I am using access 2003 and asp.net. I have noticed that when I connect to my database, create my dataset, populate the page with the dataset, then close the connection and even dispose of it, it stays open (noticeable by the "ldb" file created when the database is opened). Eventually when ...more >>

I have a popup window, which consist of a asp:textbox and a asp:button. And, I would like to pass the textbox.text to the javascript function when I click the button. Besides, by clicking the button, also close the popup window. The problem is, when I click the button, the textbox.text is succ...more >>

asp.net 1.1, c#, win 2003 server + IIS6 ive managed to create urls that are search engine friendly, using the rewitre class so an example would be products/monitors/flat_panel_17_inch.aspx but i wnat to go a step further & remove the .aspx extension anyone know how this is done? th...more >>

I need to update the .Text of a label until the user logs out. but get this error: Error: Method name expected I have listed the code below and the offending line of code is delimited by //The next line breaks: Error: Method name expected Thank you, John Bickmore ...more >>

Hi there, My aspx page has two dropdownlist controls Dropdownlist1 and Dropdownlist2. Dropdownlist2 is populated when Dropdownlist1_SelectedIndexChanged is fired. Now my problem is: When I use keyboard and tab to Dropdownlist1 and select the first item, Dropdownlist1_SelectedIndexChanged is f...more >>

I have a popup window, which consist of a combobox. And, the combobox's item collection is filled by records in database. Whereas, when I close the popup window and add more records into the database, then open that popup window again, but the combobox won't show those new records. I suspect t...more >>

Just wondering if people on this forum have jumped the band wagon and switched to ASP.NET 2.0? All my sites seolp.com, mi-websolutions.com, microsoft-discussion.com all run .NET 2.0 because I love the new features. -- SEO Jeff Microsoft.NET Developer and SEO 'Web Design Company' ...more >>

Hi, I am having a problem storing Irish text in a session object - Irish text has some symbols (á for example) that are being lost when I retrieve the text from the session. Any ideas how I can deal with this - the characters are being displayed correctly on the page itself if they come fro...more >>

Is there anyway to get a javascript confirm button on the wizard control so that when a user clicks "cancel" it can prompt something like... "Are you sure you want to cancel? Your changes will not be saved."...more >>

Hi: There is a function in the code-behind of one my page, which will run a long time (almost 9 hours). How can I make the page run so long? In the codebehind, I set: Page.Session.Timeout=54000 Page.Serever.ScriptTimeout=54000 But no use. It was terminated after ~4 hours. What can ...more >>

Hi, After battling with Crystal Reports for a while I have started to look for alternatives. It seems like there has got to be something out there that does a better job than Crystal Reports because I have run across a lot of issues with it in the short time I have been working with it. ...more >>

I created two separed aspx webpages, one is for POSTING a HTTP messge to the specified uri. This page is proved to be working. the second aspx webpage listens for all incoming POST message(instead of GET message) and then do something with the message. But the problem is the page_load metho...more >>

Hi all, I'm getting the following exception when trying to open an Access DB from the new thread: The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file '\\path\errorLog.mdb'. It is already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data. The point is that t...more >>

I was able to add the "Microsoft Outlook" COM Component but now the application does not launch at all. it does not give an error at the sametime it just hangs at this point: Dim OutlookApp As New Interop.Outlook.Application any suggestions? Thanks, Stephen ...more >>

I am accustomed to displaying datagrids in ASPX pages with data in textboxes inside template items. Normally I have an Update button on the form. In the click event of that button I spin through the datagrid comparing the values in the editable textboxes with the original values to determine...more >>

I have a gridview control. In this grid view there is a column for the price of an item. Some of the prices have a dollar sign in front of it and some dont. How do I get rid of the dollar sign if it is in front of the value? My guess would be to use a template column but I dont know how to...more >>

I have a dropdownlist("myList") in my DataList control. When a user selects one of the items in the dropdownlist, I need to access the value of the DataBound Label ("myLabel") in the Datalist and display it in a popUp window. I have to do all of this in Codebehind and not inline scripting. Any i...more >>

Hi all, I have a web page name main.aspx inside the web page, i use IFRAME to display other *.aspx. when the user click on the page in the IFRAME, and try to load the second.aspx from main.aspx. But, it fails to do so because it request a localhost password. actually, how to read the l...more >>

