hi, How i can directly download my mail inbox. Is there any method in web request class to download mail box without login.Like i want to download my yahoo mail box. I found following code to access any URL. using System; using System.Net; using System.IO; public class Test { public...more >>

Hi, How do you compress the image content and display the image using .net framework classes in an ASP.net application? My target is to set the centre location where the user clicks on the image and zoom that perticular area of image. How can I do that? Thanks in advance. -- K_...more >>

Hi, I've been using the GridView and DetailsView controls for a while, and I'm beginning to get annoyed by the redundancy of EditItemTemplate and InsertItemTemplate in many cases. In the following code, both edit and insert templates are identical. It would be great if I could define a gene...more >>

Hi I have searched the net and all multi-threading examples are for Windows Forms. I have multiple long running processes, some run for more than four hours. I start them simultaneously as they can run in parallel. I want to be able to stop them when I want to. I create threads for each as I...more >>

I have Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server Desktop Engine on my computer. I have created an empty database using Visual Studio .NET's Server Explorer. However, I am having trouble connecting to the database using ASP.NET. I think the problem is somewhere in my connection string, but because I do no...more >>

Hi I have html table control runat = 'sever' I run some client side javacript to insert rows of data into the htmltable, does anyone know how to get the inserted value on the postback? I did try to set the control's enableviewstate to true, no luck. Please help! Thanks Ann...more >>

Why are the text box heights of the input/file type textbox for uploading files a smaller height than a normal textbox? They have the exact same font and the same size font. But the heights are smaller for the upload textbox for some reason. I wanted to make them look the same, but can't ...more >>

How can I do a Response.Redirect using a target=_blank? Response.Redirect(WebForm2.aspx?cn=12345 Target=_blank) did not work and I'm not sure what else to try. ...more >>

Hello, How to share session state between two or more ASP.NET applications in the same server or different ones? Thanks a lot. Charlie ...more >>

hey all, i'm trying to make my app as stateless as possible. is it ok to create a dataset and store in viewstate and whenever the user decides to select a from that dataset, to move from viewstate, to session, and on the details page back to viewstate. Or does that sound like too much work?...more >>

I have a Datalist that will display 4 columns of data. I am not using a table format just labels to display a radio button and label for the radio button. Is there a way to set a size for the lable so that all the radio buttons line up on top of each other? Right now they are flush next t...more >>

I have a form, and when the form does a PostBack (I have several areas on the form where the form changes if the user selects a different RadioButton), the Password field is cleared, even though I have EnableViewState set to True. None of the other TextBoxes lose their value. I also tried us...more >>

Greetings, I have several data access class libraries referenced by a web project. I'm storing the connection string in the data access libraries. I would like an easier way of moving from my local database server to the production database than loading every library, changing the connect...more >>

I'm trying to display the total of a list of numbers in a datagrid. The numbers (dollaramount in sales) will be part of a dataset according to the date queried. I will display the total in the footer row. What is the best way to calculate the total of "dollar amount in sales" and carry that sum...more >>

I am writing a ASP.NET(VB) application and am having some trouble. I have a datagrid which list users and when an admin clicks "edit" a defined column becomes visible and a dynamic listbox control is added to that column/row. When the admin clicks "update" I am unable to retrieve the values that...more >>

Hi, Anyone know how to share session state across different applications in the same server or different server? Thanks a lot. Charlie --- Posted using Wimdows.net Newsgroups - http://www.wimdows.net/newsgroups/...more >>

I've have several webrequests being called consecutively from an .aspx that return XML from sources outside the company. When the page runs it can take anywhere between 30-60 seconds. I heard about making webrequests asynchronosly and found: http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/d...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for some documentation on how to painlessly update an asp.net website (DLLs and/or web.config) in a windows 2003 web farm with minimum impact to the end users. Is this possible at all? Can I remove each server one by one from the web farm, update it, then put it back online?...more >>

I thought I'd done it all with DataGrids, but I hit a situation I haven't seen anyone cope with. This might make a great article. The problem with the template columns in a datagrid is that the actual id of the controls in the template are not generated until the page is rendered, which me...more >>

Hello, I know the user I give in the connection string is the database admin, why am I getting the following message? Server Error in '/' Application -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Access is denied. Description: An error occurred while ac...more >>

Hi everyone, I have a web application that was built in .net. I received the source code and the DLL files, compiled the application, and when I run it on IIS, I get the following error. Now, I think I know what may be causing the problem. The project required a DLL called Trinet.DLL, Th...more >>

I need a strong sturdy speedy can-do-it-all laptop that works well for programmers doing sql & .net. Any advice, suggestions? What to get, what not to get? Thanks and I am cross posting on the sqlserver.programming group for sql programmers. ...more >>

I have a datagrid that I set the PageSize = 10 and AllowPaging = True, however when I display the page in my browser, it shows 10 rows and the paging arrows but does not page when I click the "Next" hyperlink. Does anyone know of a problem with this feature?...more >>

This is a bit off-topic, but I figure at least some of us developing ASP.NET apps sometimes have to get involved with the network layout we deploy on, and I'm at a loss as to where to find out more info. I'm a software guy by trade, but sometimes I have to...push the network guys a bit. Basi...more >>

Hi, I have a class named MyDataAdapter that derives from System.ComponentModel.Component and it contains all of my SqlDataAdapter objects(around a 100). How can I find a SqlDataAdapter in the MyDataAdapter instance at run-time by its name. e-mre ...more >>

Hello gusys, Is it possible to make my asp.net application add users to the AD , I also want to be able to delete users, modify their information, everything through a website. Thanks for the info ...more >>

