Hi. I was handling key events nicely using some Javascript on my apps using something like this: this.txtUserName.Attributes.Add("onkeydown","if((event.which && event.which == 13)||(event.keyCode && event.keyCode == 13)){document.Form1.cmdLogin.click();return false;}else return true;"); th...more >>

Pulling my hair out here! I have a datagrid with a number of bound columns (NOT template columns). When choosing to Edit, the textboxes appear, but the font is not the same as the original text (i.e., 8pt Tahoma). Anyone know how to change the Font size when the Edit box appears? I've tried ...more >>

I hope someone can help - I am getting desperate! I have promised to do some work for someone developing an ASP.NEt application. I have VS Studio 2002 installed on my pc which is running XP-Pro (and therefore IIs 5.1) and have instannled .Net framework v1.1.4322. I canot create a new web ...more >>

Dear all, I am trying to understand postack event ordering. for that I have a web form with a text box, listbox and button server controls. Then I add a response.write in eaxh control event changed. When I run my application I proceed in following order : First I change a text in the tex...more >>

could you please give me links of "free ebooks" regarding vb.net and ado.net ...more >>

Doing the simple DropDown List binding using the method NextResult() But its just not populating .. what am i missing Its populating the 3 DropDwonList but no Data? Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) If Not IsPostBack Then Dim sql...more >>

I have a problem with ASP.NET and entering data into a MS SQL database. I have the following code and what happens is the data gets into the database, but with one extra space at the end of the entry. Is this preventable with something other than a trim in my stored procedure? I know thi...more >>

Hi. Is there any way to count how many items are selected on a CheckBoxList control without iterating throug the items? I have a For...Next loop that only needs to be taken into action if the CheckBoxList control has at least one selected item. Thanks, Robert Scheer ...more >>

Hello, I created a login system and I my passwords are being hashed. I need to check if everything is working so I need to generate some hashed passwords to replace the actual passwords I have in this moment in my database. How can I do this? I have the following data in my database: U...more >>

How do you handle the HttpRequestValidationException? I don't want an error page to appear, a repost and an error message. Is there another alternative to handle this if ValidateRequest id set to false? -------------------------------- From: d k ----------------------- Posted by a user f...more >>

How do you get a view to update when a table it uses is updated? I am using asp.net, C# and MS SQL. Thanks in advance - Norm -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com...more >>

Is there an wasy way to ADD a record to and access database using asp.net without getting involved in databinding my form to the database? Esentially I want the form to be edited by a user and on the button click subroutine will verify the fields add the record to the database. Any eample ...more >>

Hello, I have this code line: Dim ticket As FormsAuthenticationTicket = New FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, tbusername.Text, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(30), True, reader.GetString(0), FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath) And I get this error: Name 'DateTime' is not declared...more >>

In asp.net 2.0 you can apply custom themes based on a user profile, etc. And you can change the theme programmatically, etc. But how do you edit or create a theme programmatically? I am working on a content management system where the user needs to be able to select fonts, colors, etc. Right n...more >>

If I create two aspx pages, place three text boxes (working with VS .net 2003 and web form controls) and a button on both forms. On the first page, the button is set to use the "onClick" to open the second page using Window.Open with the values being passed to the second page by a global varia...more >>

Hi, I have a DataGrid in which there are some images and Data are displayed and in the webform.asp page i am using some stylesheets. when i export the datagrid all the images are also exported to datagrid and it is giving an alert that following stylesheets are missing when i export it. can...more >>

I've been working on what appears to be a cursed ASP.NET project....so many things have gone wrong that Murphy would be proud. ;-) Anyway, I shut down the project in VS.NET at one point this afternoon and when I tried going back in, I received the following message: "The web server reported ...more >>

In an "Abandon Changes" button on my UserPreferences.aspx form, I'd like to redirect back to the page the user was on before coming to the UserPreferences form. It could be any one of my web app's pages with a link to the UserPreferences page in its topmenu. (I'm testing for stale session tokens...more >>

I have enabled the session to be without cookie. It adds the session id to the url. But the problem is, i can't take the session id part from the Request.Url. Taking session id is not my purpose. I know, i can take it from the Session.SessionId property. I have used Request.Url.LocalPath...more >>

Hi, I've created many MS Access databases that report info from a DB2/400 system here, and I am trying to learn to put these into web applications. I am using the following walkthrough as a guide to create an application in visual basice. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsintro7/ht...more >>

I want to update a database record with a number of fields - doesn't sound to difficult at this stage! I have a system to select the correct record from the database and load the data into a form across a number of text boxes and a single drop down list (the idea being that the text boxes c...more >>

I have a page that uses a DataList control, and I need to get at the data in the codebehind. I have done it in the HTML side of things with the following command: <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "BodyItemName")%> But how would I access this in the, say, "ItemCommand" event? Thank...more >>

