Hi, After converting my projects to ASP.Net 2.0 I have seen a problem with Page_unload. Ä°n framework 1.1 page_unload event fires when you are leaving the page or has closed the browser window. Now in 2.0 when you initally load the page Page_unload event fires after page_load event. In some...more >>

I tried httpMoudle, and it seems it worked under VS.net 2005, but failed when I tried "http://localhost/", but I think an HTTP request for an image on my server is not processed by asp.net but is responsed directly by iis itself. What shall I do? ============= What I have done: I wrote a rf.vb...more >>

Hello, I am new in the web developpement. I use Visual studio 2005 and I am creating a web page.I would like to insert a button in my web page, but I can't place it where I want like with the windows applications, there is no Left and Top properties. Is there a way to place the objects on a ...more >>

What is the syntax to include a dynamic querystring variable in the DataNavigateUrlFormatString that changes with the page? When a page loads with sw = 1, I want all of the links to have sw = 1 in them. sample url: http://www.something.com/?sw=1&id=200 Sonny ...more >>

Hi I'm just about to build my own personal website, and am wondering whether to build my own blogging functionality, or whether to use some existing one. Which are the best blogging sites for developers?? Thanks ...more >>

Can someone post a very simple asp.net code. Simple here means a page displaying records from a table in an sql database. I need to see the connection script. thanks guys. -- AutoShutdown ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Posted via http://www.co...more >>

Hi; I have my <form> in the master page because the master page includes the menu for all pages. But I would like to set the default button and control to place the caret in for each page. Is there a way to do this? (My understanding is this has to be done in the form tag.) -- thanks -...more >>

I tried to use align="center", but a message comes up saying the align element is outdated. I am looking for the correct way center a table in a Master Page. Thank you in advance, DAL. ...more >>

When I am debuging on my local machine, and an exception occurs, I quickly find the line number. when I deploy the project, I switch to Release. But when an exception occurs, I don't get the line number. I only get the last method. I was told i need to put pdb on the production server... <- is...more >>

I have written an ASP.Net application which reads the data from MS Access file. Here is the connection string value. "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=MyDB.mdb;User Id=admin;Password=;" What should be the database path name if I keep the .mdb file in the application fol...more >>

Hello, I am trying to store the data entered in a webform in the database. I have few Int and one SmallDateTime filed in my table in SQL Server 2005 database. I have made a storedproc to store the values. My parameters in the database are like this @DealerShipID int, ...more >>

Hello, I have a problem to change title page at runtime. In the page ASPX : <title runat="server" id="pageTitle"></title> In code behind : public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page In the Page_Load: pageTitle.InnerText = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["WebSiteName"]; But...more >>

Hi I am currently offering a download of an executable. This is linked directly through HTML: <a href='/downloads/install.exe'>DOWNLOAD</a> Now, we have some problems when a user clicks "RUN" and not "SAVE". Is it possible to disable this run option? TIA ...more >>

Hi All, I am development an ASP .NET C# web site. Just wondering the best way to implement logging on my web site. (I have a logging class to log database access, exceptions, etc, etc). I have about 10 pages in my web site (that is 10 seperate c# files with code), and 4 separate classes i...more >>

I have a page named PickWindow.aspx that was instantiated from another aspx page but by a javascript function Window.open that opened it as a popup window. Once a button is hit in PickWindow I want to make it go away (just as if the user closed the window). How can I kill my own aspx page? ...more >>

Hi, I am facing a session Timeout problem on an ASP.NET project. The .NET project is deployed on a Windows server 2003 machine. Users connect to this machine to access the application. From time to time, users are disconnected(unspecified period of time but less than the maximum timeout p...more >>

Thanks for the help available on msdn, I have succesful done the rewrite job. But there are 2 problems arise: 1.when I try to rewrite the url from say: www.yoursite.com/beverages.aspx to www.yoursite.com/products/ListProductsByCategory.aspx?CategoryID=1 will result in a partial missing of imag...more >>

Hello, I need to create a custom validator, that fires when a button is pressed, and that displays an error message if the check box list "MyCheckBoxList" doesn't have any item seleced. What should be the client javascript function for this? Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

