For my VS.NET 2005 webapplication I need it to open a second window and show an image in it. Then it needs to set the margins of that IE window and then print it contents. After the printing it can be closed. How can I do this, if at all possible? rg, Eric (btw: Happy New Year!!) ...more >>

What would be cool as hell, would be a designer interface like Dreamweaver - with drag and drop elements like frames and such. Why isn't ASP.Net as easy to use as Dreamweaver. Certainly Microsoft has looked at them (if nothing more than as competition for FrontPage). What would be the rea...more >>

If I set EnableSessionState to false in Web.config to false. Can we use login controls to authenticate user? ...more >>

I'm creating an 'owner drawn ASP.NET control' where all the HTML tags are written in the Render() method. In this control there would be 2 links: Edit & Comment. I would like to use a <A HREF='...'> But in the HREF tag I would like to write the special URL which will call: RaisePostBackEvent(s...more >>

Hi All, I have developed one web application. In that I used aspnet web textBox control. I have set maxlength property for that text box 300 and TextMode property as multiline . When i typed more than 3 or 4 line each line contains 30 to 40 characters, If i clicked button for passing t...more >>

My ASP.NET v.1.1 application generates some Javascript that isn't working (I see "Error on Page" when a custom control is clicked). How can I debug this? Many thanks. ...more >>

I known that by using the "Profile_MigrateAnonymous" event I can migrate my anonymous users profile to their authenticated account profile, but I would like to carry over some of the properties of their authenticated account profile back to anonymous profile when they logout. How can I do tha...more >>

In vs.net 2005 web apps, now that we no longer have the assemblyinfo file, how do we set assembly information (such as version,description,company, etc)? Thanks, Mark...more >>

How do I get the absolute url for a file from c#-code? I have the path "~/file.aspx" and I want "http://www.mydomain.xyz/myapp/file.aspx" Basically I want to get the complete app-path url including the domain from the current app, but I have only found ways of getting the physical path and...more >>

Hi, I'm a tad confused regarding the difference between an asp.net session and an authentication session and their timeouts. Do the two types of session exist independantly of one another? If so, what happens if one expires before the other? Any info appreciated. PS. Using asp.net v2 ...more >>

We have been noticing that questions on vs.2005/2.0 don't appear to get much in answers so I'm reposting some questions posted by some of the programmers here in our organization that never got answered... There are articles on the new TableAdapters where it says that a key new advantage is th...more >>

We have been noticing that questions on vs.2005/2.0 don't appear to get much in answers so I'm reposting some questions posted by some of the programmers here in our organization that never got answered... In 1.1 we always did our own myDataAdapter.fills and we liked that control for lots o...more >>

Are there any possible issues with creating a base class (adding common properties) for a user control using a class file and not a user control (.ascx and code-behind) in asp.net 2.0? I have successfully tested using a class that inherits UserControl and it seems like the best way to go but ...more >>

I installed this new BETA component for VS 2005 and it really helped with the migration from vs2003, but now I cannot deploy the project. Compiles fine, but there is no option to Copy the project, and that new Web Deployment Project update does not work on Web Application Projects so I cant...more >>

I have an ASP.NET application which my company sells comercially. We license on a concurrent user model, but we currently rely on the "honor" system for the customers to give us their best guess as to the maximum number of concurrent users they will need. We do this because, so far, we have ...more >>

erroe message and code portion is like this.... how can i change this code to not occur to error if (page.Session["UserId"] == null || page.Session["UserId"] != userId ) { UserStatusSetting(page, userId); } Warning 2 Possible uninte...more >>

I have a "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Beta 2" disk, along with Visual C#, Visual Basic, and Visual Web Developer 2005 disks. Also VS 2005 Team Foundation Server, SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition Community Technology Preview, and VS 2005 Team Suite. Can I safely install these w...more >>

How important is XAML? (or how important is it expected to become during the next 5 years?) Looking for informed opinions. Thanks! ...more >>

Anyone have suggestions for biometric or smart card or key fob or [whatever else] authentication of a future public facing website? For example, a customer could do something to authenticate themselves and the computer passes some data in the background of their browser session so a user can be ...more >>

I never really use SQLExpress before... Anyway I'm trying to something a bit 'advanced' and I'm failing = miserably. I have written a BlogEngin a while ago using SqlServer & ASP.NET 2.0 = Beta 2 and try to rewrite it from scratch (and copy paste). It's hard as = I forgot all about ASP.NET... ...more >>

I have a web.sitemap file that has the url title and description. I then have this attac attached to a menu. I want some of my menu choices to open up in a page in a new window ie _blank as target. How do I do this with a web.sitemap file ...more >>

I wrote up a couple of simple SiteMap providers based on the MSDN documentation and examples, in particular the AccessSiteMapProvider example found at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178434.aspx I keep running into the same problem - the root node cannot be found. So I went back and t...more >>

I followed this article to do authenticated SMTP, it works fine with port 25. (using .NET framework 1.1) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555287 However, if I change the port number to 10025 (my email server is running on this port too). I got error message "Fields u...more >>

There are tools like WebCopier which grab webpages with the html, css, js, images..etc, transform the links so the page can be viewed offline from the HD. I was wondering if there's a control or component that does the same functionality which I can use in my own programs. While I probably can...more >>

I'm building my first ASP.Net site, and wonder about the best way to reference data in files. Should I store documents in SQL Server, and provide the file from there, or store a string providing the file location in SQL Server and include a folder with files on the web site? Thanks for your h...more >>

