hi, i have created some checkboxes at runtime via a datalist control. what code do i have to put on the server to determine which checkboxes have been clicked? any examples? thanks ...more >>

Hi I am working on a web application and in ASp.Net using C#. The requirement is to create a csv file on the server and the user should be able to save the file on his machine. I am creating a csv file on the server and throwing the contents of the csv file to the user using Response.BinaryWrite ...more >>

I have a specific page that I have chosen to disable the .NET 1.1 validateRequest options by setting the page directive attribute of "validateRequest" from true to false. I manually validate all controls within this page. This page includes a UserControl which contains a textbox. It appears that ...more >>

I am using this function to write a cookie: private static void SaveCookie(string CookieName, string CookieValue, bool Persistent) { HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies[CookieName].Value = CookieValue; HttpContext.Current.Response.Cookies[CookieName].Path = "/"; HttpContext.Current.Respo...more >>

Hi all, I have a project where we use lots of user controls. We would like to move them to private assemblied custom controls but from what I see this can't be done because the .ascx file must be in the main project as a file...in other words, it doesn't look like you can add a reference to a...more >>

Is there a way in ASP.NET (VB) to pass a user name and password and group - to authenticate that this user is part of some group that has been set up for the domain. We want to set up a group in Windows that certain people can belong to and just pass the name, password and group to have the...more >>

Hi, Is the datalist meant for one table or can I use it to display information from 2 different tables? Or should I be looking at a datagrid instead? I began my code and kinda ran into a snag where my last two columns I am displaying are ID fields, one for clientid and the other for empid. ...more >>

how to create a GUID from ASP.NET??? Is it possible to use this ID as = primary key in createing DB record?? Million Thanks.....more >>

Hi all, Can anyone help me with the following: I have a page that has a couple of password fields - txtPassword and txtConfirmPassword I also have a need on this page to do postbacks and then reload the page. The problem is that when the page reloads, the password fields are empty. They ...more >>

I have wrote this code just about every way I can think of and I still get the above error. One thing I noticed was when I reduce the amount of fields to be updated to about half it works, but that is not a solution. The code is below and I give great thanks to anyone who can help me here. N...more >>

Hello I want to implement the forms based authentication. for a sub directory = in my webapplication. I have allready applied Forms based authentication in my webapplication = ,, I have added a folder in my webapplication for the admin side of the = webside and want to implement forms based au...more >>

We have a web site on one machine that has it's default directory pointed to another machine Example: Our Web Site (ON MACHINE A) Default Path Points to (MACHINE B\WebFiles) Everything works fine.... All we did was copy the entire web site files from (MACHINE B\WebFiles) to another ma...more >>

Hi I have a datagrid with 8 databound columns and a 9th template column with a checkbox control. The data in the datagrid isn't editable only the checkbox. The app is working great, however the html .net creates can get pretty big because of the viewstate. I only really need the viewstate t...more >>

I dynamically create a table (System.Web.UI.WebControls.Table) and load it with various radiobuttons and text. I have a 'Submit' button on my page (another server-side button, not an HTML Submit button). When I click the submit button, I want to see which radio button was selected. The pro...more >>

What is the difference between Debug in the configuration manager of VS.NET and Debug = true or false in the <compilation> section of the web.config? Thanks, Dean ...more >>

Hi, How can I write text from code behind without getting HTML tags added to it? Up till now I used the label control. But when I call the label.text = "something" then the HTML will output "<span>something</span>", and I want to write "something" without any tags around it. (this is a simplifie...more >>

Hello, I have an ASP page that contains a custom control that has a <select> = element. I would like to add some <option> elements dynamically from the = ASP page. How can I do that? Thanks Mike...more >>

I have a datalist control and when edit mode, I have three buttons, one for delete, one for cancel and one for Update. My Update button is not causing anything to happen. The other two events work just fine. I thought the way in knows which event to fire is by the "CommandName" My button...more >>

Hi, CONFIGURATIONS I have set a timeout for my application to 5 minutes. For that I use Session.Timeout = 5. In IIS Timeout the value is the default: 20 minutes and 90 seconds for ASP Script Timeout PROBLEM I have a Login page that redirect to a Menu page (if login success). In that me...more >>

