Hello, I am looking to open an Excel spreadsheet in ADO.NET using OLEDB's Jet engine. I have a conn string as follows: Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=c:\test\test.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0; I am attempting to put together the SQL to query this spreadsheet. The exampl...more >>

Hi I have a DataGrid with dynamically created Radio Buttons using ItemTemplate. How can I catch the Click Event for the selected Radio Button in Client Side? I need to perform some validation based on which Radio Button is selected. Regards ...more >>

Guys have a look at the following website. They have dotnet project plan templates for application development. http://www.balfourgroup.com.au...more >>

Hi All, I'm refering to the code in this article. http://www.dnzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=151 I'm trying to do the same in VB.NET and I'm having problems with procedure ProcessSurveyResults. I was hoping to get some help on fixing it. I would really appreciate. Original C# Code: w...more >>

I have a solution file (*.sln) which contains web service and web console projects. This solution file is shared in a team development environment (via a source library tool). When opening the solution file on different machines it complains about not being able to find the virtual web directo...more >>

When I use the file upload control <input type = file> and try to upload an exe file it errors, how do i get it to allow exe file uploads so I can display a frendly warrning message about they might be dangerous? thanks! ...more >>

I tried to generate asp Application project( I’m using VS .Net 2003). After I did ,following errors occurred (runtime): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a con...more >>

On my site, I have it set up so that a different css file is loaded depending on the users screen resolution. This works fine. When the user visits a page in my site, the sessoin variable 'screenres' is checked for a value. If it has a value, then the page loads with the correct css file for the...more >>

Hi, Please can somebody explain how databinding is done on a checkbox list. I have the follwoing code which I would have thought was enough to databind a checkbox, but apparently not. The data is coming from an sql server database "Name" is a text feild "Valid" is a bit field da.Fill...more >>

Am experiencing a problem intercepting the events from controls added dynamically to a Placeholder control at runtime. Is there any way that I can write an event handler on the page which will be pick up the events raised by the added controls dynamically. I cannot use 'WithEvents' and 'Ha...more >>

Hi all, I'm having trouble viewing any .aspx pages on my hosting company's server. The server is a new box running Windows Server 2003 default installation. I'm the first client to try using ASP.NET on this box and the administrator of the server has never setup an ASP.NET site before, so most...more >>

I have written an image upload/resize tool that then saves out the image as either a JPG or GIF. I got the JPG save working nicely, using a codec and setting the compression to 90%. However, I can't seem to manipulate the GIF using the same parameter. All my GIFs appear to be using a restri...more >>

Hi, I have a web form with a Hyperlink control, which renders client code like: <form id="form1" name="form1"> <a href="a.aspx?p=ppppp" id="mylink" target="_blank" > </form> What a need is when this link is clicked, I need to trigger a client side JavaScript function to append some ...more >>

Hi all, I have a Mailer class with a Send(string[] toAddresses) method which sends e-mail messages to my web users. Since I don't want a web client to wait until the messages are sent, I call Send() asyncronously. However, because I create an instance of Mailer class inside codebehind, as soo...more >>

I have a page with many controls. Among these controls there is a table which is a datagrid with nested repeater inside. My problem is that I can not use DataGridCommandEventArgs to get datagrid elements because submit button is not in datagrid and uses onClick event btnSaveServicePlanUpdate. ...more >>

Hello, I managed to add a dropdownlist to my datagrid, I could either populate it manually or could pull all the items it could have from a table , my problem is I should be able to select the currently selected item in the table but I am not sure how to do that programmatically. That is when ...more >>

I'm trying to read in fields from a table. How do I handle fields that are blank? How do I know how to skip the field? I'm getting Invalid attempt to read when no data is present. Errors. I've tried this with both blank fields and ones with spaces and they both seem to fail the same way. ...more >>

I need to prevent users from hitting a web control button twice, and can't find a way to do it. Someone must have a simple solution for this! If so, please help! I losing too much time on this..... Thanks!...more >>

I'm using a shared Hosted IP "Brinkster" and the Session Variables keep being lost between page calls. Here is their response to the problem. "Brinkster's customers are run from redundant, load balanced server environments. Brinkster's load balancer can push your session from one redundant se...more >>

