Code Newsgroups: ASP.NET web controls

My own control - exception in Design view

David Thielen - 21 Oct 2006 11:18 PM - 2 messages

Hi; When I switch to design view the control I created (inherits from HyperLink) displays: Error Rendering Control - HelpLink1 An undandled exception has occured. Object reference not set to an instance of an object Any ideas why this happens? ...

Anyone have APP_LocalResources resx files for the MS controls...

David Thielen - 21 Oct 2006 10:32 PM - 3 messages

Does anyone have APP_LocalResources resx files for the MS controls that they will share? Obviously we can get VS 2005 to auto-generate them for English. But if anyone has them in other languages and will share, we would really ...

Need button control that...

David Thielen - 21 Oct 2006 6:18 PM - 8 messages

I need a button control that does the following: 1) Has 3 bitmaps for button, OnHover, and OnClick. 2) Is placed in a grid and has a url that includes a {0} in the url that is set with a property from the data for that row of the grid. ...

menu question

David Thielen - 20 Oct 2006 11:45 PM - 5 messages

Hi; A couple of menu questions: 1) I would like to have a menu that is horizontal with graphic tabs for background images. How do I set this? 2) For some of the main menu items, I want to have 2 or 3 sub menus. I would ...

all bitmap button in grid?

David Thielen - 20 Oct 2006 11:23 PM - 4 messages

Hi; I want to have a button in a cell of a grid (in each row) where the button is just a bitmap - no text. Which control should I use? Just a plain old asp:ImageButton? ...

how to validate input of a detailsview?

Cas - 20 Oct 2006 7:57 AM - 3 messages

Hi, I use a detailsview control for inputtng data. I want to check the user input before it is sent to the database (min. /max value, not empty, only some values allowed ...). When clicking on the insertbutton, i want a ...

auto-size textbox

Jerry C - 19 Oct 2006 4:08 PM - 5 messages

I have a text box on a asp.net web page. The text is from a dataset field. The length of the text can be anywhere from 0 to 2000 chars. what is the best way to resize the textbox to fit the text. I find some information about ...

Textbox - inserted enters

RBM - 19 Oct 2006 11:31 AM - 3 messages

Hello, On my ASP.NET 2.0 page I have a textbox with edit type multiline. I have the following question: Is it possible to show manualy typed enters in the Gridview inserted from such a textbox? Please anser this question, thanks in advantage. ...

Datagrid template column

chandu - 19 Oct 2006 4:04 AM - 3 messages

Hai, i put template column in datagrid. then if i want to display date in that column (only date with out default time).can u tell me that option to display only date with out tme. if it is datagrid bounded column then it will come. ...

GridView RowComand event Issue

J Li - 18 Oct 2006 10:33 PM - 3 messages

In the footer of the gridview, I have a dropdown and a "Add" button set up, so I can add new rows to the gridview. The "Add" button has CommandName of "ADD", so I use that in the GridView1_RowCommand to check if (e.CommandName ...

Display an empty grid

David Thielen - 18 Oct 2006 4:07 AM - 6 messages

I would swear I asked this yesterday - but I can't find my post (or any answers). So here goes again. In a GridView, when it is empty, instead of a message, I would like the grid to display, preferably with a single empty row but having just the header and ...

good sample of creating my own web control?

David Thielen - 18 Oct 2006 3:59 AM - 5 messages

Hi; Does anyone know of a url that shows the "right" way to create my own web control? I need to inherit from asp:HyperLink and add some minor additional functionality. ...

changing rows in a multiline textbox

carlor - 17 Oct 2006 7:44 PM - 3 messages

Hi there, I have a situation where I have a textbox that by default only displays 2 rows of text at a time (textbox.rows = 2). On a link button click, I am supposed to expand the textbox to show all the data it contains but there are ...

localization for all MS web controls

David Thielen - 17 Oct 2006 5:11 PM - 3 messages

Hi; Does anyone know of a set of localization files that localizes all the MS web controls for various languages? I'ld much prefer that to localizing them ourselves, both because it saves us time/money and because then we will be ...

implicit vs explicit localization

David Thielen - 17 Oct 2006 4:58 PM - 6 messages

Hi; Any comments on which is the better approach? And why? ...

email sending twice

Janet - 17 Oct 2006 2:05 PM - 2 messages

With the code below, every email is sent twice. Anybody tell me why? Dim txtBody as string txtBody = "testing 2.0 email" Dim MailObj As New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient MailObj.Host = "localhost" MailObj.Send("webmas***@email.net", "don***@email.net", "Online Search Request", txtBody) ...

AccessDataSource - how to get access to the retrieved data?

Martin - 17 Oct 2006 6:08 AM - 4 messages

I am using the new AccessDataSource control and it works as expected (query result bound to a GridView). Very nice about this control is that it keeps the data in memory. (a Dataset). But how can I get that data, and use it elsewhere in my code? ...

Trigger an Insert on a FormView control

namewitheldbyrequest - 17 Oct 2006 12:31 AM - 2 messages

Hello, Using a FormView control and I want to programmatically invoke the Insert operation. Instead of the user clicking "Insert" I need to have the web page load and automagically go into insert mode on the FormView control. What method do I call? ...

Adding Web Control

Duncan Dimech - 16 Oct 2006 11:40 PM - 5 messages

Dear All I am writing a tool which requires to have controls added to it dynamically. To make the task more complex, the addition of the control cannot happen anywhere but it has to be instead of a token example ...

How can I find the datakey of currently selected row?

needin4mation - 16 Oct 2006 9:32 PM - 5 messages

I searched for this and found an answer, but it did not help. In my GridView there is a fileupload and a button click event to save the file upload. I am naming the file uploaded after the primary key field ...

Help! Menu control not rendering properly on production

Kevin - 16 Oct 2006 3:29 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I am using a standard ASP.NET 2.0 menu control on a master page. On my development box it works fine, but when I deploy it to my production box it renders on standard links. The only difference I can find is in the naming ...

Gridview: Edit row validation

carlor - 16 Oct 2006 2:54 PM - 3 messages

Hi, I have a grid view that, when the row is in edit mode, contains a pair of radio buttons (Yes/No) and 3 edit fields (2 text boxes and a drop down list). I have business rule that states that if Yes is selected, the 3 edit fields ...

sqldatasource and connection exception handling

Loic Transler - 16 Oct 2006 1:11 PM - 3 messages

Hi, In my page, I'm using a gridview and a sqldatasource. I don't know how to handle the exception that occurs when the database server is unavailable. I've read that I should use the execption property of the selected event. ...

what' wrong with this?

bob - 16 Oct 2006 9:15 AM - 2 messages

Hi, I try ro insert programmatically data into 2 fields of a Access table from a detailsview. My problem is: when clicking on the 'insert' button, nothing happens (no error but no data inserted). When 'burning' the values in the sql command, it works, but when using the ...

Turning URL Navigation off on a Treeview

John Bankhead - 16 Oct 2006 5:13 AM - 2 messages

I have a simple treeview (four levels deep) that I am building manually when the page is loaded. I am trying to figure out how to take the treeview out of navigation mode. That is to say that the text for a node should NOT be a ...