Hi There, I have created an ASP .NET web site. Whenever I try to create an SQLDataSource I get the following message, 'Following error occured while getting connection string information from configuration. "Cannot get web application service" ' I have the following line in my web.config ...more >>

Hello, I have a gridview wherein I've added functionality for Edit. Now, when I click on the Edit button, and modify a field, and click on the Update button, the new values disappear and the old values are retained. Here is my source code: <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" Code...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for some way how to make strings with aggresive characters safe for usement in SQL queries for Microsoft SQL - just something, what would add slashes before such characters. Is there any function for that? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I want to set the tab order for the controls in the web form. How do I set it? Setting the TabIndex doesn't seem to work. I just need the first control to have the focus when opening the form. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Felix.J ...more >>

Hi, How can I access the event generated by the click on a linkbutton in a datagrid? My requirement is like this... I've placed a linkbutton in a datagrid. The user clicks on it, and some value is stored in the ViewState. I am not able to capture the event of click. Please Help. Thanks ...more >>

I am using asp.net 2.0's gridview to display some data. My data source is a collection of custom objects. These objects expose a property which is a date. When I databind and try to format the date with DataFormatString="{0:d}", I get no change to the display. I still get hours/minutes/s...more >>

Dear All, I have created a webpage which will access a Access MDB file. However, there are some problem when I access the MDB file. I found that the problem is from SQL statement of OLEDBCommand. For example: if I use "Select * from Location", then the ASP.NET applicant can run norma...more >>

Hi All, I have a Theme folder "Default" which contians some skins, css files etc. I have specified default theme in Web.Config file under pages section. However, theme is not getting applied to the pages. I have not set any other settings? What could be wrong? Any hint? Thanks in advance ...more >>

Hi All, I am using Repeater. I am using RadioButton in ItemTemplate as I want to allow the user to select only one row. I have set the GroupName for the RadioButton. However, RadioButton remains selected, once selected and does not change the checked status of other RadioButtons. Wh...more >>

Hi All, I am using Repeater Control. I want to display total no. of Records in the Footer template, at the bottom. What will be the data binding expression? Thanks in advance Sachin ...more >>

Hi All, I have a asp.net site. Whenever I put siteurl onto the IE it asks everytime for username and password. How do I avaoid this? Is there any setting needs to be done at IIS server? Thanks and Regards, Deepak ...more >>

Hi everyone, i have a range validator set to date mode. However, I want the max date to be whatever it is right now, is there a way of setting this within the properties of the range validator? Thanks, Taz ...more >>

I'd appreciate any feedback Where some of the Enterprise Application Blocks are pretty powerful, with all the cool binding controls and the simplicity of combined objectsource and sqlsource , does the DataAccess Enterprise Application Blocks 2.0 still have the same benefits? ...more >>

I'm using a DataList and a Repeater (nested in the DataList) to display a list of "Chapters" and "Documents" within the Chapters. <asp:DataList ID="dlChapter" Runat="server" RepeatColumns="2" RepeatDirection="Vertical" OnItemDataBound="dlChapter_OnItemDataBound"> <ItemTemplate> <table> ...more >>

Is there a way to measure and report the up/download speed between the server and the client browser using ASP.NET 2.0 C#? ...more >>

Hello, I built myself a calendar control. I want the control to be able to be validated by .NET validation controls. So I added the ValidationPropertyAttribute("Text") to my class declaration of my calendar control. It is the Text property of my control which must be validated. I add a Co...more >>

I have a asp.net 1.1/vb application that has a page with a bunch of dynamically added User Controls. When I add the controls, I set the UserControl.EnableViewState to true. For all my controls with TextBoxes, I can get the value back out of the controls just fine. One of my User Controls has...more >>

Here is my working code to pull Yahoo business news RSS feed. Can anyone show me how to only return the top 3 or 4 news articles? <%@ Import Namespace="System.Xml" %> <script language="VB" runat="server"> Public Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) If...more >>

This has been driving me crazy. I have been trying to get the error handling working on my system and can get parts of it working and others won't work at all. I found that you can't access session variables from Application_Error event, but I need to so I don't need to set up traces to se...more >>

Not sure if I should post this here or SQL so here goes... I really need some advice regarding how to handle ASP.NET 2.0 development and SQL MSDE and 2005 Server. Maybe I am just making this more difficult then it is - please let me know. Background ------------------ I am using ...more >>

I have a problem where my SelectedIndexChanged on a drop down will fire sporadically. When it won't fire, I go into Debug and set a break point on the SelectedIndexChanged event, it will then fire in debug mode, and will also fire after that when not in debug mode. Seems like when I do it once...more >>

