I have an outside vendor that just updated there web access to aspnet on a Windows 2003 server. Just before the new install, I had a separate Windows 2000 server with IIS 5 that I used to tap into the vendors database and then spit out a hyperlink that pointed directly to their web server asp p...more >>

Hello, i am developing a website and want to use the connectionstring of my web.config in other sites. i have a connectionstring in my web.config like this: <configuration> <appSettings/> <connectionStrings> <add name="Test.My.Settings.conni" connectionString="*******" providerName=...more >>

Could anyone with some skinning experience in vs2005 tell me if the master pages and themes capabilities of ASP.Net 2.0 makes it viable to use for creating a portal. I want to upgrade an existing 1.1 site and serve up pages with a different look & feel based on hostnames - instead of copying t...more >>

Hello! I'm pretty novice in .NET and having a problem to get values from my textboxes which I have created dynamicly in my aspx.cs-file. (I'm using Visual Studio 2005). I create them like this (code-snippet): f = getFormField(fields, "a_dbfield"); Response.Write("<td>" + f.getLabel() +...more >>

Are most e-commerce websites rely on users enabling cookies or sites are configured to handle cookieless session? Thanks, Samuel ...more >>

Hello, I'm just getting into ASP.Net 2.0 and I can't figure out an effective way (or at least one that I think is effective) to perform one of the techniques I used to use in 1.0/1. As an example, I have multiple user controls whose code behind functionality is identical, but display is com...more >>

Hey ASP.NET 2.0 I'm developing a web portal and are about to move the development environment to a different computer. I wonder if I have to change the machineKey because I changed developed computer? Jeff ...more >>

Which can compete osCommerce or Zen-cart? Shipping payment feature, maturity, etc.......more >>

I need to store the data in the dataview so user will be able to sort the data in the GridView control The question is where, storing in the ViewState property will mean that the entire list will be downloaded and uploaded each time Storing in the Cache or the Session object will mean that...more >>

I just installed the Web Application Project add-in for Visual Studio 2005. When I created a Web Application Project I got a message box stating, "Package Load Failure. Package 'Visual Studio Class Designer Package' has failed to load properly..." The message go on to warn about a possible ...more >>

I am creating GIF images with transparent backgrounds on-the-fly for a web app and rendering them by using System.Drawing.Image.Save(Response.OutputStream, ImageType.GIF). I am confident that the transparency is working properly because if I save the created image to the local hard disk and...more >>

I really do not have an immediate need for a large listbox, but it seems like that is something that comes up regularly. I was using Facebook just now, and they have a really cool type ahead "listbox" in a textbox. When you are searching for something in some network, you type a portion of the n...more >>

I'm in the process of building my first C#.NET web app, and I'm having a tough time with setting the securities up on it. I used the ASP.NET Configuration Tool and created an admin user in an Administrators group without any problem, and as far as the login page, I used an ASP.NET login control...more >>

I have this: <asp:hyperlink ....Text='Women's' /> It keeps telling me server tag not well formed. If I take the apostrophe out of the text property it works. I have tried: 'Women\'s' and it does not work. Thanks for any help. ...more >>

hello, I wanted to populate an array with the data from sql table, but not sure how to go about it. This is the array iam using at present, but i dont want to provide the values. Instead i want to query them from sql table t_holidays. Dim HolidayList() As Date = {#7/4/2006#, #7/6/2006#, #...more >>

Hi All, I have a sharepoint site on a box. I can hit the box by going to the ip address http://10.0.0.1/default.aspx but I can not hit it by name. The password dialong box comes up and it rejects my domain password. Says you are not authorized. When I use the IP the password dialong box comes...more >>

If I am using VS2003 is it possible to compile a project in ASP.Net 2.0 or will it always compile in 1.1? Thanks ...more >>

why would the thumbnails look so cruddy: http://www.globalproportions.com/why/ I've posted a sample image with the code. Can you tell my why? ...more >>

I have a list of html files and entries in a database with the file locations. I'd like to create a buttons for each file. Any way to load an html file into a DIV of an asp.net page? Do I have to read the files in with stringreader ? Any other way? Anybody got any sample code? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have an ASP.NET 2 web application (not web site) project and am using a web deployment project to deploy to the testing, then the production server. All has been working well for months now, but today after a recompilation, the app is throwing the error below when accessing a certain ...more >>

I am trying to achivieve a drag control functional for a windows form. The user should be able to move the control by dragging it withing the confines of my form. How would i implement this drag functionality? Any help would be highly appreciated. ...more >>

Hi All, I am trying to read the contents of a page through its URL. My code snippet is as follows: public void mtdGetPageDataHWR() { HttpWebRequest objRequ = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.microsoft.com"); HttpWebResponse objResp = (HttpWebResponse)objRequ.GetResponse(); ...more >>

I've migrating from classic asp to asp.net 2.0. How do I display data from an database but not display it in a structured order. I have news articles that I want to disply but not in a datagrid, I want them scattered around the page, like this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ In classic asp I woul...more >>

I have trouble with it. I have created a sproc in SQL Server, called SearchClass, which returns a searched key from a table. I have tested this procedure in Analyzer and it works fine. However, in the client side, when I use ExecuteNonQuery as follows --- Me.SqlConnection1.Open() classKe...more >>

Hello, when i runan app under VS 2005using the built in web server, which user is my web application running under? Many thanks JJ ...more >>

We are starting to standardize what we have been doing with our web applications and I have a “cost-benefit” question when it comes to some server controls. Main two examples is Plain text vs. <asp:label /> and <div> vs <asp:panels> for current static information. In my view if we g...more >>