Hello everybody! Imagine a form with several TextBox WebControls and two buttons "New" which should clear the form and "Save". On reloading or leaving the page which holds the form the TextBoxes should be cleared so I've disabled the ViewStates of these TextBoxes by setting the EnableViewState...more >>

I am sending an email with attachments from a dotnet ASP application. If I send an email it works fine if the attachment is located in a folder on my pc, which is open to all users on that PC, it usually works fine. If I try to send something form My Documents, the file cannot be sent. Why ...more >>

Hi All, I recently installed Win2k3 web edition of OS on a m/c. I moved some of my existing ASPX on it with xcopy. To my surprise none of the ASPX Apps are able to render. I am getting the Generic IE Error Page where it asks you to connect to Internet Via the Tools/Connection/LAN etc... I tried ...more >>

user launches: GET http://www.somewhere.com/someVirtual we need to intercept and redirect to: http://www.somewhere.com/handler.aspx?virtual=someVirtual Any ideas how? The key here is that the virtual is removed and passed as a parameter to my aspx page somehow. and that all request ha...more >>

I inherited a lot of code from somebody who had done lots of User Controls (which I'm grateful for) but it would be nice if I could see the visual side of the object. Is there any way to load the object other than writing a page that loads the object? TIA Jeffrey. ...more >>

My web page will have a couple of links to html and swf files and I would like to show previews of those items to the users. In .asp it used to be the <OBJECT> tag. Is that still the easiest way to do it? And if so - can somebody direct me to some documentation because it's all more that I see...more >>

I have a windows control in an aspx page. It receives data from some serial hardware on the client. How do I get this data to an aspx page so that I can post it to the server? I will need to post an instrument id to the server and return some data to the usercontrol. How is this done?? ...more >>

Hi, Does anybody know some good free control to zip file (compress files to zip library)? Thanks. ...more >>

When the page posts back to itself (e.g. the code-behind on a button click event) the page URL is added to client-side history. Is there any way to use codebehind and not insert the aspx page's URL into browser history? Thanks ...more >>

I'm trying to create an RSS feed that is written dynamically by an ASP.NET page. I know there are several ways to do it, but the quickest for me was to follow the Scott Mitchell tutorial at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet-createrssw-aspnet.asp. ...more >>

i have some dynamic controls that i add to a webform (actually, i dynamiclly build a table and add the controls to cells). some of these controls are HtmlSelect controls with the multiple property set to true. i have figured out how to loop through the controls on the form and find the one i...more >>

I have a form with a button on it. Can anyone give me an example of how to show another webform when I click the button....more >>

Hello, I simply added an html button and textfield on an ASP.NET web page. Then on the onclick event of the button I try to display a text on the textfield but I get a script error. Here is the whole html contect of the web page: <HTML> <HEAD> <title>WebForm1</title> <meta name="GENERAT...more >>

I am running a script from C#, but I need a returnvalue to be passed back to my code. I am currently using RegisterStartupScript, but this does not allow me to receive anything back from the java script. Any ideas on how to do this? Kind regards MW de Jager ...more >>

Can we upload or download more than one files at the same time via the web form interface? Thank you for any help. David...more >>

Hi, I have read somewhere about record lock contention problems in between an ASP.NET/ADO.NET application and a win32/ADO application, basically I’m re-writing the win32 app in asp.net and would like to be able to concurrently run both apps against the same MS-SQL database, is there a pro...more >>

Hi, If we start using data block, then how much code we hv to migrate in VS2005 ? Is it worth going with MS data bolck now ? Thanks Sukh ...more >>

I have quite an annoying error. I have created a web custom control. When I put it on a web page I do not get: "The control's default rendering, which is simply the name of the control followed by its ID, appears in the Design view. " Instead I get only the small little green arrow. I d...more >>

Anyone have any reference for adding a image inline into a email body, using the System.Web.MailMessage? If not MailMessage, then anything else would be nice. ie using the cid and embedding the image with the email Thanks, bill ...more >>

I am getting the data in a HashTable. Q .. Can i bind Hashtable to Datagrid ?? If not.. To which object the HashTable should be converted so i can bind it to DataGrid ?? Thanks -- http://pathidotnet.blogspot.com ===== vInAypAtHi o__ ---_,>/'_------ (_) \(_) ------------...more >>

I have an aspx page with a form on it. There are a couple of textboxes and an ImageButton. The page is loaded from another page using Server.Transfer. When I click on the ImageButton, the Page_Load event immediately fires on the codebehind page and then click event fires. When this happens...more >>

Hi all, I've searched around on this topic but haven't come up with anything that matches exactly what I am trying to do. I have an ASP .net application running over a SQL database. I need to allow users to do a "free text" search on some of the SQL data. I'm thinking there must be code out t...more >>

Hi I have a class Document which contains ArrayList of properties I want to bind the document to a datagrid,in such a way that I would be able to control which properties are being displayed.the properties to be display are stored in XML file. what is the best way to do it? Thanks in ...more >>

