How do you change the background/fg color of a cell when the mouse is hovered above it? Examples would be nice. ...more >>

I have an existing ASP application that generates an e-mail when someone visits the page. The page uses vbscript to creazte the mail object and then populate it. Firstly I tried to copy the script including the <% %> into the body of the ASPX file. No errors occurred when the page was called, ...more >>

Hi, I would like to know what are the different ways possible to create a ASP.NET web forms. I am interested in knowing what are the various softwares that allow creating a ASP.NET web farm? From my initial research I know that Microsoft Application Centre can be use. What are the other ways o...more >>

Is there a way to remove items from the Back Button programatically? When a user gets to a certain page and presses the back button I want to bypass some of the pages that he got to on the way to that page. For example, I don't want the user to see the forms he posted before he got to this page...more >>

I have a WebService that I use to send e-mails (MailMessage class) this works fine from my work machine, however when I put the service on another machine (different ISP not on any network) it seems to work, no errors are thrown, but I never receive any email. Can anybody advise what may be wro...more >>

I have spent 2 years developing a website with ASP. Now has come the time to make it available as a standalone package. Before I invest too much time in ASP.NET can someone just answer some simple questions: Will my server side ASP.NET code be compiled? What is involved in converting from ASP ...more >>

How to print when the user clicks a button in ASP.Net application. Is it possible to call print dialog so that the user can printer properties before printing? My development environment is .Net 1.1. Thanks for your answers. John ...more >>

In my grid I"m showing my date as {0:yyyy/M/d} now my date is the key in the table so i need it to be as it is in the table to delete mm/dd/yyyy, How can I reverse the display format so i can delete the row? i have dim eDate as string strSQL = "DELETE from Points where eDate = ' " & eDate...more >>

Hi I would like to update certain controls based on the user's entered data (e.g. entering a cutomer id would display the name and address). This wouldn' be a problem, but I would like to do this in the 'background' without reloading the page. Any hints (including ASP.NET Server Controls or j...more >>

Hi, are there any examples that demonstrate how to build an ASP.NET page with consistent parts of the layout, such as page headers, footers, and navigation links (such as going into each section like Products, Company, Services, etc)? I know there are controls that you can use to build menus ...more >>

I'm using ASP.Net and 1 Listbox and 1 ComboBox. When a user selects the contents in the listbox I want to populate the combobox with the text that he selected or double clicked. I've tried various things with the selecteditem, index properties to no avail. Meaning: LISTBOX has CAR, DOG, BAT, ...more >>

Hello, When we print a page containing a datagrid, the first page prints fine, but all subsequent pages are printed without table / cell borders i.e. the data is just floating on the page. Is this a known issue? Any ideas? Thanks ...more >>

Yup.. that good old question. But wait.. I've already created the eventlog and source objects via an installer. The registry key for the Event log is in HKLM\System\CCS\...\EventLog\MyLog\MySourceName Yet I still get the not enough rights error when I try to do anything. So any suggestions?...more >>

I have a datagrid (with viewstate enabled), and my edit/update/delete buttons in the grid are all working fine. I have a textbox and a button underneath the grid for adding items to the grid. When the button is clicked, the following code runs: Dim drNew As DataRow = dsTrades.Tables(...more >>

Hi, I'm working on a web project and i create classes to do business logic and connect to DB. i also need a windows application to do the same functionality as defined in classes inside the ASP.NET project. when i reference the web project DLL (inside the BIN directory) I successfully make ...more >>

I have an ASP.NET page that draws over 32 dynamic images using an HttpModule object through the <IMG> tag. Since IIS under Win2K Pro has a limit of 10 connections, some of the images do not get drawn because it appears that the connection limit is exceeded (I get a red X for the image). If I ri...more >>

I want to close a browser window so I created a Close button that does this: private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { RegisterClientScriptBlock("GetData","<Script>close()</Script>"); } But when this runs the browser puts up a dialog box saying: "The web page you a...more >>

