When creating this website I user a custom authentication method to validate the usercredentials (I think the membership provider is an overkill since I only use the authentication part). When I have a authenticated user I use FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage to authenticate the user ...more >>

Logging To a File In A S P . N E T 2 . 0 . I also want weekly rolling filename for the log file. Step 1. Create a class library ( 2 classes) ============================== AppWebEvent.cs -------------- using System; using System.Web.Management; using System.Text; using System.Web; ...more >>

I noticed that if cookie is disabled, unfortunately adding cookie to the collection doesn't trap any error, and this is really good for some aspects, because it's impossibile to understand that since next time you use the cookie. Now supposing to work on an environment where cookie are disab...more >>

Suppose a base class like partial class X : Page ... and a class A that is called from class X somewhere along the code. I'm not able to understand if for each user connected to the web site, a thread is created and so every call to class A stay in different thread or all works into a...more >>

Hi I've been looking into different ways of formatting columns/rows in the GridView control. I realize now, I think, that once the datasource is bound to the control the original column type information is lost, i.e. converted to a string. So my question is: is it better to format data w...more >>

Hello. I am writing a website for my company. There is a sign-up form that requires us to send a confirmation email to our customer. Our company uses Exchange Server 2000 as our mail server. We decided not to implement any smtp server as that may post some additional security risk. The que...more >>

I recently upgraded an ASP.Net 1.1 app to .Net 2.0 and am now struggling with the different binary system used. Previously a binary was created in the bin subfolder of my ASP.Net app. I could add that binary to my installer. With ASP.Net 2.0 there are no binaries generated in the bin subf...more >>

We recently moved a web site that validated user credentials in Active Directory from IIS 5.1 to IIS 6, and the validation code no longer works. The web.config file is set to Windows authentication because all we do is verify the user on the login form so we can redirect them to the appropriate...more >>

I have a question regarding the asp.net project setup. I created a very simple project located here: c:\web sites\test\ When it runs it runs here: http://localhost:1315/test/Default.aspx In Default.aspx if I put a link that refers to "~/login.aspx" or "/login.aspx" it doesn't work be...more >>

I have an asp.net (2005) application using forms authentication. It has a simple login page (login.aspx) that uses FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage the problem is that the redirect url always points to the default.aspx although I don't have default.aspx in my web application. ...more >>

running a crystal (v10) reporting app on a virtual web server and getting the "Validation of viewstate MAC failed...." error when opening the crystal viewer. Any help please!!!...more >>

If I have installed both versions of the framework, can I say to may application use 1.1 or 2.0 or when I run the applicacion will use the higher version???? ...more >>

I am running VB for ASP.Net in VS.Net 2003 and am experiencing extremely slow response in the ide at times and the debugger. Below is additional detail on the problem. Any thoughts are much appreciated. VS.Net IDE Extremely Slow Symptoms: · When you type in IDE editor you have to wait seve...more >>

i want to enumerate all server controls in a page if it has a text property, change it right before the page is sent to the browser how do i do this? i take it i have to override something like page.Render()... thanks! neil ...more >>

what's missing here ? Compiler Error Message: BC30203: Identifier expected. Source Error: Line 11 Line 9: Public Class GetVol Line 10: Line 11: Private Shared<DllImport("kernel32.dll")> _ Line 12: Function GetVolumeInformation(PathName As String, VolumeNameBuffer As S...more >>

I'm using a normal DHTML menu control (known as skmmenu control) and It works fine with IE. But I have Issues in displaying the submenu in Netscape 7+. It doesn't seem to be taking the style.position = 'absolute' and instead it displays the submenu in the same origin. Since I'm working on VS ...more >>

Hey All, I'm attempting to put together a "secure" ASP.NET 2.0 application with one requirement that has given me a bit of grief: In a nutshell, if the user's session expires then they should be forced to re-authenticate with the application by providing logon credentials. These credentials ...more >>

Since I never seen the following question answered, I am re-posting it: Hi Im using ASP.NET 2 with C# in codebehind files and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition. I have embedded lots of XML Documentation (<summary>,<see>,etc) into my ASP.NET project in code behind files of ASP pages, user co...more >>

We recently decided to go from cookieless to cookies, changing web.config to read cookieless=false. Since making that change, I've noticed that javascript functions kept in included libraries are not available. They'd been working for over a year. The libraries are included in the <HEAD> of...more >>

I need to implement caching for a large enterprise application and we are planning to use the newest Caching Application Blocks. (Enterprise Library Jan. 2006) We want to cache Business Entities (DTO's) at the service layer and have a few questions. Are there other options than using Mic...more >>

Hi, I have x number of table rows that all should have a checkbox and a dropdownlist on each row. The checkbox could be checked and the dropdown should contain y number of values that are related to the row. I can't find a good control for this in ASP.Net 2.0. Now I use a repeater and ch...more >>

Hi, I would like to bind the hyperlink column but I don't see how to. I tried somethink like this but instead of showing ID nummbers it shows "ID=ID" Any tip is very much appreciated. Genc PS: Code I tested with aHLCol.DataTextField = "RR_ID" aHLCol.DataNavigateUrlField = "FI...more >>

Is it possible to add records and edit records by hand using code on a SqlDataSource and then save it on the server? thanks, Victor ...more >>

Trying to get assembly and hard drive info any working examples in vb available ? I couldn;t find any examples for assembly info. I tried this for hd info but no success. Imports System.Management .... Public Shared Function Volume(ByVal strDriveLetter As String) As String If strD...more >>

I have a number of simple select queries that a user needs to be able to execute and display the data on the screen in a gridview. My thought was that I could use a Gridview set to dymanically generate columns and bound to a SQLDataSource. Then the user can click buttons (or whatever) and it...more >>

My testers getting this exception 1% of the time they click button on the page. This happens in both IE6.0 and FireFox1.5. Any ideas? System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.ArgumentException: Invalid postback or ca...more >>

I'm a bit confused about something. I have an aspx page populated with dynamic controls; textboxes, labels, radios and so on. On the page is a Yes/No radio combination and 3 textboxes. The textboxes are visible. If you click the No radio, the textboxes should disappear. In my code, I'm setti...more >>

on windows XP and visual studio 2005, I cannot load a javascript or a style sheet file. when I try to run the aspx page I get a client side runtime error stating: " A Runtime error has occurred Do you wish to debug? Line 2: Error: Syntax error Yes No " when I click Yes/No, the pa...more >>

Hi EveryBody: I am trying to make A new project by using Vb.Net 2003 every time I tried to open New ASP.Net Web application I got This message: Visual Studio.Net Has detected that the Specified Web server is not running ASP.NET version 1.1. You will be unable to run ASP.Net Web Applicati...more >>

Hi guys I want to create a situation whereby users can use a band name to access a data page. So.. site.com/bandname actually goes to site.com/music/artist.aspx?id=100 I currently do this by having loads of directories, but that means loads of work if I add a new artist, so I wanted to ...more >>

Hi How can I make an upload progress bar like have http://rapidshare.de/ when upload a file to the server?? Thanks =) ...more >>

I'm developing an interface that sends a file to the client. it works but the client also gets an "Action canceled" page (IE) how can I remove this page? or display the application home page? thank you! the conde is in the Page_Load sub: Response.Clear() ...more >>

Hello All, I have a question as to why my users are noticing error when I am building the project on the production system. Here is the problem's background. In order to build the project on the production system, I use the Visual Studio's File > Open From Web and then build the solution. ...more >>

Argh yourself. You are CLOSE to right. Debugging is something you do to identify the problem SO YOU CAN FIX IT. I will obviously not be fixing IIS even if I do figure it out. Yes, I obviously need to figure out a work around, but my preferred solution woulld have been, "Oh, MS has identified ...more >>

You have to put it in every event handler, and i have seen it used but i can't work out what it is, what it does and why it's there. Could someone point me to an explanation because i really havn't been able to find one....more >>

I have to print a Fedex shipping label on a Zebra(thermal) printer. I initially had the label information in a base64 string which I decoded into a memory stream. Now I need to send this memory stream to a thermal/label printer. How do I do this? Thanks for any help. ...more >>

hi guys, i'm about to build an companies intranet portal and i saw on couple of pages that there has been an intranet SK available for VS 2005 beta. In my version of VS2005 i cannot find it any more and on asp.net site neither. since i saw that the portal was designed using webparts it seemed...more >>

This is driving me nuts, it is such a simply thing to do but i cannot for the life of me work out how you are suposed to do it. I want to update the data in DropDownListB based on what is selected in DropDownListA. I am not trying to do anything fancy with AJAX, i am happy to use Post Backs...more >>

I have found it very easy to have a Helper class that has static members which access Session Variables. For example: public class HelperClass { public static doCustomer CurrentCustomer { get { if(HttpContext.Current.Session["Current_Customer"] == null) ...more >>

Is this possible? We have 7 webservers servering up the same content, but each has a different viewstate. How can we make them all have the same one?...more >>

I have a problem similar to that described on http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?query=+Failed+to+load+resources+from+resource+file&dg=&cat=en_us_e0006ee2-ce2f-4563-8421-cf54b6030827&lang=en&cr=us&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us but I would like...more >>

Dear all, I have an asp application which is based on different framset with separate banner area. I would like to build on the banner area a kind aof menu sitch board to go to different places... After a user click on a particular menu, I need to show to use the current menu that he has...more >>

Hi, Playing around with Atlas (March CTP). I have a block of tables followed by a timercontrol that is supposed to update an UpdatePanel for the date/time. The timercontrol is working great, but the whole page flickers when the date/time gets updated. The rest of the page IS NOT being re...more >>

Hi! All, If I just convert a ASP file extension to .ASPX and place it in a ASP.NET Application, will the page execute?? If no, then how can we make the page execute without much changes to the code(incase there is some alternate method to do so)? Thanks in advance.. Regards, Baren ...more >>

HI how to pass client side variable(javascript) to an asp.net webform? I was thinking using an invisible asp:textbox control to store the value in? any ideas? thanks Bert *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

Hello I'm writing an application in ASP.NET 1.1 and have come across a problem using static fields in my page classes. I have lots of controls on the page that all need to bind to the same datasource, so I thought I'd create a singleton in the base class that reads from the database and pro...more >>

I have a textbox and a submit button on a page, I want the user to type in some characters before i enable or make the submit button visible <asp:TextBox id="txt" autopostback="true" runat="server" Width="70%" Rows="4" TextMode="MultiLine"></asp:TextBox> I used the...more >>

hi all! i'm trying to define a custom config section like described in the online help of VS2005: <configuration> <configSections> <section name="sampleSection" type="System.Configuration.SingleTagSectionHandler" /> </configSections> <sampleSection s...more >>