order to programatically perform some logic. I have the following in my HTML which is i...more >>

Hi folks, I appreciate any assistance in the following problem: I have a form with a bunch of dynamic controls on it. All the controls are dynamically generated on a server, including all the validators. The user enters the data, presses OK. My OK button is dynamically generated as well...more >>

Running VS.NET 2003 Enterprise Arch on WinXP Pro SP1 with a P4-2.4Ghz, = 760MB+ RAM, and 10+GB free disk space. Laptop is part of a domain. When working on a web project connected at the office, VS.NET enters = into debug mode (compiling, firing off a browser, and starting the = debugger) jus...more >>

Hi everyone I'm a customer looking for a tool to assist my web application. I have an apllication which requires a lot textboxes to be filled. I'm looking for a tool that can simplify this work. It will do something like: record keystrokes, output into a file, and fill it back automatically wh...more >>

Any suggestions or documentation links on how to recreate the look and feel of the MSDN website with the drill down menus on the left? We have some intranet applications that we can restrict to the latest versions of Internet Explorer which I'm assuming should help. Thanks in advance. Mark...more >>

Hi, What's the best way of storing a dataset (+/-1000 rows, 9 columns)? I'm using a session-variable but this seems to have serious impact on performance. It's a shop and I'm using the same dataset (added an 'amount' cell) to generate a dataview for basket Most users will use the shop to order...more >>

Hi, I joined a project where we need to import data from a excel file into sql server via the asp.net. After doing a long research found that #1. Upload Excel file to the server #2. Load or keep the Excel file into the memory #3. Query the excel file and convert into insert queries and ex...more >>

Hi everyone Is it possible to select the contents in an aspnet textbox? (Like the old textbox selectstart and so on properties) Thanx in advance ...more >>

Hi In my ASP.NET application I try to change dynamicly picture in background of page. Ther is any way to do it without using webcontrols(like panel) I wrote the public function named getName() that return string "pic\1.jpg" and put this into html tag <body background="<%# getName()%>" botto...more >>

I am using a third-party .Net component that raises an event with arguments as a result of a method call. Is it possible to catch this event in a mid-tier vb class, rather than a webform's code-behind class? Thanks Craig Buchanan ...more >>

Greetings. For the most part, my reporting solutions have been ad-hoc (usually html for web apps) to the current project. I'm currently trying to figure out what would be a good reporting solution for primarily asp.net apps, but also my winform apps. I know .net comes with Crystal Reports ...more >>

I have a text field I want to validate. It needs to store a number e.g "23.5", "10000" Is there any isnum() method in .net. TIA ...more >>

I have a datagrid control within a datalist control. When I try and do a "Find" on the control, the object comes back with nothing and then my pgm crashes. I am 100% sure that my datagird inside my datalist has an id of "Datagrid3". dgChild comes back with "Nothing" while debugging. Her...more >>

http://www.drumpub.com/test.aspx Above is a link to a stripped down test page and the source code is also on the page. Would someone mind spot checking this code? I've used this method a few times before and have never had a problems but for some reason, this sample refuses to work. I'm sur...more >>

Hi, I have two values I receive from a form: strLogin = Request.Form["txtLogin"]; strPassword = Request.Form["pwdPassword"]; I then need to include it in a Select query to validate the username and password, but the syntax is not correct. Any ideas? OleDbDataReader myReader = adoCon...more >>

Everytime I press the search button in msdn, I feel the need for at least 90 days of anger management. For example, I type "IEnumerable" and the top three results.. BaseDataListDesigner.GetDesignTimeDataSource Method (.NET Framework) RepeaterDesigner.GetDesignTimeDataSource Method (.NET Fra...more >>

Is there any way (when there is a post back or whatever) to abort it so that the client (IE) just stops waiting on the request? Basically, I want to check some values in a database each time a postback happens, but if some values have not changed.. I don't want it to appear to the user that a r...more >>

I have a problem that is plaguing me. I have 3 controls on a very simple test asp.net page (button, textbox and requiredfieldvalidator) The only modification to the aspx page was that i set the controltovalidate of the validator to Textbox1. The form was posting back correctly until I add the...more >>

