Hi, I wish to validate the date a user has entered against the format dd-mmm-yyyy using the CompareValidator, but it does not work. Does anybody have a simple solution please? Many thanks in advance. Regards, Cyberlotus ...more >>

Hi, We have a asp.net web application in which we are making HTTP requests to a remote web server (CGI) & get response in form of XML data. We are using HttpWebRequest object to post the request. In case of concurrent users using our web application: 1. On a page if there are multiple such ...more >>

Hi, i'd like to know more abou this event, i tryed to found in MSDN but the explanation is null for me...is there some explanation when and how should i use it ? ...more >>

You are creating an ASP.NET application for the Widget Company. An earlier version of the application uses ActiveX components that are written in Visual Basic 6.0. The new ASP.NET application will continue to use the ActiveX components. You want the marshaling of data between your ASP.NET a...more >>

Hello. I'm a reasonably new ASP.NET programmer with no prior ASP or web development experience, but a lot of general programming experience. I'm using Visual Web Developer Beta Express 2005. I'm trying to find a way to store data in the URL of my pages. I know that SessionState does this...more >>

Hello, I am accessing a value in a XML value: news.Load(Server.MapPath("xml/ news.rss")) newslabel.Text = CType(news.SelectSingleNode("rss version=&quot;2.0 &quot;/channel/title").InnerText, String) The XML file: <?xml version="1.0"?> <rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Ne...more >>

I have two controls in my webform, BUT....one comes from a user control and the other comes from another user control, both with post back! How can i work just with one PostBack ? if(PostPack from button2){ //How can i accomplish that correctly ? do nothing //Just do with post back of bu...more >>

Ok I have a bit of a problem with a Server control I am building. I need to write a client-side Javascript block between the open and closing Head tag. I have tried the following methods: first attempt Page.Response.AppendHeader(someStringBuilder); result: Returned nothing on the page. ...more >>

Hi, How can I set the navigate URL with parameter without extra code? I have now this: NavigateUrl="~/test2.aspx?ID=" + <%# Bind("Id") %> There must be a way to do this with a string function.... Thanks for help! ...more >>

Hello, Is there a way to stop a function? Something like: Sub My Function() ... Stop This Function ... End Sub Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

I've posted to the forums but we're not making progress there yet so maybe, just maybe somebody has this figured out... When VS2005 creates a new Web Form with code placed in a separate file we get the following: WebForm1.aspx WebForm1.aspx.cs Both files are in the root of the projec...more >>

Hi there, I'm writing a class which should hold some state information of my web app. The class should be placed in the Cache for performance reasons. But when the class gets removed from the cache (because its time has expired), I'd like to persist the current state of the object to the ...more >>

Hello, I have this: Dim news As New XmlDocument() news.Load(Server.MapPath("xml/news.rss")) Dim x As String = news.SelectSingleNode("editor/name").InnerText lrsslabel.Text = x It works. However when I replace last 2 lines as follow it doesn't work: lrsslabel.Text = news.SelectSing...more >>

I am working with ASP.NEt application and need to create something like notification module. Application passes a event information and module decides how to handle this event - who to notify and what information to send. The main issue is I don't want slow done main application because of ...more >>

Is it possible to create an ASP application that can run on windows XP home without being connected to a server? I guess I need to know if XP Home has a web server component that supports ASP .NET. I see applications that use interfaces that appear to be web page type interfaces, but are...more >>

Hello, I need to load a XML file and call a function if it wasn't possible. I have this: Sub Build_RSS() Dim news As New XmlDocument() If news.Load("http://www.domain.com/news.rss") Then ' Do Actions Else Display_Error("File not Found") End If End Sub However t...more >>

I found I can access static file in my IIS folder that have ~ in their file name, but I have no way to let httphandler to handle such request, for example, http://mydomain/test.aspx returns 401, but http://mydomain/test~.aspx returns File names for monitoring must have absolute paths, and no w...more >>

Hi everybody, sorry for the newbie question but I can't get the difference between these two code snippets. Is it that one is a delegate (the first) and that while the first ADDS behaviour the other completely rewrites it? Thanks, Lorenzo public partial class AdminPage : Page { protect...more >>

Greetings. I am making an admin interface, which allows me to upload photos to an access DB. The admin interface also needs to display the uploaded photos, but only needs to show them at a maximum resolution of 100px per side. All photos will be JPEG. Below is a showimage.aspx file that a...more >>

Hi, Could anybody suggest a reason why the Page_Load method is not happening in a dynamically loaded user control? (All of the content from the ascx is being displayed though). Thanks...more >>

Hello, How to load a XML file in a XML DOM Document? Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

I want to add HTML to a page inside the body tag without affecting what .net 1.1 is rendering as normal. Specifically, I want to automatically add a standard header to every page which would be read in from a file. I looked at using the application_beginrequest in the global.asax but think I m...more >>

I have been using the default session state (InProc) and have found that I have been loosing my information after a period of time (normally 20 minutes). Is there anyway to find out how much more time I have on a session? If I do a refresh, does reset the session clock? Do you have have...more >>

