My ASP.NET application sets up impersonate in the config file: <identity impersonate="true" userName="m1\aspuser" password="xyz" / > Later, within my application, I create a thread: x= New processor Dim ts As New ThreadStart(AddressOf x.start) Di...more >>

Lets say in a string variable I have stored around 100 characters. Now I would like to only display 20 characters from the 100 characters stored in the variable. How is it done using asp.net 2.0 with C#? Regards Eugene Anthony *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

I need to get several recordset for which I'm opening a datareader like so... OleDbCommand rsA = new OleDbCommand("Select * from Authors",cnAccess); OleDbDataReader drA = rsA.ExecuteReader(); while(drA.Read()) { sbL.Append("<tr><td>"+drA["Name"].ToString()+"</td></tr>"); } This works fin...more >>

Does anyone here have experience of using the sql report server web service to create reports in an aspx pages. Specifically how to do so in a acessible and standards compliant way. The output is HTML 4.0 and won't even get past a XHTML validator. Regards, Chris. ...more >>

I can see master pages being useful if one wants some fragil or complex web design which one does not want to have altered, but thats were it stops as far as I can see. Master Pages Plus 1.) Consistent Design. Master Pages Minus 1.) Makes it difficult to access properties or functi...more >>

Hello, It seems that when a control is set into a ContentPlaceHolder in a page using a MasterPage, it's id is change and FindControl(ID) no more works, is it normal, how to override this or retrieve the controls OnInit handler with a FindControl ? Thanks again for help. CS ...more >>

Many different websites have very professional looking tabs or menu tabs horizontally across the top for navigation. The tabs appearance range from a 3d look, faded coloring, rounded corners, etc etc. I am new to Visual Web Developer and ASP.net and would like to duplicate this eye-pleasing ...more >>

Hello, I am creating a simple CMS for a web site. The web site will hold many documents and for that I created Documents table which holds information on each document such as: Title, Description, Author, Url, ... I would need to create the following functionalities: 1. Create a docu...more >>

I have an ASP.NET page where controls are created dynamically, and I have an issue where one event handler creates another set of controls, and then adds event handlers to those controls. The problem comes in where I need to raise the event in the second control - the event does not fire. I ha...more >>

I am having trouble doing a redirect in an async asp.net implemention. Most of the time it works, but when it doesn't it just "hangs", the browser never gets any return page. If I run it under the debugger, it works fine, though every so often I get a HttpException. System.Web.HttpExcepti...more >>

Hi all, I have a web app running on a local PC that can start and stop windows = service on a remote machine, but only when I browse to it locally. If I = browse to it from my other PC and try to start/stop the service, it = gives me "Cannot open Service Control Manager on computer = 'xxx.xxx.x...more >>

Hello, I have been trying to get a duplicate field checker to work within my gridview using a custom validator. However with the code I have I am getting an error error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object here is my code: Protected Sub CustomValidator1_ServerVali...more >>

I am using Windows authentication and I want to hide some menu items if the user has no permission on folders/aspx files. I tried add the following in web.config and it hide all menu items. <siteMap defaultProvider="default"> <providers> <clear /> <add name="d...more >>

I've written my first asp.net program using VB2005. It has a textbox with "Hello World". When I run it from the IDE, it comes up OK. I then did a "publish web" to my local IIS folder and ran the default.aspx file and it came up with the following: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Locatio...more >>

Hi all, I played with my first bit of AJAX the other week and was pleasantly surprised that I achieved my goal..now I'd like to try something else.. Question... If I have an updatePanel, and lets say I have a button as a trigger which runs a function in my code behind to add a textbox t...more >>

I started looking into the ObjectDataSource and I really like it. It does seem to me though that they really missed the mark in one respect - The designers went through the trouble to allow the use of DataObjectTypeName to have custom objects passed to your dal methods. So why did they then t...more >>

Hi, I have a GridView control in page called eventslisting which is inheriting from a MasterPage. The normal code to export to GridView does not work and gives me an error - "Control of type GridView must be placed inside form tag with runat = server". I understand that this is because my ...more >>

Hi, How can I use authentication with Work Groups and not Domains. What is the configuration (in Web.config and IIS) to work with this? Basically I have a webapplication that use WindowsIdentity to login in my clients. Recently one of this clients change server and will be working with...more >>

