asp.net

Hide AjaxControlToolKit item in designer

I'm sure this isn't specific to the AjaxControlToolKit, but it is what is causing me issues. I've created a basic user control that essentially wraps a textbox and MaskedEditExtender because it will often be used on different pages. The designer of the control looks fine, but when I include it in a page, I see a box for the MaskedEditExt...

ASP.NET Web Forms - Manually Invoking a __doPostBack Call

I have a web forms page with a button that involkes a __doPostBack callback to the page. I would like to invoke this manually - by "manually" I mean from outside the webpage, for example by using wget. Is there a way or an example of the best way to do this, please? ...

Is there something similar in ASP.NET to PHP's SimpleXML

If I want to convert my PHP application to ASP.NET… what do you recommend and why? I'm currently using PHP's simplexml_load_string() method because it's, well, …simple. For example, for PHP to process an http request in the form of XML I just use: $FILERAWDATA = file_get_contents("php://input"); $xml = simplexml_load_string($FILERAW...

ajax call handling on asp.net serverside

I'm working on an asp.net project based on asp.net AJAX but we get more and more client side calls using jquery ($.ajax) and get json or html return. I'm wondering what is the best way to handle these calls on the server side, in the same webform, or use a specific http handler, or even web service? can somebody share the experience or b...

asp.net web.config to handle 2 SQL con string (dev/prod)

whats a good way to be able to keep 2 connection strings to SQL server in the web .comfig and have the app pick the correct one when its in the prod and dev servers? i think i saw once some cool ways to keep variables like app settings holding two sets of values just like i am trying to do with my connection string to SQL... but i diont...

Add Events to Controls Nested in a Repeater ASP-C#

I'm currently working with a repeater which has some number of drop down lists in it determined by how many items are databound to it. I wanted to add an event to each of these drop down lists in the scenario that a user changes the selected index. Here is what I have for the repeater (Note that I am doing all of the databinding in the...

Writing a file to the virtual server, ASP.NET

Possible Duplicate: Write to CSV file and export it? This is probably a silly question and I have searched on Google but I'm not able to find a definitive answer - how do you write a CSV file to the webserver and export it in C# ASP.net? I know how to generate it but I would like to save it to www.mysite.com/my.csv and then ex...

ASP.NET auth, exclude root & allow anonymous

Hi All, We have a weird issue found during setting up a new Windows 2003 Server with IIS6.0 & ASP.NET 2.0, our site is built using ASP.NET forms authentication with general authorization to deny access to all users & allow explicitly to static, home pages etc, -- web.config setting for forms auth looking as below: <authentication ...

asp.net location tag not working

We have an application that is making use of the location tag in the web.config file at the machine level - meaning like C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0...\CONFIG\web.config, the one that applies to the whole server - this application has lots of virtual directories under it and for each one there is a <location path="IIS Web A...

Form POST in ASP.NET

I'm trying to convert a classic ASP page to ASP.NET 3.5. The page has several forms on it for several different things. In ASP.NET, there's a server form control wrapping the entire page, and form controls don't work within a server form control, and you can't have more than one server form control on a page. So in order to keep this f...

asp.net webforms routing: optional parameters

Hi All, I want to add optional parameters in my routing table. For example I would like the users to browse a product catalog like this: http://www.domain.com/browse/by-category/electronics/1,2,3 etc Now i've created a route like this: routes.MapPageRoute( "ProductsBrowse", "browse/{BrowseBy}/{Categ...

asp.net storing images

It's me your junior programmer extraodinaire I'm trying to display an image from my database but when I try to extract the file it only contains 6 bytes of data which causes my program to throw an error. My instructor informed me that the file is too small for an image, leading me to believe that I'm not storing it properly. I would be ...

How to find control within ContentPlaceholder and placeholder?

I am adding controls dynamically to PlaceHolder which within ContentPlaceHolder var t = (ContentPlaceHolder)Master.FindControl("ContentPlaceHolder1"); var t1 = (PlaceHolder)mpContentPlaceHolder.FindControl("PlaceHolderName"); var t2 = (DropDownList)t1.FindControl("ControlID"); It looks like I am missing something because t2 is always...

User Controls VaryByParam?

Does VaryByParam also take into account the control properties and the logged in user? Let's say, I have a custom property: will VaryByParam cache based on unique values to that property? Update: I've added the <%@ OutputCache Duration="500" VaryByParam="*" %> to my user control. In the page the control is embedded in, I have this code...

GrideView Column

I have a GrideView bound with table, I added one hyperlinkfield as you can see the code below: <asp:HyperLinkField NavigateUrl="~/Logout.aspx?category=Mobile&&ID=" Text ="logout"/> As you can see that I am sending 2 QueryString with URL. I am getting both correctly as long as I am sending static data. The problem is that I want to sen...

Return CSV response without headers

I am writing an ASP.NET application that generates CSV string and returns it using response.write. However, along with the CSV string, the output comes with other information I would like to get rid of (e.g. ASP.NET version, time-stamp) etc. How can I just get the CSV string and nothing else? ...

How to find common typos of Strings in c#.net???

I'm looking for a way to find common mis-spelling of strings when entered by the keyboard. For example, I would like "house" to return "hoise", "hpuse", "jouse", etc. because the misspelled characters are close to the correct ones on a QWERTY keyboard. If i could get this to work with numbers only that would still be a big help. Given...

ASP.NET MVC - Uploading an image to Amazon S3

Hi. I have my image from Request.Files[0]. Now, how do I upload this image to S3? I see that in the AWS .NET API you have to specify ContentBody when putting an object which is a string. How would I get the content body of my file? ...

ASP.NET MVC 2.0 How to pass data from controller to Jquery

Hi, Iam trying to pass data from my controller, and put it into the variable in JS script. I have done it before and it worked perfectly, thats why this one puzzles me even more. Here is my code of the controller: public ActionResult GetCategories() { var categories = categoryRepository.ListActiveCategories().ToLi...

read write excel file on server

I would like to know your libraries recommendations to read and write Excel applications on ASP .NET website. I have tried GemBox and NPOI, because they don't required Excel to be installed on the server, but they have some limitations on handling Excel files that are marked to read only. Any good and stable libraries that you recomend...