Alternative Asp.net designer/IDE?
Are there alternatives to Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer Express for developing ASP.Net applications? ...
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Why does the browser renders a newline as space?
Hello. For the longest time, I have wanted to understand why the browser adds an empty space between rendered HTML elements when there is a NewLine between them, for example: <span>Hello</span><span>World</span> The html above will output the “HelloWorld” string without a space between “Hello” and “World”, however in the following ex...
SqlConnection.RetrieveStatistics() doesn't populate the collection ( I do have StatisticsEnabled set to true )
hi I started learning learning Ado.net and got a bit stuck. 1) If I enable connection statistics via SqlConnection.StatisticsEnabled property, then I should be able to retrieve various information ( via RetrieveStatistics() ) about actions SqlConnection instance performs. Thus, before calling the code below, I already opened a conne...
Why is the asp.net dropdown list button color tied to the windows color?
The ASP.NET dropdownlist control has an arrow that you can click to drop the list down, that color of the arrow is tied to the users windows color scheme. This is not convenient for me and I'll need a workaround. However, I'm wondering if anyone knows (or has a guess) the strategy behind making that dropdown arrow tie to the system col...
jQuery's $() function always returns 'undefined' with AJAX
i've noticed that popup shows BEFORE text gets updated in the textbox, i guess js gets called before the page gets rendered ... that would explain the 'undefined' popup ... how do i make sure js gets called AFTER the page is rendered? rewriting to make it as simple as possible: <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <asp:ScriptMan...
Reading a Bitmap from a TIF file - Works in WinForms not in ASP.NET
EDIT Solution Found: See my post below. We are writing a library that reads in a TIF file from a scanner. Basically, its a scantron. We are examining the form and reading values from it. Currently we have a windows test app, and we give it a filepath as a string ("c:\testing\image.tif"). It loads up the tif, reads the document correct...
File names containing non-ascii international language characters
Has anyone had experience generating files that have filenames containing non-ascii international language characters? Is doing this an easy thing to achieve, or is it fraught with danger? Is this funtionality expected from Japanese/Chinese speaking web users? Should file extensions also be international language characters? Info: W...
Using embedded standard HTML forms with ASP.NET
I have a standard aspx page with which I need to add another standard HTML form into and have it submit to another location (external site), however whenever I press the submit button the page seems to do a post back rather than using the sub-forms action url. A mock up of what the form relationships is below. Note in the real deployme...
"how to create dynamic crystal report using aspnet c"
We are able to display data in grid view dynamically. We let the user select one of table out of 153 tables , on selection of of any table we are able to generate a check box list containing fields of the selected table and allow user to select field/s of his choice.On pressing show data button we are able to show the corresponding data ...
Sending a Soap Header with a WSDL Soap Request with PHP
I'm extremely new to SOAP and I'm trying to implement a quick test client in PHP that consumes a ASP.NET web service. The web service relies on a Soap Header that contains authorization parameters. Is it possible to send the auth header along with a soap request when using WSDL? My code: php $service = new SoapClient("http://localhos...
how to disable back button in browser when user logout in asp.net c#
Our problem is we are able to clear session on logout. But if user click the back button then he/she can go through all previous. But the advantage is that on a single click on any of of such previously surf page bring user to login page back ,we had done that.But our requirement is we should no allow user to go through the previously s...
How to use Dependency Injection with ASP.NET
I am trying to work out a way to use Dependency Injection with ASP.NET controls. I have got lots of controls that create repositories directly, and use those to access and bind to data etc. I am looking for a pattern where I can pass repositories to the controls externally (IoC), so my controls remain unaware of how repositories are co...
How to provide multiple search functionality in website???
I am developing a web application, in which I have the following type of search functionality; Normal search: where user will enter the search keyword to search the records. Popular: this is no a kind of search, it will display the popular records on the website, something as digg and other social bookmarking sites does. Recent: In thi...
Datatable Compute Function for multiple colmuns
I want to count the number of non-null values per column in a Datatable. I could loop through the columns and use the compute function on each column, but I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to do this. ...
Can I programmatically add an IP address to Dynamic IP Restrictions extension in IIS7 from my ASP.NET app?
I'm creating a forums based site and want to block the members that post spam or abuse. I was thinking about using an HTTPModule to do this but I came across the Dynamic IP Restrictions extension to IIS7. I wonder if it's possible to add IPs dynamically from my app to the extension? Also, if you have experience with that extension this ...
Export from HTML to PDF (C#)
Hi, In our applications we make html documents as reports and exports. But now our customer wants a button that saves that document on their pc. The problem is that the document includes images. You can create a word document with the following code: private void WriteWordDoc(string docName) { Response.Buffer = true; Response.Content...
WCF Caching Strategy - Including Dependancies
I would like to ask people's opinion on methods and strategies for introducing Caching to WCF. In particular what i am most interested in, is injected SQL Cache Dependencies. Once a web application is copied to multiple application servers I want to synchronize the cache efficiently. I am currently looking at the WCF Rest Starter Kit...
How can I use css 'ids' in combination with server controls in ASP.NET?
Hi, My designer created a stylesheet that makes heavy uses of id's. Example: <div id="globalheader"> <ul id="globalnav">.... css: #globalheader { width: 715px; height: 100px; margin: 18px auto; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 20; z-index: 9998; } #globalheader #globalnav { margin: 0; padding: 0; } #globalheader #globalnav li { dis...
Can ASP.NET Session ID be the same on two machines at the same time?
I have an ASP.NET application that uses Session.SessionID to prevent multiple users viewing the same data at the same time. I have a table that contains a set of images (stored in BLOB) that require processing. Only one user is supposed to be able to view the same image at the same time. To achieve this, as each record is retrieved by...
Separate viewer application for ELMAH's log
We're using ELMAH for error logging in our ASP.NET application. We use the SQL Server error logging. Because of security and configuration constraints in the application, we would like to have the log viewer UI (Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory) in a separate web application, connected to the same database. However, ELMAH filters errors on app...