What's wrong with this vb.net dim?: Dim imagesToSave As ArrayList = myString.split(",") With myString = comma delimited string. I keep getting an invalid cast error with that. It's late and I'm tired, so I'm likely missing the obvious. -Darrel ...more >>

I am working on a web app that needs to get xml data from a classic ASP application hosted on a remote server. If I reference the url with IE, the xml is displayed correctly and formatted using the default style sheet, so we know the page is working for a standard browser request. Howeve...more >>

Hi I have a very simple configuration of the GridView with paging and sorting. When I do a postback the DataBinding event fires twice - in both the ProcessPostData and PreRender stages of the page life cycle. In this example the event fires twice when a) GridView EnableViewState=False and ...more >>

For a customer I have created a website, where we use dynamic url-rewrites by using rewritepath in global.asa. Ie the url /products/gizmo.aspx does not really exist, but I look gizmo up in the db and find the relevant product, and then do a rewritepath to productpresentation.aspx?id=whateve...more >>

I am having trouble connecting to a database. I do not want to use the wizard to connect to the DB. I do not understand how to create a connection string that will connect to the database i am using. I am using Visual Studio 2005 and C# if anyone can help me. -- oskermayor ---------...more >>

I'm using Visual Studio 2003, how do I run ASP.NET Page. XP Home edition doesn't have IIS server, so how am I going to run them ? It seems that VS 2005 have built in ASP Server, to parse the ASP.NET page, but this feature is not available in VS 2003. So how do I display ASP.NET (.aspx) p...more >>

putting a custom control in an aspx page that inherits from a master page is not working out for me. Any tips after getting that error? Also Element 'Search' is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site. <%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Mast...more >>

i am selectin some data from database and through reader showing it in datalist as above now for radio buttons i have single column which returns 1,2,3 and according to that i want one of above radio button to be preselected in this datalist how can i do that doing something like this but th...more >>

I need to add few style properties to my custom control. The properties I added look like this. private Style titleStyle = new Style(); [Browsable(true), DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)] public Style TitleStyle { get {return titleStyl...more >>

I have some client-side JavaScript that I want to run whenever a pulldown <SELECT> is changes on th client. I'm trying to do this as follows... <select id="MyPulldown" onchange="handleProblemChange();" runat="server"> If I do this, I get client-side javascript errors because the id "MyP...more >>

Using Asp.NET 2.0. I published my web application to the server using the publish to website feature of asp.net 2.0. In VS.Net 2005 IDE, on solution explorer, at top level just below solution, I just right-clicked, and selected publish. I gave it the target server location (just mapped a ...more >>

Hello, I am developing with VS.NET 2003, the v1.1 .net platform, and CrystalReports XI I have no problem embedding the report which was created in CR and pulls form a stored procedure. When testing and running from within CR, whenever I refresh the report, it prompts me for a date top...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to translate a page into asp.net 2.0.. The options I need are e.g. action='some webpage', method=post, enctype='enctype' etc... the file is supplied by a standard file input dialog. How can I post a file using asp.net? the form allows for some of the above options, but...more >>

Hi, I need to create the html below with dynamic controls <span class="myclass"> <h3>text1</h3> <h4><span>Price <strong>text2</strong> | Duration <strong>text3</strong></span></h4> </span> text1,text2, text3 need to be bound dynamically. If I was doing this with a non-dyna...more >>

I don't have any errors. I have only a little bit of code as I just started a new app. I have a master page that shows up fine, but the actual content pages show only gray and my MP header in the background. I can place items and content in source view, but I have no design view capability. This...more >>

Hello Everyone. I need to use a gridview, that when I use the Update command one of the colums, instead of showing a textbox where the user can write, I need a combobox (listobx), where there are 3 options. EG OF GRIDVIEW: USUER AGE carlosg old rominat yo...more >>

Hi, I'm opening a popup window with JavaScript. It has a command button. This is from the primary source (opener) window: ################################################################### // ======================================================= function popup01 () { var win_url ...more >>

Hi, I'm looking for a decent intro reference for someone (i.e. me) who has some experience in ASP (classic), but wants to get up to speed in ASP.NET relatively quickly... Any favorites? thanks! evan k. stone | software engineer ---------------------------------------- santa rosa, c...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to open a page from an aspx page, this without changing the url in the address bar? Actually it's a PDF file. Is this possible? Thanks Joris ...more >>

Here is my situation. I'm building a web based store that will use the same code base for every store using host headers to determine which data to display. To prevent purchasing a SSL Cert for each domain I want to redirect the checkout process to a different domain. I have two or three ...more >>

Hi All, Can someone tell me what type of window is being created on www.start.com if you click any contents link. A sample snippet would be appreciated. TIA ...more >>

hi there, i'm uploading to my photo gallery and this is what i'm after.. When user uploads image, i automatically create a 75x75 thumbnail, however using the GetThumbnailImage function drops the quality and distorts it, so what i would like to do is: resize the original image to: Width...more >>