As a new commer (hobbyist) this field, it's pretty hard not to get caught in an anti microsoft debate. Open Source Apache/PHP vs MS .NET technologies. I ran into this article from a link of a link of a link on another weblog. I have actually been interested with .net ever since "it came out" late...more >>

I am using vs.net 2002 and framework 1.0 I would like to make use of some of the new properties introduced in 1.1 of the framework such as the 'CheckChanged' event of the check box web control. Is it possible to compie vs.net 2002 to use the 1.1 framework or do you need to have vs.net 2003? ...more >>

am having to change several websites that upload files. Our web master has changed the replication tool and that is causing a problem. We have been using the normal httpInputFile object. It works great, as long as you have a direct path ("c:\temp\uploads"), but it does not work well with vir...more >>

Hey ! I have a WebForm with several controls on it (text boxes, buttons, datagrid, listboxes,...). I want to refresh the data in those controls every 1-2 seconds. How do I refresh (reload) just data in controls not whole page. Working on: - Win XP Pro - MS VS.NET 2003 (ASP.NET and C# a...more >>

I'm using ASP.Net and SQL Server I have 2 listboxes. I have a table with 50 states. In one listbox I want to show the states that are associated with a record. Let's say 4 states. I can do this. AL AK AR CA In the other listbox I want to show whatever states are not in the first listbox. L...more >>

Hi Is it possible to share an authentication ticket across multiple websites (on the same server) ? Detailed: I create a ticket in webapplication1. The user can click a link on webapplication1, to access webapplication2. In webapplication2, I want to use the ticket I created in webapplic...more >>

OK - yeah - I know I shouldn't have installed a beta product on my primary development box - - however, since I did and it hosed my VS.Net 2003 installation (repaired and got it back working ok), now I have some classic ASP work to do and no ASP documents will run --- not even the simplest - pur...more >>

Is there anyway to gracefully catch a file upload limit error? When the limit is exceeded, IE displays a generic "Cannot find server or DNS error" message. -- Tom Kaminski IIS MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/community/centers/iis/ http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ http://ww...more >>

Hello, I'm not sure if this is really the right newsgroup, as my question is not related specifically to ASP.NET. I'm looking for free data in CSV or some other importable format that breaks states down by region. For example, in California you might have the following: Bakersfield & Vicini...more >>

sorry, just a little meaningless test=20 ..... --=20 Lloyd Dupont, Software Architect Get Your Data Mobile http://www.ihookdb.com...more >>

Is anyone aware of any features in .NET or 3rd party tools that would enable the automated creation/modification of graphics (e.g., buttons with text in them). I frequently need to modify only the text in various buttons, and I'm getting tired of doing it manually. I know there's GDI+, but I'm lo...more >>

We have been looking at our environment setup. We initially had developers as domain administrators and thought of removing administration privileges. This seems to break the debugging of ASP.Net applications. What security settings do others use for developer accounts?...more >>

Does anyone know how to define a shortcut icon for a aspx page? I found this: <HEAD> <LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="http://www.mydomain.com/myicon.ico"> <TITLE>My Title</TITLE> </HEAD>at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/Author/dhtml/howto/ShortcutIcon.aspbut it...more >>

Hi, I saw that the webservice.htc behaviour is no longer being supported. Will web apps written using it still function when the XP service pack 2 rolls out? Thanks. Ken. ...more >>

It seems to me that using static classes for caching as versus the Application object has certain advantages. First, the cached values are strongly typed, secondly, it's not ASP.NET specific so the same code can be used for other .NET apps. I can't think of anything bad about it. I only plan ...more >>

Hi, Is there a way for a client to upload a file to a folder that is not apart of the web server (ie. cannot be accessed by url addresses)? Also, is there a way for a user to download a file but not be able to access it by entering a url address? Thank you in advance, Tim. ...more >>

Hi, I have a authentication from form authentication. It is redirect to an other web page. But it isnot redirected to desire page. What is reason for this problem and how can I solve this problem. Thanks for your help. ...more >>