Hi all, I am having a problem implementing forms authentication for a web application. I have a login screen and any unathorized user is directed to the login screen. The problem is that the login screen keeps refreshing even if i enter the correct credentials. using a database to verify t...more >>

I need to enable users to download data in either an Excel file or an Access database (MDB file). The data they need exists in a SQL Server database: the XLS or MDB file does not actually exist at the time the users request it. My initial plan is that when users request their data, they wi...more >>

I am writing all my application activity to a log file(ASCII file). 1. How to append the data to a log file? I do not want to open the entire file and add one line of log data to the file. My file will be in mega bytes and it is a performance issue to load the entire file to memory and write o...more >>

Using Form authetication to grant users access to a web application. If I go to the default webpage it shows the login screen but if enter a specific page in the application, it allows access instead to redirecting to the login screen. I am not sure how to avoid this. Below is the code from the ...more >>

In a VB.Net based desk top application which is the best design to store initial value settings? Is it still the old INI file or something.config file? I am using ..NetFramework1.1. What is the professional way of doing in .Net based desktop application. Thanks, Patel ...more >>

Dear members, my problem is the following: I have some question type sentences in a web application, and i want to create a button and a text box near some of these questions at runtime. now, i have created them, using a place holder, and now i want to use the data which will be entered into t...more >>

Hi, I am almost new here and a newbie in ASP.NET and .NET in general. How can I make just that ? I have tried at least 5 different ways of doing that and I just can't: I have a data-bound Datagrid in a Web form, wich I want to save because when I display it, I manually truncate some values (...more >>

Given this 2 computers the first (ServDBSTest) running IIS and MS-SQL and the second (SQLBACK) running only MS-SQL and with both databases having the user “fleury” with “administrator” privileges, I can only access a database that exists in the SAME computer as the web server (ServDBS...more >>

does some one know a full calander control,full-screen event calendar application with a monthly view, weekly view, daily view etc. I need it to list events that occur on the different dates. The user brings up the monthly view calendar, clicks on an day on a certain day, and it brings up the sc...more >>

I have some code repeated in many page_load methods in an ASP.NET app. I have buttons that are enabled or disbaled depending upon the state of a variable in the session. Is there a way to put that code in a file and just include it in all of the files; ...or is there a better way? Thx -- ...more >>

hello, how can I to make to have the standard icon of graph active with chart of owc10? ...more >>

can anyone recommened a third party datagrid (web control) that can do the basics like sorting, editable...,as well as the more advanced such as charting (create a chart out of a the idata in the grid). TIA, Vinny...more >>

Hi, On my Webform my ASP:Button does not execute the Javascript code which is 'added' to it on the page load, and I'm trying to figure out why. Please take a look at my code and the error message and see if there's anything obvious here: '------ Here's where the javascript is registered a...more >>

Dear all, I am newbie in asp.net, I am preparing it for my MCAD and MCSD exams. I get my exam for VB.Net under Windows application word where events was clear for me, and now start to be hard to follow the pylosophie of asp.net events firing. The first one I face to is to trap the event w...more >>

Hi, I am having a requirement where in user can click on a link and the download popup appears and then user should be redirected to a congratulations page. We didn't bother whether the download is successful or not but as soon as user clicks on the download link the popup appears, and the...more >>

Populating some Data to a DropDown control (after postback)i would like to display the result in a TextBox and if possible be able to EDIT and Update the Data populated.. What i really want to do is depending on the user i would like to populate some number code to a DropDown control and selec...more >>

Is it possible to get the contents of a target page in the HTTP handler. If yes, can somebody tell me the method to call in the handler or point me to some resource. Thanks Vibs...more >>

Hi, I've been looking at many sites, such as www.idunno.org and www.developerfusion.co.uk , and these sites seem to have a very professional look about them. Alas when I create my sites, though funcioning properly, the look and feel leaves alot to be deserved. I'm after a layout where there ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to figure out why my datagrid has stopped firing the page and sort commands. Scenario: I originally had template columns in my datagrid and had set up custom bi-directional sorting as well as paging of the datagrid records. It worked fine. Then I decided to be clever ...more >>

Hello I have a couple of developers working on a web app. They all need to be able to change their local copy of the web.config file to run against their local databases. The copy in VSS needs to point to the main application database. But only one copy of web.config can be check-out at once, ...more >>

Hi I've added a MyUserControl called MyUserControl1 to my aspx page. the user control fires an event MyEvent which I want the page to handle. I want to be able to write (in the codebehind: MyPage.aspx.cs) MyUserControl1.MyEvent += someDelegate the problem is that I have no handle on th...more >>

Hi folks, Little questions: I need to load different aspx and ascx files, depending on user settings. The files are all identically (the pages contains the same asp components) , except some layout elements can differ (html tables, images, ... can differ. Is there a way to overwrite the...more >>