Hi all, I have an ASP .Net project that I need to copy to another PC. When I tried it, it did not work by just creating the virtual directory, and copying the source files there. Is there anything else that needs to be done ? Thanks, Carlos ...more >>

Hi all i am using <customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="ErrorDisplay.aspx"/> in my web.config file and getting redirected to "ErrorDisplay.aspx" in almost all the unhandled exceptions but in case of certain errors its not getting redirected (especialy Acces Violations(object refrence to...more >>

Can someone help me try to figure out why my pages load twice? While debugging other issues, I notice that a great many of my pages run through the onload method twice, and sometimes they run through the onclick method of buttons two times as well. As far as onlick is concerned, I checked th...more >>

Hi all, Does anyone have experience of using VS .NET 2003 and .NET framework 2.0? If so, could you tell me what's required to get them to work together? Am I going to meet any particular problems? TIA -- Fabio Marini To reply: news [at] mamakin1976 [dot] plus [dot] com...more >>

I have three TextBoxes. Say, txtValue1, txtValue2 and txtValue3... After the user enters something into the txtValue1 and tabs; I want to go to the serverside, call a method(which will take txtValue1's value as argument) and fill in the values of txtValue2 and txtValue3. To do this, I need t...more >>

Hi group, I am getting the "could not load type" error and I'm not sure how to debug. Obviously it's a namespace error but I don't see it. Below are code snippets. Yes, the files sit in a subdirectory called "admin". The webpages in the root directory, "psyche" do not have any errors. So it's ...more >>

Hi all, Our application has 300+ dlls, which causes ASP.NET very slow (2-3 minutes) the first time load it. This is acceptable for production but it's really annoying for developers. When debuging an application, developers need to frequently compile and start an ASP.NET application. Althoug...more >>

Two parter: 1.) Which is better to fill a listbox or dropdownlist, a dataset or datareader? Both use a connection, but dataset uses memory. And if you're only fill a dropdownlist or listbox does it matter? Maybe if you need the same data for another control? 2.) If the dataset (datatable...more >>

Hi NG, I have a weird problem, that's starting to get my sanity. My webapplication stores several values in Session["xxx"]. After a server roundtrip, no Session variables exist anymore (Session.Count is 0) I have logged the Session.SessionID, it is the same as before. I have logged the...more >>

Hello! I have set the Session Timeout to 5 minutes. I login to the Web Page and then wait for 6 minutes. Then I again try to get the page and the Session does not expire. I checked the Expires field in the ASPStateTempSessions Table and it shows the correct value. What I expect is that wh...more >>

My asp.net seems to want to connect to a UNC share by default. It can never find the share: \\myserver\wwwroot$\mysite What is this? I know what a standard UNC share looks like and this aint it. ("wwwroot$"?) What creates it? Why doesn't it exist on my W2003 server? Thanks! ...more >>

Just wondering if anyone has ever seen a 3rd party component that facilitates the creation of text images. I know I can "roll my own" but was not wanting to reinvent the wheel. I searched www.asp.net and google, but didn't find anything other than how-to articles. Thanks! ...more >>

Can I use html+time DHTML in an ASPX page? Writing in VB.NET Following some examples I have the following code in HTML view: <STYLE> .time { behavior: url(#default#time2) } .looks {border: 4px solid black; width:250px;height:250px; filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(); ...more >>

What shall I do to clear the default text of a textbox when this is selected? Hector...more >>

What shall I do to have a textbox that clears its default text when it is selected? Hector...more >>

Hi everyone, I am working on a web app that I would like to integrate an address book import function into (similar to the one available on our Share Point Team site). I have been searching for awhile now with no luck into how SharePoint calls the Address Book and then Imports selected con...more >>

Why is there no runtime tag in the web.config like there is in the app.config, or am I wrong??? I want to have the asp.net apps pick up the DLL references at run time. -- Patrick...more >>

I would like my ASP.NET apps to pick up there associated assembly references at runtime but I do not see a runtime tag in the web.config schema, or am I wrong? -- Patrick...more >>