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to put an aspx page inside of another? OR run an aspx page and capture the output as a string and then write this out to a page.... So for example say you have a page that takes an id number as a query string and displays different things based on t...more >>

I want to download a file from my webapplication to client computer.I am trying this method but this is just copying the file from one location to anothor on server only,. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Purva ...more >>

I have an application that updates a strongly typed data set at run time. I'd like to dynamically create a table that connects to a run time data table. For displaying the data, this works well. I just set the GridView.DataSource once, and call DataBind(); I'd like to drive the applicati...more >>

Hi I try to download the tiff files from my server. Its get downloaded but I cannot open with windows fax viewer. its says "No preview available" thanks bala here is the code which I am using Dim ext As String = Path.GetExtension(path1) If UCase(Right(ext, 3)) = "TIF" T...more >>

I've spent a good part of the afternoon searching Google and the newsgroups for some sort of answer - so I apologize if I'm asking something that has already been asked and answered. I'm using ASP.Net 1.1 (unfortunately 2.0 isn't an option right now) and I'm working on the design of a secur...more >>

Hi, A web applications error output is like this: [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] Gor.Forms.Page.SecurityCheck(Object sender, EventArgs e) +40 System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) +67 Agromax.main.OnInit(EventArgs e) +50 [...] ...more >>

Hi, I'm using ASP.NET 2.0. I have code like: protected void Page_PreInit(object sender, EventArgs e) { // do something } The Page_PreInit is not firing. Is it supposed to work for User Control? I should not need to explicitly wire the event, do I? I don't for Page_Load for example,...more >>

I want to use RegisterSlientStartupScript but it is not working properly. please help me Regards -Vivek ...more >>

I'm doing a simple test, about 100 lines of data of ~200 bytes each. I'm using WebRequest() and HttpWebResponse() calling a generic handler. What i pass to the webserver (tried local as not local) i return directly using Response.Write() per line. The server receives the data 100% ok. Both...more >>

I have a site done in Classic ASP that I may want to rebuild with ASP.net (VS2005). But I have a lot of knowledge gaps. What is the ASP.net counterpart to the old include files? The site currently uses Include Files for the Header accross the top, Menu down the left side, and footer at the bot...more >>

Can Javascript code catch an exception thrown in an ASP.NET webservice? (Using XMLHTTPRequest object to send the SOAP message to the webservice.) If so, what't the Javascript syntax please? TIA...more >>

Hi. I wrote an HTTPModule to log errors from my application. The component works well on all the development machines running Windows XP or Windows 2000 and VS.NET 2003. When I run the application on the server, a Windows 2003 box, the HTTPModule does not run. If I change the component to a...more >>

Hi, If I use SQL Server to store session state, whenever I call Session["myvariable"] is there a call to SQL Server? Even if I call Session["myvariable"] a few times in the same Web page, or even the same code block? I'm asking because if there is one SQL Server call every time I have ...more >>

I have been following a few walkthroughs that came with VS 2005, and they work fine (I had to change the machine.config files to work with my SQL 2005 Pro version, instead of the SQL 2005 Express). Pages dealing with logins, New users, etc... locally work fine, I am able to add users, log in ...more >>

Hello... I've created a master page in Visual Web Developer and it creates a content place holder. That's fine and all but I can't seem to resize it. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brian ...more >>

Can you put a Case statement in a Join? My problem is that I have 2 possible fields I want to join to the same table. If one is null, use the other. For example: Create Table Position ( UserID1 int, UserID2 int ) Create Table Logon ( UserID int, UserName ) I...more >>

hi all, is it better to set an html table's width property to percent or pixels? thanks, rodchar...more >>

I am trying to wade into the waters of client-side scripting to be integrated with ASPdotNET. Are there any ready-made tools for use wth dotNET? I am assuming that is what ajaxnet and ajaxnet-library are for...then, of course there is Atlas by Micro$oft. Ugh! I'm suffering from information ...more >>

Hi there! We are rendering some PDF reports from an ASP.NET application, directly to the IE browser. Those reports are beign generated from a SQL Reporting Services server. We have the requirement of displaying the reports inside the browser. In order to do that, we have this: Response.Clea...more >>

Hi. I've got a standard setup with a web app (ASP.NET 2.0) that I develop on my machine, deploy to a QA server for testing, and then on to a PROD environment. To facilitate the deployment process, I am utilizing our SCM tool and things are working just fine. I make a change on my machine, c...more >>

Hello, I have seen samples on how to pull data from one table and save back to it using the Form View control. How do I pull from multiple tables and save back to multiple tables on one screen? Is there a sample of this somewhere? For example I want to create a Name and an Address from...more >>

Hi, We have two websites that are almost identical except for the frontend. The business rules and the databases are the same. We want to basically use one website for our different clients but the look of the website would be different for each client. How can we design the frontend to add...more >>

Hi, I trying to develop an application that will have a calendar control that will allow me to put hyperlinks in the days of the calendar. And I need to be able to do this in a day, week, and month view. Is there a 3rd Party control that will allow me to have access to certain dates to...more >>

Hi. I've built a page using standard ASP.NET 2.0 features and when I upload a large file (>20MB) to our intranet server, I get a paltry 100KB/s on our 100Mb/s LAN. Simply copying the file, I get around 7MB/s. I'm using a FileUpload control on an .aspx page, and then I'm writing the MyFileUp...more >>

Hello asp.net , VB.net Version 1.1 I have aspx page with a grid with a drop down list in a column. The DDL causes postback. I need to put some code to be executed on the server when the postback is caused by the DDL (and identify the table row) . However, this control does not cause a grid_...more >>