Using aspnet20 csharp, I have a simple data entry screen that inserts submitted values to a database. I want a default value to be submitted if no value is entered in a textbox. Thanks _harry ...more >>

Hi, If I want to dynamically build an asp:table in a class file and return it to the caller as an object ie: public Table TableGenerator(){ public Table myTable = new Table(); .... .... return myTable; } My question is this, how do I call this method and display the resulting table i...more >>

Today, for the first time, a flash file failed to load. However, when I replaced localhost with my IP address (or machine name) it displayed fine. Another person here at work had the same problem. He thinks its an IIS setup issue. He solved the problem by using Ctrl+Alt+P and picking the brows...more >>

I was wondering if it is possible to add a custom fields to the membership feature. Like gathering address, phone etc. Is there a way to get this information an store it in the same data tables as the other info, or do I need to creat my own fields and tabel to keep this info. Please help, tha...more >>

Hi folks, Page_Load has the following definition: Sub Page_Load(sender as Object, e as EventArgs) As such, we are unable to instantiate a control that is inside a DataGrid since the e parameter is an EventArgs and not a DataGridCommandEventArgs type. If I have a ddl and I want ...more >>

Is it possible to create a datagrid that looks like excel? Currently i'm using the OWC (Excel spreadsheet control) and its only being used to export the data to excel. I would rather use the grid due to a little more flexiabilty, but can i make it look like excel on my web form and export the ...more >>

I have a gridview template field that I would like to get the value of during the RowEditing event, but can't figure out how. Here's an example of how I get the value of a cell for the row being edited: Dim WasherNum As String = gvBrazeLoad.Rows(e.NewEditIndex).Cells(6).Text It works if the C...more >>

is there a way to have a re-arrangeable list with an asp.net control ? I would like to have a list of database table column values in an ordered list initially loaded by their column order in the table HOWEVER have the ability to use an arrow or some mechanism to rearrange the order of ...more >>

I have a ButtonField in my GridView with a CommandName, and I have a method which I am using to capture each click of the button : protected void GridView1_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e) { if (e.CommandName == "OpportunityDetails") { ... } } My ...more >>

Just a general Q, but how do people feel about whether their html (or ASP.NETs html product) validates according w3org standards? I've just gone through a few hoops to get the warnings cleaned off my site. I feel happy that the site is now clean internally, but there wasn't an iota of diffe...more >>

Can anyone tell me why when trying to use the following code to deserialize the viewstate it takes a long time with a large viewstate. This really surprised as the viewstate is big, but not that big. The formatter.Deserialize method takes a couple seconds which is a long time. protected overr...more >>

I have a web .Net app which sends emails with attachments. After the email is sent I clean up aftermyself and delete the attachments from disk. In upgrading to .Net 2 I changed the email logic from using system.web.mail to system.net.mail (of course vs is telling me system.web.mail is obs...more >>

Hello all and thank you for your time. I have an application that I have just taken maintenance over from a consulting firm. The application uses a lot of user controls and panels to control information. I see that when the page is loaded (aspx), it loads all the user controls(ascx) as well. ...more >>

Hello, I am using callbacks from a user control, but it looks like the client cannot be "bound" to the server. When I try to run the callback, I get the "object expected" JavaScript error; when debugging the JavaScript, I find that WebForm_DoCallback is undefined. Does anyone know what ...more >>

In VWD I have an aspx page with a DropDownList control. The DropDownList is populated from a column from a table in an Access database. If there are duplicate values in the column they are added to the DropDownList. Is there a way to eliminate duplicate items on the DropDownList ? Thanks,...more >>

Hi Everybody, I'm a bit of a newb at .NET, so here is my problem... I fill up a drop down list with values from a SQL database, everything is fine and it shows up in my drop down list, however one of the entries in the list is very long and it is causing my drop down list to take up too muc...more >>

Howdy folks, Recently we copied a .NET 1.1 aspx page and dll to a production server. The page had a web reference to a service that we have running on the production server, as well as another version running on the test server. Everything ran fine in production until the test server went d...more >>

Hello, This my a method to call a stored proce and uses a DataReader to read the data in the below method I am trying to assign a null value to my datareader variable Dim datareader As SqlDataReader datareader = null but it doesn't accept. ********************************** Public Fun...more >>

(Not sure whether it is a general aspnet problem or a specific security problem, hence posting it in 2 groups). This will solve for us a number of problems. I have developed a website on my local machine (part of a LAN) using Visual Web Developer, with ASP.NET 2.0. Backend is a SQL Server 2...more >>

Hi folks, I have a DropDownList in a DataGrid that is populated from records in a database. I want to add a value that might be a string such as "Select a Company" for the first item since an OnSelectedIndex event is not fired if you select the first item. Does anyone know of an easy ...more >>

Hi all, I'm writing an image cataloguing system in asp.net and SQLserver. The system allows hierarchical keywords to be added to the image records. I've represented the keywords in tables with 'id' and 'text' fields for each keyword. The table of second level keywords also has a 'parentID' ...more >>