I'm wondering if it's a good idea (or not) to include try-catch blocks in the Global.asax handlers (specifically, Application_Start and Session_Start). So, does anyone know if I should include try-catch blocks in my Global.asax handlers? And, if so, what should I do with the caught exception ...more >>

im dynamically loading dropdown boxes on page.load like this : cbo1.Items.Add("") cbo1.Items.Add("OT") cbo1.Items.Add("ST") cbo1.Items.Add("Ho") cbo1.Items.Add("FMLSK") cbo1.Items.Add("FMLOI") cbo1.Items.Add("FMLPE") cbo1.Items.Add("...more >>

This is a huge problem. I'm going insane. I've tried to solve this elsewhere and no one can suggest how to make this work. To me, this should be a very basic thing to do. I have an asp.net application that is a survey acceptor. The site is to display a page of survey questions and accept t...more >>

I have a hidden field inside one datagrid which I can't get to make it keep its state after a postback event. Look field: <input type="hidden" id="TxtHiddenItem_id" name="TxtHiddenItem_id" runat="server" value='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container, "DataItem.item_id").ToString() %>'> I can get ...more >>

I am rewriting some ASP pages to move them to ASP.NET (VB). The old pages had some include files such as one that had the subroutine to create a connection as well as the code that invoked that sub. My understanding (never tried a user control before so I may well have this screwed up) is that...more >>

Hi all, We have a website which has some html(static), asp(pages with forms) and some .aspx (pages with forms) pages. Can someone tell me the advantages of having the entire website in .aspx vs having static pages as html, and pages with forms in either asp/asp.net. One idea behind converti...more >>

Anybody know what control Microsoft used for the expanding nodes part of this page? It looks like a variation of a DataGrid to me, but the only DataGrid I can find info on that has these capabilities is in Windows Forms. -- Sandy...more >>

Hi, I'm entering a date into an SQL server using an Infragistics control. The control picks the date format up from the system setting (UK). When the date is entered into the database, it thinks its in US format and switches the month & day. In the stored procedure thats storing the data...more >>

My client wants to be able to search the content of his site that is built using ASP.net user controls that dynamically load into a single aspx page. The content is not dynamic, however. How would I go about sending this up, because I am not even sure where to start. As you can probably tel...more >>

I have several applications all on the same server. I would like them to all use the same login page. Example: http://server1/customers/app1.aspx http://server1/suppliers/byregion/app2.aspx I have a login page located in the root of the same server: http://server1/login.aspx None of the...more >>

All - Is there a preferred method to assign session variables in ASP.NET / VB.NET? It looks like you can do any of the following to assign values: Session.Item("Foo") = "Bar" Session("Foo") = "Bar" Sesssion.Add("Foo", "Bar") It looks like you can do either of the following to get valu...more >>

I have a umangaged dll ( I have the source code) which I use in my web app using pinvoke. The dll creates a file, writes to it, and then closes it. It works the first time through but the second time through it can't open file so my dll fails and returns an error number. I then try to delete t...more >>

Our .NET applications and Web sites use configuration files with custom sections. It's no problem to read a section with dots in its name from a Windows .NET application, e.g. "MyCompany.Product.Feature". However an attempt to read such section from Web site's web.config file raises exceptio...more >>

I find a lot of .Net decompilers that brings me the full source code, there is a way to avoid this ? Pietro...more >>

Hi, I am trying to set a row backcolor based on the value of a cell in my datagrid but it's not working This is what I have Private Sub grdProcessingTitles_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs) Handles grdPro.ItemDataBound ...more >>

Sorry if this is OT, I'm not sure where else to research this... I recently added a "global error handler" via an HTTP Module so I could log all otherwise unhandled exceptions. Every day I get a number of exceptions in one of my sites (published on the Internet) that are as follows: Messa...more >>

Hi All We found that ASP.net is skipping the special characters passed in a URL ?context.Request.RawUrl RawUrl: "/iPower/GUI/DSHContactSearch.dset?@pvcClientName=&@pvcSurname=Røssland&@pvcFirstName=&@pvcErrMsg=" ?context.Request.Item("@pvcSurname") "Rssland" The character 'ø' is miss...more >>