Exist two windows in web application I need results return for the first window when the second window execute the metho how i can do event return with asp.net . but cannot be returned of javascrip ...more >>

Can the text property be set inside the html using the String.Format() method? If not, is there some other means of setting the format for a label statically (not in code)? Thanks in advance, Mervin Williams ...more >>

How long of the SessionID created as I need to store in Access DB, is it = possible? Can I use it as unique identifier for creating a record in DB = as primary key?? Million Thanks...more >>

I need to get Session ID to be a unique identifier in ASP.NET. How to = get the SessionID. I tried "HttpSessionState", but no member availabe = for me to get the ID and what's the data type of it, string or double?? = how to change the type If i want to change to string?? Million Thanks...more >>

We have a long page of links (LinkButtons). Is it possible to save the scroll position so that when a postback occurs after a link has been clicked, we can return the page to its scroll state? Our users want to "save their place". That is, if the user has scrolled down the page so that the 200th...more >>

I want to put several lines of name and address in a single column of a datagrid. I tried to control wrapping with vbcrlf but it didn't work. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Dean ...more >>

Hi all I am not an ASP developer but I am in a support case for our customer who's experiencing resource problems that seems to be ASP.NET related. Basically our app is built on .NET Framework 1.1 and provides reporting Web UI. The problem is, when our customer schedules a reporting job, the memor...more >>

Assume: IIS 6.0 and SQL Server 2000 are running on two separate windows 2003 servers on the same LAN and windows domain using Active Directory. All client connections using IE 6.0+ are on the domain. True or false: To avoid sending a username and password from the client pc to the web serv...more >>

Hi There, I have a shopping cart app that displays products along with a textbox (to enter quantity) and an image button to add the item to the shopping cart. Please explain why my below Button_Click procedure does not retrieve the value of the textbox where the button was clicked. Thanks...more >>

Hello, i have a dataSet in an ASP.Net / VB page which connects to a database named "DB" with fields AuthorName, BookTitle, BookEditor. I want do display 4 records in my page as follows: Author Name # Number of books published by this Author (Number of records associated with this Author)...more >>

I have a need for a site-absolute path specifier (server side). My issue is that I have pages w/ graphics in the banners (whee!), but the pages are at different levels of the folder hierarchy. Lastly, the entire site may or may *not* be at the website root, it all depends on how it was install...more >>

Hi all, I have a page that fills a dataset with 3 tables, relations are created and now I am just simply trying to display the number of returned records from one of the tables in the dataset and display that number on a label on my webpage. I am having probs accomplishing this task to my surp...more >>

I've got a Windows Server machine with .NET Framework 1.1 installed. I also ran the aspnet_regiis utility (with -ir option). However, my ASP.NET application (Web Service) still isn't recognized. The worker process aspnet_wp doesn't show up in task manager. At the same time, all the extensi...more >>

I changed the session timeout value in web.config file, but the changes were not applied to the new sessions until I restarted IIS. Is this normal ? Thanks. I expected that the new user session will use the new value immediatelly. P.S. ...more >>

I have a web app that uses a third party assembly. I have been transferring this assembly back-and-forth from my dev server "bin" directory to my staging server "bin" directory many, many times without error. Now I get this message on my staging server sfter updating it: Parser Error Messa...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have a question. I have to make a project for school with asp.net I'm a newbie and i thaught everything went very well untill yesterday My project is based on include files and yesterday I heard we can't us include files but we have to use usercontrols. Do you know if there' a...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a web application that has a treeview in several pages. It works perfectly in the Intranet, but when we tried to make the application available through the Internet, the tree views don´t show. I´ve read there seems to be some kind of problem with treeviews and the Intern...more >>

I am trying to figure out how to use a regular expression when using the regular expression validator. I am wanting to all characters A-Z and a-z and 0-9 and also * and + and I want to allow 1 to 1000 characters to be keyed. The way I read the documentation, I should be able to say [a-zA-Z...more >>

I have this code: bool Found = false; if (TextBox1.Text.Length > 0) { SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString); SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("[GetSVZList]", conn); cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; cmd.Parameters.Add("@File", Sql...more >>

I have a dropdown list that I would like to put in a bunch of &nbsp;'s into it (I'm setting the font to a monospace font so I can show a couple of columns nice and neat). In the old asp days, I had no problem doing this, but now if I try to do something like this... boxOption.Items.Add(New ...more >>