Hi, I have to support some Windows NT 4.0 (SP6a) legacy installation running IIS 4.0 with my ASP.NET web services, is it possible ? When I install the .NET framework 1.1 redistribution the C:\WINNT\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_isapi.dll is not present. Thanks JF ...more >>

im trying to handle errors reported from Send using the system.web.mail namespsace. what are the exceptions that cant be returned. cant find the list. were haing issues with smtp server rejected certain invalid emails addresses, what specific exception is that? SmtpMail.SmtpServer = System...more >>

Hi: I would like to attach client side code to an imagebutton that is rendered in a Reapeater control. The client code will simply confirm if users wants to continue with an operation. In this case it would be deleting a record. For buttons that are placed on page at design time, I can use...more >>

In the asp.net pages below, Common.vb has an overridable Page_Load sub. In the consuming page, Two.aspx, the Page_Load sub is inherited, but for some reason it (Overrides Sub Page_Load) executes twice. In another "regular" asp.net page that inherits only from its own codebehind page, the page ...more >>

Hi I am having a problem with the SQL server connected in VC#.net I am using the SQLDataAdaptors to access and fill the data to the DataSets. There are certain pages in sequence which run one after the another as a process based on the user interaction. All the pages (even pages before ...more >>

Dear co-programmers, let's suppose that we have a database where clients can update their contact information. Is it possible to create (a static) html-page also about that information from asp.net page ? That would be important because that way people would also find the information usi...more >>

Hi Eric Thanks for the reply. We have installed IEWebControls.exe on the server, but the treeview control and the tollbar controls are not getting displayed. thanks Menon Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services --------------------------------------------------------...more >>

I have been using session variables in my asp.net application without any trouble. But now in a very specific case I am losing them. On one of my pages I set a date in a dropdownlist (autopostback=false) and then click a "Build" button which builds a report. Most of the time there is no problem. ...more >>

Hi, I am new on cookies, especially from the client side JavaScript's perspective. I need to use client side JavaScript to read cookies. Here is the only line that I copied from my browser's cookie file: DBList DB1=daf320&DB2=dev320&DB3=jme320&DB4=jsk320&DB5=lxx320&DB6= ogear320&DB7...more >>

I just wanted to hear some ideas and what some have done on this. I'm having a problem deciding how to build or setup our application. This will be an application for our entire company of 700 employees and we have several different departments and groups. After talking with one developer we thou...more >>

I have a basic form with some dropdownlist controls that I would like to populate with items from a database. I keep getting the error "Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader' to 'bugreq.SqlDataReader'". The code from 'codebehind' is posted below. using System; ...more >>

This is my first attempt at creating a DataList control. The DataList contains a Lable that holds a time. I placed a button in the EditTemplate section and a text box that if pressed it will update the time for that text box to current time. I can update the time if I manually put in th...more >>

Hi, I am experiencing a very strange problem after I upgraded my web application from asp.net 1.0 to 1.1. On my host server everything shows fine, but on my local machine (which was just reinstalled) the html is broken in a very weird way. Some part of it simply is cut out and placed at the...more >>

Ive been having some weird issues with the microsoft grid control and its paging feature. Overview: I have a webform that loads a custom user control. This user control has several datagrids on it, but I only bind one from the calling webform based on user selections. Behavior: Once the g...more >>

Ok, I currently program in visual basic 5.0 (ouch, i know its old), Classic ASP & VBScript... I am about to make the jump to Visual Studio 2003, yet I have questions.. C#.NET I hear is quite an interesting language.. I thumbed thru some books at the book store and saw some interesting stuf...more >>

We have developed a asp.net application using Microsoft TreeView control. On the production machine the application works fine but when the same application is diployed on a server with windows2003 the treeview is not being displayed. Please let me know how to enable the treeview control on t...more >>

I have a problem with my sessions , I'm not so sure what make this happens . My session_end event happens in places that it's not expected for example when I start a new session session start event happens and before my page load event occurs the session_end occurs , even sometimes when I use my lo...more >>

Dear All, I have the following problem. I have populated a datasset and bound the contents to varous text fields defined in a page. I do this through running Me.Databind in the Form_Load of the page concerned. The dataset will only contain one table and one row within the table. Up to ...more >>

I am creating a ASP.NET website and in doing so, I am going to use "TABS" at the top of the page. These "tabs" are the same for the entire website. Is there an easy way (other than Frames) to "include" these common button/tab controls on the top of every ASP.NET page of mine? Thanks in advan...more >>