Does the SessionState timeout field in Web.config control how long a logged in session will stay logged in? For example, I want my users to be able to log in once during their work day and for their log-ins to remain valid for 12 hours. Is this below the way to do it? <sessionState ...more >>

I've just installed a new OpenType font (http://www.typography.net/type/bliss.htm) on a WindowsXP Pro box. The font is useable in Office 2003 apps, no problem. However, when I open up VS2003, and create a form, with a text box in it, and try to set the font, the new font does not appear in ...more >>

Hi, What would be a good way to maintain authentication across web applications? I have an existing application (Framework 1.1) which does the user authentication. Currently, we have developed another application in Framework 2.0 which will only allow authenticated users from the Framework...more >>

In my asp.net application, the browser progress bar shows more than once for some pages. For example, I have a cancel button that merely sets one panel to visible =true and another panel to visible =false. The progress bar shows twice when the button is clicked. Does anybody know why this ...more >>

Hi, We have a website which is deployed to multiple web servers by robocopy across a WAN. In visual studio 2005 if you choose to publish the site to a directory it regenerates all of the dlls and for some reason changes all of the last modified dates on the aspx files to the present. This m...more >>

How do I prevent downloads from being cached when they are downloaded from my site ? These are files of type pdf, zip, exe -- Michael Tissington http://www.oaklodge.com http://www.sqlview.net ...more >>

If my web site is on a shared server, how can I can see the contents of the "Machine.Config" file for my machine? Also, is "Machine.Config" specific to asp.net or can a classical ASP page use it as well? ...more >>

Hello everybody, I have a gridview, and the SelectCommand should change depending on a Session value. Not the WHERE, but the field that it retrieves. It goes like this: SELECT NAME, COST, CATEGORY(###) AS CATEGORY FROM TABLE Where Category can be Category1, Category2, etc, etc, etc, and I...more >>

hello I'm trying to load a web page from web matrix web server using the following syntax http://IPaddress:portnumber/webpagename. When I try that syntax in the navigator I get error code "403: Forbidden" but if the I use the alternative syntax instead http://locahost:portnumber/webpagena...more >>

Hello, I have some simple client-side Javascript validation that was working fine until now. For some reason (don't ask me), it has stopped working and I can't figure out why. I have switched to version 2.0 (from 1.1) and have changed the page to use a master page, but other than that, it...more >>

Hello all, I have a form and for phone fields i have three text boxes for first three area code and next three and then last 4. I have the max characters as 3, 3 and 4 and which works fine but once in the first phone field after the user enters 3 characters, how can i move the focus automati...more >>

i am using following code in button click... of asp.net code behind page Response.Clear() 'clears the current output content from the buffer Response.AppendHeader("Content-Disposition", _ "attachment; filename=Add2Calendar.vbs") Response.AppendHeader("Content-Length", mStream.Length.ToSt...more >>

Hi, I developed my ASPX page on the build in webserver of VS2005 but when I try to run it on IIS it doesn't work. The error I get is: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: file:///E:/VB.NET%20projecten/website%20field%20service/PrecompiledWeb/website%20field%20service/fshome.aspx...more >>

Hi, We are exploring the new possiblities in ASP.NET v2.0. I want to have a page, in this page I have one WebPartManager 3 zones and I want to dynamically add WebParts to 3 zones. I chose Page_InitComplete event (as explained in PDC 05) to load UserControls dynamically into WebParts and A...more >>

I'm looking for a javascript solution (NOT using ASAX) to popup a 2nd form which invokes an .ASPX url. Nothing fancy, the 2nd form get's a result in the html. The 1st form should wait until 2nd form has completed execution, the 2nd form may be terminated by the user via the close button. Th...more >>

Hi all, I currently have a task that calls to send an e-mail from a textbox, and a field of a datagrid. When I send it from the multiline textbox, I notice that the text is sent as a single line, even though I try to send it to include the new line breaks. Is there any way to make the tex...more >>

I'm looking for some examples specific to ASP.NET that show how to serve data from a singleton instance to multiple sessions in a thread-safe manner. Any suggestions? TIA, Paul ...more >>

Hello, I need to add a dropdown list to datagrid. Once page is displayed on change of the selection of the dropdown for that row, I need to be able to capture the value of the dropdown and do some things in the code behind. I got Dropdown list to show up in the grid and all values that I need ar...more >>

Hi, I'm using Visual Web Developer 2005 to create a .skin file. But i have a problem (i think) ;o) When editing my skin file, in the toolbox, i can only drag HTML controls.. the Server Control (In the Standard section of the toolbox) are disabled. In skin file we can only pu...more >>

