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Ray Cassick10-Oct-02 7:51

10-Oct-02 7:51

I do alot of browsing around to sights that have the same (or similar) subject focus, then I make notes on what I like, what I don't like... I use those notes in my design.

Hmmm Orange bar down the left side of the page, cool little mascott cartoon character at the top, rolling adds for some cash... Hmmmmm

Re: designs

David Flores10-Oct-02 7:56

David Flores

10-Oct-02 7:56

Well,
You can get inspiration from anywhere but the best is other websites. There are so many ways to design a website. For example, look at yahoo, it is one ugly website...but it functionality is one of the best because you can easly navigate through it find what you need and when you come back to the website weeks..months...later you dont have to re-learn it. Other websites are all flash, but have no content. I am sure there are numerous books that you can find that will help, search on web design, user interface and human interface.

Re: designs

Ray Cassick10-Oct-02 8:37

Ray Cassick

10-Oct-02 8:37

David Flores wrote:
yahoo, it is one ugly website...but it functionality is one of the best because you can easly navigate through it

OMG | :OMG:

Where is the 'makes me puke' smiley...

Re: designs

bigreddog15-Oct-02 1:46

bigreddog

15-Oct-02 1:46

I like minimalist designs, check out:
http://www.textbased.com/~minimalist/[^]
for some inspirational sites Smile | :)

Getting text of textbox in datagrid

Mazdak10-Oct-02 5:07

Mazdak

10-Oct-02 5:07

I have a datagrid with this definition:

<asp:DataGrid id="CatGrid" runat="server" CssClass="Grid_General" HeaderStyle-CssClass="Grid_Header" ItemStyle-CssClass="Grid_Item" AlternatingItemStyle-CssClass="Grid_AlternatingItem" AllowSorting="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyField="CategoryID" OnEditCommand="CatGrid_Edit" OnCancelCommand="CatGrid_CancelEdit" OnUpdateCommand="CatGrid_Update" OnDeleteCommand="CatGrid_Delete" OnSortCommand="CatGrid_Sort" Width="100%">
<Columns>
<asp:EditCommandColumn ItemStyle-Width="25px" EditText="<img border=0 Alt='Edit this category' src=./Images/Edit.gif>" CancelText="<img border=0 src=./Images/Cancel.gif>" UpdateText="<img border=0 src=./Images/OK.gif>" />
<asp:ButtonColumn ItemStyle-Width="25px" Text="<img border=0 Alt='Delete this category' src=./Images/Delete.gif>" CommandName="delete" />
<asp:BoundColumn HeaderText="ID" HeaderStyle-Font-Bold="True" ItemStyle-Width="30px" DataField="CategoryID" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="CategoryID" />
<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Name" HeaderStyle-Font-Bold="True" SortExpression="Name" ItemStyle-Width="150px">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Name") %>' ID="Label1" />
</ItemTemplate>
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="EditCatName" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Name") %>' CssClass="TextBox" Width="150px" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator Id="ValidateEditName" runat="server" ControlToValidate="EditCatName" Display="dynamic">* Name is required</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</EditItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
.
.
.
</Columns>
</asp:DataGrid>

When user press on first field of first column,that row goes in edited mode and text box appear for that
row,then after he/she change the text there DataGrid1_Update event occur,in that event I put this code:

string strCol2 = ((TextBox)e.Item.FindControl("EditCatName")).Text;

but when I debug the program,the text is not updated and show the previous text.Any idea?

<html>Mazy</html>

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Re: Getting text of textbox in datagrid

David Flores10-Oct-02 7:27

David Flores

10-Oct-02 7:27

I have found the same problem and the solution is to create a TextBox variable, then call the Text function. You can not just cast the control, dont know why. Try:

<br />
TextBox ctrlTextBox = (TextBox)e.Item.FindControl("EditCatName");<br />
string strCol2 = ctrlText.Text.ToString();<br />

You might also wanna double check that FindControl returns a valid control.

