I am having trouble with decryption specifically i get the follwoing
message - Specified cast is not valid.
The offending line is
encryptedData = CType(dr("Password"), Byte())

I have a form with three textboxes.
In an external C# 2.0 application I need to load the clipboard with three
pieces of information so I can position to the first textbox in the forma
and select paste to paste into all three at the same time.

I have an aspx page with a datagrid column which bound to a dataset at
page_load.  It contains 2 columns, Key and Hyperlink.  What I want to
do is when I click on the hyperlink it will set a session variable to
the Key column like so:

I did mange to create custom app.config file for a windows based
application.
I am trying to use the same process to use the app.config file for a console
based application but i get this error message: when i pass parameter

   I have a form in which there are many <asp:textbox> tags. When I run the
form, we use tab to navigate across the textboxes, but one of our client
noticed that when we navigate to some readonly textboxes, the cursor (text
cursor, not mouse cursor) disapears and when we tab to ...

If I try to use a RequiredFieldValidator control to make sure a
textarea isn't empty, I get an error similar to
Unable to find control id 'comment' referenced by the
'ControlToValidate' property of 'rvfComment'.

I am trying to display a PDF file (which I am being passed from a web
service as a binary stream) in a browser, but I am being prompted to
save the file instead.  I don't want the user to be prompted; I just
want the PDF to be displayed.  Here is the code:

After I upgraded to .NET 2.0 I started getting the following Error:
'Webform_PostBackOptions' is undefined when calling
javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new
WebForm_PostBackOptions("dlstDataList$ctl01$LinkButtonT3", "", true,

pls let me know where i am going wrong.
Dim categories As ArrayList
Private Sub LoadCategoryDropDownList()
Dim sCat As String

I'm working on an app where I need to do a search for like and similar first
name matches.  For example a search for John would bring back Jon, John,
Jonathan, etc.
Working with asp.net and sql server.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hello...
I have a question related to performance.
Being new to asp.net & vp programming, I put together
a webform that displays columns of data in a datagrid.

I have a div which holds controls.
I'm looking for a way to disable all controls but *without* setting each
control enable state.
Same to style>display i'm looking for a disable method.

I have a datagrid where paging has been enables
Page number are initialise to 5
Then I am able to click the Next> to more to next records set but when I
click on the backwards direction <Prev , nothing happen and the

Newbie here!
Quick question to get an overview.
I need to design my first asp.net app, sounds like customer has DNF 1.1
installed and doesn't want 2.0 on machine yet.

Dim sbRegX As New StringBuilder(HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(txtComments.Text))
sbRegX.Replace("&lt;a&gt;", "<a>")
sbRegX.Replace("&lt;/a&gt;", "")
How do I get the attributes of href and target to be encoded?