I keep getting the error message below when I try to access my default.aspx page on a MS 2003 server. I am using v2 of .net. I've been rehashing the file security settings and the web settings but can't find a solution. If I place a 'test.html' doc as the default doc the browsers shows the d...more >>

I have an ASPX page with a DataList. The ListItems contain a DropDownList and a Hyper Link. The user selects an Item from the Dropdown box and then selects the hyperlink to edit that item. My thought was to grab the ID, ClientID, or UniqueID of the Hyperlink and then build the name of the Dr...more >>

Hi there, I know there is pool of HttpApplications, and for each request coming in, HttpRuntime will dedicate one from pool to serve the request. My questions are : 1. since HttpModule is plug into the process, does each instance of HttpApplication keep its own set of HttpModule instance or H...more >>

Is there any way on an input="file" to specify what the default accepted types are? I don't want to have the user even be able to see the wrong type. TIA - Jeff. ...more >>

Hi there, when I use Page.ClientScript.Register...Block() , the script got added within the <form> tag. It's not a big problem, but I still want to put them in the <head> tag. See if you have any suggestion. Thanks....more >>

Hi all, A newbie here. And I am using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express with C# to develop my web application. Here is the situation I am running into and need some help here. Thanks a lot in advance. I have a class, let's say Car, under namespace: MyTest. It is saved in the file: Car.cs...more >>

I am fairly new to ASP.net having started with version 2. I have mostly used the DataSource controls for manipulating data but i now need to some data using ADO.net instead and a stored procedure in the SQL server database. As far as i can work out, in order to insert a new row using ADO.ne...more >>

I must be missing something regarding update parameters. I have tried using <asp:Parameter> to specify my update parameters, and <asp:ControlParameter> when <asp:Parameter> didn't work for a particular parameter. Here is my code : < asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" Co...more >>

I have client side code that uses xmlhttp to make an asyncronous call to the server. This call really churns the server and can take a couple of minutes to finish. I have found that while this long call is processing, I can not make any more requests to the server from the same session. I f...more >>

Hi folks, If I want to select the first item in a DropDownList, I need to first select any item other than the first item and then next I select the first item which will then fire an event saying that I clicked the first item. Why can't I just select the first item to get an event to fire...more >>

Hi I've got a little issue with a form I'm working on right now. I have several command buttons on my web form and when I click on several of them, I get no response at all. I have defined events for the controls. Hmmm, I wonder, I also have 3 RequiredFieldValidator controls also on this form...more >>

Hi folks, I need to have two ddl's in one DataGrid cell. The first ddl has a list of company names and the second has a list of contact names that work in the company name that was selected in the first ddl. Any replies will be greatly appreciate. Here are 3 functions / subroutines tha...more >>

Hi, I'm a newbie to COM n Serviced Component architecture..I've developed a serviced component and registered it as a COM component usinf Regsvcs tool of .net... This serviced component has a Amount property which is of type long. Whenever I try to use the Amount property in my ASP page, i...more >>

Hi, I have designed a form which process database Insert, edit and Delete(datagrid). I input userid,password and privilege in textboxes which has validation controls to verify data keyed in. And press the button to perform insert operation. Upto here is fine. I want to perform edi...more >>

Hi I want to add the copyright sign and various other 'symbols' in the content of my aspx pages in visual web developer, but I simply can't find a similar menu item to 'insert symbol' as is present in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Frontpage. Does anyone know how to insert these type of symbols ...more >>

Hi Everyone, I got question from Customer. What kind of browser and version which can browse properly if application running on ASP.net v.1.1 or 2.0 beside IE.5x above? Firefox, Nescape, Mozilla, Opera? Any info which can help, thank you very much. Have a nice day, Martin Adhie...more >>

How to close all the child windows when parent window get closed? in ASP.net application through scripting.. ...more >>

Is this possible at all? I'm working on a Atlas project which at one point requires me to hide an ASP.net control with Javascripts running on the client side. Anyone able to provide any help on this? Thanks. ...more >>

Hi, I have a UserControl called it <pm:task> and it's in Page1. inside <pm:task> user control, I have 3 buttons, "create task", "edit task", "delete task". now I want to assign this <pm:task> this way in Page1.. protected void Create_Task_Function(object sender, EventArgs e) { } ......more >>

Hai all, In VC++, CString str = " 4 76 1"; int nNo = atoi(str.Mid(0,8)); it returns nNo = 4 as output.... it returns the first integer occurence and neglects the remaining character.... Similarly, In C#.NET I do the same as following.... string str = " ...more >>

Hi all, When generating controls dynamically on a server event, control event does'nt work. Whats the problem? Thanks, Sharon. ...more >>

I want to change some color of words in a GridView. So I add some Html tag to the words in a Gridview like: <font color='Red'>MyTest Words</font> But the it did not change the color but jset how the Html tag around it. If we can use html tag in the content of GirdView? ...more >>