I'm using VS2005 programming in VB.Net. I have a simple aspx page. In the Insert mode, I have a textbox with a simple RegularExpressionValidator set to not accept more than 1000 characters. I'm using the expression ".{1,1000}" w/o the quotes and I thought this would work. The DB table fo...more >>

How do I auto refresh a page a particular time of the day? ...more >>

Hello, I have an ObjectDataSource which has as business-object a simple array of strings. No problem. I have an own (custom) control to which I give the DataSourceId and in the custom-control so I get the ObjectDataSource. No problem ..... ObjectDataSource src = .... //is ok i have it...more >>

I have a web control library that of course renders custom html... I want to place what it outputs into a div on the page.. how do I tell it to place this dynamically created custom control into a div? so its placed in the correct location on the form? thanks! ...more >>

I am using ASP.NET 2.0 to build websites. We have had a couple of customers experiencing problems with IE and editing their site (with CMS). The error received from IE is 'Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. ' Very vague! I have n...more >>

I want to allow customer to 'Add to Basket' even if they are not logged. Once they log the content of the basket will be saved for the future Next time they may add other items to the basket before they log and then they may log What is expected at that point? Merge the content of the b...more >>

Hi, Am trying to be able to the line number of an exception. The stack trace is not showing it. rotsey ...more >>

Hi guys, I have a Menu component that I'm using the itens collection (via properties menu) to populate (i'm not using any DataSource, or populating on the fly using code). my question is How can I disable some menus on the fly? I already used Protected Sub mainMenu_DataBinding(ByVa...more >>

Hi - I have the following lines of code Response.Cookies("test1").Value = "<bad data>" Response.Cookies("test2").Value = "this is a test" TextBox1.Text = Request.Cookies("test2").Value It triggers the error "A potentially dangerous Request.Cookies value was dete...more >>

Hello, I am starting a new Asp.Net 2.0 web site.I am looking for a fixed width web site. I notice that CNN is using a 875px fixed width web site and Yahoo a 950px width web site. And many other web sites are using widths higher then 800px. My question is: What do you think of moving...more >>

Hello, Could someone tell me how to create an array of strings? Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

Can i store this template somehow so I can reuse this in a lot of different pages? Thanks a lot ...more >>

Hello everyone, Is there any way to create a single sign on solution that can authenticate a user and then store the credentials and pass them to outlook web accees? Essentially we want the first web page to ask the user for the user name and password and the second page to give the user op...more >>

Hi, I uploaded my site to my internal IIS 6.0 Windows 2003 Server but I get the error when I try to access it The page cannot be displayed You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed. -----------------...more >>

I have a website that i have migrated VS 2003 to VS 2005. I have done some work like adding master pages and making rest of the pages as content pages. However, now i want the site to be completly Ajaxed. I have a asp.net 2.0's menu control in my master page. I need the ContentPlaceHolder s...more >>

Hi, I have a FormView where nothing gets rendered past the opening <ItemTemplate> tag. The FormView Header renders but nothing else. If I put garbage in an Eval statement, no errors are raised and the page loads but, of course, with no data in the FormView. If I put a div inside the ItemT...more >>

In ASP.Net 1.1, I have a datagrid on a form. The height of the grid can vary with the number of rows loaded into it. I want a label to appear just below the datagrid. I need the position of the label to change as the size of the grid changes so it is always just below the grid. How do I do ...more >>

I am in the stages of pushing up web app to a production server and I am running into an error that I cannot seem trace down. I have a page that allows one to change their password and runs just fine locally but fails to load remotely (receive the famous XML Parsing Error: no element found erro...more >>

Hi, Yes, I'm one of the lonely ones who hasn't upgraded to VS2005.NET. Does anyone know where in MSDN, the code for the Starter-Kits for VS2003.NET? It seems like MSDN is very nicely ignoring VS2003.NET and the old .NET 1.1 framework. Thanks Ahead, Allan ...more >>

hi there, in ASP.NET 1.1 - debugging i can see that the dropdownlist item within the repeater is being populated and i do "droplist1.databind" but when the page loads there is no data. on top of page i declare "public DL as new DropDownList" What i'm doing is the following: on the page ...more >>