Hi, Is it possible to DISPLAY 2 columns somehow in a dropdownlist? For example: DataField Value = bound to ProductId DataField Display = Product Name and Product Number Thanks for any tips. Frank ...more >>

Hello, I need to check if the current user is authenticated and get its profile. For authentication checking I got the following options: Request.IsAuthenticated.ToString My.User.IsAuthenticated.ToString User.Identity.IsAuthenticated.ToString Which one should I use? And how can I get t...more >>

When publishing a website the process is excrutiatingly slow - we are talking 3-4 minutes from when the actual transfer to the site has begun to completion. Apparently i'm not the only one experiencing this and searching on the net i found a possible solution: http://blog.n-technologies.be/Com...more >>

Hello, friends, We developed a web site using asp.net 1.1 and Form Authentication. It works ok. However, when our users log into our website through internet, it requires users to reset their IE cookie settings. For example, for IE 6.0 users, a user will have to (1) Click on Tools/In...more >>

Is it possible to not display a page name in the browser - i.e. not show the ".aspx" extensions in the browser ?. Typically, a link on an ASP.Net website would look something like this: http://www.thewebsite.com/folder1/page.aspx I want to drop the page name completely, so the above link ...more >>

How can I randomly select a single record from my ms sql database using asp.net 2.0? Your help is kindly appreciated. Regards Eugene Anthony *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***...more >>

What's the best way to only show a gridview on a postback? The reason is that I have a simple search page with a couple of fields, and I want those fields to be chosen before displaying every row of data. The Gridview is displayed on the same page as the search fields. I realize I can wrap th...more >>

Hi, I am not sure whether this is the correct newsgroup where I need to post my question. Let me know where I need to post for a quick response. I get the following error when I try to connect to SQL 2005 from my ASP.Net 2.0 application. System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Serv...more >>

Hey everyone. I have another problem. I have an aspx web page that contains an event. When the event is fired it creates an instance of a server control that contains an event of its own. I would like to be able to render the contents of the server control (HTML w/ event JavaScript code) and sto...more >>

Hello all, I have an object of type B that inherits from an object of type A. I create a new instace of B, but I need to cast/convert it to an object of type A in order to call a particular method. I've tried all sorts of ways to cast it as A but it always stays as an object of type B. The...more >>

Hi, We have a virtual directory MyApp that uses ASP .NET v2.0.50727, under which we have kept the source code(aspx, ascx and vb), as well as a bin directory in which we have the pre-compiled DLLs obtained from aspnet_compiler. When we access pages from the application, we still see cached fil...more >>

I have a website with a public folder (users can upload images into it) so I'm wondering if it's possible to avoid the deletion of this folder when I re-publish the website from visual studio. Do I have to set particular permissions on the server? Thank you in advance! Paolo...more >>

I have a gridview with 4 columns. Two of the columns are read-only and two are editable. The two editable columns are listboxes leveraging an ObjectDataSource. The first listbox is populated from a table of static information, the second listbox is more problematic. If the contents of the firs...more >>

Hi all, I'm attempting to build a private message system into a site i'm developing. The page which houses the private message code consists of a multiview. The multiview contains a view of inbox, compose, reply and read - these are switched between depending on the users actions - and the act...more >>

I have to convert an sByte array to byte array. This sbyte array contains some signed values due to this .net converting functions will throw an exception.any work around for this? is there any way to pass sbyte array to stream classes eg: memory stream? ...more >>

Hi, When I run the application in Firefox 2.0 using clickonce, it need to save the setup.exe and click open this file. How to skin this steps? Thanks. James ...more >>

Hi there, After installing and using MSAJAX 1.0 in one of my servers and websites, sometimes, I get the next error surfing the site: Bad Request (Invalid Verb) Somebody knows what does it mean, where does this problem come? and how to solve it? Xus PD: Sorry, my english is so po...more >>

Hello. I have a Gridview on my webpage. To this gridview, I bind a datatable. The results are correctly displayed. But after I edit some values and trigger the [GridView1_RowUpdating] event, the values [e.NewValues] & [e.OldValues] are empty. What am I doing wrong? The columns Visible pro...more >>