I'm having a problem when I place ASP:Textbox controls on a form. During design time the control's backcolor is set to white. When I run the project in debug mode or deploy the page to a test web server, the backcolor for some of the fields changes to yellow. I've reviewed the HTML and do...more >>

Hi, if I want my asp.net application to have a consistent look and feel throughout, is there any techniques or mechanism to do it? It's something like template or skin. So that when I decided to change the layout of the application, I do not have to change it in every of my aspx file. In...more >>

Hi - I'm having trouble Databinding a SQLDataReader to a DataGrid control. I have an ASP.NET web page accessing a SQL database. I've used VS to build the app and stored it in a directory of my localhost on my development machine. The database is on the web. When I run the app on the loc...more >>

I've been able to essentially disable the back button on IE6 by expiring the cache. I would like to do the same for the browser that runs on pocketPC. I believe it is IE4. However this technique doesn't seem to work. Anyone know how I might try to keep the back button from showing previous ...more >>

For an asp.net project that is deployed to a load balanced web servers, are there any performance changes that can be made in .Net runtime or IIS 6? Also are there any additional tips for reviewing the asp.net (VB) code for improving performance? ...more >>

When using server.transfer generates the following error. Thread was being aborted Mscorlib I have added Catch threadEx As System.Threading.ThreadAbortException ' do nothing To the code but still the error is produced, the page is not transferred to the other page but the...more >>

I'm using an article "http://www.dotnetjohn.com/articles.aspx?articleid=36" to create an exported excel doucment, it works great expect when I placed an reponse.write catch error on his try/catch I get this: Catch Exc As Exception Response.Write("Error: " & Exc.Message & "<br...more >>

Hi, Are datalists able to have labels inside of the ItemTemplate? Every time I try to place a label in the Item Template it does not show up in the code behind/intellisense. FYI the datalist contains items that can be placed in shopping cart. I want the label to notify the user that the placem...more >>

My customer wants a user to be logged out of the system when he uses the same browser to navigate to a different website (without explicitly logging out). In other words, if the user navigates to a different website and uses the "Back" button to get back to my application, he should have to l...more >>

After a post back the selected index should be rest in a droplist to match user's choice, but page always show selected item as first one in the droplist. How can iforce the selected item to be reset I have: Sub Page_Load(s As Object, e As EventArgs) If Page.IsPostBack then ...more >>

Hi Guys, I have a website coded in c#. Now one of our programmer want to code another application in vb .net for no reason and wants to put it as a virtual directory under the my application. I am not sure if this can be done or not. Can someone shed some light on this topic? Thanks Man...more >>

Hi, all stuff works fine if i define absolute paths but with relative i have some problems: i defined my at Internet Information Services (IIS) home directory of my "default web site" and I define in my application all file destinations relative to this home directory. An example from .aspx...more >>

I am trying to hide all my datalistitems, which contain labels, textboxes a datagrid, etc. I want to show each datalist item one at a time on the page as the user pages through it. I tried: for each oItem as DataListItem in DataList1.Items oItem.Visible = false And that doesn't se...more >>

Dear Group Is there any information or your views on session variable security? I'm using my own authentization, storing whether a user has access to a page in a session variable being either set to true or false. I evaluate the variable in the page load event and if false the user is direc...more >>

Where do I find a news group for ASP.Net 2.0 ? I tried to install the November and December Beta 2, but none of them installs one Windows 2003 server. ...more >>

Hello! Is it possible to fill a DataSet only once without need to fill it again every time in custom methods? Dim myDS As DataSet Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load If Not Page.IsPostBack Then Dim Product...more >>

Is is possible to have a web service running in the same folder as a web site in ASP.Net? I've been given someone else's project and the naming's not that great, and the clients asked for them to be merged into one folder. http://servername/myApp/defaultForm.aspx http://servername/myApp/w...more >>

im having my first play about with caching a dataset but seem to be = having some problems in doing so!! basically i have a dataset which i add to the cache as follows Cache.Insert("myDS", dsResults, Nothing, DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(5), = TimeSpan.Zero) i then have a select button whi...more >>

