I have some javascript in a standard HTML page that uses the ubiquitous "XMLHttpRequest" to send data to a remote ASP page. If that page "answers back" by sending a string using a simple Response.Write, which I then use in the original HTML page to dynamically update stuff, is this "AJAX"? ...more >>

I have a client that has a list of products on a page. Every time we have to update the list we have to re arrange the blocks with the names of the products. Is there a way in ASP to do this so that we can just add the name and link into a file then it can dynamically create the page? Here i...more >>

Hi there First of all excuse me posting such simple (I guess) question, but I didn't find the answer in tutorials. I have a formView presenting records from some table. one of the fields is a Category ID, which is a foreign key. in edit template I replace it with dropdownlist, which is ge...more >>

Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably priced software package for creating search functionality on an ASP.NET site? The site has about 1000 pages and the software package I seek would need to include a spider to traverse the site and collect the data to place into the index. Does Microsoft...more >>

I'm reading up on some tutorials on using forms authentication in ASP.net 2.0 I'm confused. In 1.1, I created a table in my DB for users, wrote a page for the login form, then added this to my webconfig: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms name="login" loginUrl="/login.aspx" defaultUr...more >>

In a long series of trouble trying to migrate to 2.0, I'm pretty close to getting it working. My connection string isn't liked by my query function, though. This is what I have: <connectionStrings> <add name="DBConn" connectionString="provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Data Source=[my server's domain ...more >>

Hi, I have an issue with IIS installation in Server 2003 : I can't change ASP.NET version from V1.1.4322 to V2.0.0727 in Service web extension tab of IIS to make it match with my site. The web site is OK for a static normal page, but give a HTTP 404 error for a static page made with Visual...more >>

This is the dumbest thing I've seen in ASP.NET. I'm trying to submit information from one page to another external (it's a Moneris pay page), using post method of a form that has a Master page. However, ASP.NET renames all of my hidden fields so that they cannot be identified by the extern...more >>

Hello, I am using the following to retrieve header information from a webpage: Request.Headers.ToString(). What I get is a huge string of data. How do I go about extracting just the part that I need? Buried in the header is an example: &SM_USER=sck10& What I need to get is the value for...more >>

I have been trying to use the Office PIA's to write an ASP.NEt page to: 1. Open a template workbook 2. Populate some data 3. Save the file back to the server 4. Quit Excel and free up Memory I have been able to do all of the above steps except #4. Each time Excel.exe persists in memory. ...more >>

Greetings all! After a week of toiling I've finallay decided to post the code below with hopes that someone can point out my error(s). Basically I have a Gridview/Formview on a ASP.NEt 2.0 page. When I select a record on the Gridview I'm presented with the corresponding FormView Template...more >>

Does anybody know of any good free datetime pickers for ASP.Net 1.1 ? ...more >>

To support a webfarm scenario, I'd like to use a webservice to update/delete cache objects. I have in my web.config the list of the local servers (192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2, ...) and when I need to delete a cache object the webapp calls http://192.168.0.1/webservice.asmx http://192.168.0.2/web...more >>

I'm a definetly a newbie when it comes to asp.net, so please be kind. Using VS 2003 (vb), I want to create a new web application. I have no problem creating a web app. on localhost, but when I want to create the app. on another PC to be used as a web server (ex. Location: http://123.123.1...more >>

How can you determine if you are in debug mode in Asp.net 2.0 I thought I could look at the web.config compilation debug directive but then I read this http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/11/15/2464.aspx which said the directive is ignored if you "Publish Web Site". In my global....more >>

Hi. Why is it practical to have the ASP.NET navigation controls based on XML? I would love to just use databinding and then be able to dynamically update the navgiation menu (e.g. for a product list). I tried to use a dropdownlist with hyperlinks for navigation (not the main navigation --...more >>

I am having a hard time finding an easy way to remove a reference to another .net project that I am no longer using (ASP 2.0 - this was an available option in 1.0). Other projects have a list of references that I can simply look at and delete a reference- with web projects, this does not seem ...more >>

Hello, Can you set up a website inside of a website. I have a main website at our company: parentwebsite.web.company.com. In the path are a couple of directories: parentwebsite.web.company.com/boss1 parentwebsite.web.company.com/boss2 parentwebsite.web.company.com/boss3 Boss3 want...more >>

Hi all, I hope someone can help with this relatively simple problem. I am building a timesheet application using ASP.NET C# with Visual Studio 2003.As it is only a protoype application, my database has been made in MSDE. I have a DataGrid, and have inserted a delete link button into it thr...more >>

