i dont understend how can aspx be faster then standard asp pages, when on my computer asp parses 2-3 times better then .NET. i got feeling that something is blocking or making the engine tired. i mean, when i first fire some page it took a while, but after calling it again it has better response i...more >>

Hi all, I have an ASPX page with several controls to be validated on clicking some button. I also have a ASCX control in this page. Is there a way I can control the button in ASCX control only to validate input within ASCX control range? Right now, when I clicked button in customer cont...more >>

I'd like to set a DataView on a DataGrid during Page_Load() but only if the page is loading because of it being hit by a response.redirect from another page. Is there any way to detect what entity causes a postback? Page_Load() itself offers very little because sender is always an entity on t...more >>

Hi; I have a hierarchical dataset that I would like to show in a grid. When I set a relationship between A and B I can expand B to see the detail and When I set a relationship between A and C it also works. The problem it appears that the code only accepts the first relation and ignores the ot...more >>

G'day, I'm having trouble switching from asp to asp.net, and i'm trying to create a list from a database using a datagrid but i'm not sure how to go about it. i need a grid that displays two coloumns from a databasem, and three other coloumsn that have dropdown boxs that the user can cha...more >>

How to create web page templates in ASP.net as in Dreamweaver with editable regions and non-editable regions? Thanks, Nik...more >>

Newbie to asp.net using vb.ne Using javascript, I know how to add to an onClick event on a button to display a please wait in a div as my slow connection processes data. When I do this in asp.net the form does not submit. How do I accomplish this task Thanks...more >>

Using just a file name, or a URL, is there a way to figure out the mime type of a file? I want to store this so later on I can stream it back via http, but I must want to know the correct mime type. For file names found on a disk, how could I figure out the mime type? For URLs, without down...more >>

Is there any major difference between asp.net version 1.0 and 1.1. I can purchase a book (ASP.NET wrox press) on version 1.0 very cheaply but wonder if it is worth while ??? ...more >>

Hi, I know some of you guys have lot of expereince, so I need you to tell me what would be the best book to start ASP.NET. Just as reminder I'm a C++/C# programmer and need to get familar with web programming and AP.NET. Any suggestions ? Thanks Newbie ...more >>

All, This question, I hope, has a simple answer. I have a .net web page, basically a form. Included on this form are a number of text boxes and a few buttons. As one would expect with a form, when the focus is in a text box and the user presses the <Enter> key, one of the buttons is pressed...more >>

Hi Every one, Having tuff time to make this work .. i want to have a button and on my form say Delete button. So once i click on it i want to confirm "Are you sure?" on the Client Side and if client select "Cancel" then i want to ignore the action and if "OK" selected then i want to Execute a...more >>

Hello, here's the situation: I have a query that returns 2 columns of data from a table. This data is loaded into a typed dataset (DS). I display each column's data in a text-box in ASP.NET. Now, I dont want to have to save the DS or its corresponding dataadapter in session or viewsta...more >>

I am using C# to create a web form. I have got a button that I am trying = to debug but the program doesn't ever stop at the event procedure for = the button. Here is all of the pertinent information: aspx file: <asp:button id=3D"btnEditEquipment" runat=3D"server" = CausesValidation=3D"Fal...more >>

I'm trying to add common functionality to each of my ASPX page, using = inheritance from a project class out side my web class. When I do that, = the Web Forms Designer does not load. public class UserRegister : WebBaseClass=20 { } //In a different assembly public class WebBase...more >>

Friends, I am new to aspx. If I have a webapplication called WebApplication1, how does the Visual Studio convert this application to a DLL in Visual Studio. I would like to do this, since I am using an online demo of Visual Studio, and I do not have a VS on my machine how do I make a DLL ou...more >>

Hello all I'd like to set up a master table behind my page, with room for a single-row header at the top, and another single column down the left. I'd like each of these to always grow/shrink with the browser. When the code below runs, you see a small break between the top row and the left colum...more >>

This is one of those issues where I'm wondering if i'm going about this the right way... In a user control, I need a reference to an instance of the parent page's class. How do you get it? -------- Why do i need it? I have a page, Page1, with 2 user controls: UC1 and UC2. The 1st user ...more >>

I am using visual studio.net to do my work and I have a base page class that my other page classes derive from. the base class has on OnInit method in order to register the InitializeComponent method which is where vis stud automatically adds event handlers for the various objects in the asp.ne...more >>

I'm using vb.net 1.1 and have a bit of a catch 22 situation. I have a login and logout button and code. I'm using frames (header, left side menu, and main where the various pages load). When the user clicks the logout button in the left side frame this jscript runs: parent.main.frameElement...more >>