Is there more direct way of doing this? Dim LI As ListItem = ddUpdateType.Items.FindByValue("123") ddUpdateType.SelectedIndex = ddUpdateType.Items.IndexOf(LI) Not counting the check to ensure that "LI" was actually instantiated, it's ugly in an otherwise neat group of code lines. --...more >>

I like the Web hosting site I'm using (though alternate hosting = suggestions are welcome), and it allows me to point mulitple domains to = the root folder for free, but it charges extra for pointing them to = folders. But here's my issue: If I could just point each domain to a different fo...more >>

Hi, I made the Web Project Setup Package in Visual Studio .NET 2003. How can I reference it to assemblies that located in bin directory of another web project on target machine (without using Global Assembly Cache)? thanks vitali ...more >>

Hello. I believe I've read somewhere that classic .asp pages will still operate correctly with no problems with the .NET 1.1 framework installed on a Windows 2000 Server server. Does anyone know if the same classic .asp pages will work on the .NET 2.0 framework with no problems? I was goin...more >>

The following code produced a singleton object with application scope when it should have had page scope: public class Singleton { private static Singleton uniqueInstance = null; private Singleton() { } public static Singleton getInstance() { if (uniqueIns...more >>

Is there any way to convert RTF formatted text into HTML for display on a website? thanks! ...more >>

Does WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(string) only open the web.config file regardless of the argument string? ex: Configuration config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~/myFile.config"); When I use the above code, the web.config file is always opened - never ...more >>

The “The page cannot be displayed” error occurs when debugging ASP.NET web application using VS 2005. ASP.NET Development Server icon in taskbar shows that application is starting on port 2795 but immediately redirects to http://localhost:1473/MyApp and the error occurs. Other web application ...more >>

Hi, I am trying to write a detailed logging system for a site. The client basically wants us to save the values of the properties on the page every time someone presses a save button. I have written the following function that formats the properties of a basic class and rreturns it as a ...more >>

Hi, I'm new to ASP.net, SQL Server and visual studio.net, and I'm having problem inserting and storing data from a web form to a SQL database. I created a simple ASP.NET web form, a simple SQL database, a database connection (using the SQlDataSource Web Control from the Toolbox), and create...more >>

I'm doing an ASP.NET 2.0 project where I have a BAL and DAL layer. I'm passing a DataSet from the DAL to the BAL. The BAL is passing generics back to the presentation. All works fine, however, I noticed a problem with my code that does something like this in the BAL: List<JobSummary> j...more >>

Hi there, Thanks in advanced for any help. I am new to .NET and am trying to do the following: Certain paths within the application are public, while certain paths only are for registered users, and certain paths for administrators. Using the forms authentication within the web.config fil...more >>

not sure if this is the most efficent way under asp.net (vb.net 2003) but i would like to have a header that appears on all pages -- i thought about using an include file - however, the contents of it overlay panels or other controls - it just drop them down... i tried creating a custom contr...more >>

Does .NET Framework have to be installed on any client which uses a Web browser to view/utilize a page served by ASP.NET. Or is the ".NET" part of ASP.NET strictly a server-side phenomenon? ...more >>

hi there, i have the following HTML code: -------------------------- <asp:DropDownList id="hddList" runat="server"> <asp:ListItem Value="1">Item 1</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="2">Item 2</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem Value="3">Item 3</asp:ListItem> <asp:ListItem...more >>

I've played with some code generators; they all have what appears to be aspx web pages run from a desktop program. The pages have a code section and a section where they use <% %> operators to instantiate content. I have a very specific and surgical need and want to do this from a desktop p...more >>

Hi Guys, I am planning to put a Calendar control on my website. However i dont want the whole page to reload when i am paging the calendar. i did little research on web and found AJAX as a good source. There aare some good tutorials out there however i didnt find anything to use AJAX to b...more >>

hello everyone, I am trying to make session out when I click logoff button using windows authentication. Could anyone help me out with this issue, please? Thanks in advance! ...more >>

Hi, We have a web site which needs user to login. After login, there are = some files available for download on some pages. A typical link of such = file is like this one: https://www.ourdomain.com/docs/contracts/c_02102006.pdf I noticed that any one could get this file if the person knows ...more >>

I'm having a problem with the DataList control, my situation is as follows... I have a DataList with a Drop Down List Box (DDLB) in the header, this DDLB is set to AutoPostBack = True. When the selected value in the DDLB is changed the page does post back however no event is fired, I was expe...more >>

Is it possible to select an item on a gridview by clicking on it and then being able to click a link for example that says EditOrder in a treeview and have the EditOrder page open up viewing what you selected in the gridview? My EditOrder link is in a sitemap so I don't know if it is possible be...more >>

