I have several link buttons on a page and many validation controls. I want the validation controls to block the user from submitting the form unless their conditions are satisfied -- however, the controls seem to block all eventHandlers that are connected to link buttons. How can I disting...more >>

Is the "Application_Start" event on Global.asax created by the "very first user" who visits the Asp.Net web site ? Or is it started per user ? If it is the first case, how do you flush the global variables without shutting down the web site ? Thanks John ...more >>

Hi I am moving from VB6 to ASP.NET/VB.NET. A question I have is, is there a ASP alternative to the VB6 maskedbox control, what I am trying to do is force a user into typing in a date in format dd/mm/yy. Thanks in advance --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free, so am I. Checked by...more >>

Quick scenario followed by details below. ASP.NET application and MSDE installed on our Win2k dev server. All is good! Replicated this on our Win2.3k production server... problem!! Error is 'server does not exist or access is denied' Details. I installed MSDE via oSQL: setup sapwd=xxx secur...more >>

hy, i just have a question, if anybody can help me i'll be very thankfull. my website is very loaded with images (120KB each page) so is was thinking if i could use a MultiThreaded method to open open multiple http connection with the client who is viewing my website and increase the download spee...more >>

Hi I need to read from an XML document formatted in this manner <?xml version="1.0"?> <result> <book> <title>A new book</title> <url>http://www.newbookstore.co.uk</url> <description>perspiciatis unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium doloremque laudantium, ...more >>

Hi, I created a login Form that logs into my application. In the Web.config file I have <authentication mode="Forms" > <forms name="loginForm" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="5" > ... The problem I'm having is my application won't timeout after 5 minutes. ...more >>

Hi I have an ASP.NET application which implements a server-side charting solution, for this it needs to generate .gif files which are then sent to the browser via a literal which has its text set to "<img src=\" + graphfilename + \"/>. This is all working beautifully, however all these ..gif fi...more >>

I need to provide a feature which will control access to data within my ASP.Net application. This is an age old problem of locking for edit. While there are many possible ways to solve this, in this case I wish to write the SessionID to a user table in SQL Server, along with the editing user's nam...more >>

Hello, I am a complete and utter newbie at ASP.NET, so please forgive any stupid questions ;-) I am just trying to get my head around the whole web forms business, but have run into a problem. I have been a web designer for many years and have always made a specific point of writing HTML...more >>

I have several buttons in a form. One particular button has the Property 'CauseValidation' set to true the rest are set to false. I also have an event set up on the button. When the button is pressed, The postback happens, but the button_click method is not being called. I stepped through th...more >>

I can't seem to figure out how to debug my own asp.net apps on my windows 2003 small business server thats running sharepoint. When I try to debug an app it tells me the project is not configured to be debugged. the web.config file is set to debug=true. I have all rights on the server. I don...more >>

Hi all, For an indepth summary of whats going on please see my other topic entitled "Curious Problem" dated 25/04/2004 Anyway, that aside... I have some code was failing to do what I wanted...I've dropped this around the sub that I was calling (which never seemed to get fired).. Try ...more >>

Hey all, I've just installed Win2003 and having no end of trouble getting my projects(created under win2K) to load. I'm having trouble getting my project to load from my webserver. Whenever I load it, it makes a local copy and I "Work offline". Not ALL my projects do this, just some. Wher...more >>

Hi, I've developed an ASP.net application for an intranet site. Users will be identified using Windows authentication and they will belong to one of two roles, Admin or Users. The application uses frames with a contents frame down the left which at the moment consists of html tables with a hr...more >>

I have a color I want to set via code. the color from the style is "#e6e6e6". The only property I saw that came close to what I need is color.fromAargb(). How can I translate this color into something .net can use. -- moondaddy@nospam.com ...more >>

I have this simple scenario. -------- Choose an item ->dropdownlist-> or <a>Create a new item</a> -------- When someone decides to click on the create a new item link, it takes them to a page in which they can enter more records to the database field to which the dropdownlist is bound. ...more >>

Background: I wrote an ASP.NET website in C# and it went into production back in February 2004. The production webservers (2 servers using sticky-ip load balancing) are running on Windows 2000 server. I have changed the machineKeys to match on both servers since they are pseudo-Load Balanced....more >>

