Accidentally put this in normal ASP newsgroup, so reposting: I'm just starting out with ASP.net, making a web parts intranet. I'm triyng to get some basic web parts (ascx files) working on a page, I want them to share a variable, 'StaffID' which one part generates by looking up the windows l...more >>

I want to name a form "System", let's say. While I know I can name it System.aspx and change the class name within to something like SystemForm, I don't think that's a good practice. public partial class SystemForm : System.Web.UI.Page I tried wrapping it within a namespace "Forms" but th...more >>

Is there is any way to create a powerpoint presentation on the fly in a .net web application without using powerpoint application, say for example using an activex ( FREE! :-) ) or something? ...more >>

Hi, i use this tag within the CreateUserWizard control: <MailDefinition BodyFileName="pw.txt" From="welcome@mydomain.xy" Subject="your passwoord"/> The content of file pw.txt is this: Hi, Your passwoord is: ##password## The eTeam This all works, only that the text i...more >>

Hi, How to configure and user asp.net membership controls? I have all the required defaults in the database tables. I get the connection not found error.. Below is my web.config <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0"> ...more >>

Hello, I am looking for the best way to securely stream a PDF to the browser (IE). The PDF would be inside our firewall, so presumably there would have to be some sort of middle-tier app inside the firewall that would receive a request from a browser and then get the PDF and stream it outsi...more >>

A year or two ago I saw an example on Microsoft's web site of an ASP.Net data bound control which worked something like this: Define the control, specify the number of columns you needed a table to be, define the contents of each table cell, and then bind a datatable to the control. Let's sa...more >>

Using ASP.Net 2.0 and VS2005. I have a GridView that is bound to an SqlDataSource and I want to get and hold the previous value of a bound control on the row I am editing. Below is what I am trying but the txtOldValue.Text is not getting populated. How can I get this to work and/or is the...more >>

I tried to make a web page for reset password for ftp users. Is these any way to change the password without using the servername but using OU and DC ? is there good reference for this? ...more >>

I am using ASP.Net 2.0 and VS2005. When I debug the page I get a NullReferenceException at the following line; varControl = row.FindControl("ckMasterFile") When I run the page normally in IE there is no exception thrown and all code works perfectly. Can anyone give me help on this? Than...more >>

Hello All, I have a base usercontrol which has a datagrid and a virtual method to populate the datagrid. I developed a child usercontrol which inherits the base usercontrol and also overrides the virtual method. I have a page on which I placed these usercontrols together. The base usercontr...more >>

Hi! Using: <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" onchange="onchange()"></asp:TextBox> I get: Warning 1 Validation (ASP.Net): Attribute 'onchange' is not a valid attribute of element 'TextBox'. How to avoid this warning? What should I do to "fix" it? Possibly you styles or ...more >>

Hi, I have problem. I want to react on event which come from IO.Port(RS232). I have a class that works on console application class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { SerialPortProgram s = new SerialPortProgram(); } internal static void Run() { while...more >>

A few weeks ago I was able to run remote debugging from my local machine (VS 2005 XP sp2) but now I get the following message: unable to start debugging on the web server. logon failure: unknown user name or bad password I logged on to a neighbors computer and I can debug from his so the se...more >>

Can anybody give me an opinion on which is more efficient - Saving parameters in a database that is on the same machine as the web site or Reading parameters from a .config file ? It seems like the constant opening/closing of the connection would be a congestion spot - plus it would use l...more >>

Hi! I want the user to edit a textbox which allows following values only: - Time (Format: 23:59, HH:MM) or - NULL (empty string) What can I do, so that this works kinda automatically, meaning on the client side. It would be also nice, that not only errors would be detected, but also that ...more >>

I have a mix of ASP pages and ASP.NET pages within a web site. One of the first asp pages creates several cookies with values. When I try to read those same cookie values in the ASP.NET pages the values are not seen. Is this a issue with defining the cookie path in the ASP.NET page? The ...more >>

I have a asp.net v2 website that runs fine on our development server. I have published the website to a stage server and it runs fine, but when I publish it to production I get the following error: The type specified in the TypeName property of ObjectDataSource 'PositionPostingsDataSource' co...more >>

I'm a little confused about DataTable.Merge(). I have two DataTable objects with the same structure - dtOrig and dtCurrent. The end result I'm trying to achieve is to get all the rows in dtCurrent that are in some way different from the corresponding rows in dtOrig so those new/ modified/deleted...more >>

writing asp.net on a development system ... I have a class library assembly that I am building every day: c:\srprojects\DatabaseClasses\bin\debug\DatabaseClasses.dll In my website apps I reference that assembly in its build location. It has been working the way I want it to, but now when ...more >>

Hello all... I am working on an ASP.NET 2.0 application with VS2005 and VB. I have chosen to use popup windows in some cases because it makes the user experience better (according to all the users I have polled who will be using this app). In an attempt to keep the popup from disappearing ...more >>

Hello, I have a generic list named Ratings as follows: Dim ArticleRatings As Generic.List(Of Rating) Rating is a class and one of its properties is RatingValue. How can I the mean (average) of all rating values taken from ArticleRatings? Thanks, Miguel ...more >>