Hello, I am running the routine below and I am getting the following error at For Each result In srcLDAP.FindAll. System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException. The requested authentication method is not supported by the server. Any help with this would be appreciated. -- Thanks in adv...more >>

what my title will not load the user session values on first load, but will load on page refresh? code.. *html file.. <HTML> <HEAD> <title> <asp:literal id="Title" runat="server"></asp:literal></title> <asp:literal id="CSS" runat="server"></asp:literal> ..... *code behind file...more >>

Hi, An easy on I'm guessing! How do I restrict the length of a label? I have tried setting the width to say 200px but if the user inputs a continuous line of characters it's doesn't wrap. Thanks in advance. Jack ...more >>

Hi, An easy on I'm guessing! How do I restrict the length of a label? I have tried setting the width to say 200px but if the user inputs a continuous line of characters it's doesn't wrap. Thanks in advance. Jack ...more >>

Using ASP.Net, can I create a button in a pop-up window which will, trigger an event on the server, close its own window, and refesh the page which initially spawned the pop-up? bob ...more >>

I've written a function that will upload a file. This sort of works. It works sometimes, and then other times...namely when it tries to write to an existing directory (but not always), I get this error: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. Googling seems to indicate...more >>

Hi, Before I start to build this from scratch, wanted to check if there are any good free ones out there that I can add to my site. I want a calendar that displays a large format events calendar, not just a date picker. Ability to add events to calendar and view a month at a time, with first ...more >>

I have a datagrid that displays editable text fields (2 different price fields) and a checkbox in every row. It has a "SaveChanges" button at the bottom, which, when pressed, looks at every checkbox in the datagrid, if it is checked, it updates the corresponding rows prices. That works, no prob...more >>

Have a dropdownlist created in my LoadMain() which is called from the Page_load: ************************PAGE LOAD********************8Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Try 'Initialize. Main.Se...more >>

This problem occurs in ASP.Net application, only on Windows 2000. Everything works fine on Windows Server 2003. Here is the scenario: I configured the application to use impersonation and integrated security to connect to the database. These are the corresponding lines in web.config <...more >>

Hello, When I navigate to a page, say called Form1.aspx, with a QueryString, any postbacks within Form1.aspx keeps the content of QueryString. However, when I redirect Form1.aspx to itself the content of QueryString is lost. What is the lifetime of QueryString? Thank you. ...more >>

I am trying to find the best way to delete the last character from a textbox. For example: status.text = "full/part/" I want to take out the trailing "/". Thanks, Tom ...more >>

Is there any way to control the tooltip of a control so that it doesn't disappear so quickly? I know there are tooltip controls available, but I am creating controls on the fly, and adding tooltip text to them from a db. TIA -- Mike ...more >>

I have a Datagrid with a Datasource set. And i have Paging enabled. My Q is I am looking for a particular Record in the Datagrid which might be in any page ! How to find the record and set the Particular page selected dynamically?? I tried it and it works, but sometimes i am in the ...more >>

Hi - I want to reduce the download time of various pages by setting the 'Expires' tag for various images to a future date (this will then stop the browser from re-requesting these for each new session). I'm hosting on a commercial service so I don't have direct access to IIS configuration. ...more >>

hey guys this may not be possible, but i have an if statement that checks to see if a value returned by a sql query is null or not..if it is i execute the right code if it has a value i need to tell the user about the problem. i was thinking just an alert box, but i dont know how to do that fr...more >>

Say that I add an iframe to my asp.net page. Does the user interacting with this iframe (say the iframe points to www.microsoft.com and the user is clicking on links at microsoft.com through the ifram), does this keep the session alive?...more >>

I have a public sub in a class that does something like: If ValuesChanged() Then UpdateDatabase End If ValuesChanged and UpdateDatabase are Private functions within the class. My problem is, when I finish debugging ValuesChanged and click the stop debugging button, it appears the cod...more >>

I have a web page with a formview, and a multiview in the formview. When I databind the values inside the multiview views, there is no option for two-way databinding. The form populates fine, but when it calls the update method, it calls it with no parameters. Is there just no support for...more >>

I have a class, lets call it Schmuck. It has 2 public properties Name (string) and active (boolean). When I bind to a Repeater, like so: <%#container.dataitem("Name")%> i get the following error: No default datamember found for type Schmuck. The Schmucks are in a ArrayList. When I use DataBinde...more >>

Hello, I've searched the forums and can't find an answer -- if it i there, kindly point me in that direction. I would like to simulate a browser POSTing a FORM and be able to pars the response. I have the following code in my Page_Load (litResponse is defined a <ASP:Literal>): string...more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.NET program that sends e-mails with PDF attachments. The program send the e-mail with attachments OK. Most of the recepients receive the e-mail OK with the attachments. However, some recepients recieve the e-mail with the PDF corrupted. They claim that the PDF reader is inta...more >>

hi there, i am using shared hosting for a website, and want to use a custom font for my website, located in a folder, but dont know how to dynamically load it. Any code samples appreciated for asp.net (VB).. thanks, Paul ...more >>

