This question is for all of the developers out there. I recently had to drop out of school as it was getting way to expensive and i just could not pay it. I am really upset about this becuase i really want to become a computer programmer. I dont have any degrees or certificates or any other f...more >>

hi friends, I have one webservice which i want to run on win98 system because some reference in that webservice only run in win98, and my ASP.net application is on win2000 pro. I want to call that webservice from my ASP.net application how could i do that........ how can i publish my webservice o...more >>

is there some way to make a file (.cs) containing some common C# code classes being loaded on every .aspx page in my web without me having to declare it every time? Something in the config file perhaps? since I have these classes that will be used on every page, I want them to be like a "clou...more >>

I dropped an Image server control on an Asp.Net page, specified my desired image, saw the nice image, select the control. However, the VS.Net IDE/Image Editor tools are still grayed out ! I must have done something weird. I also tried Html Image control and the same affect experienced. My goal is...more >>

My datagrid has four template columns in which an ImageButton is created. I use the following to add the OnClick event to the button. img.Attributes.Add("OnClick", "AllButtons_Click") The AllButtons_Click sub is: Sub AllButtons_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) ...more >>

I'm messing around with the Request.UserLanguages and the Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"); to see how similar or dissimilar they may be. I observe and conclude that both get their value from the Accept-Language key stored in the header of the response. To test this hypothesis I...more >>

I've got a Web App developed via VBNet. I'm using WebForms and a small Access database. It's easy enough to set the connection string when the database is on my local machine. However...I need to upload both the app and the database. Is there a way I can set the connection string similar to the ...more >>

Hi all, I'd like to have several "skins" for an application that are "structurally different" (i.e. controls at different locations, some controls visible only in a particular "skin"). The application is implemented with a single default.aspx which loads a couple of ascx-Controls (navigation,...more >>

Dear All, I have an ASP.Net webform that includes a DropDownList (bound to a dataview including 6000 records) and a textbox that is updated according to the selection of an event at the SelectedIndexChange of the DropDownList. Filling the DropDownList takes about 3 seconds but when the Sel...more >>

I have a javascript that calls a method of an activex control. I want to get the return value, S_OK or S_FALSE. I tried var r = document.Form1.PCtl.Download('h') document.write(r) // to see the value but r is coming out as undefined. ...more >>

I set a cookie in my code behind: Dim cookieFocus As New HttpCookie("PMFocus") cookieFocus.Value = "D" Response.Cookies.Add(cookieFocus) I read the cookie in my html page: function doFocus(str) { var allcookies = document.cookie; var pos = allcookies.indexOf("PMFocus="); var mydate = ...more >>

I've found a solution to this that I think I like, but I thought it wise to put it out for all to see so people could punch holes in it as they wished. (Is there a better way?) I want a page in an Asp.Net site to be able to open/access a file that's on an Smb share (ie. "Windows Share", "Ne...more >>

Hi all, What do I have to do in order to get my value from my textbox that is formatted like 'mm/dd/yyyy' into a datetime database field ? Currently getting an error: Syntax error converting datetime from character string I have 2 validators on this form field as seen below along with a ...more >>

Hi: I tried to send email from an ASP.NET page through SMTP. But I always got the error: Server Error in '/' Application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- The transport failed to connect to the server. Description: An unhandled exceptio...more >>

in classic ASP I divided each .asp file into several parts being run by switch (Request.Querystring("action").Item) ... what is the best way to do this by .Net? Anchor control events? ...more >>

How would I have a textbox on my web form that will automatically have a blinking cursor in it when the page loads? Closest I've come so far is having to press tab once to put the cursor in there. Thanks! Matt ...more >>

There are a few references on the net about how to restore a page's scroll position over a postback. eg. http://www.devhood.com/messages/message_view-2.aspx?thread_id=104625 My question is : can the same thing be done to restore the scroll position of a specific DIV within a page? I have a DIV...more >>