Hi I have a weird problem. I am using User.Identity.Name() in my application to get the Logged in person Network ID. In one application it retruns the correct Network userid. But in the other applications it says it cannot get the Network UserId. In both the applications i have set "<au...more >>

Hi, I hope you guys can help me. I've created a web-application. It's under my inetpub\wwwroot\... Now my colleague needs open the same project in his Visual Studio .Net but he gets the error-message : Unable to open webproject. The file path <path> does not correspond to the URL http:/...more >>

Hi, Apologies for what are probably pretty basic questions - and my convoluted explanation. Built some simple user controls, that represent the UI side for a whole bunch of Event objects (in the form of real everyday events likes conferences, seminars etc.). So I have the following: Class E...more >>

I have the following code in global.asax.vb Public UO As UNIOBJECTSLib() Public Sub New() MyBase.New() 'This call is required by the Component Designer. InitializeComponent() 'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call UO = new UniObjectsLib() ...more >>

I get the following error whenever I try to open solution in VS.NET 2003 Error Signature: AppName: devenv.exe AppVer: 7.10.3077.0 ModName: ctpackage.dll ModVer: 6.0.1.444 Offset: 00011d45...more >>

Hi, I have a data grid that is set up like this Page items displayed = 10 EnableViewState = false (i dont want to send large amounts of data over the internet!) CustomPaging = false AllowPaging = true now at the bottom of the data grid page, i have the numbers showing up as the paging ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to write an ASP.NET page using VS.NET 2003, Office 2003, Win 2000 but I keep gettin this error: "The message filter indicated that the application is busy" this is the code. ===================================================== Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Obj...more >>

Hello, I am new to Web programming. I have close to 30 years programming in many other areas and that experience leads me to these questions. 1. Many articles I have read tout VS.NET 2003 as a real breakthrough in productivity. I now believe much of this derives from the ASP.NET Designer P...more >>

I have written an HttpHandler which I invoke through an ashx page. The HttpHandler does various things to process the request, then it is supposed to redirect to a confirmation page. Everything up to the redirect works fine, but I can't get the redirect to work. If I do a ... context.Respo...more >>

Hi, is there a dotnet function (other than the old isnumeric from VB) to check whether an object is numeric or not. also I notice that all the old vb functions such as split / isnumeric / ubound etc are still availible by default in any VB.net web application. is this because the vb library...more >>

Hi When I build my asp.net application the ASP.NET generates a net.assembly by page in the directory of my pc: C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\Temporary ASP.NET Files Theese assemblies to be executed must be tranlated to native code, the question is: Which is the time of live o...more >>

Hi I am setting a boolean value to true on a page and writing the results to viewstate Just above the web form designer generated code I have Dim bps_found As Boolean 'visible to this module in a button click event I have bps_found=true ViewState("ps_found") = bps_found 'save value in view...more >>

why is it that password fields: <asp:TextBox Id="txtuserpassword1" TextMode="password" class="textbox" maxlength="20" Columns="15" Runat="Server" /><br> clear everytime validation kicks in or on page refreshes? Can this be stopped? Help! Also, I can't auto-populate the password field uising a...more >>

Question: I am running 1.0 of the framework and vs.net 2002 professional. If I install 1.1 will all my apps work or do I need to recompile them? Is there the chance that a lot of coding changes need to me made? Do you need to uninstall 1.0? Does anyone have a link to the msdn site on d...more >>

Hello, I'm new with ASP.NET. I've seen samples which has custom 'entry' in Web.Config which works well. But when I enter my 'entry', it produces app error: The entry is like below:- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <myAspApp> <database> <a...more >>

I am having a hard time finding the benifits and added features of VS.NET 2003 Professional over VS.NET 2002 on microsofts site. Does anyone have any links they could share. Also, does anyone know the expected release of VS.NET 2005 (not interested in the beta's) Thanks ...more >>

I'm creating a tool for people to upload an image and have it resized on the server. I'm checking to first see if the image is a JPG, GIF, BMP or TIF file. I'm having a problem with the TIF files, on upload, the content type is coming up as: application/octet-stream Instead of: i...more >>