I have a form page with a submit button. When the submit is successfull (good return from web service), I insert a script to put up a message box saying "Form submitted". That works fine, but afterwords, if the user uses a different button to go to a different page (using Server.Transfer), an...more >>

How is a VB module or plugin set up under ASP.NET? TIA. ...more >>

Hi every one, how do i check the text box that one can only enter the numeric Digits. i have the maxlength of the Text box as 6. so one way i thought was to validate the Number between 0 and 999999. so is there any other way ..say using the RegularExpressionValidator control. Thanks RSB ...more >>

Can the web setup project be used to actually install the web application remotely by using its url? John...more >>

I am working on an internal aspnet application that will pull some security from our active directory. I have a special user Security Group created in the AD. I now need to find that group via code in ASP.NET and populate a dropdown list with the groups members. I have not been able to fin...more >>

A general .NET releated design question: Short Verssion: What is the best way to have a data access layer target a different database at run-time, without having to pass in some identifier or string to select a database? Background: Many of our clients have very similar database proces...more >>

Hi all, Is it possible to create subheaders in datagrids? Or rather to add a parent header row to an existing datagrid? Currently my DG looks like this: NAME | A - PART1 | A - PART2 | A - PART3 | B - PART1 | B - PART2 whereas id like it to look like: NAME | A ...more >>

How can I dynamically change an external stylesheet link (or import) at runtime in server-side code ? I don't want to use a placeholder as in <link id="myTheme" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<%=CurrentTheme%>"> because this requires that I declare a public string (CurrentTheme) i...more >>

Hi all, we plan on implementing a project where we will provide our users a 1 page website. Something like a PWP. What we would like to have it each user would have their own url e.g. http://users.domain.com/username1, http://users.domain.com/username2. Now instead of having to setup a new virtu...more >>

Hi, When I add the foll to my page <LINK href="border.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> I get the message "The active schema does not support the element 'LINK' " Any ideas? I am using flowlayout. Thanks...more >>

I have a web form. I would like to format a numeric field. For example if they type in 3,400.33 to format the control to $ 3,400.33 while they're typing, basically the same as in many windows programs. Is this possible? thanks ...more >>

Have anyone came upon a Gantt Chart that works with ASP.NET or just ASP for that matter, that is not too pricey either. There are many charting solutions but I did not find that many Gantt charts. Preferably it should have some notification events on the client side (Java Script events when clic...more >>

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HI There, I am having trouble deploying my .aspx pages to a remote server, I have made changes to the config file and it still returns an error. I have also contacted the server administrator to create an application in IIS, what other checks can I make? Sean !-- error mesage Runtime Er...more >>

Trying to connect to MySQL db on localhost, and populate datagrid from a dataset using code inline method. Getting the following compile error: Error Message: "CS0246: The type or namespace name 'CoreLab' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)" I ...more >>

Hi... This my first webapplication using aspnet, so I just notice this problem yesterday. I create a Private Variable in the webapplication class, with no start values, in a certain function it changes the value of the variable, but when I try to read the variable again it is clear, or its value...more >>

Hello, Are there code samples, technical information to consume a php webservice in a dotnet environment like asp.net? Thx in advance, Paul ...more >>

Hello. I have a question. I want make a news board but i dont know how can i put an image for each news,i save images to database and retrive them,then i make a template in datagrid and put a table with 2 rows in it,one row contains an image control and another row contains a textbox control...more >>

My fellow virtual friends, allow me to ask for your collaboration with this simple yet not-so-trivial matter, My application has a menu which is defined and stored in a database. This menu will be part of any page. Currently I implemented it as a user control which gets the menu from the datab...more >>

Can someone explain in layman's term, what HttpContext.RewritePath does? SDK doc explanation is kind of scant. Does it only affect the request processing for the duration of the processing(meaning server side), or is the client in anyway affected? Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I would like to redirect my browser to a Network file (not on the Web Server), whrn a button is clicked. For example a Excel workbook. I would like options to open it in Excel, in the Browser or download it to my local Machine. I am using VB.NET and ASP.NET Regards Tim ...more >>