I have a div area in my ASP.NET page template with this HTML in it: <iframe id="ifmContent" name="ifmContent" src="about:blank" frameborder="0"></iframe> I beleive this iframe is an HtmlGenericControl, and in my C# code-behind I am trying to enumerate all HtmlGenericControls in the div t...more >>

Dear all in my asp.net application i have a text file that is installed with my application on the server. this text file is filled with data through a web interface in my application. i need to know how could i update this text file programatically and using a web interface. what i need is n...more >>

Dear Group Just wondered what this meta tag is for: <meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" name="vs_targetSchema"> Can I remove it or change it to <meta content="https://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" name="vs_targetSchema"> as I think that might be the pr...more >>

I'm trying to set up a front controller pattern in my web application but having Session issues when using Server.Transfer. I have created a web handler that processes requests for .ptv files. I have enabled default documents for the web app and set the top entry to default.ptv and have create...more >>

If I am using FormsAuthentication, is there a way to check who is logged in? I want to be able to check at any particular time, not just how many people are logged in, but who they are. One thing I want to do is not allow someone to log on from one browser and then log on again at the same...more >>

I have written a shopping cart type web application using session variables to store the shopping cart details (with a timeout of 59 minutes). Originally my timeout was set to the default 20 minute timeout, but I was finding that people could take longer than 20 minutes between pages. So my ...more >>

Is there a way to automatically jump to a session has ended error message automatically from all my pages? Right now I have to check to see if the session cookies are gone from each page. Thanks, Tom ...more >>

Is there a way to tell the validators to not fire if one of the validators fails the input? For example: In the following code, if someone doesn't enter anything in the field, I should get the message " A password must be entered". I am also getting the message that I need " 1 numeric",...more >>

I'd like to write a RegEx that validates the format of a file name - The first two letters should be "dc" or "iq" - Followed by a period - Any six integers - Followed by a period - The letters "lw", or "cw" - Followed by ".txt" Valid examples for the file names are dc.050277.lw.txt dc...more >>

hi all i created a stored procedure like this which retruns values am not sure whether it is correct or not. if it is wrong can you tell me where i did mistake. CREATE PROCEDURE QA_Select_Candidate @role sql_variant AS declare @fname varchar(50) , @lname varchar(50) , @email varcha...more >>

I have a RegularExpressionValidator that doesn't seem to work correctly if you don't enter anything. In the following, it works correctly if you have at least 1 character. If you just enter through the field it lets you (even thoug no entry would be less that 6 characters. <asp:te...more >>

Hi, I want to develop p2p (peer-to-peer) communication connection for chat in ..Net (Lang: c# - preferable) NOTE: if two LAN are behind their own router then also it should work as yahoo, msn messenger works. Let me explain scenario: In yahoo: - We login to yahoo server from yahoo messeng...more >>

I have created a three-column .aspx web page using css via an external css file. I can add fonts to the columns, but when I try to add a control the size of the column is rendered wrong, and takes up the entire space. Actually, if you click on the control it appears to be taking up all of the ...more >>

I need to use a label control that depending on the page where the control is use sets the control into a sort of edit mode. That is, I need to use a label that sometimes I can type text to. Can this be done? or Is there another control I can use to accomplish this (web control or HTML)? HS...more >>

Hi, In my asp .net page am using many controls and a grid.i populate many html controls innside the grid dynamically .if i click the grid ,it wll go to other page using onclick client side javascript function. I,want my grid data to be maintained in cache when i click the html button. be...more >>

I have the need to display some images that are stored on my server in one of my ASP.NET WebForms. EPS images are not supported so I was wondering if there is a way to convert the image temporarily to either .GIF or .JPG format so that it will be in a valid format for display on the web. Th...more >>

Playing Flash Files in ASP.NET Copy the HTML code below and paste it into your HTML<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase="http://downloa d.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"WIDTH ="550" HEIGHT="400" id="myMovieName"><PARAM NAME=mo...more >>

How is it possible to designate a textbox so that when the .aspx page is displayed the cursor is already there so the user can just start typing instead of having to click in the textbox with the mouse first? thanks, T ...more >>