Do you know which column you are in? Because you can get it by the following since you are in the UpdateCommand:

<br />
int nColumn = ...;<br />
int nIndex = this.MyDataGrid.EditItemIndex;<br />
TextBox ctrlTextBox = (TextBox)this.MyDataGrid.Items[nIndex].Cells[nColumn].Controls[0]; //0 assumes that the only control in the cell is the text box<br />
string strCol2 = ctrlText.Text.ToString();<br />

Hope this helps

Re: Getting text of textbox in datagrid

Mazdak10-Oct-02 10:00

Mazdak

10-Oct-02 10:00

I found the problem.It was about PostBack in Page_Load. Thanks

Mazy

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If I’m alive and well, will you be
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Tab Control using Javascript

Hitu9-Oct-02 23:30

Hitu

9-Oct-02 23:30

Hello,

Is there any thing available for tab control on client side using jabascript so that I can move from one page to another using the tab controls without going back to the web server for each tab page.

Thanks
Hitesh

Re: Tab Control using Javascript

Ray Cassick10-Oct-02 5:26

Ray Cassick

10-Oct-02 5:26

Here is one using DHTML:

Clickety[^]

Here is another excellent one:

Clickety[^]

How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net ?

AJPrayag9-Oct-02 18:42

AJPrayag

9-Oct-02 18:42

How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net in .aspx.vb file ?
Like in ASP we use the "alert..... " function in html code.

Confused | :confused:

Re: How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net ?

Paul Watson9-Oct-02 23:08

Paul Watson

9-Oct-02 23:08

Anonymous wrote:
How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net in .aspx.vb file ?
Like in ASP we use the "alert..... " function in html code.

You do it the same way you did it in ASP. Remember alert has nothing to do with ASP, it is a JavaScript method.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Re: How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net ?

David Flores10-Oct-02 7:48

David Flores

10-Oct-02 7:48

This question caught my eye....

How can you display a messagebox on the clientside in ASP.NET using C#?

I have web page (mypage.aspx and mypage.aspx.cs) with a data grid, when the user tiggers the update command a message is sent to the update function. How can a make a messagebox pop up?

David

Re: How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net ?

Ray Cassick10-Oct-02 8:56

Ray Cassick

10-Oct-02 8:56

ASP.NET is a serverside technology. You can't use it to popup a message box on the client side. You can only control how the form is rendered tothe browser using C# or VB.

Re: How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net ?

Paul Watson10-Oct-02 20:50

Paul Watson

10-Oct-02 20:50

David Flores wrote:
How can you display a messagebox on the clientside in ASP.NET using C#?

You can't and I never said you could. I was just telling Anonymous that the way you display a messagebox when in the ASP.NET environment is the same way as you did it in and ASP environment. i.e. You return a JavaScript script block back to the client with an alert call in it.

I was thinking that Anonymous thought that ASP.NET would have some fancy new way of doing it, which it doesn't Smile | :)

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

Re: How to display messagebox on client machine in asp.net ?

Pradhip10-Oct-02 11:56

Pradhip

10-Oct-02 11:56

Give this statement after the ASP code that does the update.

Response.write(" ALERT('UPDATED');")

Hope it helps

Luv
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Http controls and .Net

Anonymous9-Oct-02 17:55

Anonymous

9-Oct-02 17:55

Hi,
I'm converting a http form to .aspx and I've managed to change all the fields to controls that will run at the server. However I keep running into a problem, I can't seem to get the user input from the text control.
For example

is my text control
and the user enters some text in it.
I then try and get the text by using
string a= Text1.value
and despite the fact that the user entered the data, a is equal to ""
Thanks for the help!!

