I want to add to dropdown list the first entry as a hard coded entry then
after that I want to add the entries thru Data reader. How can I do
this...when I add listitem and then datasource = dataReader then my hard
coded listitem is overwritten....

Apologies if I am posting in the wrong forum.  If so, please direct me to
the proper forum and I will repost.  Here is my question:
I am slowly learning ASP .NET programming and am now doing an exercise to
build a very small and simple Shopping Cart.  My problem is that I am ...

I've been stuck with a Datalist layout question I need help on. I would
appreciate if someone can give some insight.
I'm trying to Display this in a DataList.
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All,
I am trying to output data in two columns, from a datatable.
However, I don't necessarily want the cells to be the same size.
What I have is the Course Catalog for our university, each course

I declare a UserControl called header and in that header I declare a
<asp:label id=name> control. I reference this user control at the top of my
HTML page.
In my Page_load subroutine, I try to programatically set that "name" equal

How can I get state of dynamically generated controls (RadioButton,
CheckBox, TextBox.Text) on post back when I click submit button?
The only way I know is by traversing Response.Form enumberator;
Response.Form.GetEnumerator(), etc.

I want to set  up my UI to display a titled box around a group of controls,
like an html Fieldset with a Legend does, but I would like to do it entirely
with a ASP.Net controls.  Is there a way to do this?  I can put a panel
around a group of controls, but I do not know how to ...

I am looking for a  nice webcontrol for displaying menus:
- good looking
- userroles
- vertical and horzontical

We generate pages dynamically. Our pages are constructed with web controls
in a "flow layout" manner facilitated by heavy use of the literal control.
We would like to change that to a "grid layout" manner. Is this possible? We
all know that web controls don't support the top and ...

Sorry for a very newbie question but...
I make a database call to get a label called X.
I then try the same label tag twice on the same page such as:
<asp:label id="X" runat="server" />

I am using DropdownList control and it is popued up by my datareader
How can I sort the items...neither DropDownlist non data reader has sort
method
lstTitleList.DataSource = myReader;

I have a datalist that displays images from a folder. It works on my
local host but I just get the boxed red x online. Right below the image
is the file name and that is displaying correctly both locally and
online. I called my host to make sure permissions were okay - they said

I am trying to programatically alter the style of x column headings on a
datagrid.  can someone point me in the direction of anything that could help
me determine how this is done?
I have:

I'm building a custom control
that contain a property that is a
custom collection.
This custom collection return

I am very new to ASP.NET 2.0. I tried to use GridView control and its
built-in SqlDataSource object. Where there is data for a particular table
which i bind my GridView to, the GridView can show successfully. However,
when there is no record in my table which i bind my GridView ...