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how best to implement a Reset button which will reload the aspx page (do a PostBack) which will reload the page from an Oracle database (in the PostBack section). Can someone tell me how best to do this? Thanks :) ...more >>

Our site gets searched by robots all the time. This is great. However, many of our pages that we want to be cataloged are data driven, so we end up with pages like: www.ourdomain.com/products.aspx?productid=356 Let's assume that we stop selling productid 356. This means that the url abov...more >>

Can someone explain this? I am writing an owner rendered User Control that basically wraps some functionality around a text box. This control uses client side javascript and implments IPostBackDataHandler. In order for my JaveScript to find the control using GetElementByID I must emit Con...more >>

I have a web form with datagrids. I would like users to be able to print the page and control the location of the page break somehow, so text doesn't get divided between two pages. Has anyone already thought of good ways to format a web forms page for printing? Can I get it to print landsca...more >>

Bakground: I have a webform (LoadCtl.aspx) which loads the user control to a placeholder dynamically based on the ctlName querystring passed in the URL. Webform (LoadCtl.aspx) also passes a variable (targetId) in to the usercontrol (IntergySite.aspx) by calling its setter method. Currently,...more >>

Hi inorder to display check boxes in datagrid, in itemtemplate i had written like this. <input type="checkbox" id="chkclient" runat="server" name="chkclient" disabled> also am using <asp:editcommandcolumn>. what i want is whenever i click on edit button within any row of a datagri...more >>

Hi, Im a It Grad with 4+years dev experence in Coldfusion, ive dabbled with Perl and traditional ASP. I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a 'Hello World' App in ASP.net which goes on with a few other examples so that I can start to get to grips with the lang...more >>

Hi, We have a section of our website that requires NT authentication ex. http://www.oursite.com/secure . So once a user tries to access this section he/she is required to type in a username/password. Is it possible to send this username/password in C#.NET? So that the user doesn't get pro...more >>

Hi, I am trying to export the contents of a DataGrid to Excel. I have already found the following articles: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317719 http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Code/2003/Sept/ExportASPNetDataGridToExcel.asp These methods _only_ work if the followin...more >>

Bakground: I have a webform (LoadCtl.aspx) which loads the user control to a placeholder dynamically based on the ctlName querystring passed in the URL. Webform (LoadCtl.aspx) also passes a variable (targetId) in to the usercontrol (IntergySite.aspx) by calling its setter method. Currently,...more >>

Hi, My ASP.NET application (running on IIS) doesn't see any of the printers installed on its server. I'd like it to be able to see, and print to, all printers. Is there a way to give the ASP.NET user this kind of access? Apologies if this is an IIS newbie question! Cheers, Rik...more >>

Hi, we use 5 worker process on win2k3 to serve. We have a small form with a post back. It nearly almost throws "Unable to validate data" (ViewState is not getting too long). We save your session infos in SQL Server. If we turn down the processes to one, everything is alright. Does anyone...more >>

Hi all, I have vs.net 2003 locally installed on my XP PRO machine. I have a web server on the LAN which has a website configured at http://services. This is accessible via my web browser and already has a web service (built using sdk and notepad) at http://services/services/services.asmx. Now ...more >>

I am creating an upload/download function for an extranet site. Files will be uploaded to directory based upon the users login and associated project. The function works as long as I use "c:\Temp" as the directory. When I use any other hard coded directory or even Server.MapPath() the upload f...more >>

I am working on an issue where and ASP.NET web application on one computer (A) needs to access files on a network mapped drive (B). This application uses as DSN on (A) that maps a proprietory ODBC driver to data on a (B). The DSN directory path points to mapped network drive mounted on (A)...more >>

Can someone please take a look at this code and tell me what I am doing wrong??? I am getting the following error: ---------------------------------------------------- Object reference not set to an instance of an object. -------------------------------------------------- at this line: ...more >>

Hi, I want to know what is the code if once i click the hyperlink it will automatically pop up the microsoft outlook to allow the user to send email via microsoft outlook. and how the mailto is automatically appear in To: text box in the microsoft outlook. thanks....more >>