Take a look at the SAME site, with different CSS style sheets: http://www.csszengarden.com/ Cool stuff. Interesting article on CSS vs Tables: http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/index.html Are any of you using purely CSS and no tables for page layouts? Just wondering. ...more >>

Hi, I have different asp.net applications as sub applications within an application and was using Framework 1.0. And I use forms authentication across the applications. In the web.config file of outer application I have <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name=".ASPXAUTH" loginUrl="Default.a...more >>

I have a user control that need to have a hidden textbox. (I have some JS that needs to get some info out of it) If I make a standard textbox (<asp:TextBox ID="txtTest" Runat="server" />) in my control it works fine....of course it shows it on the screen It seems so simple...but how the heck...more >>

I am using a StreamReader to read text from an HTML file and display it as part of a page in a Label Control. Buy it is not displaying characters as: ñ, ó, ú, etc. Please Help. Thanks ...more >>

Hi I am fairly new to ASP.NET and I am trying to migrate an existing ASP 3.0 application to asp.Net, and I seem to have hit a roadblock (maybe I just need more coffee). The current application is bi-lingual - it supports both English and Arabic. For users who prefer Arabic, the page switches to r...more >>

I have an ASPX page in which I am trying to bind a datagrid to a dataset pulled from Microsoft Access DB using code inline method. For some reason, the compiler is having a problem with 'using'. Any help here would be much appreciated. Thanks! Getting the following error: Description: An erro...more >>

HI There, I am trying to submit a form when a selection is made from a dropdown list, I keep getting the error "Handles clause requires With Events Variable". Could someone help me with the syntax? Sean - Thanks in advance <script language="vb" runat="server"> Private Sub lstRegion...more >>

I'm trying to send an aspx page by email. I am quite happy sending html email from aspx pages but want to know is there is a straight forward way to render a whole page to an email? I have found resources that tell me how to render individual controls, but the page I want to send is quite comp...more >>

Using <INPUT type"file" runat="server"> to upload a file. When the file size is too large I get a "page cannot be display" error. Thats cool I'm down with that. But is there a way to check for file size (client or server side), so that error doesn't occur? Thanks --Dietrich...more >>

I built a very small Access 2002 database. My boss would like it on the intertranet. Is ASP the easiest way to go? If so how would I go about doing this. Could all the forms be shown with the security or do I need to build them from scratch in ASP. Thanks ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem when accesing data with and ODBC provider under asp.Net applications. The question is that if I run the application in the same server where data is stored then data is displayed normaly, but if the ODBC catalog file is in other computer in local netwok (with his Domain S...more >>

HI There, I am making the transition from asp to asp .net, I am currenty writing an application that requires a bulk insert from a webform into SQL server, normally I would just create rows of html textboxes and then use the Request.Form.Count property to collect each field. What I would like ...more >>

Apart from using the web setup project, is there any other way that I can get the IIS at my ISP to recognize mt application as a web application? Thanks John...more >>

Hi, I am using Visual Studio .Net 2003 in XP environment. It keeps coming up the following error. So I have to restart the PC every time it comes. Please advise what is wrong with this. Thanks. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file re...more >>

What's the real advantage to using a literal control over a simple label? What are the pros/cons/typical usages for the literal control? Thanks. ...more >>

I've been trying to figure out a good way to do this but haven't had much luck, any input would be greatly appreciated. Basically, after a datagrid is sorted, how can I get the primary key value of the item selected by the user? That is, not the datagrid index 'location' of the item the user s...more >>

I have the Application_Error event method in the Global.asax setup to send me an email regarding errors. But, I am getting reports from users that a specific page is producing a runtime error message from time to time, but I am never receiving any email notification regarding the error. Does ...more >>