I was looking at a Custom Validator that 4 Guys had posted that would solve my RequiredValidator problem with CheckBoxLists and it says it can't find the .dll. But the dll is in both the Bin folder and the same folder as the ..aspx page. Here is the error: Parser Error Message: File or ...more >>

Hello, I am writing a page where sensitive data is collected (over SSL) and stored in a database. I have been looking at the .NET encryption classes, but am a bit confused as to which is best for my purposes. There seem to be quite a few different ways of doing it, and I'm not sure what's...more >>

Can you use a Required Validator on a CheckBoxList? You can on a RadioButtonList. But when I try on my CheckBoxList I get the error: Control 'RFPServiceTypes' referenced by the ControlToValidate property of 'ServiceTypesCheck' cannot be validated <asp:CheckBoxList id="RFPServiceTypes" ...more >>

Hi, I am trying a sample app to send an email from my app I am getting a "type not defined error" I have added "Office and Outlook" COM component but still I am getting this error... Please advice, Stephen Public Sub test() Dim oApp As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application <- ty...more >>

I have generated a control that simpifies most of the layout problems that asp.net 1.1 and 1.0 face. I want to submit it to microsoft for the investigation. Does anybody know where should I submit my control? ...more >>

I have a single login page to validate the users. However, the session.item I use to hold the validated userID is not holding when I switch to a different web app. What's the best method to pass such information between web applications? *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.develo...more >>

Hi ;-) I have created a .aspx file that has the following: DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ds.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("TestInput.xml")); As far as I can tell, the first line does not work - at all. I just get "error" in the status field of the browser. How can I check to see what the ...more >>

Is there a to change just one radio button in a list just after DataBinding but before send the page to the user? For example: RFPServiceTypes.DataSource = myDbObject.RunProcedure("GetRFPServiceTypes", parameters) RFPServiceTypes.DataTextField = "Description" RFPServiceTypes.DataBi...more >>

I have a string I would like to save into a word doc, and throw the document out to the user without saving it. I've tried this using the REsponse object, but it will include the ViewState control, and anything else I have on my page. Any suggestions? here's the code I tried: Respons...more >>

In VS 2005 I have a WebForm with 3 UserControls on it. One UserControl implements the new ICallbackEventHandler to update a DIV based on user input. The other two implement a <asp:repeater ...> bound to a PagedDataSource. The repeaters have associated <asp:linkbutton ...> to page forward an...more >>

hi, how do i create a dropdown, where each item text`s value can be multiline? thanks...more >>

Hi I have a ActiveX control (TcpSocket Client) which has 3 Events OnConnect/OnDisconnect and OnEvent. my question is how do I embed this non-visual control on a aspx webpage and create a OnEvent Handler which receives data from a Tcp Server and add that to dataset to be displayed on DataG...more >>

Hi, I have developed an ASP .NET application which using Crystal Reports for my reporting needs. My local development is Windows XP Pro with IIS and Visual Studio .NET 2003. The ASP .NET site and the reports I have written work great on my local IIS environment, the problem comes in when I ...more >>

OK, I am running into some issues that I cant figure out a work-around. I am not going to post code cause I figured out WHY my issue is happening: -I have a datagrid, and a button that fires a click event. -The Datagrids onitemdatabound event dynamically creates validation controls per valu...more >>

I'm trying to change a value of a cell based on another before the grid is displayed. I'm using the ItemDataBound event like this for a simple test: Select Case e.Item.ItemType Case ListItemType.Item, ListItemType.AlternatingItem If e.Item.Cells(7).Text = S...more >>

Hello, I have a doubt... I have a TextBox by name txtMessage.Text ,Button by name btnSend and Datalist Control by name dltMessage i my aspx page. when i enter the data in text box and click on the button it is storing the data into the database. The saved information has to displayed in th...more >>

Hello all... Im seeing something strange. I have a repeater control which has a footertemplate. The content in the footertemplate however is showing up at the TOP of the repeater contents. Shouldn't a footer be at the BOTTOM? I thought maybe it was because i did not have a headertemplate...more >>

In at typical SQL command if I want an optional parameter, I say "Where ID=@ID or @ID=Null" This way if I dont pass in a parameter, it will just pull all of the IDs. Is there a way to set this up in the text command of a SQLCommand object in .NET? I've tried, but it keeps throwing an e...more >>

Hi, I am working on a form page (asp.net + c#). form is too long and in some cases we are validating it server side, if there is some invalid data in text box then form return from server side and we are displying the form again. but it's not displaying the exact location where the error occur....more >>

