I am finding the switch to Visual Studio 2005 from 2003 a bit of a problem at times. My latest problem is that when I add an XMLDatasource to an aspx page and set its datafile to an xml file (with or without accompanying XSD file), then add a gridview control to the page and set its datasourc...more >>

I use a webhosting service that is something like halfway around the world from me and most of the people that will be viewing my site (and I am assuming their server is too). This obviously has very little effect on what I can do, but there is one thing that I would like to know how to do (if...more >>

I use a FileUpload control to upload a text file to web server. If the size of the file is larger (about 9M), the page will result in an "Can't find page" error after I press a button to access the file. But if the size of the file is small, it will be ok. Is there a limitation of FileUpload co...more >>

Hello, I have encountered a deep problem with accent and I don't understand why. I m preparing a multi-language website. French and English so far. With french, we have accents and ... problems ;-) The internationalisation of my website works like that : - I have created a resources fil...more >>

I am trying to place objects like buttons, calendar, listboxes etc on a webform. I am strugling with the positioning. I placed all the objects in a cell and the cell centers itself on the page. However the objects don't appear on the webpage on the same place as the design form in Visual Web Dev...more >>

Hi all, I'm testing ASP.NET 1.1 authentications and cookies features, and I've red tons of tutorials and articles about this, but not all is clear for me. My goal is to create a basic site with authentication process, like my other ASP 3.0 sites that I developed with classical session vari...more >>

Hi all, We have created some "Base" class pages for our WebForms and UserControls. For instance, when we create a WebForm called "WebForm1.aspx", instead of inheriting from "System.Web.UI.Page" we implement from our "Base" class page which itself inherits from "System.Web.UI.Page" -- I know...more >>

In a VS2005 ASP.NET project, I'm trying to find a way to change which css file is linked in based on the browser type. I'd like to use one css file for IE browsers, and a different one for all other browsers. I'm using a MasterPage. I added a Literal control to the Head section of the Mas...more >>

Hello, Can you guys recommend an SDK or some Package to Programatically Convert any Doc Type to PDF Mainly Gif, jpeg, png, tiff, fax, MS Excel, MS Word etc... to PDF Need it to work from ASP.NET etc... Thank you much SA ...more >>

I am planning to migrate our company's site ASP.NET 1.x to 2.0. We would like to use master pages and themes. However, we would like to keep our web project generic so that it can be applied to all clients. However, we would like to have a different theme for each client. In order to this, I ...more >>

Environment: VS2005, ASP.Net 2.0, SQLServer 2000, VB.Net, IIS6 I use a GridView Control which is based on a SQLDataSource. The datasource is based on a Select statement and is filtered by the FilterExpression. The GridView also has a pager element (below, displaying first, previous, next, l...more >>

I'd like to display a dashboard like view in a webform. Gauges with green, yellow, red to quickly display parameter driven performance ? Thanks in advance, Bob. ...more >>

I've got a simple page I've made with a few controls (Treeview, Dropdownlist, ..). I'm running into an issue with autopostback. If I set it to AutoPostBack = "True", when the event should fire I get a Javascript error in IE. If I don't set it, and let a button click do the postback, the event ...more >>

Hi, Does anyone have a solution for doing rounded corners in ASP.NET 2? I have previously been using the PrettyUI.dll assembly in v1.1 but, apparently, this breaks my ISP's security policy for v2. By rounded corners, I mean something like this: http://site230.webhost4life.com/billxie/demo...more >>

In my web site i have an image folder with an image, how can I add that image to my grid and make it a link that will take the user to a new page? ...more >>

I just heard that the memory limit for IIS applications under win 64 is only 8 gig. Can somebody confirm this? Deny this? Thanks! ...more >>

hi, i have a page written by someone else w/ a few user controls inside it(w/ user controls inside em too) - what i dont get is the order different page_inits, page_loads, cashed and postback events and code inside <% %> are executing can u plz point me to a specification or some other desc...more >>

I need a web control to browse a cube... I don't know how to use the OWC controls (COM controls in general), when I drag a COM control to my page I can't see all the properties and if I drag another COM control, for example a button I see the same properties... Do I need to convert the COM cont...more >>

How can I display any field value in textbox of sqldatasource using VS.Net 2005 ? Say : Dim x as new AccessDataSource X.connectionstring="Data source="D:\mydb.mdb" X.Selectcommand="Select CompanyName from customers" Textbox1.text= ??? <-------- I need to display CompanyName Field in thi...more >>