How do you expire pages so that the user can't hit the back button on his browser in Internet Explorer? I've tried the meta tag in the header that has an expires = 0 and also in vb.net Response.Expires = 0. Neither of these work in IE. What will expire pages so there are no pages to go back to...more >>

I'm having trouble creating a simple login page using the asp:login control. I followed some instructions in a WROX book, "Beginning ASP.NET 2.0," and the instructions are very straight forward, but it won't work for me. Here's what I did. 1. Created a new folder named "testlogin" 2. Turn...more >>

Hi everyone, I can't debug javascript in VS 2005. In my VS2005, I can't find Script = Explorer in menu. Can u help me???...more >>

Hi all I am trying to figure out how to format a date to dd/mm/yyyy and FORMAT(mycolumn,'DD/MM/YYY') does not work. (Format is not recognized) TIA Guy ...more >>

Hello. When i look at a web form in design view, i have the option to view the HTML. Some of the HTML code is in one long string and hard to read. Is it OK to put in carriage returns and blank lines in the HTML so that is is easier to read ? I'm not talking about changing the HTML code...more >>

Hi; I need to get the base url (what pages in my app are added to to make the complete url). To do this when I have a request object it's a piece of cake - I use http://www.davidthielen.info/programming/2006/10/base_url_in_an_.html But I have an event handler for my HttpApplication. In tha...more >>

Hi I used to have an ImageButton in my datagrid, and referenced the control in the javascript with: var fld = document.getElementById('datagrid__ctl2_btnEdit'); alert(fld); //returns "[object]" >> Good I changed the ImageButton to a LinkButton, but the javascript doesn't work anymore. v...more >>

Hi all, I have an asp .net 2.0 form that will kick off an email on submit. I started with a super long form and then moved to a series of steps (like a wizard) to make the user interface less cluttered. I'm happy with the front end, but not my markup code. I have many, many steps for the form...more >>

Hi, I have a few validators (RequiredFieldValidators) on a page. It works great the user clicks the submit button, the problem I have is when the user goes to the page and then tries to leave the page without clicking the submit button the validators are executed, preventing the user from lea...more >>

I've found several posts discussing this, but I'm still stumped. Pasted below is the HTML for a simple aspx file I created in a 1.1 environment. My goal is to give my users a rich text editor, and then have the HTML submitted to the code behind as a form variable so I can manipulate it any wa...more >>

I have a ecommerce app where I display products in a datalist (datalist1). I've added a button (bthSavetoCart) to the list. When the button fires I want to post that line of info. Any tips? Do I use 'ByVal e As DataListItemEventArgs' (I'm using VB.net). If so how do I pick out the line tha...more >>

I'm trying to create a procedure that will take a subset of data from sql server and store in an xml file. The problem is that the xml file is read on every session/page refresh, so there is a possibility for collision, since there is a function in global.asax that refreshes the xml file every x...more >>

Hi: In FireFox and Netscape, images show placeholders while downloading. I don't like the way this looks. Is there any way to make it like IE where no placeholder is shown while image are downloading? Also, asp.net imagebutton shows pointer cursor rather than hand cursor in FireFox and...more >>

When I checked a few months ago, hosting a web site on a shared server platform with ASP.NET 1.1 was not a problem and was costed at about $300 (CAN) a year. There was confusion as to the date where ASP.NET 2.0 would be available, commercialy. Anybody has any information as to when 2.0 might ...more >>

Hi I have a website that I can debug just fine in VS2005 on WinXp. But when I move the website to a Vista computer and hit F5 inside VS2005 the website starts but I cannot debug it. I have tryed the same on my WinXp and here it helped to delete all temporary internet files, but that has n...more >>

Good Afternoon, I am exporting a series of datagrids to Microsoft Word, and cannot figure out how to force a page break between each datagrid. Does anyone know of a character or command I could use with Response.Write to force a page break between the datagrids? Thank you, Erik...more >>

Hello, I am trying to learn how to consume RSS feeds and downloaded the example from the MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/xmlforfun/simplerss/default.aspx?print=true However, I am getting the following error at: rssData.ReadXml(rssFeed.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())...more >>

Hi: I have some Custom server controls (validated textboxes) in a panel on a form. In Firefox, it looks all hosed up. Also, pictures show place holders while loading. What are my options for getting things to look right in firefox? Thanks, Charlie ...more >>