Re: Http controls and .Net

Anders Munk10-Oct-02 3:42

Anders Munk

10-Oct-02 3:42

Use
string a = Text1.text

Best regards
Anders

Re: Http controls and .Net

Anonymous10-Oct-02 12:03

Anonymous

10-Oct-02 12:03

I tried using the text property but that property doesn't exist for a HttpServerControl.

setting value field of input - file object

bjnst69-Oct-02 11:09

bjnst6

9-Oct-02 11:09

this should be simple...i'm trying to set the text part of a file input with some javascript. only it won't do it. the alert below always comes up blank. what am i missing??

here's the html i have:

<input type="file" name="fileImage" value="something1">

and here's the javascript i have:

function image(theForm)
{
var test;
test = "something2";
theForm.fileImage.value = test;
alert(test);
}

thanks!
b

FileSystemObject, ASP and Windows NT authentication....

goddess_spanky9-Oct-02 8:02

goddess_spanky

9-Oct-02 8:02

I hope someone has the answer to this Smile | :)

I have a site in regular old asp 3.0 on IIS 5 -windows 2000.
The site is basically a fancy FTP GUI so users can view files/folders and then download them. What I am trying to do is use the filesystemobject (vbscript) to get a list of the folders/files on a remote data share. I setup the IIS anonymous account to use a domain account instead of IUSER_ComputerName because this domain account has read/write/change permissions on both the IIS box and the data share. Now my problem is that when I run the code below, I am getting an error (not sure what the exact error is)

<br />
'//the UNC path is being pased with URL encoding<br />
ReportPath = Request.QueryString("UNC")<br />
<br />
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")<br />
'//I get the error with the FolderExists method<br />
If fso.FolderExists(ReportPath) Then<br />
  Set aFolder = fso.GetFolder(ReportPath)<br />
<br />
	For Each aFolder In aFolder.subfolders<br />
            .....<br />
	Next<br />
Else<br />
	errMsg = "Folder/File does not exist or access is denied"<br />
End If<br />

why am I getting this? is it because I am not using a literal for the folder path or because I am not getting authenticated to the remote server?

When I tried this on my local box using VB, it worked fine as long as I didn't use a variable to refer to the UNC path. It may also have worked becuase I have a drive mapped to the UNC path.

I did find one or two articles on MSDN, but it is still unclear to me. This article seemed to have the most information...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnauth/html/dnauth_security.asp

any ideas? I'm so freakin' confused.

Re: FileSystemObject, ASP and Windows NT authentication....

Daniel Turini9-Oct-02 8:35

Daniel Turini

9-Oct-02 8:35

First of all, I suggest you to not change error messages. You CAN give users a friendly message, but log the damn error in some place! Put an "On Error Resume Next" and show the real error code so we have a clue of what to do...

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Re: FileSystemObject, ASP and Windows NT authentication....

goddess_spanky9-Oct-02 8:55

goddess_spanky

9-Oct-02 8:55

it would be helpful to let me know how to return the error instead of yelling at me. Cry | :((

but thanks anyway.

Re: FileSystemObject, ASP and Windows NT authentication....

Daniel Turini9-Oct-02 9:00

Daniel Turini

9-Oct-02 9:00

Sorry, don't get me wrong: I was not yelling at you, I was instructing you on:

1. Put a "On Error Resume Next" just before the line where the error occur.
2. Put a Response.Write("Error: " & Err) just after the line where the error occur.
3. Give me the error number so I can help you further...

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Win32 process suspend/resume tool

Re: FileSystemObject, ASP and Windows NT authentication....

goddess_spanky9-Oct-02 11:00

goddess_spanky

9-Oct-02 11:00

no worries.

using err.number - nothing is returned (i get a big fat zero).

here's the revised code

<br />
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")<br />
on error resume next<br />
If fso.FolderExists(DataShare) Then<br />
  Set aFolder = fso.GetFolder(DataShare)<br />
	For Each aFolder In aFolder.subfolders<br />
....<br />
	Next<br />
Else<br />
	sysErr = "Error Number " & err.number & " Error Description: " & err.Description <br />
	errMsg = "Folder/File does not exist or access is denied"<br />
End If<br />
<br />

and just in case it matters the variable "DataShare" is equal to "\\servername\sharename\crp\Daily Reports\"

Re: FileSystemObject, ASP and Windows NT authentication....

Philip Patrick10-Oct-02 3:48

Philip Patrick

10-Oct-02 3:48

What is the error?
Also do you have Norton Antivirus with Script Blocking? I had problems with FileSystemObject also untill turned off Script Blocking in AV

Philip Patrick
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