Hallo NG, habe eine Frage zur Verteilung von Anwendungen. Wenn ich eine ASP ..NET-Anwendung auf einem anderen Webserver einspielen will, muss ich dazu normalerweise ein eigenes virtuelles Verzeichnis für die Anwendung anlegen. Geht das auch anders? Soll heißen: kann ich mehrer Projekte in e...more >>

I'm trying to insert HTML elements (tags like <br> , or even links tags <a href> etc) into a datagrid module that updates articles in sql dbase. The actual field "articletext" that contains the content for the article is configured in the datagrid as such below: <asp:TemplateColumn headertext=...more >>

Hi all, i configured my application <deny users="?"/> but there are two pages (start & login) that should be accessible for everybody. How can I realize this? Thanks for help Steffen ...more >>

Hi, I don't know why but I have a page that has one usercontrol (added dynamically on the servcer using LoadControl). If I execute the page and puts a breakpoint on Page_Load of the usercontrol its executes twice, any ideas? cheers Salva ...more >>

I can browse a web application from client machines but when I am on the hosted server, I can not browse the web application when I am on the server itself. Please let me know if I should clarify more. TIA.....more >>

I recently added a Master page to my test site. The site was working until I did this and that stopped my pages from posting forms data to each other. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.....more >>

I am looking for book(s) recommendation on how to design asp.net/c# application from ground up using sound design pattern techniques and good object oriented practices. Examples of projects would be great. TIA.....more >>

I have a few deployment questions. The first is under the Build menu option, there are the following entries: Build Solutions, Rebuild Solutions, Build <Project Name>, Rebuild <Project Name>, Configuration Manager. Do I Build the solution or build the project before deploying to a client? ...more >>

Hello, In my login screen I validate user against SQL table and call my main page with Reponse.Redirect("myPage.aspx"); I see my application comes there but does not switch to myPage.aspx, I used try catch, I see “Thread was being aborted” error message, I know myPage.aspx is there becaus...more >>

is it possible to set the filename of an HttpInputFile control from code someplace? I need to be able to take a file path sent by the user in the address bar like www.randomeplace.com/xml/default.aspx?xmlFile=*insert path here* and have it post to the system to i can call a button click even ...more >>

Suppose I'm writing an ASP.net page with collections, sql server database connections, etc. How do I know what '@import' directives I am supposed to use? Also, is there compilation I am supposed to do with code-behind classes? If so, how do I know what libraries to link them to when I compile...more >>

I'm planning on persisting sessionState in a database (not MS SQL). Is there a way to do this using the web.config file? I see that you can set the sessionState mode="SQLServer" to persist to a MS SQL database, but can it be done somehow while using another database? If not, what are som...more >>

I have a datagrid whose colums are created dynamically, and a template column which includes a textbox in it. I enter a value into textbox, then I want to get this value, which is entered into textbox. How can i do that? Thanks a lot.. -- No Sign...more >>

What js code is required to automatically submit a page to the server when a user enters a given character (say "?") into a textbox server control please? Thank you...more >>

Hello, I'm a bit surprised at the amount of boilerplate code required to do standard data access in .NET and was looking for a way to improve matters. In Classic ASP, I used to have a common function that was included in all pages that took an SQL query and returned a disconnected records...more >>

Hi Does anyone know when ASP.NET 2.0 is due for full release? Also, when will large hosting companies such as 1and1 fully support ASP.NET 2.0 rather than the odd beta server offering 50mb or so? Regards, Carl Gilbert ...more >>

We have applications written by JSP/Servlet and ASP.NET. All our future development would be based on ASP.NET. We wants to develop a single user interface so that users would not be aware that some of the modules they are using are implement by JSP or ASP.NET (e.g. no need to login both JSP ...more >>

Hello All, im am new to ASP.NET, so bare with me. i have an application that i am building in stages. stage1 user picks data required stage2 file is written to a virutal directory Stage3 the file is then saved by the user to their hard disk i am currently in stage 3, i am using a httpr...more >>

Hi all, does anyone know of a nice utility/ class which will allow me to retrieve the details of a webpage? Specifically, I would like to be able to retrive the html and then call a method which would retrieve: meta tags Keywords Description as well as another method which removes all the HT...more >>

Hi, I would like to know if it's possibile to interact with Windows Server Indexing Services from an ASP.NET page. Thanks M.A....more >>

Hi, We've been having a discussion on best practice here for referenced DLLs but havn't come to a clear decision. I recommended that when we reference a third party DLL (such as ItextSharp) in an ASP.Net project, we create a folder called "Referenced DLLs" in the project and add the DLLs...more >>

hi all, My question is about that i use a smpt server which is running on a different machine from my webserver machine. And i can authenticate with a user and password. I use SmtpMail class. i set the smtpserver property. but how can i authenticate with my user and pass? for ex: my user ...more >>

Hi, Just to get started.... I've created a very simple web form, "Simple", using VS and I dropped a HTML img control on the design view. I referenced a picture and it is displayed in browser view. Very simple. I have created a second form and in the code-behind page I have altered the ...more >>

Hi, Is there another way to find the physical application path without using the HttpRequest object ? thanks ...more >>

Hello all, The ObjectDataSource control uses reflection to create instances of business components and call the appropriate methods to select, update,... data. How can I use the ObjectDataSource control if I don't want to allow it to instantiate the businesscomponents directly but use a Comp...more >>

Hi, I have a problem, and it seems I have an error in my logic ... First I add a Table control on my webform (EnableViewState is True by default). Then I retrive some information vie QueryString (in the !isPostBack part of the Page_Load event) and use those information (in code behind, in...more >>