From server-side code I'm using Response.Write to display a javascript alert box. It works fine except when I try to include a new line character, which causes this javascript error: "Unterminated string constant" Here's my c# code: strText = "Line 1 text\nLine2 text"; Response.Write(...more >>

I am having trouble publishing a website for RELEASE. 1. web.config: <compilation defaultLanguage="vb" debug="false"> 2. in Configuration manager I set the configuration to Release for the website 3. in Configuration manager I set the Active solution configuration to Release 4. I right...more >>

I am using .Net 2.0 and VS2005 with SQL server db. The datetime columns on SQL have the date and time in them. How can I display just the short date format (e.g. a datetime of 10/19/2006 11:23:57 AM to show as just 10/19/2006)? I do not want to use the SQL CONVERT on the query because it ...more >>

Some ASP.NET applications use Session Variables extensively to maintain state. These should be re-written to use viewstate, hidden fields, querystring, etc. instead. This is because if a user opens a new IE window with Ctrl-N or File-New-Window, BOTH WINDOWS SHARE THE SAME SESSION VARIAB...more >>

In VS 2003, I am trying to set the onload property of the body tag to "". I do this all the time from my Dreamweaver pages (one page aspx page). But in a code-behind page I need to set a reference. How do I reference the <body> tag? I have the <body> set as: <body id="myBody" onl...more >>

Okay, so I have my stored procedure that looks something like this AS SELECT VAL 1, VAL 2 SELECT VAL1, VAL2 GO And I need to display these into a datalist control, does anyone have any idea how I can go about this? Any examples of code in C# or VB.NET would be greatly appreciated. Ch...more >>

Hello I m working with Framework 1.1. I d like to interact with word files (.doc or .dot) from the server. But Neither office or word are installed on it. There is a way for manipulating word file in a such configuration. Or do I have to pass by a commercial component. That is to say for me...more >>

Hello All, IIS 6.0 - I have an application which resides in its own application pool. Does anyone know if we can create multiple application pools for the same application? If we can create multiple application pools to serve a single application's request will it improve the performance...more >>

Hi, I am trying to learn new membership/roles features of ASP.NET 2.0. When we setup forms authentication and specify deny users="?" under authorization, the application asks for login. My problem is: It always looks for Login.aspx page by default. What if the name of my login page is differe...more >>

I'm adding a empty row for every so many rows in my GridView. I want to change the color of the empty row so the grid is "broken up" per say. I tried this: grid_RowDataBound() { if(e.Row.Cell[0].text.Equals(" ") { e.Row.BackColor = Color.Orange; } } and it doesn't work I a...more >>

I need to create an aspx page that accepts an uploaded text file from a user and parses the file contents into various, normalized database tables/columns. The input file is an industry standard, fixed-width file layout. The file is 'old-school' with the first three columns representing a segm...more >>

Hi I just installed Visual Studio 2005 90 day trial which comes with the sql server express database I want to run the sample application 2-2--5 Building a Mobile Book Catalog with Visual Studio .NET 2003 It uses the pubs db on sql express Part of this app asks me to create a webservice whic...more >>

I'm running several ASP.NET applications on our local Intranet. Just recently, all of our users still using Windows 2000 clients have begun receiving the following error: HTTP 500 Internal Server Error Clients on Windows XP work fine. My question is, how do I see where the details of th...more >>

hi guys, i am using asp.net2.0 in VS2005. The case i am having is that i have a dropdownlist with a list of values like item one , item two and item three; inside the DB i am storing the values as number not the item name like 1 for item one, 2 for item two and so on. what i want is that...more >>

Suppose a SQL Server 2005 stored procedure looks like this: ALTER PROCEDURE SPName @UserID int SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Table1 WHERE UserID = @UserID SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Table1 In the ASPX page, I can get the result of the first query in the above SP using While (sqlReader.Reader) ...more >>

Hi, I've a requirement in which I need to show a word document in the web page, allow the user to edit the document and then save the document ina particular location, How can I acheive in asp.net 1.1? need guidance.... ...more >>

I have a managed C++ wrapper which is referencing an unmanaged C++ DLL. How can I modify the reference search paths for ASP 2.0 so it can find the unmanaged DLL? It copies the managed DLL okay, but can't find the unmanaged DLL ('the specified module coult not be found'). It only seems to work wh...more >>

When opening a .Net solution in Visual Studio 2003, a message appears asking to set the location of the working copy of the WebUI project. Whatever I try, the path is not accepted. The message that then appears states that the file location does not correspond to the URL location: the two need...more >>

Hey ASP.NET 2.0 I've studied a code example in a .net book and found code I've got some trouble with unerstanding: This is about 2 classes, one class inherit from the class The problem is that I cannot do this: Message m = new Message(all the parametes goes here); m.Id <-- this is my ...more >>

I have to call e NET web service via Oracle. this is my asmx: ========================================= <%@ WebService Language="C#" class="MyClass" %> using System.Web.Services ; public class MyClass { [WebMethod()] public int Add ( int a, int b) { ...more >>

Hi folks, based on the Web.config snapshot on bottom I would like to know how to get a listing of elements in a defined level. Let's assume I would like to get a list of all sectionGroup elements within the sectionGroup called "TopLevel". How to do that? I tried to define the "type" attribu...more >>

I want to be able to log all exceptions that occur in the application (I'm using Enterprise Library and ASP.NET 2.0). Because with almost all exception I'm not going to do anything besides logging, I prefer dealing with it in one central place instead of writing try catch statements all over t...more >>