I have a BoundColumn which shows a field called 'IsPrimary'. Straight from the database, the field is a 1 or 0 (bit). But I want to show 'Yes' or 'No' instead. Or better yet, an image only if the value equals one. Does anyone have some code sample of how this could be done in code-behind? ...more >>

To add to my question: The label itself is inside a datalist HeaderTemplate...would this be the problem? ...more >>

Hi all, I am attempting to return the number of returned rows in a table within a dataset and display that on a label on my page. I figured this would be a fairly easy process, but alas it seems I am missing something. This is in my Sub Page_Load after my db connection and dataset cre...more >>

Postbacks cause a webform to re-display the page at the top. Well, I have a fairly long form and would like the page display to be re-positioned where the user clicked the button that caused the postback to occur. Is there a way to do this? Mervin Williams ...more >>

I written an ASP .NET application on a development server. I now want to move it over to production. In the application folder on the dev box, I see a whole bunch of files - *.vb. *.aspx, *.resx, *.vbproj, *.webinfo, *.config etc.. Which files do I need to copy over to the production server? I...more >>

I have userControl and inside this control I have ListBox. Now I would like to set the properties and bind with database this listBox in my control anywhere on the pages, where I use my control. How can I do that? How can I expose all methods and properties of this listBox in user control? Th...more >>

Hi, I have installed ASP.Net application on a system. When accessing the Application from within the LAN, it works fine. However, when I access the application from the Internet, some pages gve the following error for VIEWSTATE. The internal network is protected by a Firewall. My suspic...more >>

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I setup the SessionState (out-of-process in SQLServer). I can query ASPState..ASPStateTempSessions table. However, "SessionItemShort" content is serialized. Is it a way to "deserialize" sessions contents stored in SQL Srv? I need to now values stored in all sessions at any given time. ...more >>

Community, I am dealing with a tough employment issue in which a supervisor - who is not a developer - is insisting that I am incompetent as a basis for my dismissal from a public entity (a California school district). Wondering if you'd mind sharing any thoughts you might have as a basis for...more >>

Hello, I have a ListBox on my webForm and would like to display some = information when the user double-clicks on a ListBox's item. But I could = not find any "doubleclick" event. How is it possible to add the event to = the webcontrol? Or should I build one myself (if so, how?)? Thanks ...more >>

I have created a container class and instantiated it in one of my pages. I fill the object on page load when not on a postback. On a button click i want to do somethign with the values in that object, but on my button event being reached the object is now empty. private Visitor VisitorObj = ...more >>

I'm using Forms Authentication for user logins in an ASP.NET app. Is there any way to log out another Session when a user logs in? Example: The site only allows 10 users to be logged in at once. When the 11th user logs in, the server logs out the 1st user and logs in the 11th (kicks out the...more >>

I am getting this error on my win 2000 server when a .net app that a programmer in my office developed. I have read other posts about the issue but the resolutions to those posts did not solve the problem. I know that when you install .net it is supposed to create a directory under documents and set...more >>

Hi. In my opinion the emails like "Have you had a chance to check out the suggestions in my last reply..." kind of pollute this newsgroup. It's like one day they would show up in hundreds and it's kind of annoying to go through them. Also in my opinion if the guy did not have a chance to ...more >>

Is there a way to be able to check a url link to see if it is active or not? Example. I put urls to images in an Iframe on my site. If they change the url, It gives me an image not found error. I want to make a service that runs every 3 days to check theses links for validity? -- dave ...more >>

Hi There I am looking for a website/service that will allow me to test a web application from different geographic locations. Anybody used anything like this before? Thanks, Sam ...more >>

How can I check to see if they selected something? if mycal.selecteddate="" gives an error invalid cast from string to date or something what is the proper way to check this Thanks, Shane ...more >>

What is this? Why do I not get a "View" option? I want to double-click on a webform to see its design, but SourceSafe or Visual Studio keeps forcing me to check it out or edit it. What am I doing wrong? Is there some way to stop STUDIO from altering a webform unless you click something? ...more >>

Suppose I have three pages A.aspx, B.aspx, and C.aspx. A and B each have a hyperlink that opens C. The hyperlink is identical on A and B, and has no querystring parameters. The user opens A. The user then clicks the link to open C. When C is opened, how can it "know" it was opened from ...more >>