Hi, I have a web server (IIS 6 on Windows 2003) and just ported over my web app from IIS 5. Everything used to work on IIS 5 but now on IIS 6 my scripts cannot find the namespace compipiled in the dll in my bin directory. It crashes at: MyNameSpace.MyClass var = new MyNameSpace.MyClass();...more >>

Hello ! I've got weird problem when adding new datagrid item. Here is the situation: my grid dgDeps is binded to DepartmentList arraylist, stored in Session between round-trips.. To add new item I press buttton with ibNewDep_Click event. After that the grid is in edit state and I can modify n...more >>

Ok, this is incredibly annoying. Below I have an ImageButton and it's ImageButton_Click sub. See the 6 response.writes? The output for them is displayed below in asterisks. Question: What part of the TemplateColumn below does sender.parent.parent.Cells(9) reference??? IOW, what tag does it refer...more >>

We have an aspnet project where 2 people are working on and we have put the source files into subversion. Thinking that they were not crucial for a project, we did not put in the resx files. But after we both ran into strange problems and we added the resx files to the project it all seemed to w...more >>

Hello, In our new intranet ASP.NET project, two requirements are that the browser accept cookies AND JavaScript. We are requiring the use of Internet Explorer 6+. 1. Using C# in an ASP.NET application, how can we code the project to check to make sure the browser accepts cookies? 2. Where...more >>

I have a RadioButtonList that can be disabled on the form via a higher up checkbox. Even if the checkbox disables the radio buttons, I do want to save to a DB the currently selected radio button...so I can restore the user's last choice. Seems like if the RadioButtonList is disabled (via clie...more >>

I installed vs.net 2005 on a machine that also has vs.net 2003 on it. Since all of the 2003 projects then got converted to 2005 projects, I decided to uninstall 2005 so that I could do some work on the 2003 projects. This worked OK, but now I want to re-install 2005 and it will not reinstall .n...more >>

Hi, I am persisting the viewstate for each page into the Cache object, below is shown my methods for saving and loading: I am able to save the viewstate to the cache and most times I can load it ok, however it seems that every now and again it fails to Deserialize the viewstate. My Ap...more >>

I have an asp.net application that stores two worker threads in the application object like so Application["ThreadName"] = thread; These objects are persistent and continuously do polling and other work. Unfortunately, when iis recycles a process the old process hangs around even though it...more >>

Does ASP.NET (this website) runs on XML files? Thanks! ...more >>

There are lots of reasons that the WPs can be recycled or killed. When a WP is recycled, all the InProc sesssion data is lost correct? Is there any way to a) find out WHY the recycle happened e.g. failed requests, memory leak, scheduled recycle, lack of requests etc b) programmatically get a ...more >>

I read that you can assign multiple ASP.NET applications to run in the same AppPool, in which case they share resources. If you do this, can the 2 applications that share an AppPool share InProc session data? ...more >>

If you enable the webgarden setting on a server that has multiple processors, IIS will create multiple worker processes correct? Is it correct that when this happens, these processes can not share inproc session data? ...more >>

I am trying to send an email using our mailserver but keep getting an error. Here is the code: SmtpMail.SmtpServer = "MAILSERV.meas-inc.com" SmtpMail.Send(me@myserv.com", "someuser@mail.com", "Sub Text", "Msg Text") Exception = Could not access 'CDO.Message' object. Base Exception = The mess...more >>

I have a classic asp app which is reaching the end of it's lifetime in so far as being able to maintain it and I want to re-write it in asp.net. A complete re-write, although desireable, is out of the question for various reasons. My desire is to convert bits of the classic asp as I go therefor...more >>

I am trying to create a search page for a database that will display in a repeater, using a stored procedure. The page_load is fine, and calls/displays all rows from the db just fine. When I input something in the search field to display more specific results, the repeater displays blank. Here a...more >>