Hi all, can you link me to a directory that contains ready-to-use .Text/Community Server Skins? I'm looking for a XHTML Skin, using table-less layout. Thank you so much! Bye -- Stefano Giannone MCP .NET http://www.giasoft.it ...more >>

I have a select statement that isn’t functioning properly: private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { myClubNow1=new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year,DateTime.Now.Month,DateTime.Now.Day); dsClub=new DataSet(); ...more >>

I have a stored procedure which returns a decimal field from a table and i want my asp.net page to read in the result and then diplay it in a textbox or a label. What is the best way to do this? ...more >>

I am building an ASP.net application which will generate a formatted Excel report. Is there a way I can using the Excel on the client pc? Do I have to do a full install of Excel on the server or just add the needed dll's to my ASP.net project. Terry ...more >>

I created a ASP.NET page using C# and I'm using two components to access a MS-Access database, which are: - oleDbConnection - oleDataAdapter The MS-Access database is in the correct directory (IIS has permission to read/write) and everything seems ok, but IIS says that it can't open the ...more >>

I'm using ASP.NET and SQL Server and this might be an obviuos question for most, but if I have a table that contains several fields that I need to relate to just one field in another table, how do I do that? I.e. Table 1 has Integer values for enteredbyID, CoordID, CustContactID Table 2 is t...more >>

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Hi, I have on my page something about 50 buttons that "user" should use only for loading some session-variables: click on the button -> session variables loaded and i wish that after click, clicked button changes his color and thats no problem. I use: Button43.Color=red; ... or som...more >>

I'm have a situation where I need to put a download link/button on a page, where the file to be downloaded does not exist on our webservers .... So I'm using Response.WriteFile (i've also tried Response.TransmitFile) to put the file into the response.. My trouble is with a Zip file.. The user ...more >>

I am using the System.Diagnostics.Process class in order to loop thru all the processes running. Within that loop I am looking for the process name “aspnet_wp” in order to get the process ID. Once I find it, I use the process ID to find all the threads running under that process. This work...more >>

Hello All, If some one has faced a similar issue.. My datagrid Update command is not getting fired in fact it seems that the no event fires on clicking the update link. Although the cancel and the Edit Commmand are getting fired properly. The One difference I have seen is that in the task b...more >>

I have to ListBox controls (or 2 html select controls with runat=server) on a web page and some buttons to move data from one listbox to another (using javascript). The problem is that when the page gets on the server I can't get the items that I've moved from the 1st list to the second on the c...more >>

Is it necessary to use dataset as the datasource of a listbox? can I use an array as the datasource of a ListBox? ...more >>

Hi, How do I pass a session variable & cookies from ASP.NET page to coldfusion page? Thanks in advance Priya...more >>

Hi, I have posted this question on various forums/websites without much success. Is there any strategy in place for producing and editing word documents within an asp.net project. This seems like a fairly straightforward requirement and yet all the possible solutions suggest using either ...more >>

Hi, I have put a datagrid on a aspx page named "PriceCheck". I have added an templatecolumn and put a label to hat column. The code as the custom binding expression of this labels text property is as follows: ctype(Page,PriceCheck).isinstock(Container.dataitem("unitsinstock")) But when i ...more >>

Hello all, I have written an application in VB.net where I set a session. I have also written another application is C# and want to retrieve the session that I set above, however, I cant seem to pick it up! Why is that? Does asp.net allow this? Thanks in advance, Jon...more >>

Hi, Can any one please help me. I am trying to connect to a webservice via SSL using a webpage over a proxy server. The webservice requires client certificate to authorise the transaction. I am connecting to this webservice via a normal web page (not on SSL). I am running the Webpage on IIS6....more >>

Hi. First of all, I *HAVE* to express my annoyance with how badly (at least) this content thing is documented in MSDN. There's no head, nor tail to it. Anyway, I have this code in a form named "Download.aspx". There's all there is to it - no UI, nothing else. This is all the code. __________...more >>

I'm opening an Excel file using ASP.NET, but Excel process remains it is not killed, I tried killing it by using Quit() that is also not working, if anybody have any solution for this please help me out. ********************************************************************** Sent via Fuzzy Sof...more >>