I am working on a website, but I need to find a free webservice that will tell me if a word is a noun, verb, etc. I haven't found any yet....anyone know of one. ...more >>

I have a desktop and laptop for development. Both are xps and both are sp2 and both are update to date with security patches. On my desktop when I run the LogonUser api function call. It will create a windowsidentity object and whom I am attemptting to log in as, but if I look in co...more >>

Hi, I have a page that contain almost 70 textboxes, dropdown boxes and checkboxes. This page retrieves data from a table and display them in the appropriate control. My dilemma is when I need to make a change to any of the control. I want to be able to update the table fields with the ones ...more >>

In my asp.net application, I have created a class for global variables and functions, and I have placed this in the app_code directory so it is available to all my pages. That part has worked fine. But now, I need to add a new funtion in this class which needs to reference web.config. How do I ...more >>

We have converted our ASP.NET v1.0 to v1.1, and up to v2.0. We have a DropDownList in the v1.0 code successfully posting back. Now that the code has been converted into v2.0 we do not get the postback to fire. The line in the aspx is listed below: <asp:dropdownlist id="glFSClassification" ...more >>

I have a simple form. I would like to insert the values from the form into a SQL table. What is the best way to do it? I assume that using a stored procedure is preferable to using the UpdateCommand="Insert into..." When using a stored procedure, is it better to use a SqlDataSource or an Object...more >>

Newbie struggling with VB.NET I wish to create an arraylist of structures. I am very new to this coding syntax, so bear with my poor syntax - please struct mystruct Fld1 as short Fld2 as integer Fld3 as string Fld4 as short etc end Struct dim myarraylist as arraylis...more >>

In my Registrant FormView I have a DropDownList which loads data from a secondary SqlDataSource "sdsOfficeParks". I need the user to select an office park but save the selected value in the FormView's ObjectDataSource "odsRegistrant" . The following solution can't work because I need the dd...more >>

We have a site that holds data about the user in session while they are logged in. Everyone once in a while a user will log in and see someone else's session state. Has this happened to anyone else? We are using SqlServer SessionState. I cannot reproduce this and I can't find a KB article on...more >>

Hi there, is there any way I can make a property returning another type than what is declared in the "as" statement ? ex.: public property Age as Integer Get return m_intAge End Get Set (Value as object) '<-- note that the SET accepts an object If isnumeric(age) andalso ctype(valu...more >>

Here in my web application, I have a data entry page with serval controls. Some of the controls have autopostback is set true. But the problem is when two or more people are entering data at the same time, in the middle of my data entry , it is brining someelse data on my screen. I look ever...more >>

I am having a problem with my web page timng out while retrieving a long runnign report (90-120 seconds. I have tried modifying several settings in various places and cannot get it to run for more than 90 seconds. I am running VS.Net and the app is ASP.Net, written using VB.Net. The app call...more >>

Woundering if anyone else has had issues with ConvertEmptyStringToNull="false" ? I have a custom data class and am passing values to it via an ODS. On my insert, if the bound text box is empty an empty string or "" is passed to my data object. On an update, an empty string is converted to null...more >>

Hi: I'm trying to pass a reference to a user control to a class. The user control exposes its elements via properties. When I inspect parameter (user control is passed to class using "this") I can see it's data in debugger, but no way to access it in class code. I have tried casting to c...more >>

Hi, I have a problem connecting to Oracle using and ODBC connection in a ASP.Net web page. The TNS Names works fine because when I create a DSN it works, and it works in SQL Plus. Here are the error I get depending on the connection string: Using the right server (Oracle 9i), and the N...more >>

I have a subfolder under wwwroot set up as a virtual directory with its own application name in IIS. I pulled it down from Visual Source Safe and, on the machine where it's normally hosted, it works fine. On my machine, though, all the application relative paths are resolving relative to wwwro...more >>

In C#, I use the following to bind ItemDataBound to a DataGrid: grid.ItemDataBound += new DataGridItemEventHandler(OnContentItemDataBound); Does anyone know the equivalent of this in vb.net? Thanks, Ken ...more >>

Hi, Dear guru, I have a question on embed a javascript into the master page. I put the following line <link runat="server" type="text/javascript" href="~/column.js" /> under the head, but obviously, it's not called anywhere. But if I put this line, <script type="text/javascript" s...more >>

I have a odd thing happening. I have a sub that is called upon a button click and it seems to be firing TWICE. I have no idea how this is happening but I suspect is has something to do with page_load and IsPostBack. The page has a form that displays a record. The user can delete the record ...more >>