Hi, I get this exception when I use a themed css file. In my web.config file I have: <pages theme="dRise"> and the trouble page is a master page : <% Response.Write(Header)%> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div class="FormContent"> <asp:contentplaceholder id="ReportWi...more >>

I have a composite control (under ASPNET2; derived from CompositeControl) which contains a label. The contents of the label are set when the control is created to a user-supplied value. What's confusing me is that on postback the contents of the label are not being restored from ViewState. I th...more >>

Hello All- I'm writing a game using asp.net (c#). The game is a browser-based Role Playing Game. I'm trying to determine the best way to design the game with scalability in mind. The Player class will hold info about the player, such as hit points, weapons and armor that are equipped, and ...more >>

Hi, In one of my database's tables I have a Header and Footer field, which content is used to create the header and footer of my Master page. Part generated from Header field: <html > <head > <title>Untitled Page</title> </head> <body> That's the usual hardcoded content part of...more >>

Dear all, What is the real puprose on using an XML schema (XSD) ??? This is still a bit unclear for me, is it just in case we would like to tranmit data to an other applciation and rebuild a dataset based on that schema or is there other reason ? thnaks for your reply regards serge...more >>

Hello I'm in the middle of trying to build an "AD phone book", and this being my first try at asp.net, I have a few questions that I hope some of you might be able to help with: 1. Is it correct, that PageSize equals the max size of the result set? 2. Is there a way to make asp cache...more >>

Hi, I want to avoid the events being called when page is refreshed. For eg: I call a button event that modifies some data in the database. If i press F5 on the same page again the button event is fired and data is modified. How do I avoid it? Thanks in advance Priya...more >>

Hi there I have seen a few posts about this one already but none that have a solution. There appears to be a bug report at http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewFeedback.aspx?feedbackid=d0279ec7-8730-4445-9f3e-1d1a01235cf1 but this was closed as it could not be reproduced by M...more >>

Where can I specify a default value for a column when using a FormView? Specifically, I have a checkbox for a column of bit datatype on my database, and I'd like to default it to checked for insert of a new row. Thanks, Gary ...more >>

How can we get the currently running WebApp directory? All kinds or Request. don't work, maybe security..., the requests that work just show C:\Windows\System32, but I need the physical path of the WebApp to adjust some parameters in the running application after its start. I could include t...more >>

Hi Guys! If i comment an html control then i amke that: <!-- <input type=3D"text" ... > --> But, if y try comment a WebControl, it is not posible. Hoy to commente this line? <asp:label id=3D"PaginaTitulo" cssclass=3D"Head" = EnableViewState=3D"False" runat=3D"server" Text=3D"<%# Titu...more >>

Hi all, Could someone please provide me with some meaningful links to show me how to go about creating webparts both in 2003 and 2005 (.NET 2.0, that is)? Regards John ...more >>

All, How can we include some configuration file inside Web.Config file? For example, we're having the Web.Config file with a number of general settings, but some of these settings are different per developer's machine and we don't need to upload these customized settings in the source contr...more >>

Hi, I have a web form with multipe edit boxes and a submit button. When the enter key is pressed within one of the editboxes I would like the form to be submitted. How do I achieve this? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Felix.J ...more >>

(Using aspnet 2.0) I'm having problems copying my web site to my production server. I my web.config, I have <connectionStrings>, <appSettings> etc. sections, that must NOT overwrite my production web.config settings. On the other hand, I have several <location path> authorization sections...more >>

Hello, Is it possible to use the Microsoft Data Access Application Blocks with MySQL ? Thanks. Pierre. ...more >>

I have function in my app_code folder. Is it possible to register client script block from app_code function? public static void CheckSessionModal() { String scriptValue=""; scriptValue = "<script language=\"vbscript\">" + Environment.NewLine + "window.returnValue=-1"+ "window.cl...more >>

How can I go into debbuging mode without building a whole project. If I change something on my page and press F5(Debugging), I would like that only this page is builded again not whole project. It's too slow otherwise. Thank you, Simon ...more >>

I would like to select items from a listbox into another listbox using drag and drop functionality. Does ASP.NET 2.0 webparts support this? Or any open source free framework? I am not looking for anything Atlas based. John dalberg...more >>

I have created sample web Application. On the default page I drop webpartmanager control and then create a table and place webpartzones. Now when i am running it in development mode ...everything runs fine. But when i publish the website and try to run....error pops up Webpartmanager is undef...more >>

Good morning all, I have test management in my webapplication, in that 'questionform.aspx' is getting post back to get next question every time, for this i need to display time for a certatin test period. and after the test time expires it should automatically stops the test. Th...more >>

Hi all I am getting this error: Server Error in '/' Application. Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropria...more >>