In ASP.NET 2.0 you have the choice of using the built in App_GlobalResoruces or App_LocalResources style of using resources or you can use your own resources utilizing satellite assemblies. In the SDK under "Resources in ASP.NET Applications" the documentation demonstrates how to use your own sa...more >>

Hello I've seen examples to read a file from somewhere into a HttpWebRequest object then write it to a HttpWebResponse object then stream it into a Stream object, very similar to the following code snipet :- ============================================== Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.somewh...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to use System.Web.Mail to send email via asp. I keep getting the error listed above.; obviously cdo is not installed on the respective server. Can anyone point me to away around this... Unfortunately i don't have control over the production server, so any work aro...more >>

Hey: I am a rookie developer so please bear with me. I want to develop a small application for my office but I am having trouble clearing a page that has required fields. If I make a textbox required and then trigger it by not entering in any data the page seems to be totally locked. (Whic...more >>

Hey gang, I'm in the process of fixing an application a former programmer slap together. We found the database design went against company standards, so our DBA went through to fix her up. Now I'm working on the task of fixing the UI code to interact properly with the new changes. However, ...more >>

Hi If I start a bunch of asynchronous threads using a deletegate.beingInvoke, what is the prefered way to have the main thread wait until all threads have returned before continuing ... I simply don't like the idea of an exmpty while loop, and even worse a while loop with a Thread.Sleep statem...more >>

Hi all - I got a pretty basic question that's been bugging me today. I'm using ASP.NET, C# and MS Access for a database driven application. I have a datagrid that will populate based on a registered user's access level. There are some instances where I'd like to use a basic OR statement in m...more >>

I have two questions in IIS, 1) If I assign my ASP.NET application to an application pool with one worker process only ,and if the worker process is supposed to be shut down after 20 minutes what happens to to my global variables like application objects and etc. 2) If I enable webga...more >>

hi, I have a datagrid with custom columns (autogeneratecolumn=false). Based on some logic I want to hid a column, or make a column visible. How can I do that? Forexample, if I have a <ASP:ButtonColumn> which is visible by default. If based on certain value , I want to hide it. How can...more >>

Hi, I am stumpt. Is there anyway to set the background image on a webpart title? ...more >>

C# ASP.NET1.1 w/ VS2003 on IIS6 Hi In my application, I have a "PageTemplate.ascx" that contains a user-provided template for a page with 2 controls on it, one of these is a content placeholder. In my BasePage class, the content placeholder is replaced with content gleaned from a data...more >>

Hi Guys, I have set the datatype of one column as image in database. I can upload doc, txt etc files in this column. How can i display the document in webpage for example set the text of label or use Reponse.Write? I am unable to do so as it shows some garbage letters and if set the con...more >>

I've written a java applet to write multipart form to post to asp.net page. It works, asp.net can read all the form values and things i wanted from the socket posting. Now I want to get some sort of a reply/response from asp.net, but as soon as I try to read something from java's socket's ...more >>

AJAX is great, but in order to reference specific class instances server-side, I have to maintain a static function to return them from a unique identifier. Only... the consumer controls themselves get disposed after the page loads! The object(s) I'm concerned with are not controls themselve...more >>

Hello everybody I'm working (or trying to, at least) with a gridview within another gridview, and the 'child' gridview is related with the 'parent' from a field. With a simple gridview I used to work all by codebehind (mostly because I get the XML from some librarys), using gridview.databin...more >>

iSupport SolutionsI've just installed VS 2005 standard on my XP Pro sp2 PC. Working with a web project on a file system works fine, running an asp web site from IIS works fine. But every time I try to run my recently created ASP.NET 2.0 web site IIS hangs and inetinfo.exe CPU usage hits 100%!!...more >>

I don't think this is possible, but wanted to check anyways. I have the following line of code in the Page_Load() event of every webform within as asp.net project... Dim GiftPurchase As AccountingLogic.Detroit.GiftPurchase Is there anyway I can have this automatically appear for each new ...more >>

I am using a TreeView to perform navigation and have a few nodes that need to generate a popup menu. For this, I use the SelectedNodeChanged event and then add the relevant "window.open" script to the page using the ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript method. This seems to work fine, but if ...more >>

Hello, I dont know how to get a recordset from sqldatasource with selectcommand and put in standard listbox (not html) when i press the standard button. Thank you ...more >>