Hi I am looking to write a custom section handler so that I can populate the MobileCapabilities object from my our custom data rather than the browserCaps section in machine.config. From my understanding (limited) it looks like you can implement the IConfigurationSectionHandler and use the IC...more >>

Is it possible to show the border for only 1 or 2 sides of a cell? ...more >>

Hi, from the moment an exception is generated in Page_Load() do I want to prevent subsequent Page-events (e.g. PreRender) to be carried out. is it possible ? thnx Chris ********************************************************************** Sent via Fuzzy Software @ http://www.fuzzyso...more >>

I wrote a little Active Directory class that retrieves the groups a user is a part of. When I call it using a console application, evrything works great. When I call it from an aspx page more work is required: 1) I have to use impersonation; 2) I have to use Basic authentication in IIS; and 3) the...more >>

Hi i have a problem. I want to write html and .net controls dynamically. Now i do like this: Response.Write("<html><head>................<td>") Dim txtBox as New TextBox txtBox.ID = "myBox" Me.Controls.Add(myBox) Response.Write("</td>.......................</html>") But the textbox is disp...more >>

I would like to start blocking some people from visiting certian pages of my website. I looked at all of the forms authentication pages and that seems extremly confusing. I was thinking about just hashing(?) the password asn storing them in an SQL database. Then on the pages that I want, using a se...more >>

I am interested in starting to get some security on my webpages. I was thinking that I should just hash? passwords and store them in an SQL table. Then on pages where I would like security, write a function that checks for a session varible to make sure that the user is authenticated. Does this pres...more >>

I have an ASP.NET page that needs to use values set in session variables to perform certain functions. I have code in the Page_Load event that makes sure the session has not been restarted: If Session.IsNewSession Then Response.Write("<script>alert('Your session has expir...more >>

I created two iss folder under my aspx project and I redirected each one of them to same aspx page by IIS that is test.aspx. on the page load of test.aspx I have to catch where the request come in! (what is the previous link or reqest) I try to use Httpcontex.Current.Request.UrlReferrer.Absolut...more >>

I created a dropdownlist containing day, month and year field and expose a property to assign a date. When I call from a aspx page and assign the value, the new date is not displayed until a submit is performed. How do I force the usercontrol to display the newly assigned date? I don't have thi...more >>

Has any1 else had this error message. If so how do u solve it? The specified module could not be found. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in ...more >>

Hello, Where to start? Well, I was creating a little back office for a website. That website is in fact a virtual directory in an existing website. So, I have this: -- WEBSITE1 |---- [Some Files & Directories] |---- WEBSITE2 (Virtual Directory -- dirname: "koea") |------ [Some Files & Direc...more >>

Hi, I want to detect where a user has come from withinh my application. If they are on page1.aspx and they go to page2.aspx, I want to be able to find what was the previous page they were on. Can I use a HTTP Handler to get this info? How? Thanks, C....more >>

Hi! All.. I ahve a query related to DataGrid. I used DataReader to populate the DataGrid and it has a Hyperlink Column. On click of the hyperlink i want to pass the complete Row value to another page and print it there.. How do i Do it Thanks Baren...more >>

I have an SQLConnection object that is being used through all my webpages of my site. I have a base Web Page that has this Connection, and all my pages inherit from that one. Is there any way, any event that i can catch BEFORE any sqlstatement that is being executed with this connection to handl...more >>

I've been experimenting with ASP.NET pages for some weeks, but suddenly it stopped working! When I try to load any script from my browser, like this: http://localhost/myfolder/myscript.aspx, I get no response, just like when a web site cannot be found. IIS is running. aspnet_wp.exe is listed u...more >>

I have an application the uses usercontrols (sidebar.ascx, sidebar1.ascx, ect.))to display a side menu with content that will vary depending on what folder the user is currently accessing. like this: root/folder1/somepage.aspx or root/folder2/somepage.aspx I think there should be an easy(?) ...more >>