I have a DIV which I want to automatically resize when the user resizes the browser. The width setting is easy - I want it to appear on the left hand side of the page and take up 50% of the screen so I set width:50%. The height is more tricky since I want to size it from it's rendered Y-pos...more >>

"The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer": http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=74&e=3&u=/cmp/20040702/tc_cmp/22103...more >>

I have a Page in which I dynamically create an HtmlTable at run-time. The problem is this table might be quite long. I'd like to create it within a separately scrollable area so that the user does not have to scroll the whole page to see it all. How can I do this ? ...more >>

I have an Asp.Net page that redirects the user to another page with a piece of data to be passed. Below is the c# instruction: Response.Redirect("mySpecialPage.aspx?go1="+strGoName); This will expose the "go1" parameter on the Address field of the MS/IE browser because it uses t...more >>

Hi, I'm new to ASP. Currently I'm planning to develop a web application for my company. I want to use ASP for the application and use SQL-server as the back-end. I want to enable a userID and password for every user. I also want to specify permissions to parts of the application. I have ...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to protect one of my subfolders from Web.config file in my root folder. Here is my directory structure / // My shopping cart /admin // Shopping cart admin which needs to be protected Now in my Web.config how can I protect just the /admin folder (wh...more >>

Does some one got a control or component for HTML to Text converter? On our web support system, We often recevie email in HTML format which we would like to convert it into text before save it to database. Any one got a good example? -- Kind regards Guoqi Zheng guoqi AT meetholland...more >>

Are there any rules of thumb for when it is appropriate to use grid mode vs. flow mode in the Visual Studio.NET WebForm designer? ...more >>

Hi, I have a usercontrol defined as: <P> <a id="sectionName" runat="server"></a> <asp:PlaceHolder id="detailsBody" runat="server"> </asp:PlaceHolder> <br> <asp:HyperLink id="hrefTop" runat="server" NavigateUrl="#top">Top </asp:HyperLink></P> In the cs code I have added some publ...more >>

for high traffic public websites , what are the proven options for session-state storage & management ? is an out-of-process state-server generally preferred over a sql-server ? what are the relevant criteria ? is the primary criteria max expected total storage size (for all active sessions) v...more >>

I have a VS.Net solution that contains various projects. Some of the projects contain programme blocks (legacy code) that are used by some of the other projects. One project contains some C code (managed and unmanaged) that uses external libraries (GNU Scientific Library). These externa...more >>

Hi All, I was reading Perforance and Scalability Guide and reading Session State Management section. It says use SQL Server when using Web farm . No where are the metrics and the Why's are msiisng. The question that comes to mind is :- 1. When using SQL Server or State Server , will the cost o...more >>

I have this scenario: ASPX Page dynamically loads userControl1 - which in turn dynamically loads userControl2. UserControl2 contains a TextBox Web Server control. When a user clicks a [save now] button in the ASPX page (not in either user control), a Postback occurs during which I'd like to re...more >>

I recently installed IIS6 with the .net extensions. I have allowed both asp and asp.net extensions. My configuration for asp works great. Yet I am unable to get the asp.net to work using the same configuration as I set up for asp. Here is a very simple page saved as test.aspx: <html> <bod...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to set the width of a column in a datagrid? Does it have anything to do with Text Formatting String texbox in the Columns portion of the properties for the datagrid? Thanks, Billy...more >>

As very often is the case a web page has a main, dynamic content page and a surrounding, more constant "frame" (not html frame!) for stuff like menu, logo, links etc. In my old ASP web pages I solved this by using #include so that each .asp page simply started with including this in the top of t...more >>

HI all, I have a legacy app in which users can pick various page templates. There is a template preview dialog. It works such that they view a list of icons in an asp page that represent each available page template. Each template is a straight-forward HTML file (not an asp or aspx) When a use...more >>

A longer version of my problem is here: http://www.developersdex.com/asp/message.asp?p=1116&r=4327903 I have a large amount of javascript that I want to modify in my code (i.e. a routine called from Page_Load). I'm trying to figure a relatively easy way to implement this. It's too unwiel...more >>