I'm just getting started with ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2005. The last web work I did involved ASP 3.0 in FrontPage. I've been through the MSDN tutorials on creating web pages, but not of them seem to cover real-world page layout. In the ASP era, I used tables to provide a structure for a pa...more >>

Ok, here is the situation. I have some vb code that was upgraded to the earliest asp, I believe. When i run this snippet of code below on my local xp box with iis and visual studio 2003 installed, it runs just fine... when i run it on my w2k3 box with iis and asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 installed, b...more >>

Hello, I am adding a MetaTag from my .pasx.vb code: Dim metaTag As New HtmlMeta() metaTag.Name = "Title" metaTag.Content = "My Web Site" Page.Header.Controls.Add(metaTag) Later in my code I might need to change the Content of this MetaTag. How can I do this? If it is not possible...more >>

Hello... I have a question related to performance. Being new to asp.net & vp programming, I put together a webform that displays columns of data in a datagrid. Users can sort by the header label. QUESTION: When they click to sort, I run a new stored procedure to return the resorted data... ...more >>

Hello, I started working with the ObjectDataSource today. I have the select, and have been working on getting the update method to work. Here is the asp code for my Data source: <asp:ObjectDataSource ID="dsourceApps" runat="server" SelectMethod="getAllApplications" TypeName="AppM...more >>

Hello, Anyone knows how to use a MessageBox into a asp.net project using C#? MessageBox.Shows() doesn't exists! Greetings, Rodrigo Ferreira ...more >>

Hi, So I am trying to have a <asp:ButtonField> in the columns part of my gridview, redirect the user to another page with the index/DataValue of the Row that they pushed the button in. It would be nice if there was a combined thing with <asp:ButtonField and <asp:HyperLinkField. Since ther...more >>

Hi all, In my webforms i am building urls in the following way. <a href="#" onClick="OpenWindow('Document.aspx?action=edit&aid=<%=intAreaID%>&did=<%# Container.DataItem("document_id")%><%=IIF(Request.QueryString("pid") Is Nothing, "", "&pid=" & Request.QueryString("pid"))%>&sid=<%=intS...more >>

I'm trying to parse some text from an open file , and then save it and display it, but with the code below, using two instances of IndexOf doesnt work (error: length cannot be less than zero.), and using LastIndexOf will grab the very last instance of my "secondkeyword", which I don't want becau...more >>

I am currently having an issue with an ASP.Net 1.1 Web page that does the following remotely but not locally. Click on a control Check for postback, if postback, handle the event, otherwise populate page with options. What is happening is that remotely the page is doing a double postback,...more >>

Hi all! In my webb app I'm about to introduce a way of processing long running tasks in the background. As the long running task gathers data from a database process them and compile them into a file appx 80 mbytes large it is a resource demanding task both of the CPU and the memory. So I...more >>

How do you add a network path hyperlink in a MailMessage using text MailFormat? ...more >>

Dear all, I am new to ASP.NET and looking around for the Page Template methods given in the internet (using user controls). Please suggest me the one which is easy to maintain. Thanks Gopalan Bhuvanesh ...more >>

OK, here is the story, i have text boxes to allow the user enter information for a search. I have my SQL that has LIKE in the where clause, in the query builder the SQL works correctly, if nothing is entered all the data is returned, if i enter in search criteria that data is returned. NOW, wh...more >>

when i try to do a response.flush and .end, the screen ends up blank. I want all page processing to quit when a check in the pageload event fails. Since control events occur after load, how do i keep those from firing while still displaying the rest of the html on the page? ...more >>

I created a simple Datagrid with normal <body> tag (background white by default), the DataGrid shows padding color = GREY. Now, if I change the <body> bgcolor = red, the DataGrid is TOO SMART and it updates the padding color automatically, now the padding color in DataGrid becomes WHITE!!!...more >>

Hi all, sorry for my bad Englisch . I have trouble with permission on win 2003 server and IIS . My web appllication have windows integrated security . If I open this application in the same server the application work ok . But if I open this application from winxp station the ie want for s...more >>

Is there any way to change VS2005 to generate HTML 4.01/Strict instead of XHTML 1.0/Transititional? VS2005 puts a DOCTYPE statement specifying XHTML 1.0/Transitional at the top of every new aspx page. Is there any way to change it to specify an HTML 4.01/Strict DOCTYPE instead? Thanks in ...more >>