I am trying to write a file into a virtual folder I have added ASPNET user to security tab of that folder. Still does not work Any idea?...more >>

Hi I have a datasource with 1 table, 100 rows, 1 column. I'm trying to populate the drowndown list with the contents of the datasource, dd_phys.DataSource = da.ds_phys.Tables("Physical_Office").Rows dd_phys.DataBind() but this populates my dropdown list with 100 "SYSTEM.DATA.DATAROW" ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to implement a JS confirm dialog when a user is deleting something off my Datagrid. The problem is that I don't have a Delete button in which case I could write the following function: btnDelete.Attributes.Add("onClick", "if(confirm('Are you sure you want to delete this ord...more >>

Dear All I am trying to execute following cod Sub SubmitBtn_Click(ByVal Sender As Object, ByVal E As EventArgs Dim DBConn As OleDbConnectio Dim DBInsert As New OleDbComman DBConn = New OleDbConnection("PROVIDER=" & "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" ...more >>

This might sound silly but what is it? Another developer in our office included it in a project and I can't really figure out why it's needed or what it does. Thanks! ...more >>

I have an ASP.NET web service that is written in C#. The service is not called using a browser, instead it is called by another thick client C# application. If my web service throws an exception, the exception is caught by the thick client in C# as expected. The exception text gets displayed i...more >>

Hi, I keep getting the same compiler error: 'Name 'SqlDbType' is not declared' and I don't know why? I've declared the following: <%@ Page Language="VB" ContentType="text/html" ResponseEncoding="iso-8859-1" %> <%@ import Namespace="System.Data." %> <%@ import Namespace="System.Data.Sq...more >>

I'm just starting an ASP.Net question and answer driven decision tree / wizard. e.g. Is it A or B? If A -> Is it 1 or 2? If 1 -> Is it 3 or 4? ... If 2 -> Is it 5 or 6? ... If B -> Is it 7 or 8? ... I'd like it to be data driven (X...more >>

I am a windows programmer with no web experience. I would like to learn aspnet and I was wondering about the right book. I am looking for something that teaches me the BASICS like how you access various flds on the form, how you handle log-in, cookies, and how to send data from the client to the ...more >>

Hi, I have IIS and ASP .NET web pages. Some images are randomly shown broken. The URL of the image is correct, I have no idea what might be the problem. Any one knows what might be the error? ...more >>

Hi, Can some one explain me why do i need to compile a web application or in other words , what is the deference between 2 web sites (same files) but one of them was compiled and the other wasn't ? 10x Best Regards , Tiraman :-) ...more >>

Hi, I have an interview later in the week and I've been told that I'll be asked technical questions about ASP.NET. The job is for the position of .NET Web developer and I just wondered if any of you guys had any experience of technical interviews of this nature. Many thanks, Doug. ...more >>

Newbie here, I have a project that has a user control in it called ucc.ascx. For some reason it only shows up in the Solution Explorer when I select the "Show All Files" option and looks sort of dimmed. Why is this? ...more >>

Hello, Using the MailMessage class (or any other ASP.NET SMTP classes), I would like to programmatically request a read receipt. Is this possible? I have found an article that talked about a ReadReceipt property for CDO 1.2.1, but I have not been able to find a ASP.NET or MailMessage articl...more >>

I created an iframe HtmlGenericControl that has an ampersand in the "src" attribute..... Dim faxFrame As New HtmlGenericControl("iframe") faxFrame.Attributes.Add("width", "100%") faxFrame.Attributes.Add("height", "90%") faxFrame.Attributes.Add("frameborder", "no") faxFrame.Attributes.Add("sr...more >>

Any known issues when using SmartNavigation with those other guys? -- <%= Clinton Gallagher A/E/C Consulting, Web Design, e-Commerce Software Development Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA NET csgallagher@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com URL http:...more >>

Hello, I am trying to deploy a ASP.NET application from one virtual directory to another. I use the "robocopy.exe" (as opposed to using xcopy becuase robocopy exports the security settings for NTFS) to move application files and folders from source to a target. When I try running the target...more >>