I am using c# codebehind. I need a confirm box to determine if the data is to be saved or not. Ho do I determine which button was seleected? RegisterStartupScript("startupScript", "<script language=JavaScript> if (confirm('This will replace the existing data table for the selected date and...more >>

i have a seperate class which i want to access the session state from. as a workaround i am able to access the session state by inheriting from the Page class. but this seems a waste as I dont need any other Page features. i.e. public class Stopwatch : Page //inherit from Page class to get ac...more >>

I set a Session object [Session["x"] = "44" in one page and retrieve it later in another page: String str = Session["x"].ToString(). The timeout in Web.config = 30; I'm able to retrieve the value (str) anytime up to about 15 minutes after it's created, but not thereafter. Thereafter, I get a ...more >>

I had this problem in the past, after a server reformat it went away, and now after another server reformat it's back again - no clue what's doing it. Here's the flow: Website root is public, no SSL no forms auth. One of the subfolders in the public area is the root of a "protected" area; SSL...more >>

Hi I need to emulate a page that posts to a form. This form is just a minor part of the page. The form has 4 radio buttons, a hidden text box and 2 submit buttons each with different values. The form posts to a foreign URL (i.e. an off-site page) using the GET method. I would like to...more >>

Our company is slowly migrating their websites from ASP to ASP.NET. This being the case in the current aplication I am working on there are .aspx pages and .asp pages. Is there a way to retrieve in an aspx page a cookie that was created in an asp page?...more >>

I need to take my source code to my client's site for final debugging. I need to disconnect it from SourceSafe (select project, then File, Source Control, Change Source Control. In the dialog choose Disconnect. This, I hope, gives me a working copy of the source code without all the SourceSaf...more >>

I have a web project that currently has a standard header, footer, and menu ascx files. I am now suppose to change the project to allow a user to choose from 3 different views, ie 3 different groups of those .ascx files. Does anyone have some sample code on how to do this? This needs to chec...more >>

Hi all. I completely disagree with the ASP.NET Event Handling model. This is a final conclusion I came to after weeks of hard work on a quite-more-realistic-web-app than the MSPetShop ;) I firmly believe that the Event Handling model is cumbersome, complicated, unefficient and just, well, ...unpr...more >>

after filling a datagrid from code, I now need to delete rows in the grid based on some conditions. Can this be done in the ItemDataBound or ItemCreated events? if not is there any other way to explicitly delete a row before it displays? thanks, G ...more >>

Hi there, I've seen this error appear a few times in newsgroups but unfortunately I haven't found one that actually provides a solution. I'm basically deploying a new website into an area at a web hosting company and when I try to run the site (which runs in our local IIS server), I get the fo...more >>

jumping on the train and with such a big jump that .Net is there is something I just find hard to believe... since the arrival of Web forms (<asp:xxx/>) - will I ever need to do manual HTML code except for the actual graphical design of my web (e.g. <p> <br> <table>) ??? ...more >>

I try to access a folder on an other server, that have share the folder by a standard share name, like \\TestServer\sharename But the I can't access to the share folder from the server that's runnes the asp.net web site. Is it possibility to add a user name and password to the file sahre, or a...more >>

Hi All, Is it possible to save a file on a network folder from a web application which is developed in ASP.Net. I tried mapping a network folder on the server and tried to save a file on that mapped folder. I am getting error as : "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. " Plea...more >>

Hello. Suddenly im not able to catch unhandled error in the Page_Error nor the Application_Error events!! All errors are showing up with the nasty red Server Error in.... Application page :O( Do anybody have a clue of what's going on ??, why is'nt the event not firing... Kind regard...more >>

I have an aspx page that contains a usercontrol. The usercontrol is titled 'authorize'. 'authorize' contains 2 panel 'login' and 'logout'. Both are by default 'not visible' I want to set one of them, dependingn on whether the user IsAutheticated (forms), to visible. Whe I put the following co...more >>