I have a webfrom that has several DropDownList webform controls on it. When a user clicks a certain button on the form, I want to display a Panel with some controls in it. The panel has to go over some DropDownList Boxes on the form. The problem however is that the dropdown boxes always remain...more >>

I have a footer template for adding items to a database. When 'Add' button is pressed the footer is displayed with textboxes for inserting data. There is 1 field that should not be tampered with so I am trying to display the value in a label. I am using the following code: <Asp:label id="lblD...more >>

Hi, Can anyone give me examples of how can I hightlight cells of my datagrid? I know that I must use ItemBound event and probably JavaScript. The thing is that I have a anual calendar, constructed in a DataGrid. Then what I want is select a range of two dates in that same calendar to do an...more >>

Hi guys, I want to refresh some pages every 2 seconds. however, these html pages are not in my site, they could be any pages from yahoo.com or msn.com. I can create a page, which redirect to public internet html page, but how can I do this in a loop? do I need to write a console applica...more >>

is there an ASP.NET web interface to CVS? ...more >>

Hi, I need to push a .eml file (MS email pickup format) to the browser when the user clicks on a button. The file is outside of the web space so I used this method (which worked with word docs). This nearly works....but the email file has the web page contents tagged on the end of it. It lo...more >>

Hi, I am using Resposne.write to write xml to a web page. Because of some special characters, I am getting 'White space not allowed....'. How can I encode the xml so that when a client calls the page through classic ASP using MSXML.ServerXMLHTTP, it does not break. Any help?...more >>

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how to build a multi-dimensional array of n length out of a DataReader loop. Take this pseudo-code: ======================================= public string[,] get_array(string sql) { //create db connection & open string[,] arrRetu...more >>

I am new to .NET framework. A bunch of web pages of mine need the same function. Right now, I put the Subs in each individual page. I think there must be a way to save my Subs in a separate file and then have each web page link to it. Could you guys please let me know how to do this? Tha...more >>

I have a web page that for some reason, when I it loads, it is not firing the onload event, or any event for that matter, that is in the code behind vb file? Any suggestions as to why this is happening? Thanks...more >>

I am sure there is an easy answer to this, so here goes... Imagine a web form consists of two text boxes and some labels. The textboxes are given a tab order of 1 & 2, and each posts back to the server ontextchanged. What actually happens in practice is this: I change text in textbox1. I ...more >>

In C# I can do: ((Page)this.Parent).Title = "Title" Why doesn't this work in VB: DirectCast(me.Parent, Page).Title = "Title" The Title var doesn't show up in VB. Thanks. Chris...more >>

Hi, I try to customize the style of my Webparts with a CSS Stylesheet. Therefore I define a CSS File and define some CSS Classes. Now a problem occurs. Some of the classes have no effect on the Webparts in the zone. The PartStyle works. But the CssClass of the style PartMenuPopUpStyle has n...more >>

Hi all, I've just finished learning C#. I would like to move onto learning ASP.NET but I would like to produce an ASP.NET site using C# so to cement my C# skills. If I were to produce a basic ASP.NET site (say about car's) how much C# would be involved and how much ASP.NET would be involved?...more >>

Hello, I am building a form that allows user to enter multiple shipping addresses. As the number of shipping address is unknown at design time and different on each user. I used datagrid and column template to populate my form. Each row in the datagrid will be one address which contains as...more >>

Hello, I have a datagrid which contains DropDownList as follow: <Columns> <asp:TemplateColumn > <ItemTemplate> <asp:DropDownList id=ProductName onSelectedIndexChanged=ProductName_IndexChange>.... Now, in the method ProductName_IndexChange I want to write codes to handle wh...more >>

Hi: My app is running the dll from the GAC. The only way I know to force the app to use a freshly copied and redeployed dll is to run an IIS reset. Is there a command in the GACUTIL or something similar that would clear out the cached dll and force everything to use the new copy of the dl...more >>

Do folks use Crystal Reports with ASP.NET much or do most people use CSS or something else for hardcopy printed reports from an ASP.NET page? Thanks. ...more >>

I need to determine which ASP.NET web site directory a DLL was called from. The directory path is needed so that a config file located there can be called by a datalayer component in the same directory, that will be called by the web site. (A DLL called from an ASP.NET website is started no...more >>