Hey, in my init I created some code to create a tabbed interface. The code worked very well. It simply adds a table with the required cells/rows to a placeholder, which is located on the page. Now I tried to implement this in a seperate class. I created a new namespace which has a cla...more >>

Hello, I have the following problem: I have a class Foo, and a class Bar. I want Foo to inherit from Bar, but i want to put them in separate files Foo.vb and Bar.vb. Then i will use the Foo Class in a code behind separate file called CodeBehind.vb Then i will use this CodeBehind normally...more >>

I am pretty new to .NET and I need a little guidance... I have a generic "add user" form. When the user fills out the form, I check to see if the username is unique in the datasource. If it's not, I want to postBack to the original form, populating all of the data except for the username so ...more >>

I am only just begun using .net etc. I create a program (etc), it compiled and ran on the local machine. The program was then uploaded on a remote server. I have found in testing it that the buttons no longer work -- when they are clicked I am taken to a error webpage that is titled Invalid synt...more >>

I have a problem that I can see the reason for but cannot figure out a solution. I am using a simple URL rewriter to map www.me.com/1/2/3/4/product.aspx to www.me.com/product?filter=1/2/3/4 to make my site Google-friendly. The site dynamically adopts the correct master pages and themes acc...more >>

What is the best way to approach this problem? I have a datagrid with an imagebutton. When one clicks the imagebutton it triggers an onClick sub which makes column 9 (a user control) visible or invisible. Only problem is when one clicks the imagebutton on a specific row, I want *only* that row's...more >>

Hello, in my init I am adding some controls into a placeholder. The complete procedure looks like this: Dim iLoop As Integer = 0 Dim table As New Table table.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Gainsboro table.CellPadding = 2 table.CellSpacing = 0 ...more >>

Hi: Me question is the next: I would like know how, I can do it to pass params, from a control of a page ASPX to other page ASPX, but I don't want that this params can see in the URL, besides I want use this params in the page, how I can do it to request this params...?? I am using...more >>

Hi guys, Our team has a very strange problem. I hope anybody can help. We have a class called webpage and all our aspx-pages bases on it. Then we have a SYS.IO.File Class which have a function. This function checks the hash value of some ini-files. If the hash value is not valid then the f...more >>

I have a 3rd party link button control that when clicked does not retain it's visited color status on postback. (Actually, the first control on the form does, but all others do not.) When I hover the mouse over the link button control, I can see the custom javascript in the browser's status b...more >>

This is my first attempt to use a User Control and I am totally confused. Basically, I am rewriting a set of ASP pages in ASP.NET (VB). The old ASP files used Include files for common sub routines like connection, managing background color on objects with focus, etc.. In looking through my asp.ne...more >>

I have read in one article that when we compile the application in release mode, all the debug classes and properties will be automatically removed from the code. I tried to implement this thing by using the following code in Page_Load event handler. Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender A...more >>

I hv to store data with HTML tags in database. user will input data with html tags for e.g.<strong> Name <strong>. And when i will read data in webpage then "Name" should eb bold. but i m getting problem in storing data in database. When i input text with html tags in textbox and click on submi...more >>

Hi guys, I have a presenation to make to my supervisor, presenting my web-application. I want the web-application in asp.net that I am developing on my pc here can presented over the internet. When I run it on localhost or on my own IP Address e.g. 192.33.33.33/NameOfMyProject then it works...more >>

Hi. I am writing an app which stores usernames/passwords and email addresses in a database table. The question is how can I encrypt the password provided by the user ? FormsAuthentication.Encrypt produces an encrypted string, but it is for use in a ticket. On the other hand, FormsAuthen...more >>

I am working on an intranet and have a web app that I need to use authentication for signing a document. As an organization we have decided that a username and date/time stamp would be sufficient to be considered a signature. On some pages data is submitted and I'm just concerned about captu...more >>

Our company is writing a forum software that can handle English and Chinese posts. So that those without Chinese fonts etc can avoid trouble viewing our site, we'd like to on the fly change any post made in Chinese into a GIF file of the text. There is a piece of Java software available to...more >>

How do I refresh the page using code in the same way a user would hit F5. TIA, Steve ...more >>