I need a validator control to fail if the first item in the dropdown list is selected. I'm new to .NET and am finding the problems associated with writing my own (custom controls, client-side event handlers, etc.) more than I may want to take on. Thanks for any suggestions of where I might ...more >>

I have a shopping cart on an aspx page. Let's say the buyer bought 2 products. The buyer sees 2 products he bought and also has to fill in his personal data in a webform. When he submits the form, an e-mail should be sent with all the products he bought and his personal data. Transmitting ...more >>

I know I could loop through the rows in a ado.net datatable to do this, but is there a way to do the equivalent of "select sum(fiieldname) from table where..." in a nice concise way? Thanks. -- Matt "Gravity. It's not just a good idea, it's the law!" ...more >>

Hello, How can I make the column widths in a datagrid control in an aspx adjustable? I am using vs.net2003. Do I set a property(s)? or is it code - or is it even doable? Thanks, Rich...more >>

Hi! I'm trying to use a DropDownList in an .aspx file that bases data off of a database. I'm using the .NET Framework 1.1. According to the documentation, I should be able to assign a value to the SelectedValue property, and this would tell the DropDownList to use a particular value as th...more >>

Sorry but I don't have time to research or use Whidbey at present... I love the power of VS .NET 2003 but I really miss VB6's MDI environment. I develop on a 4-monitor desktop and because I haven't hit the lottery only one is a 21". ;-) (The 4th monitor is a 17", very useful for testing at ...more >>

I have some code I'm using from the OpenHack4 sample app from MS which redirects a page to another page. Everytime I run the code I get an exception, however the page still redirects to the correct page. I have some other problems I'm trying to debug just after this code runs and I don't know ...more >>

Has anybody gotten this Access denied to 'C:\inetpub\secure\menu.aspx'. Failed to start monitoring file changes. It happens when I add the <identity impersonate="true" userName="Domain\user" password="password"/> tag to the web.config file Any ideas why?...more >>

HI I Have repeater control which is tied to a template which looks like <tr <td width=3D"40%"> <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.Name") %> </td> <td width=3D"15%"> <input type=3Dradio name=3D<%# "status"+DataBinder.Eval(Container, = "DataItem.Id") %> value=3D<%# "status1"+Data...more >>

....or would you? In order to minimize the number of bytes a pages consists of (to minimize download time), and, admittedly, to disguise my HTML a little, all my pages derive from a base class that I derived from Page. In this class I override the Render method and do what is shown in the co...more >>

I have set up VS2003 to debug "normal" ASP pages. It works fine, except that the web site uses virtual directories to point to various physical directories on the hard disk. These don't appear when I attempt to debug the application. Any suggestions? John ...more >>

I'm dynamically creating a few hyperlinks. After they're loaded, I want to programmatically "click" the last one. I plan to use RegisterStartupScript to do this, and just need the required JavaScript. Thanks! ...more >>

I'm running vb.net 1.1 and have an aspx page with some textboxes and required validation controls on it. Depending certain conditions (server side) I'm setting a few of the textboxes to not visible when the page loads, however, these textboxes still have a required validation control associated ...more >>

Hi i need to create, and write a string to a text file, and then save the text file in the root directory of my application. What is the best way to do this? Could anyone provide me with a code example in VB? Thanks in advance Simon Ames ...more >>

In the upcoming Whidbey version of Visual Studio, there will be more support for Single-Page Architecture (as opposed to code-behind). For more information read this: http://www.asp.net/whidbey/whitepapers/VSWhidbeyOverview.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1 Does anyone here know the motivation for th...more >>

Hi We have a website that is in .jsp with a mysql database. How involved would it be to convert the front end to .aspx? Would it be possible to copy / paste the .jsp into the .aspx pages, and run it as embedded java script? Would it be more adviseable to redo the whole site and start from...more >>

Code: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------'stored procedure CREATE PROCEDURE SP_Test( @id as varchar(50), @supname as varchar(50) output ) as Declare @sid as varchar(10) select lastname +''+firstname from employees where id = @id select @sid =...more >>

Hi there, I'm a newbie in using style sheet (.CSS file). When I developed the ASP.NET pages on my desktop, everything was working and looking great. When I uploaded the files (ASPX, CSS, etc) to the web server, the styles didn't appear although all logics were working. After searching on ...more >>

I have recently installed VS.NET on a Windows Professional Edition and of course installed IIS but the problem is that when I just make a simple web form it does not render at all I mean when I add any server controls like <asp:Button .... et or a textbox or any server control the tags are just sen...more >>

You know how sites like Amazon.com has a feature where customers can "rate" and/or "review" a product? You would give it a star rating, and a descriptive review. Does anyone know of a .net control or component that can help me w/ this? Thanks! John...more >>

