ASP.NET web controls - Week 28, 2005

Web User Controls: Exposing Items property of contained controls

Warped - 8 Jul 2005 4:41 PM - 3 messages

I am trying to make a simple user control that contains a Label and a DropDownList. Basically, I want this control to expose some of the Label's properties (e.g. Text) and some of the DropDownList's properties (e.g. Items) and have the designer handle them ...

Load User Control from different directory

Robin Yarnell - 8 Jul 2005 3:08 PM - 5 messages

Hello, I would like to create a user control, place it in a directory and use it for many different sites. The problem I am having is when I use the loadcontrol I get an error. The error states "The virtual path ...

Dropdownlist headings

jack-e - 8 Jul 2005 12:58 PM - 4 messages

Hi, Senario: i have a dropdownlist which is bound to a lookup table. question: how do i insert headings into the dropdownlist which cannot be selected, without altering the selected values of the other bound items? Thanks. Jack ...

with out using cpu id

Yoshitha - 8 Jul 2005 5:38 AM - 2 messages

Hi to get the cpu id i'm using the system.management class. is it possible to get the cpuid with out using system.management ? if poosible can anybody tell me how to get. thanx in advance Yoshitha ...

Custom control: How to render an embedded image at design-time?

Justin - 7 Jul 2005 10:40 PM - 15 messages

Hi, I have a custom web server control, specifically a composite control, that includes an image button. The image button takes an ImageUrl property that renders at _runtime_, but at design-time the image does not render unless the user chooses an image. ...

limiting # of characters for a multiline mode textbox

Paul - 7 Jul 2005 5:01 PM - 4 messages

Hi just wondering if there is a way to limit the # of characters for a multiline textbox? I am cutting it of in code but would like the user to know when they have exceeded the character limit, say 1000 for example. ...

DataGrid Question

dotnettester - 7 Jul 2005 3:17 PM - 2 messages

Hi, I have a datagrid which populates fine with a DataReader as source. I want to add additional rows to the Data Grid above the data from the datasource. How can I do that? Thanks. ...

WinForm as ASP.NET custom control

benc - 7 Jul 2005 1:16 PM - 3 messages

Hi Can anyone help to point me to some articles on how to host a winform written in C# as an ASP.NET custom control? There is one by Jay Allen in MSDN Magazine Jan2002, but couldn't get that example going. ...

Render and Image on a Button

Ric_C - 7 Jul 2005 12:36 PM - 7 messages

Greetings, all... I'm having some issues with extending the System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button. I want to add an image to the button that will render on the button face itself. Think of the 'Back' button for the IE browser - and image to the left of the text. ...

Tool to monitor/trace all method calls?

lisa - 6 Jul 2005 10:08 PM - 3 messages

Debugging in .NET is so obnoxious. More often than not, due to the whole object oriented thing, the errors I'm getting are inside of objects that I then have to open up and poke through. I can do that. It's not the end of the world. But it takes forever. ...

Retrieving values from DataGrid row before they are changed

greenb - 5 Jul 2005 10:11 PM - 2 messages

I have an editable datagrid and need to retrieve the values of the cells before they are changed. I tried to read the text values from the cells in the ItemCommand event and the OnEdit event but they are always empty strings. ...

Webcontrol Designer Awareness...

Weston Weems - 5 Jul 2005 8:59 PM - 3 messages

I've got a webcontrol that has some methods that fire off rendering javascript to the page etc, that shouldnt be fired off if loaded up in a designer. I'd like to know if there is some sort of conditional block I can use to ...

Re: accessibility and asp:button

JV - 5 Jul 2005 8:21 PM - 3 messages

This is for anyone who has tackled the accessibility issue on their web site (and if you haven't, I bet you will in future). Apparently the asp:button control always renders as '<input type="submit" ...' (a.k.a. submit button) and this can have a big impact on your web ...

Register directive for custom web control in VS 2005 Beta 2

mpao - 4 Jul 2005 12:28 PM - 2 messages

I'm trying to write some basic forms using VS 2005 Beta 2, and have a need for dropdownlists where the texts are localized both in and out. I'm thinking the best way to accomplish this is to write a custom ...

accessing a specific cotrol from web DataGrid control.

Shakeel - 4 Jul 2005 8:12 AM - 2 messages

Hello Everyone, In web DataGrid's ItemTemplate, I've placed a asp:Hyperlink control with id "hypfeature" within column index 3 and this column also contains some other asp:Hyperlink controls . DataGrid is being Bounded to the DataTable which returning some rows. I've to ...