Hi; Please correct me if I am wrong. It appears that if I use a DataSet object, that is bound to a specific database vendor - in other words I can't use it for data that might reside on Sql Server or might be on Oracle. (Same database schema, table & column names etc, but a different vendor...more >>

I am getting this error while tryin to read the contents of a Web page so I can send them in an email: "Too many automatic redirections were attempted." This is the code I am using Private Function readHtmlPage(ByVal url As String) As [String] Dim result As [String] Dim objResponse As Web...more >>

Hello, When my page is postback on a button click even my page scrolls up to the original position. How to make my page return to the last scroll possition or maybe to a specifique scroll position after postback? I am working on Asp.Net 2.0. Thank You, Miguel ...more >>

Hello, Dim strConn As String = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=" & Application.StartupPath & "\app_data\aaaaaa.mdb;" Application.StartupPath does'nt work with ASP.NET 2 : BC30456: 'StartupPath' n'est pas un membre de 'System.Web.HttpApplicationState' thanks ! ...more >>

Bonjour, Dim strConn As String = "PROVIDER=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;DATA SOURCE=" & Application.StartupPath & "\app_data\aaaaaa.mdb;" Application.StartupPath ne fonctionne pas sous ASP.NET 2 : BC30456: 'StartupPath' n'est pas un membre de 'System.Web.HttpApplicationState' Merci de m'a...more >>

Hi guys. I have two nestes IFRAMES in one of my pages. The main page has an Iframe that points to an aspx page, this page has another Iframe that points to a regular html file. My problem is when resizing the IE window I loose the inner Iframe, it disappears for some reason. Any ideas?? Thank...more >>

I got this error when I moved my application to a new Windows 2003 server. I installed and recompiled the 'Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary - June 2005" then added these assemblies to the development machine's Assembly Cache. The assemblies version appears to be 1.1.0.0. I changed the pro...more >>

When I press debug button in Visual Studio 2005(F5 or green arrow button), the project always compile itself, then debbuging starts. I would like to know, if it's possible to build just the current page before debugging starts and not the whole project? It's very time consuming. Thanks,...more >>

Hi. I am building web apps in visual web developer 2005 express and SQL 2005 express. Users have complained about the strong password policy, so I would like to change it to somthing like at least 5 letters and 1 number. Thanks for the help in advance. -Jake ...more >>

Hello, I am developing with VS.Net 2003 on the asp 1.1 platform. I am a few days new to using a datagrid. I found a nice tutorial and had no problems using an editable datagrid with textboxes and an additional buttoncolumn where I used a delete button to delete a specific row. Once I ha...more >>

Hi folks, This ASP.NET is awesome! I was a rookie and now I am becoming much better. txs for Scott Gu videos. Scott you rock man! ====== Ok the problem I am trying to resolve now... I have a treeview on the left and I have a moving gif picture on the top left corner of my webpage...more >>

I have a form that contains a mix of dynamic controls and declared controls. All of them are intrinsic .NET controls. Several functions within the page use Request.Form to query the value of the dynamic controls when the page is posted back. I also have a server side function that validates...more >>

With asp.net 2.0 i have various textbox controls on my form. When the user submits the form i want to do a These are the controls: <asp:TextBox ID="txtBook1" runat="server" CssClass="txtSmall"/> <asp:TextBox ID="txtBook2" runat="server" CssClass="txtSmall"/> <asp:TextBox ID="txtBook3" runa...more >>

Displaying selected items at the top of the listbox Hi, I am having two listboxes - one with ids and second with the related names. When user selects an item in one listbox, the corresponding item will be selected in the second listbox too. The problem is, when the user selects an item an...more >>

I have both framework 2.0 and framework 1.1 installed on my machine. The asp.net application I am running should use framework 1.1 ( it is developed in framework 1.1) I am getting the following error. Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this we...more >>

We have a status message we display that can be good news (in green) or bad news (in red). Is there a way to do this for a single literal or label? Or do we need to have two, one set to green and one to red and just set one to a text string and the other to ""? -- thanks - dave david_at_...more >>