I am trying to figure why my HttpApplication object is periodically dropping out. I am running on windows 2003 with an app pool w3wp.exe process. The perfmon for the process says that the process has been running for 19 hours. But my applicaiton seems to have recycled. I know this because I ...more >>

I've got an aspx page which registers 8 custom user controls. Depending on the "go" request.querystring variable it determines which of the eight controls will be shown. When the page is accessed through internet it loads immediately (< 2 sec) When it is accessed through the web or through vpn ...more >>

I have a DataItem in a Template that calls a Function to perform a calculation. The Function returns a decimal value. Easy enough. It looks like this: <code> <%# CalculateExpended(Container.DataItem("StaffID")) %> </code> So how exactly can I format this to come out as currency? I ca...more >>

Hi ! I have a table on an aspx page and i want to export its rows into an Excel File, the script is Page.Response.Clear() Page.Response.ClearContent() Page.Response.ClearHeaders() Me.TBLexcel.RenderControl(oHTMLWriter) Page.Response.Write("<html><head></head><body>") Page.Response.Wri...more >>

I am making a fairly simple help desk program. when a new ticket is created it is sent in to two tables. TICKETS and CONVERSATIONS the username, computer, topic and subject go in to TICKETS and the problem description goes in to CONVERSATION the problem is i need the TICKET_ID from the ...more >>

When Tracing in ASP.NET, the IIS process (on IIs5.1) is locking on the Trace file, and I can't read the trace file without restarting the IIS: Even the following does NOT work (how could I fix this??): System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(System.DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()+ "--" + dirExcep...more >>

Hello, I am using ASP.NET 2 Beta 2. When I tried to use Imports System.DirectoryServices I get the following error: Namespace or type specified in the imports System.DirectoryServices can not be found. Any help with this would be appreciated. -- Thanks in advance, sck10 ...more >>

I was hoping to use nGen to speed up the time taken for our web site to start running. However, on the web we found this quote: "NGen is not recommend for Asp.Net because the assemblies NGen produces cannot be shared between App Domains" I'm afraid I'm not sure what an App Domain is in th...more >>

Hello All, I need some help on optimizing a piece of code. Currently this is how we retrieve our Oracle's connection string for executing all the queries in our application. public string GetOracleClientConnectionString() { string strConnectionString = System.Configuration.Configura...more >>

Hello all: Perhaps someone can shed some light on this: I'm trying to create a situation, while debugging, where a long running request (sleeps for 15s) and a short running request execute concurrently. Right now, no matter what I do, it seems that they execute serially. I've verified (by w...more >>

Hey guys: What can I do when an "Error Creating Control" is displayed on the form (instead of the control), and a tooltip indicating the error never is displayed? Is there some log, some hidden message, some entry in registry where a log is created (or that enables a log, trace, dump...more >>

Ok, I need your esteemed opinions please. Basically, what I want to do is have a imagemap of the world wherein a user could zoom down to certain regions and see info concerning that particular area. The info would be pulled from sql server and would be very dynamic (info would change daily). ...more >>

Hello, I am using datagrid. For its event : ItemDataBound, I want to know of each iteration this method is called, what is the current column & row ? Thanks :) ...more >>

I would like to implement a webpage that would stay for a few seconds before redirecting to another page. I;ve tried to reserch on the MSDN library but couldn't find the appropriate method for this purpose. What is the name of the method to use ?...more >>

Hello every body I had a question I am involved in a project where I need to verify the user's email address by sending them an email and asking them to click on a link. now I have done this but my link is human readable(example validator.aspx?address="blah@blah.com") so any user can just t...more >>

I am using Microsoft .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle inside ASP.NET. DBA complains that it is leaving connections open, & the number of connections open keeps on increasing. Any help on this appreciated...more >>

Hello, I've been using the O'Reilly book _Programming ASP.Net_ to learn ASP.Net, but it frustrates me because all of the examples seem to use the built in form controls. I write good, standards compliant HTML, I understand forms, I write Javascript, and in short, I don't want to use the ca...more >>

I have a datagrid that is made up of template columns(containing dropdownlists and textboxes). I don't have an explicit edit mode, so values in any/all of the rows can be changed at any time (as it is basically a data entry screen). This leaves me with the problem that I need to capture ALL ...more >>

Hello, I have a ASP.NET application developed using VB.NET and running perfectly well in Windows plataforms. But I have a client that need to run this application in a linux server. What efforts I must take to put this ASP.NET application running on linux? Will I need to rewrite the applicat...more >>

I have a report and a web page with a CrystalReportViewer1 web control. I get the following error: CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.LogOnException: Logon failed Any ideas?...more >>

How would I use a module to save a file? I can use the html input (type-file) in a webform to select a file and then do a saveas on the request object's file. However, I would like to be able to do this in a module, but the module doesn't know anything about the request object in the webform...more >>

(Type your message here) hi there please help me with datagrid control i want to add a checkbox in datagrid and also want to trap the check bok check or click event and also want to maintain the state of check box in pagging using asp and vb dot net not C# please -------------------------...more >>

I'm trying to create an html page that will change dynamically. I need to switch html -buttons between visible and invisible. Is there any way I can do this with a script? Regards MW ...more >>