We're using a 3rd party CGI based search engine for our site. The sample code to implement a search field is more ASP/PHP centric and uses the traditional GET form handling: <form method="get" action="search.cgi"> Since this will be placed within ASPX pages, I obviously already have a FOR...more >>

Hello, I am working on an Asp.Net 2.0. I created a master page named "MyMasterPage.master". I created the function "SUM" in my master page VB code. I then created the page "MyPage.aspx" from my master page. When I try to use the function "SUM" in "MyPage" VB code it says: - Name "SUM" is n...more >>

How can I do a response.Redirect and have it create a new window, preferrably the _search as the target. Thank you for your help. ...more >>

Hi, I would like to know if someone knows how to create reports that can be modified at runtime via a Web Interface, I want to be able to change the design of the report, its layout, its column's order, etc Please tell me if this kind of features are supported in the version of Crystal Rep...more >>

I want to get the database table ID of a row in a Repeater that uses a PagedDataSource when OnTexctChanged event is fired. It seems that the DataSource property isn’t persisted when the event is triggered so I have to get the values from the database again. Correct? Or is there a way of...more >>

I'm trying to fill my gridview (asp.net 2.0) from a sp, When I create my SQLDataSource connection and test it, the SP works, but when I run my page, my grid does not load with the data. I tried to run a SP against a test DB (northwind) and it works, but I can't get it working against my datab...more >>

How do I get the number of rows a datareader has? I can tell HasRows, but not how many. Thanks. ...more >>

Hi all. I have 2 problems when I try to open and convert an ASP.NET VS 2003 web-applikation in VS 2005. In VS 2003 I have no problems at all! First: One subfolder with will not be converted! The converted web project are missing this subfolder completely. 39 errors are displayed in the...more >>

I have a public variable that is declared in a public module. This Variable is stored into a Session variable and used to pass data from page to page. I am seeing on my local development box that once the variable is created and loaded with data and stored into the session variable that on the n...more >>

I need to store some sort of Name-Value collection in the Application State. I keep trying different ones, but it errors out saying that they are not serializable. Do I need to write my own or is there one in the Framework that is serializable? I've tried NameValueCollection, Dictionairy<...more >>

My C# asp.net app (.NET 1.1) can generate an email whose body contains a link to the current page of the app. When the recipient of the email clicks the link (usually from Outlook), the app launches just fine, and will postback great too. However, when the user pastes this link into a Powe...more >>

hi, i have a tricky problem and my regex expertise has reached its limit. i have read other posts on this newsgroup that pull out the plain text from a html string, but that won't work for me because i want to preserve the html, and replace some of the plain text. i basically want to show the...more >>

I noticed that ASP.Net caches the web.config and does not reread it unless it is changed. But if you change it, it restarts the app and even session variables are cleared (Am I correct ?). I used another config file by using the file="debugparms.config" in the appsettings section. If I change...more >>

I have an asp.net 1.1 eCommerce application that has a product page where the user can select from many different options that affect the price of the main product. I've implemented this with either a RadioButtonList or a CheckBoxList that does a postback so I can display the current price a...more >>

Hi, I have to keep 2 server's folders in sync as they are used for load balancing purpose. I tried to create a FileSystemWatcher Service and found out that it goes to an infinite loop and Locking when I am trying to get them in sync Is there another alternative way of doing this? Thanks ...more >>

Hi We have an existing eCommerce system written in CLASSIC ASP site that has relatively high load (3/4 million registered users type of size). Because we are re-writing the back-end system, we've got to re-write this eCommerce system and we're looking at doing it in ASP.NET 2.0. What I ...more >>

I have been creating a personal blog engine for the last couple of weeks because I am tired of using WordPress and I don't have a SQL server back-end. I have successfully created a working URL rewriting engine (via Global.asax) that cleans illegal characters from the post title, uses Regular Exp...more >>

Hi all, Is there any free control to display Flash movie for ASP.NET 2.0? Any helps will be appreciated. Thanks, andy ...more >>

*tried this already on the buildingcontrols newsgroup but didn't get a response* Hi, As far as I can tell, it is not possible to use the TypeConverter infrastructure with generic types. Say you have this type: public struct Id<T> where T : IComparable { ... } And you want to convert ...more >>

Dear all, I have a datagrid erver control which is bind to a dataset. How to display as column name custom text instead of database fields name ? Ex : Started At instead of START_TIME_COL thnaks regards serge...more >>