We are streaming a PDF file out of an ASPX page in IIS 5 using Response.WriteFile so the user does not need permissions to the directory where the files are stored. This works great when the user is on a fairly fast network connection or when the PDF is not too large. However, for users on slow conn...more >>

Hello guys, got a little question regarding the regional language settings . Anyway I got a Windows 2003 Server machine that was installed with the date format "dd/MM/yyyy" and location still locked in US. As we migrated certain apps over to the new machine. we found out something... someone...more >>

I have a aspx page that has a few panels on it and have noticed that if a user submits the form and validation kicks in, thus, flagging them that fields were required the panels disappear even though the conditions to display the panels are still met. I.e. checkbox displays more questions. the check...more >>

I need to disable an asp button after it's clicked. I tried setting the buttons enabled property to false in the code-behind, but this isn't working. Any help will really be appreciated! TIA...more >>

Guys, Based on selection in a datagrid,I need to retrieve info to construct a letter from a table in my database and send it off for printing.Now the thing is there may be a few hundred letters to be printed.How do I accomplish this in ASP.NET Any examples/links would be appreciated ...more >>

I have asp:listbox on the page and I would like to fill it with the values after the page is load, that the user can read other parts of the page meanwhile. How can I do that? I have very large codetables in my listboxes and the page loads too long time. Thank you for your answer, Sim...more >>

Hi, I'm having a problem when ever I try to insert a form validation, the error it produces says something to effect of it cannot find the js within the specified folder. I've been doing some research into this problem and its look I need to copy the folder 'aspnet_client' to somewhere el...more >>

Hi can someone please tell me why I keep getting the following error when I execute this code! I have checked the database and it seems like everything is set as integer for pageID! Error: Input string was not in a correct format. <CODE> Sub DGPages_Update(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e...more >>

Hello, To each pages, I have a common part (a graphic part). Is it possible to put the code (HTML) in a file and insert it in each pages or I have to copy/paste the code in each pages ? Regards, Christian, ...more >>

I am developing an ASP.NET application part of which consists of a data entry wizard defined by entries in a data table - ie the controls on each page of the wizard are determined by definitions in the table. I know that I can dynamically add controls (eg a textbox) to the page controls collec...more >>

Hi! I'm developing an asp.net application that let the user upload a rtf document on a directory on a server (that's the easy part :)). I need also to convert the file uploaded into html and save the converted file in the same directory without using Word automation. Has someone used a library fo...more >>

I have a problem with "undefined" form. I use a asp:datagrid and button column. When I click on the link buttons i get a javascript error: "EventTarget not set to an object or null". This is because the __dopostback methode that is automaticly generated by asp:datagrid has the line "var theform = do...more >>

I just got a new computer, preinstalled Windows XP Home Edition, which doesn't include IIS. If I went to Win2K, I'd be losing some software that the manufacturer bundled in with it. So, I went on the Internet and saw that others have gotten IIS to run successfully under XP Home, and decide...more >>

Can someone please tell me why I might be getting the following error! Exception Details: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format. Source Error: Line 76: Sub DGPages_Update(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridCommandEventArgs) Line 77: 'Read in t...more >>

I have a shared XML file on a server . i also have one xslt file that performs a simple transform on in to view the data. now i want to have another page that lets users modify the shared xml file via some editable controls such as text boxes , option boxes etc. how can i implment this , ...more >>

Does anyone know of any links/books so that I can learn how to do n-tier development in ASP.NET/C#? Any help would be really appreciated. Cheers, Mike *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com *** Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!...more >>

whats the main difference between cbo.SelectedItem.Value and cbo.SelectedValue. both return the same result, but why and when to use it? thanks...more >>

I'm using a table named myTable in Access, but when I try it I get: Syntax error in INSERT INTO statement. in access db, the Cat1,Cat2,..,Cat5 are Yes/No and their format is True/False any idea? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ here is a piece of code: strSqlPost = "Insert ...more >>

Hi, How can I get userid "SimonJ" from www.mysite.com/SimonJ instead of www.mysite.com/default.aspx?userid=SimonJ without creating the physical directory for SimonJ on the web server? Regards Mehdi ...more >>