Hi, I've had to go back to a creating simple app to see if I can find out what is going wrong with an app I've done. I've been trying various ways and they all work on my local dev PC (using inline code, code behind, compiling business dll,compiling code behind file into dll). The following is...more >>

I'm having a problem connecting to a MSSQL server database from an ASP.NET page. Here's the connection code I'm using: <%@ Page Language="c#" %> <%@ import Namespace="System.Data" %> <%@ import Namespace="System.Data.SqlClient" %> <script runat="server"> void Page_Load() { ...more >>

Hello, I am binding data from a stored procedure to a datalist: Dim spCategoryList As OleDb.OleDbDataReader Dim cmdCategoryList As New OleDb.OleDbCommand("sp_web_Search", cnnSearch) cmdCategoryList.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure spCategoryList = cmdCategoryList.ExecuteReader() d...more >>

Hi all, this is a fairly trivial question, but I can't seem to figure it out. My set up is I have a directory - let's say: c:\blah\foo That directory is mapped to the virtual directory: http://localhost/test I have a bunch of .aspx and .vb files in that directory and it all works fine. ...more >>

I have code (below) that was working a year ago that I'm trying to use again and it's now not working. The response is always "invalid". Anyone know why? Code: Function GetPayPal() As Boolean Dim myRequest As HttpWebRequest = CType(HttpWebRequest.Create("https://www.paypal.co...more >>

I am going to be an independent sw consultant/programmer. Instead of purchasing VS.NET 2003, Office XP, etc... isn't it CHEAPER to buy the MSDN Universal?! It's seems like there's a catch because it's too good to be true. Don't you get ALL this software + more with the 1 year subscription? ...more >>

Hi and help!!! i am building an application that is supposed to do validation(Zip Code) on the server. The unfortunate thing is I have been told that i need to use a 3rd party's website to do this validation. This is how it needs to work: 1.) the user will enter the zipcode in my webform an...more >>

Hi After I get the user entering the information, I would like to start downloading a file when he clicks the submit(server side) button. I don't want to give access to the downloaded file directly but only to be able from the server side to download the file to the client (Basically I don't w...more >>

i'm trying to insert data into a database. this is what i wrote: <%@ import namespace="system.data" %> <%@ import namespace="system.data.oledb" %> dim objconn as new oledbconnection("provider=microsoft.jet.oledb.4.0;" & "data source=C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\asp.net\1.mdb") objconn.open dim my...more >>

Can you design a HTML webpage with frames in VS.NET? If so, how? ...more >>

Hi, I have several ASP.Net projects I created and I want to run them on the same on a single IIS virtual directory can someone help Ronnie...more >>

Whenever I launch an application from asp.net, the exe shows up in Task Manager, but the GUI never displays. I've tried it many different ways using the system.diagnostics.process class and nothing works. I even tried launching notepad.exe and all I got was 8 separate instances of notepad.exe in the...more >>

hi, I'm a newbie to asp.net. I have a dropdrown list <asp:dropdownlist id="department" runat="server" DataValueField="departmentid" DataTextField="departmentname"> <asp:ListItem Value="0">No Department</asp:ListItem> </asp:dropdownlist> The problem I'm having is that when I bind...more >>

I have two web server hosting the same web service, one is windows 2003 server with IIS 6.0 and XP with IIS 5.1 In web.config, I changed timeout from 20 to 600 like below <sessionState mode="InProc stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424 sqlConnectionSt...more >>

Hi, I need to build a webpage that shows the pages of a mutlipage tiff file. I cannot load it directly into the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Image but I can load it into a System.Drawing.Image. I can select a page with SelectActiveFrame. Now how can I load this image in the webcontrol? Sure I ...more >>

Hi Currently I upload my ASP.Net web application by copying over files from my local server to the web hosting provider using explorer and ftp. Is there a better way using the Visual Studio.Net 2003 environment? Can you do a deploy somehow or do something along the lines that dreamweaver a...more >>

Hello, I have installed Visual Studio.Net on a windows XP Pro workstatiion, but now I am going to install it on windows 2000. I currently do not have Admin rights to this machine, but that is in progress. I also to not have the Windows 2000 Installation CD. My question is - Must I obtain ...more >>

I'm using vb.net 1.1 and have an aspx page that I want some jscript to run when the page loads on the client. Also I want this script to use logic provided from the server in the Page_Load event. for example, if some server side logic were true then when the page loads I would want the script ...more >>

Hi, I am using Datagrid quite a lot to show lists of items from a database that I might want to delete / edit. These database entries are uniquely identified by a single integer ID field and when I edit/delete I want to use this primary key to pass into stored procedures used to edit/delete...more >>