Hello, I'm working on an ASP.NET project (VS 2005) utilizing an Oracle database backend. While I understand that Gridview's are a breeze to work with using SQL Server (hundreds of sites point that out), I don't have that option. So I have a couple questions. 1> Does anyone know of some (p...more >>

Hi, I've got a web-app thats activated by a call to a aspx page from ASP, I need to go back to the ASP session and get some simple data saved in that session. I have no possiblity to do session sharing through Sql server or file ect, but I think I'm able to get the ASP session ID as a pa...more >>

I've built a WebForm with a Table added dynamically in Page_Load when IsPostBack is false. The table includes a couple of TextBoxes, RadioButtonLists and CheckboxLists. On postback, those controls are not present nor their valves in Request.Form.AllKeys. What is the strategy to ...more >>

Hi all, I've binded some data from a DB in a gridview and one of the values is a float. Even if the flot is represented as 4.2 in the DB, it is rendered as 4,2 in the gridview, with a comma. When I edit the row, it is still a comma in the editable textbox. And if I click on Update that way, i...more >>

ASP.NET 2.0 installs web projects by default in the file system, leveraging the increased security of the new personal web server, rather than relying on hacker prone IIS. However, it strikes me that this will add more headaches for testing because your development doesn't use IIS. For exa...more >>

We need a way to replace .ini files or at least a safe way to read/parse them in WEB applications. Hard coding User Identification and Passwords in pages causes to much maintenance. Calling API's from ASP isn't viable/allowable or secure. How are others addressing this issue? Thanks - Mike...more >>

I am using forms authentication to protect all content as described in the kb article below. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;893662 This works fine except for files that are larger than about 40 or 50mb at which point the user gets a 404 error and the httperr log in...more >>

I have images stored in my SQL as .jpg and I want to show them in my Grid, how can I do that? I've seen some examples, but they're pulling the images from a folder not a database, I need to pull them directly from the database. ...more >>

Hello, friends, In a .aspx page, we have a web user control. In both control and .aspx page, we have Page_Load event. My question is: Which event will raised first when rendering this page to clients? Can I change web user control's properties in .aspx Page_Load event so that control'...more >>

I have a series of XLS files which I need to embed into a PowerPoint presentation on an IIS server. I’ll be using VB.NET. I’ve tried using an ASPOSE.PowerPoint control to do this and it does partially work. The problem is that when I embed the XLS files PowerPoint is not running and has...more >>

Dear all I have a strange behaviour using session. ON my form load when the page is first display I create a session variable to stor connection objects as follow : If not IsPostBack then Then Session.Add("DataLayer", Me.m_pCon) else Me.m_pCon.m_dbConnection = CTy...more >>

Dear all, I have an asp.net 1.1 application which collect data from an sql server database So far it was working fine and suddenly I get the following error : "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all poo...more >>

The code snippets are below. I write in (C#) a Page object in a control library. I'm using this page as an HtppHandler in a website (which referes the = DLL). This page contains 2 panels (one is visible when the other is not). When I postback to the page (httphandler) the viewstate is apparen...more >>

I have a root application that has various sub-applications (subdirectories set up as applications within IIS). All of the sub-applications rely on the root application for profiles, membership, etc. This all worked fine for a bit, but now, I get an error when trying to build the root site...more >>

I want to build a series of middleware classes (in C#) to be re-used in all of my projects. Do I simply write them as separate .cs files in APP_CODE? And do I wrap all of these classes under the same Namespace? Please advise. ...more >>

Hi there! Many of you already discussed of datasets stored in cache for an asp.net application. I stored a "large?" dataset (nearly 4000 records) in an Application variable, which contains a cached copy of all main tables (four) from a SQL database, and some calculated statistics. Data i...more >>

Dear all, The following is the source. The password is encrypted and saved into the Binary in SQL2K. Now I want to create a new page to compare the existed password and the password that in the database. But I don't know how to used source code to solve it. Can you help me? Urgently! <...more >>

I'm experimenting with an upload file page. I have a few HtmlInputFile on it. While testing it, I selected a 12MBfile, click "upload". I was think I am safe as (at last in the code) I don't upload file bigger than 1MB. At the top of my request there is a module where I access the request a...more >>

ok so i am using the asp.net starter kit for charting and it works fine on my dev. computer. But when i upload it to a server, the picture is a broken link. I've uploaded all necessary files I'm pretty sure. It can't be a database connection because my project uses a simple access query. ...more >>