It appears that ASP.NET Forms Authentication requires the use of cookies (and therefore cookies to be enabled on the browser). Is this true? If so, is there any way around it? Thanks. ...more >>

Can someone point me to an example of populating an array from either a dataset or a datareader ? This .net stuff is killing me. ...more >>

Hi, I'm after this setup, and I'm just wondering if this is even = feasible. I'd like to store my asp.net project remotely, on a network drive (all = the project files, everything), But I want to be able to run the project = on my local computer, off my local IIS server/asp.net configuration. ...more >>

Hi, Using C#, ASP.NET 1.1 and VS.NET 2003, I am trying to add Page_Error event handler to my page. I know that I can Manually type the handler, but is there any way to have IDE add the Page_Error event handler to the page? Thanks, Allan ...more >>

I need to create a grid that allows scrolling, and allows the user to click on a row and open a modal. Are there any examples online? thx ...more >>

I'm trying to generate a postback to the server when my radio button is selected. This code MyRadio.Attributes.Add("onclick",__doPosback(info,'')) does generate a javascript error. Info is an integer value i need to send to my server in the query string ..... Can someone help me with this?...more >>

Hi there. I am using SmartNavigation="True" in one of my pages and it is working except for one instance. If I hit the browser refresh, or a button on my form smart nav works just fine. I also have the page auto refreshing every 60 seconds. When this is fired the page scrolls back to the to...more >>

I am having trouble making preselections for the listboxes in a datagrid. For each row, I have a listbox with selectionmode=multiple, which I bind to a datatable. However, when I used the SelectedValue for listbox, it will only allow to bind to one value? Does anyone know how to bind select m...more >>

I need develop an asp.net script which will run on web server. The script need read documents from client's machine(know the filename, need check if the file exist or not), convert the file to base64 code and bring back to server and insert to a sql database. This is the first time I dev...more >>

I have a Web Form that I need to select a XML file, located in the local hard drive, and send it to a specific folder on my Web Server. What is the best way to do it? ...more >>

At the top here i will put a quick description of my problem followed by the long description. This way you want get bored reading! : short version what is the best/recommended way for ASPNET apps to call web services that REQUIRE Client Certificates via SSL long version our company has new re...more >>

Hi everyone I've encountered a problem with the UTF-8 encoded strings retreived from database. I have a web page that retreives information from a database running a SELECT statement and puts the results returned in the dataset directly in a table on the page. But the information does not appear i...more >>

Hi When I try to do a build, I get the error "The file 'bin\myassembly.dll' cannot be copied to the run directory. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Could not copy temporary files to the output directory. I've tried the solutions in the knowledge...more >>

I have a network drive that I need to give my asp.net program access to. I am not allowed to use the regulat aspnet user account. Is there any way I can create a user account or use mine within the program to gain access to this drive?...more >>

Ha i have this problem with the validation control I have a asp.net page which is used to add and edit projects when i'm adding a project the validation controls are working fin but if i select a project from the project list and edit it, the validation controls fai does anybody has any idea wh...more >>

Hi folks, I cannot seem to get my .NET app to successfully login to my Sql Server MSDE instance. It always tells me that the login for ASPNET failed. My biggest problem is that I cannot find any tools to let me administer the MSDE database. How do you guys all do it? Why didn't the MSDE in...more >>

I am having trouble using TRACE.AXD to debug my project whan I have Forms Authentication configured. When I try to load the Trace application i am taken to the login page. After I log in I get an error page telling me to set my custom errors to "Off", but that is already done, so I can not see the...more >>

I really really really need to put the cursor in a text box at onload. I can't figure out how to do this in ASP.NET. Anyone? In ASP.NET, javascript, anything ......more >>

Hi all I'm developping an ASPX application with C# code behind, with Visual Studio 2003 and .NET 1.1 In my form, I have a DropDownList (filled), and an empty Table (web form), which i want to fill when something is selected in my DropDownList The problem is : when i select something in my Dro...more >>

Hi my colleague and I are working concurrently on an ASP.NET application. While this may not be recommendable we share all files via the deployment machine, i.e. not only the deployment files (.aspx, .htm, .config, .dll) reside on that machine but also the source code files (.cs, .resx, ...). As...more >>