Dear all, How to configure in config file, the fact that all users get access to the root web folder but only some of them to a restricted forlder Any sample ? thnaks for your help regards serge...more >>

hey all, i have a server-side button on my webform and was wondering if i can call an external javascript that's in the same application direcory? If so, can someone please show me the syntax? thanks, rodchar...more >>

I am experiencing the following error: Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid. Source Error: Line 143: Dim drChange As Changes.tblChangesRow Line 144: Dim iCurrentRow As Integer Line 145: drChange = dsChange.Tables(0)....more >>

Is there a way to allow asp.net to create a folder in remote server? Say if I give a path something like this: \\testserver\testfolder the asp.net application sould be able to create folder "testfolder" in the machine named "testserver" Any ideas or suggestions?...more >>

I create an ASP.Net page and put a button on there. I run the project and clik the button twice. If I then try to hit the back button on my browser I get a "The page cannot be displayed" error. Does anyone else get this? Is there a way to fix this? It's making another app I wrote look pre...more >>

I have a set of textboxes. If it is a new record the textboxes are empty and there is a save button. If this is an existing record, I have a search form, a datagrid and the user selects form the datagrid and the same set of textboxes now populates for editing with an update button. I know I...more >>

It would suffice to state, I am very new to the .NET world, as well as to Visual Studio, Visual C#, and ASP.NET. Nonetheless, I'm certain the solution to several challenges I've presented myself lie therein. I am currently tasked with creation of a Web page, the content of which will be a lis...more >>

Hi All, a while ago I had to write a asp.net search application. The start page is a html page, which calls a aspx file that shows the search results, using a datagrid. So far no problem. But: now they want an "advanced search". This new search has to be a aspx page (it contains dropdownlists...more >>

Hello folks, I don't know what they've done to the ordinary ASP newsgroup, I hope you can answer this question. I am trying to make this piece of code: If Len(Trim(primary))=0 Then SQL(1)="Spice = '" & spice & "' And Type = '" & dish_content & "'" ElseIf Len(Trim(spice))=0 Then SQL(1)...more >>

I have placed the Compare Validator, and a Range validator for two TextBoxes, and turn the Visible property false. Then I have palced a Validator Summary control on the WebForm. But the Summary did not display the validation summary. What is the problem ? ...more >>

Dear all, I have an applicatin that generate a querry to an SQL server, then display results on a second webform. I try to see how tracing works, then I have notice that as soon as I implement tracing on the page, when I click on the BACK button of explorer I get a warning message that i...more >>

need to passing parameter from 1st page to 2nd page... try to use public static void user_param(string namaku ,string umurku ) but still cannot why?? please help... -- :: KHAMAL ::...more >>

Hi ALL, I have a javascript code which i register using page.RegisterClientScriptBlock() in my btnFinish() button_click event. I noticed that the debugger will run thru the whole event for my button, before launching the javascript code. I would like to put some c# code in the event if t...more >>

Hi All, I have the following code ---------------------------------------------------- Business.Product pdt = new Business.Product(); SqlDataReader product = pdt.GetProductDeals(134); StringBuilder maker = new StringBuilder(); while (product.Read()) { maker.append ("formatting t...more >>

Hi.. I need to diplay a single record from mysqldb..' i just create the dataset... ----------------------- myConnectionString = "Database=altia;Data Source=development;User Id=root;Password=citranet"; string mySelectQuery = "select * from tbluser where (txtUserName = '" + TextBox1.Text ...more >>

Hi All, I try to read different sample codes for drilldown function. But I don't understand what does it say. I don't know how to using (Nested, Hierarchical) data control to display data. Do you have any tutorial web site or sample code ? Please help. ...more >>

Hi... Can someone please tell me the simplest solution to create an update page for a menu I have on an asp.net website... Basiclly I have 10 menu and 10 price fields that change every day! I want to stor the information in an SQL Database and have created a very simple table with with t...more >>

I am currently writing an application in ASP.Net which has a bound Gridview however i require to add a column with a mailto link in it. After many questions in the c# IRC room it was decided that a templat column was the best way which i have put in and the basic mailto a bound address is file h...more >>

I have a *single* SqlDataSource that loads up a single result set that I show in a GridView. In the GridView, i've added a "Select" button and handling the SelectedItem event. I also have a DetailsView (though FormView has this same issue) where I want to be able to set the current item to b...more >>