Hi; I have some error messages I have to create (can't use the validators). I have done this using both labels and literals - is there any reason to prefer one over the other? Note: We are localizing the error messages in resource files. -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net ht...more >>

Hello there! I use an asp:calendar in my page and I have an issue with it... when my page is loaded, if there is no date in the querystring, I set the calendar's selected date to Today and if there is a date in the querystring, I set the calendar to this date. The code works fine and a...more >>

I have found a situation where the DefaultButton and DefaultFocus stop working under FireFox. I'm looking for any kind of fix or work around. The problem seems to happen when setting a control that is part of another control, like a templated control. The docs say to use the UniqueID in thi...more >>

I made a GridView with a Drop Down List using the example here: http://www.orcsweb.com/articles/dotnet_control_templates.aspx It appears to work except that it dosn't actually save the updated data selected by the drop down list. Instead it appears to save the origional data. Any idea wha...more >>

Hi all, I am using ASP.NET 2.0 Membership system, which is driving me nuts. I have my users, which I create correctly. Then I have a table "Models" which contains models, created by different users. So I obviously need to create a relationship between the users and the models. I wanted at fir...more >>

Greetings, Our company is migrating a very intense web application written in VB.NET/ASP.NET to 2.0. There are about 600 web pages and over 500,000 lines of code between all of the projects that are part of the solution. The non Web projects converted fine except for an insane amount of w...more >>

Lots of people know the development side of ASP.NET but what if I want to have a business doing web hosting with servers supporting ASP.NET. What server softwares will I have to install on my servers? ...more >>

Hi; ..NET 2.0 I have a situation where when the user selects an item in a drop down list, the code behind is called to update the values in another list on the page. This update can take 3 - 5 seconds. When it is complete, the same page is still displayed. What is the best way to tell...more >>

Hi; Is there a way to populate a drop down list and have it start with no item selected - but an empty string is not one of the items in the list? -- thanks - dave david_at_windward_dot_net http://www.windwardreports.com ...more >>

hello everyone, i set up a folder to have integrated windows authentication through iis. in order for this to work with asp.net, i have to set the identity.impersonate=true in the web.config for that folder. my questions is, why doesn't the subfolders inherit the impersonate setting. whe...more >>

Hi, I am development a project using C#.Net. Inside application, it needs to print labels on different Zebra label printers on the network. I used a shell script, but it only worked on the server machine locally. Anybody knows how to do it? Thanks, Peng ...more >>

Hi folks I want to add a <ul> list with some <li> items in .net code behind on the fly I was under the impression that you could instantiate any HTML control by using the HTMLControl class with constructor parameters like so HTMLControl("ul") the purpose being that I could then program...more >>

I need to do something simple but am new to asp.net. I want to add a button to my page and when selected, to open a url in a seperate page. The more I google how to do this, I keep seeing to do it via javascript with window.open but the problem is, I need to build the url dynamicaly thru code. I...more >>

I have a function that calls a class that writes a dataset that I've passed to it out as an excel spreadheet and returns it to the browser: my function try makeExcelFile(mydataset) catch response write the exceptions end try end function This works. However, at the very...more >>

Hi; I am guessing how to do this is very easy - but I can't find it anywhere. I have a cancel button on my form and if the user clicks it, I want to perfomr no validation and redirect to a specific page with the browser url showing the page redirected to. How can I do this? -- thank...more >>

Hi Folks In CS project, we use "using" statement to make reference to other namespaces. For example: using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; At times, there a is a chance that few of them get added by mistake or must have got added for some need and developers must ha...more >>

Hi, I want to store values of two columns from a DataReader because I will need to compare these values several times in the code. My idea is to iterate throuh the data and compare the values with items in a dropdown list. What would be a good way to store and retrieve two columns and m...more >>

Refer to my message "HELP - HELP - HELP" today. When setting the data connection, I specify "Windows authentication". I tried to create a user with full permissions and include user id and password in the connection string: DOES NOT WORK (viewing in browser). An SqlException is thrown tha...more >>