Hi all, Ok - I guess this one will eventually still end up as a "personal choice" kinda answer, but I thought I'd run it passed the wealth of knowledge and experience that's in this group. Typically when I'm writing my classes I'll have a series of properties which I set to be read only,...more >>

Hi I am showing a text paragraph in a labe control. But, the label control is ignoring my "newLines".... (newline+carraige return) ( I correct this paragraph using a multiline textBox) how do I get the label to go to a new line at line breaks? Thanks Nalaka ...more >>

Hi all, I have just migrated a project from Web Matrix to VS. The project contains a class which retrieves values in the Session object. I am attempting to retrieve an instance of the Session object this way. I was certain that this worked previously??? Unfortunately is VS i am getting...more >>

After resigning myself to really learn JavaScript, I finally made my own grid control that populates itself and updates data . It's actually pretty sweet. The only problem I have with it is that every edit posts back, and when that happens, the browser accumulates a history of old page states ...more >>

I have a class written in visual basic that I would like to call from an aspx page. The vb file is called "encryption.vb", and it contains: Namespace Encryption Public Class Hash Public Class Symmetric and more classes I don't know how to call these classes from a aspx page. Do I...more >>

I am attempting to learn how to use Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 and am having no success in getting the content page to see the public properties in the master page. I am using code beside and have tried both with and without namespace references. Can anyone give me any suggestions on what ...more >>

Hello, friends, I tried to do cross-page posting, i.e., in firstpage.aspx I used action="secondpage.aspx". Since I am using asp.net 1.1, so it always goes back to firstpage.aspx aftern submitting firstpage.aspx. I then tried in page_load of firstpage.aspx: if (this.IsPostBack) ...more >>

Hello all, I have an aspx page with a Div that holds a few controls such as textbox and combo box. I use this same setup on several other pages with no problem. For one page in particular, the borders around the div are not rendered correctly and I am having a pickel of a time figuring...more >>

Hi, I would like to evaluate a field in a datagrids data source (that is not bound to a column in the grid) in code behind rather that using inline code Databinder.Eval(container.dataItem,"MyField"). I don't seem to be able to use "container" in code behind, Would appreciate if someone coul...more >>

Does anyone know how I could hide a column in a DataGrid? To make the problem harder I am using AutoGenerateColumns="True" so I don't know how to find the control using document.getElementById(ControlID) and then hiding it by using display:none; Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for the ...more >>

Hi : I want to use the asp.net calendar control. I have to provide the multilingual options. Can anyone pls let me know the properties being set for this control..... Thanks in advance Zahir ...more >>

is there any way to remove some information from trace, tracing by default displays session , application variables, but i need to remove these two from trace.can any let me know how can i do it?...more >>

Hi, I added a few link buttons in a function (loadControls) that is called only on the first time the page is loaded. On the postBack I don't call this function and want to retrieve the values of those controls (linkButtons). But the only time I can see the values is if call the (loadContro...more >>

Hi All, I will try to explain the problem I am facing. I have an aspx page which loads properly. It has a text box. When the user enter something in the text box and press button control next to it, I need to do some kind of validation and will provide a confirm message to the user (us...more >>

Hi All, First of all, following are the facts 1) I've been trying to solve the following issue for the past 8 hours (Not Kidding) 2) If I can't find the answer, It will drive me completely crazy Platform: XP Pro, .net 2.0 FrameWork, Visual Studio 2005 Problem Regarding: Theme and skins i...more >>

I have a simple form question. I order to access a payment gateway I have a asp.net page which has to have a form that use POST for method and _blank for target. Before the information of the form can be send of, a checksum has to be calculated. I want to calculate the checksum server side for...more >>

Hi What db does the built-in user control in asp.net uses? sql server? Access? is it possible to choose? Thanks Regards ...more >>

How to get an Access database on the web from my own computer I have an Access database project in inetpub/wwwroot/Access2 . I build it, and then press cntrl-F5. - I still get the development server - Version Information: ASP.NET Development Server 8.0.0.0, instead of IIS. This is a ser...more >>

Hi, I'm using asp.net 2.0 authentication with sql server 2005. I have also roles and I'd like to authenticate a user and then send them to specific page depending on roles. This is what I'm using: If Membership.ValidateUser(TextBox1.Text, TextBox2.Text) Then FormsAuthenticati...more >>

I can't believe that I've bought a couple books on ASP 2.0 and nothing says how to migrate a current project. I searched google and find all kinds of intense junk about compatibility, etc. but nothing with a few simple steps to upgrade the project. Maybe we won't be using all the new classes a...more >>