Hi All, I've just converted a solution from .Net v1.1 to v2.0, by allowing Visual Studio 2005 to do the conversion. Since doing so, I am getting a compilation error as follows: "Option Strict On disallows late binding." This references line 1, which is my page directive: <%@ Page Lan...more >>

I've just begun converting some websites from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0. I'm consistently losing web control declarations when converting aspx pages. All declarations like this disappear and I need to re-type them manually... Protected WithEvents hrFile As System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlAnch...more >>

Hell all From the below group in web.config, how would I get the EnvName key? Thanks all, Jon <environment> <LOCL EnvName="Local Machine" DBConnection="Persist Security Info=False;Data Source=BCTS_DEVT;User ID=BCTS_ACCESS;Password=BCTS;" EMailTo="" /> etc etc...more >>

Hi I'm developing some custom logging for our internal MI team. I was considering developing a HTTPModule that sits in the pipeline and uses the AppendToLog method. Is there any better way of doing this, or is this method OK? Thanks. ...more >>

My application has several check boxes included one labeled "All" and another labeled "None." How can I incorporate javascript that will detect that the "All" or "None" checkbox was changed and then change which other check boxes are checked without making a round trip to the server? Thanks...more >>

Is there any way to create a cache dependency based on a folder in the server file system? My application needs to drop a table in the cache if any files are changed in a server file folder or its subfolders. Thanks, Keith ...more >>

Hi, I need to populate a gridview. The Gridview will have columns for 52 weeks, and I need to populate a total for all the individual 52 columns. Can anybody explain me how to do it as I am fairly new to this ..net. The values for xxx and yyy will be populated from the database and I need to ...more >>

Hi everyone, i am creating my own DAL and BLL, and i am not using typed datasets. My problem is that in my DAL i have a Save method whos signiture looks something like: Save(ID as integer, name as string, ....... Within my BLL, i call then same method (the business layer version) som...more >>

Hi, I am Ravindra,presently doing a project in asp.net. The Login page of my Web Project consists of two Buttons. If user enters his username and password and clicks on enter button of keyboard, the Signin button is to be submitted not the other button. ...more >>

Hi, I am Ravindra,presently doing a project in asp.net. The Login page of my Web Project consists of two Buttons. If user enters his username and password and clicks on enter button of keyboard, the Signin button is to be submitted not the other button. ...more >>

Hi I have asked this on the official asp.net forums but no luck so thought I'd try here Assume you have a page with a filter control and a grid view and many other controls on it. When the filter changes you want the gridview to change but nothing else. In particular all you would like to...more >>

Hi all, I have created a gridview vith dynamic textbox columns (they are in variable number, it depends on what things I select from database) aspx code: __________________________________________ <asp:GridView AutoGenerateColumns="false" ID="GridView2" Runat="server" > <Columns> </Col...more >>

Hi I have a collection of person objects that are added to a dictionary, each items is added with a unque key. Each person object has a first name property, and a last name property My problem is I want to bind this to a dropdown list so that the DataValueField is set to the ID of the Perso...more >>

I have two drop down lists on a page. Each one is hooked up to a separate SqlDataSource. The second data source has a ControlParameter set to the selected value of the first drop down. When I set the SelectedValue of the first drop down in Page_Load, the DataBinding event of the second fires twi...more >>

Hi all, wanted to ask about Captcha image! When should I used it? When there is free text box to be filled? Should I use a Captcha when I have a page with only click buttons? Can a bot "click a button"? Sorry for asking some foolish questions.. I don't this is maybe not related to asp.net b...more >>

Hello, the problem seems simple I have an own webcontrol one property is public bool IsEdit { get { ... } set { ... } //then there is CreateChildControls() override void CreateChildControls() { if(IsEdit) ...more >>

I have an open IP and on that IP our main application is hosted. it uses ajax. in web.config file i have register ajax handlers. there are also other sites or project on that IP. now my problem is that other ASP.net projects throws error and take my web.config file as thier web.config. thi...more >>

I have created an ASP.NET v1.1 web site that runs fine on my development machine. To deploy it to another XP computer I copied the whole of the web site to a directory on that computer and converted the target directory to a virtual directory. When I attempt to access the site's home page o...more >>