Hi skilled, I wonder if anybody knows how the ASP.NET actually does this. So far I have been assuming the following: 1. aspx pages are compiled in gory-named files (ken0-m7f.0.jsl or something) under my "Temporary ASP.NET Files" folder. 2. these files contain classes that extend my code-b...more >>

I'm trying to build a MenuItem object in a web service and return it to the proxy. Something like this: [WebMethod] public MenuItem GetReportMenu() { MenuItem oMenuItem = null; oMenuItem = new MenuItem(); oMenuItem.Text = "Reports"; return oMenuItem; } This compiles fine but I ...more >>

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to manually renew the sessionID? I have had a look around and not found anything about renewing it automatically. I was wanting to do this just to cover my back when using the sessionID in a table and dont want it duplicated. so once the data is enter...more >>

Hi! I have a simple page, created in VS2005 and C#. It has a textbox, requiredfieldvalidator and a linkbutton, when I click the linkbutton I get the javascript error 'WebForm_PostBackOptions' is undefined, but if I add or replace the linkbutton with a regular button it works fine. The de...more >>

I am binding an ObjectDataSource to a GridView, and I want to be able to trap and respond to an exception within the data source whenever the grid is being populated. Since this is controlled automatically where can this be done. Can this be done? Thanks...more >>

Hi I'm trying to access the content type of an open file through dotnet . But the content type id displayed wrongly when the file is open in my disc. the ontent type is displayed as "application/octet-stream" instaed of "application/doc " or whatever is applicable Any pointers why? ...more >>

Hi Guys, I'm trying to create a library of ASP.NET user controls. What i'm trying to do is to encapsulate all my controls in one library (DLL) and re-using them in other projects. Everything is going fine as long as the control is only a C# or VB class. But when it comes to a .aspx based contro...more >>

Vey simple, but does not work: I'm trying to set a data-driven Web page with a GridView control. The steps I followed are: 1. Created a data connection using Database Explorer. 2. Dropped an SqlDataSource and a GridView control on the page. 3. Set the data source (configured by using the d...more >>

hi, i have recently migrated an app from my local machine to our dev web server and i'm trying to upload a document from my local hard drive via the web server to a sharepoint installation. i'm getting the following error : System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of th...more >>

Hi everyone, I am using the FormView control, which is lovely for databinding to object sources. Problem is, how do I get rid of the <table> tags? We're in the 21st Century here - CSS2 and DIVS all the way, tables for layout is so 1997. Plus a table tag is just wrong semantically as I'm n...more >>

Back in the earlier days of ASP it was easy for an HTML page (let's call it page H) to post to an ASP page (we will call it page A), and then wire page A so that based on what was posted by page H, transfer/redirect to either page B or page C. What I want to know is how does this scenio now w...more >>

Hi all. I have following problem: I have some user control called smallUserContrl, in which I have two RangeValidator controls. I set their ValidationGroup property to smallUserControlGroup. Also I have another user control called bigUserControl, in which I use smallUserControl. BigUserCon...more >>

The fragment below does not show the first item in the set. If three items are returned, the first one is not included in the dropdownlist. Any comments as to why? Thanks Sonny ddCategories is a DropDownList cn.Open() drCat = cmd.ExecuteReader If drCat.Read() Then dd...more >>

Hi All, I'm developing an application that needs to be authenticated by another SSL protected site. I need to transfer control from one application to another whenever required. The first application will host some pages, whereas the second one will have login form. A user will be redirecte...more >>

Hi, I have the following problem. I have a project that uses the Treeview control. The code supports drag-drop functionality for moving nodes between different levels and for changing their order within a level. On Windows 2000 Server everything works fine. When I put it on the 2003 Server,...more >>

Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could make a suggestion about a CMS which has the following features: I did check out Google etc but there are soooo many options... The CMS would have a central admin area which could be used to add content (Text/ Images). The information entered h...more >>

How can I convert back a dataView in Cache to a dataset? ...more >>

PLEASE refer to this linkage www.depoo.org/dr/ys/ys.aspx MY question is: if the customers do not use OUTLOOK ( or did not set up the SMTP in OUTLOOK ), the mail of the upper linkage can't send out -- Is there any method to solve this problem ? Thank you. Martin ( Martin Lee ) ...more >>