I am using ASP (not even .net) and I need to call a function in a DLL from a third party. How can I do this? ...more >>

I want asp.net to be able to write to files and restart windows services. I know that making the username="SYSTEM" in machine.config gives asp.net admin rights on a computer in windows 2000. This does not seem to be working in Windows2003 however. Does anybody know a workaround? Or why this...more >>

Hi; I can read the selectedvalue of dropdownlist by javascript using this.value... How can i get the selectedItem.text by javascript? ...more >>

Is it possible to convert excel file format to csv format through asp dotnet. I need to select a file through browse button that select an excel file and once selected, would convert it into comma delimiter file. Thanks in advance for your help! Amit ...more >>

Hi All, I have a web page that loads data out of a database, and then displays it on the screen. There is a lot of logic behind the displaying, some times fields are made invisible, and sometimes they are hidden. The page is slow to load, but I must admit that the database query to load ...more >>

Hello, This is first time I have started using Master Pages. I am using ASP.NET 2.0 (VB) in Visual Studion 2005. This is how I am doing it... I have created a master page and placed a ContentPlaceHolder. And then by right cliking on the project I added a content page (by leaving the master...more >>

I need to insure that at least one of three phone number fields has a value (requiredfield) but I'm not sure of a way to implement this without server side logic. Is there a way to use the validation controls to do this? Thanks. ...more >>

I get an error message when using Profile object in global.asax : Sub Session_Start(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Dim browser As String = "test" Profile.Browser = browser 'line 25 End Sub Error message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (it points to ...more >>

I have a aspx file (snippet shown below): ======= <td class="light-m1" id="rwCompleteButton" runat="server"><br/> <asp:ImageButton CssClass="clear-m1" runat="server" CommandName="Complete" ID="btnComplete" /> <asp:ImageButton CssClass="clear-m1" runat="server" CommandName="Delete" ID="...more >>

Hi all, A friend of mine just gave me his project from a 1.1 .net app, and I converted it 'successfully' into a 2.0 app in my environment, then rebuild it. I did not get any errors. However, when I try to view the initial page in the browser I get a parser error: Could not load type <appna...more >>

Could someone clarify this behaviour ? In .Net 1.1 (Vis Stu 2003), I could make a Class module, a .vb file, with a bunch of global functions. In my aspx-pages I could then call those functions. The "old" 1.1 project had name A, and the vb-file started with Namespace A Public module Modu...more >>

This is my first shot at .net. This is a website and I am trying to create a comments form. Simply I want the user to hit the submit button and have the data stored into a database and a copy emailed to me. All this new data stuff has me stumped. I have watch tutorials and read a few article...more >>

I have datalist binding to an arraylist of custom objects (defined in a class "PageItem"). What I am trying to do is access the source PageItem object in an ItemCommand event handler of the DataList. For example, I would like to do something like the following: protected void dlPages_It...more >>

I'm using the TreeView control in Selection mode. However, leaf nodes that have been selected show in the browser as a different color than ones that have not been selected just like HTML links are displayed differently if they are in your cache/history. Is there a way to stop this? I want ...more >>

Hello all... i have a really frsutrating problem here... This is only happening in IE (6 & 7b2), Mozilla and Netscape are both OK. I have a top-level table with a width of 760px, so it should be 760 minimum and stretching wider as needed to fit content (such as bound datagrids). In the top TR...more >>

Hi, I have an email account on 2003 Exchange Server. Now, I have to make available the Calendar part of this account available on my ASP.NET web application. Is there a way to embed Outlook into ASP.NET Application? If not, then is there a way to communicate with the Exchange Server and dis...more >>

Hi! I have the following select command: SelectCommand="SELECT [id], [Name], [Address1], [Address2], [CITY], [STATE], [ZIP], [COUNTRY] from [MyTable] WHERE ([Address1] = @txtAddress1)" I would like to be able to use a LIKE operator rather than EQUALS I can't figure it. Can you help? ...more >>

I know this is a long post, please bear with me. I have been working on this all weekend to no avail although I have done a good amount of research (see most pertinent links that I've looked at below). Please help me get through this!!! I'm having some serious problems attaching a .mdf fil...more >>

Hi, I have a several buttons that when clicked makes a postback and executes some code. My page has a lot of data on it so the user will work their way down the page having to use the scroll bar to view it all. But when a post back happens the screen returns to the top. This can get very an...more >>

I have no idea what to do here. I have an application I developed on my local machine and I need to upload it to the remote host. All works fine locally but on deployment inheritance is not working. I really do not understand deployment and I am sure that is my problem. Here is the error:...more >>

VS 2005 allows for web sites and services to be run without installing IIS. What if I want to create a SOA application for a non-internet connected environment? For example: I have a pc running a local, lightweight database. I want my pocket pc to be able to synch and run live off of the...more >>

Hi, Our user complain about the strong password setting makes them hard to remember for ASP 2.0 web. Is there anyway to disable the setting which requires users must use strong password like #$% character ? Thanks, Henry ...more >>

I want to fill a dataset, one of the columns is hyperlink. At the end i want to set a full href, thus url + name. System.String results in interpreted html, not useful. How would i modify the following lines? ' Create the column oCol = New DataColumn("File", System.Type.GetType("System.Stri...more >>

Hello All: I have coded the following in a webform: Dim btn As New Button btn.ID = "btnDynamicCarbonCopies" btn.Text = " More " AddHandler btn.Click, AddressOf AddDynamicCarbonCopy plcContent.Controls.Add(New LiteralControl("<br/>")) plcContent.Controls.Add(btn) along with: Pr...more >>

I am using VS 2005 to Publish my ASP.NET 2.0 Website with the following: - Not allowing this precompiled site to be updatable - Use fixed naming and single page assemblies - Not Enable strong naming on precompiled assemblies As it is, I get around 300 files in the bin directory and it takes ...more >>

Hi: I created a thread from Page_Load to start an infinite loop to monitor the arrived data (a customized event). When the data arrives, I set a flag to true to break the loop and join the thread to the Page thread in order to display the data on a textbox. Then I want to continue monitorin...more >>

Is it possible to call and execute an EXE file on a server from a asp.net web form? The exe file does some process like a batch file. I have a windows form that calls it and executes it correctly but I need it to be a web form instead...more >>

Hello All, Most of you might be familiar with this problem i.e, viewstate is lost whenever we navigate from the one page to another. Does anyone have a remedy for this problem? On Page A, I have a datalist which has a "select" link for each row(I have 1000's of such rows). When a user cl...more >>

Hi, I'm struggling there. My page load event is called the first time the page is loaded. Then I move to another page using Response.Redirect, and when I click the back button of the browser I get back to my formal page, but this time the load event is NOT triggerred... Any idea why ?? ...more >>

Hi, I would like to set the column widths in the ASP.NET GridView control at runtime I have tried the following: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178296.aspx Which uses the following code on a button: Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As Sy...more >>

Hi, I have a requirement to develop an application component using only Server-Side Jscript (not Jscript.NET). What is Server-Side Jscript? Thank you, Max ...more >>

hey, im doing an ASP.NET project that acts as an online booking system for cinemas. when a user books a film with their credit card i need to send them an email confirmation of their booking. how do i go about doing this please? ...more >>

Hi, My project requirement is to use the PKZip/PkWare compression/de-compression methods for files. Can any one of you, pls help me in getting the .net code example (links) for implementing the same. Thanks in advance for your help. With best Regards, Ravikanth Chikka mail: ravikant...more >>

I am using a Web Deployment Project to create a web app installation package. Everything work peachy with one exception - the installed site is always configured to use .net 1.1 instead of .net 2.0 I am assuming that the site is actually just defaulting to the default version Anyone know how...more >>

Is there any way to prevent web.config inheritance in nested web applications ? Here is the scenario, a 3rd party asp.net web application installed on an asp.net intranet site : http://intranet.company.org http://intranet.company.org/3rdPartApp both are configured as applications in IIS. th...more >>

Hi, I have this in my asp.net 1.1 page: <asp:textbox id="Comment" tabIndex="4" runat="server"></asp:textbox> Inside the tags, say I have: <b>I am bold.</b> When I run the page I get the tags, the HTML, with the sentence. But how can I get it to render the sentence bold using the tags? ...more >>

Hello All, I have a question on datalists. I have 5 datalists on a page and when I try to view the "ViewSource", the value for the __VIEWSTATE is empty. How do datalists persist their values? I am not binding the datalist each and every time. Strangely whenever I try to access datalist e...more >>

Hello friends, how ru all, i have a question about xml data displaying in ASP.NET, for example i build an xml file which have some predefined error messages then i want to access these predefined error messages in my ASP.NET pages for example on registration page or on user login page, pls ...more >>

Hi, I have visual studio 2005 on client machine and another server machine (with sql server 2000 and IIS). Also i have .sln (visual studio solution) file with some asp.net project i have to change and upgrade. Where should i put the .sln file (visual studio solution)? How do i connect with V...more >>

hi, according to browser Querystring values are vary, for eg. IE - 2,083 Characters. In my application I'm transfering data from Javascript to Asp.Net through Query string. Eg: var http = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); http.open("POST","Server.aspx?tname="+rowno +"&value=...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for help with a regular expression and c#. I want to remove all tags from a piece of html except the following. <a> <b> <h1> <h2> <h3> Also, <a> could be <a href="aa">aaa</a> etc. Help would be appreciated, along with an explanation of the reg expression created. ...more >>

I'm looking to protect some pages using the Membership provider (ADS) built into .NET 2.0. In order to protect these pages, whose details are stored inside a SQL Server table with columns id,name,url,parentid etc. I need to link them into some roles, or groups. So only certain groups from our ...more >>

I'm having a problem with establishing breakpoints in DbgCLR Version 2.0. I've set breakpoints for statements in Page_Init, and they were never triggered when I loaded the webpage. In the code window of the debugger, I place my cursor over the breakpoint symbols in the left column, and I get ...more >>

I can display the login status using the <asp:LoginStatus> tag. Unfortunatelly, the object LoginStatus seems not to provide an attribute to test it. How can you read from the code (VB script) the login status? ...more >>

Dear All: In VS2005 WebSetup installer InstallAddress dialog, there is field to let user to select which website to install the webapp (if there are more than one WebSite in the IIS). I want to know how can I get the WebStie info in the customAction. I can use "/VDIR=[TARGETVDIR]" i...more >>

Hi all I want to disable the print screen option for my web page. can anyone help to solve this problem.It is urgent.please regards ravindra ...more >>

Hi all, I am trying to create the following class: My problem is i can't seem to use this static function (VB) The error i am getting is "methods can not be declared static" Can anyone enlighten me? Imports System.IO Public Class Stationery : Inherits Page Public Static Fun...more >>