If I try ANY aspx pages on my server, even INVALID, bogus pages, I get a "Runtime Error". Any idea why? Here is the full message: Server Error in '/' Application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Runtime Error Description: An applicati...more >>

Nobody continued this thread (below) and I need an answer. I tried setting Page.SmartNavigation = false and this did not work. Any other suggestions? >Have you tried something like (see below) in the control/page where you are >handing an error? > >Page.SmartNavigation = false > > >"A...more >>

Hello, I am dynamically creating checkboxes on my web page based on data in a SQL Server table. Therefore, these checkboxes do not exist at design time and I cannot refer to them in my server-side code at design time. Once the page is submitted, how can I access these checkboxes in my code...more >>

Hello Everyone, I would like a to build a web application using ASP.NET. The application should be able to read a microsoft words document, edit&update the document if choose to, or create new words document. I have looked into file system object and all I can find is asp dealing with text fil...more >>

I attempted the following <div id="div" runat="server"> <tr><td></td></tr> <tr><td></td></tr> </div> This is to hide a group of rows depending on some business rules in my code behind. It works. BUT. When I go back to the aspx page, VS.NET has f*d it up by inserting the </div> tag....more >>

I need to be able to change the location of asp:labels in a C# ASP.NET web application from code. How can this be done. the WebControls.Label class has no apparent location properties. I see them as part of the style property but it is not clear how to access and change the X-Y coordinates of th...more >>

Hi, I have function which return instance of object Stream and i want that stream object to save to file. How can i do that? my code is: Stream s = MyGetStream(); my question is what i must to do to save stream object s to file ?...more >>

Good day dotnet gurus! I'm getting the following error and I do not know how to solve it: Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (fo...more >>

Hi everyone, I'm new to asp.net and i have a question about separating the html code from the programming code. i have an unknown numbers of entries in my table. I want to make a hyperlink for every entry in my table. So i query the database and get for example 3 entries back. So in a while...more >>

I am developing an ASP.Net application for a client and they need to modify the page layout from within a form. like the way you edit a blog template in Blogger. what is the best approach to do that in ASP.net? is there a better (and more secure) way than setting permissions so they can edit the...more >>

Hello everyone I have a MultiLine TextBox, as follows <asp:TextBo Id="StreetAddress Rows="4 Runat="Server TextMode="MultiLine Width="100%"/ To which I assign the following RegularExpressionValidator <asp:RequiredFieldValidato ControlToValidate="StreetAddress Display="Dynamic ...more >>

I am using the XmlReader to read the content of XML File. However, If the XML contain "&" character, it will throw exception. How to solve , any idea? Thank You ...more >>

I want to save uploaded file to disk. I have this construction: HttpPostedFile myFile = ((HttpRequest)Request).Files["myFile"]; if (myFile != null) { string fn = "c:\\Inetpub\\wwwroot\\MyWeb\\upload\\File_1"; try { ...more >>

I need to keep track of users details by session variables and I have been doing this by putting this code in the default page : public void Page_Load() { if (!(Page.IsPostBack)) { Session["LiveSession"] = "True"; string strSession; strSession = "INSERT INTO Session(Time...more >>

Hi everyone, first of all I am sorry if my english is not so good because I'm italian. The problem I need to solve is: in a WebForm (WF) I have a UserControl (UC) wich contains some controls. The first event that ASP.NET runs is WF_pageload but I'd need UC_pageload event to run first. Does anyon...more >>

Okay, I have a problem with the en-GB culture object My computer is set to the UK and for UK date formats, etc If I set my culture to en-GB in the web.config everything works fine with UK dates If I set my culture programmatically Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVa...more >>

i have a ie webcontrols treeview in my application. by default treeview is selecting the first node as selected index. i don't want a default selectednode. how can i get that one . can any body pls respon i nead to catch selected index change of tree nodes. since it is selecting 1st node as ...more >>

I have a form with several fields (textbox, radio, checkbox), when the user submits the form I want to check if the user have changed anything. The check should be performed in the code-behind file. Is this possible? /Casper...more >>

I would like to open, within a session, a new java script popup window. Now I have the problem, that i lost the session in the new popup window. Can you help me, to solve this problem? Thank you....more >>