Hi, I was going through the article (http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/10/WickedCode/) regarding async programming in ASP.Net 2.0 but did not find much of an use with it. Actually my requirement is that once a user logs in I need to call a web service which will perform some a...more >>

Hi, I have a master page and content page. In content page I have to validate the text boxes for name,address, phone number and email address etc. But as content pages doersn't have html section not head or body section so, where I use this java script in content page to validate the form. ...more >>

Data controls such as SqlDataSource get positioned at the top of the design page and make it hard to see GUI controls. There is no style method where I can set the position nor can I drag them and drop them down at the bottom of the page under the grid and all other usefull GUI object. I f...more >>

Hello All, I have a base usercontrol which has a datagrid and a virtual method to populate the datagrid. I developed a child usercontrol which inherits the base usercontrol and also overrides the virtual method. I have a page on which I placed these usercontrols together. The base userco...more >>

First I'm pretty new to ASP.NET and I'm having a simple problem. I have small website with a header, sidebar and the the content. I want my content to appear beside my sidebar which seems to be a pretty standard layout. However when ever I resize my browser the content resizes below the side...more >>

I understand that the best way of sending email in batches from an ASP.NET application is using a multi-threaded windows service. There must be products out there that funciton in this way, and I'm not interested in re-inventing the wheel. I would imagine I'm simply not serarching using the...more >>

From the amount of articles about this one I’m sure this gets asked a lot, but I haven’t yet found a succinct article which explains what is required in its entirety. I work using Visual Studio 2005 SP1 mainly in ASP.Net using VB.Net 2.0. I have an application which runs without error ...more >>

i'm in the process of putting my first .net app on a remote server, and i'm having no end of trouble getting the aspnetdb database (sitememberships on my host) to work correctly. after a lot of research, i'm able to connect to it with this connection string in my web.config file: <remove n...more >>

Hi! In ASP.NET 2.0, I have an ImageMap, but can't catch OnMouseOver events. I'd like to pop up a panel (using the AJAX HoverMenu Extender or the Popup Control Extender) when the mouse is over some hotspots. Unfortunatly those hotspots don't have an ID associated to them. Any ideas? Thanks...more >>

Hello all, I've created the following ASP.NET code sample which, when rendered, displays a 100% textbox within a single cell table. The problem is that Internet Explorer (6 or 7) truncates the right-hand edge of the textbox. The textbox renders correctly on Firefox and Netscape. <%@ Pa...more >>

Hi, I'm tasked with changing the image based buttons on our site to non-image based buttons...(!) I can use a hyperlink but these buttons should also have a border around them. This can't be hard can it? I'm sure I'm missing something......more >>

Using asp.net in Visual Studio 2005, we are getting an error message when trying to connect to an existing SQL 2000 database.. This has only hapenned since we installed the SQL 2005 client tools. The error is: "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When ...more >>

Hi, I would like to know more about design patterns and specifically using C#. Can any one recommend a good book? Thanks...more >>

Hi. We have several internal Windows Forms applications and two ASP.NET applications that realy heavily on CSS files. We are considering to migrate the Web applications and some of the Windows Forms applications to WPF. Is there any tool or guide that can help us to migrate the presentation l...more >>

Hello all, We have a small problem which I'm sure there must be an answer, I just don't know it! We have written a server control that, as part of the package uses a number of custom written dll's. Below is an example scenario: V1 of our customer control uses V1 of dllA.dll and is pack...more >>

Hi, We have a page we want to refresh every 30 minutes so that users can get up to date info. The problem is that there is information within the session that we need in each refresh to determine what roles the user belongs to so that we can get the data they need. The page times out because...more >>

Hi, If I double click any node in the treeview (besides the root node) - the child nodes aren't expendad automatically so I must click the checkbox. As I understand whenever a double click event happens, the node under the mouse cursor is expanded or collapsed. So - what is wrong ? M...more >>

Hi, i have created Web UI Control. I need to use it many times on one page. My soulution was to add this controls in a loop to Panel (in Page_Load), it doesnt work. I think it is beacause this control doesnt have runat="server". Any solutions? Maybe there is simpler ide? Thanks in adv...more >>

Hi, I want to Set asp:fileupload Filename at runtime. When I try to do, it shows "Readonly" error. Anyway to achieve this. ...more >>

Hi, is there any solution to iterate through all user profiles? Thanks in advance, Etam. ...more >>

Hi All We have the following requirement for H1B visa Holders. 1. Unisys Cobol Developer (Not Mainframe) 2. Unisys Mapper Developers 3. Powerbuilder 4. Crystal Reports 5. SharePoint Portal 6. Net, ASP , C# 7. Teradata 8. DB2 DBA 9. C, C++ 10. WebS...more >>

I have a registration page with no of text boxes and 3 buttons for insert update and delete. and a logout button on the top of the page. If i place my control in an of the text box and press enter key it automatically goes to the logout button and it logouts. Actually when i press the enter key ...more >>

I'm looking for a newsletter component for my ASP.Net website. Ideally, this should allow me to be able to create newsletters that I can sendout to subscribers. Preferably, this component will be open source and in C# (but I'm not too fussy - if its good, I'm willing to pay for a 3rd party ...more >>