Hello! I'm fairly new to asp.net and I am struggling with getting my form to post to the database and transfer the user to a new page. I am using the FormView control. After the user completes the form, they click the insert button. The insertbutton has command="insert" which is auto generat...more >>

I'm trying to populate a drop down with dates from a data field in my data base but I want the format like MM/dd/yyyy instead of 1/1/2006 12:00 PM How can I my date to show as 1/1/2006? I'm populating the dropdown via a dataset and doing a: string time = Convert.ToDateTime(dataset.tables[0]...more >>

I have a Zebra S500 and multiple S600 label printers. http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/products/printers/industrial_commercial/s600.html They are currently being used in our legacy Foxpro application just fine. We are upgrading to ASP.NET and Crystal XI. I need to automate the pro...more >>

Hello, Below is my code for exporting a datagrid to Excel. It works fine, but we're going to need to somehow have a report header, user input parameters and system date display at the top of the spreadsheet just to make it look like a nice little report. Is there a way that this can be done...more >>

Hi Everyone, I have a gridview control with the following markup: <asp:GridView ID="grdPOs" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False" BackColor="White" BorderColor="#CC9966" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="4" DataKeyNames=...more >>

im filling a datset with names of films and need to get the number of films in the dataset. basically i want to know if its empty. but when i try and get the number of rows it gives me the error: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" . I get this error from the line:"Label3.Tex...more >>

I need to time a file upload using the 1.X HTML upload control. So I need the time the upload started, which is problematic since no page processing takes place until after the file is uploaded. Is there a way to write to the form (lblUploadStartTime) before the upload begins using Javascript ...more >>

What is the best way to handle data interpolation between form controls and the actual sql data field. I have radio buttons that need to be interpreted, form values that have to be translated.. e.g. if (tbDaysDriveAlone.Text > 0) sb.Append( @"drive\"); if (tbDaysVanPool.Text > 0) sb.Append(@...more >>

Hi all, I'm attempting to do something like the following SQL query: SELECT * FROM `users` WHERE idusers != 3 | 2; such as: = "idusers <> 3OR 2"; But I get an error stating: Cannot perform 'Or' operation on System.Int32 and System.Int32. How can I use a range of values in su...more >>

Hello, I have defined another textbox control in the CreateUserWizard control and this is how I am trying to get the value of it in the code behind page is below im myStep As CreateUserWizardStep = New CreateUserWizardStep Dim DealerShipIDvalue As TextBox = myStep.ContentTemplateContainer...more >>

I have a telephone number user control in which I need to validate the data entered (Required field validation and regular expression validation). The phone number is represented as 3 text boxes so I have 3 required field validation and regular expression validation controls. I set the display...more >>

Hi, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum. I'm using a calendar control in a detailsview template (aspnet 2.0). Its bound to data but in the edit view it always displays the current month, not the month containing the date that the control is bound to. How do I get it to display the month...more >>

Hi, I am facing a trouble. I have some Session variables in my code and somehow my session variables are getting mixed up with other users. For example User A has access to 10 companies and User B has access to 5, now when both of us hits to the server at the same time then their session v...more >>

Hi all, I have an aspx page which must contains two forms... I know that it's impossible but my client wants a login form in all pages... The login must be secured and all the website can't be in https! I can not modify action via javascript because the website must be AA-WCAG compliant (Acc...more >>

I have a FormView with DefaultMode="Insert". I want to change this to DefaultMode="Edit" with code but this doesn't work. It's still in insert mode. I've used the following code: Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) FormView1.ChangeMode(FormViewMo...more >>

Hi Guys, As we wall know Atlas is a fairly new feature everyone is talking about (atleast at my school). Even though the idea of Ajax has been used in the past i was wondeing if anyone could explain a few things to me. Comparing the performance of both asp.net client call backs and ...more >>

Hi, I have a problem with bindings in a formview. I have a formview; in the insert template i've created a wizard control and inside it i have an HTML table with some textboxes bound to the sqldatasource of the formview. If i put this textboxes outside the table everything works well, but...more >>

Hi all, Just want to comment on this thread. Seems like every discussion about this matter (setting up DB provider = for membership) and all the samples/references given by some MVPs always = refering to LOCALHOST in their solution. Aren't they all forget that = people build an ASP.NET appl...more >>

Hi, I'm building a Web page with a Flash component that post some content to a handler (ashx file). There is a known bug with Flash 8 running on Firefox, whereby Flash will not send cookies (I believe only session cookies). This poses a problem for my receiving Web page, because the latter ...more >>