What are some alternatives to using .ToUpper() to perform case insensitive
string comparisons?
The reason I'm asking is that I'm comparing strings in a long loop, looking
for equality; and I want for this loop to run as fast as possible. So I'm

In the PageIndexChanged event of an ASP.Net 2.0 GridView the Rows property
has rows but the DataKeys property has 0 Items ?
This definitely seems like a bug to me. Has anyone come up with a good
workaround ?

Hello Experts !
I'm using: VS.NET 2003
I have a webservice1.Service1. I have installed it on IIS. No problem.
I can access it through:

I have a GridView bound to a custom object.  I set the DataKeyNames property
along with the column DataField properties at design time, and bind the
GridView to my object at run-time.  In the RowDeleting event, I try to access
the DataKeys property, but it contains no elements.

Dear friends,
I am web developer, working with vs.net 2005.
I want to create my own extenstion like .aspx, which will server only aspx
code. but user cannot see that extension.

I have created a typed dataset (xsd file) with 2 tables and a relation
between them
in VS2005.
How I do I now bind that dataset to a Gridview??

Hey all,
On page load I am setting the selected date to DateTime.Now but its not
appearing as selected when the page loads. I have set the selection
mode to CalendarSelectionMode.Day since the user should only be able to

I'm new in ASP.net and I hope you can help me to solve my little problem.
I have a web application which requires login.
Usernames and passwords are in SQL Express database (among with other data).
I need to check if user entered correct username and password (and proceed

Hi, does anyone know of a good (Preferably free but don't mind paying
some $$ for source code) basic document sharing application?
Basically, a single admin should be able to upload files to a folder
and then say "these users have access to the file that was uploaded"

I have all the following site map ...
<siteMapNode url="nothing.aspx" title="nothing"  description="Home"
roles="">
      <siteMapNode url="default.asp" title="Home"  description="Home"

Good morning,
I have a static html page where I want to load image that day to day
are in a different path,
to achieve this I would want that the link point to a c# page where I

Newbie trying to learn.  Using VS2005 and a simple aspx page.
I have textbox1 and textbox2.  Is there a simple client side code that will
auto turn the text in textbox1 and textbox2 into ALL CAPS when you hit TAB
from one to the other?

Anyone have an idea how to parse an .xls file in c#?  I need to be able to
read through the various fields and do specific things with them.

I'm creating a form for people to enter in news items. Unfortunately, most
of these come formatted with all-caps headlines:
THIS IS THE HEADLINE TO THE ARTICLE
Which is annoying, to say the least.

A common problem I encounter is having to enter either a date OR a null
value into a date field in a DB.
The problem I hace is that DBNull.value isn't a proper value for a date
variable, so I can't explicitely declare the variable: