I am validating the users of my web app against a user database in SQL
Server.  I then store the user object in a session variable and pass it
around to the various forms.  I have a field in the user object called Role
that either holds the value "BusinessAgent" or ...

I am trying to reference a server control in a user control, from the
containing page. Is there a way to do that? I have tried
"UserControl1.FindControl("ControlName")" but I get a null reference.

I want to skin the templates of an asp:DataList. So I have to do data
binding in the skin (I didn't find another comfortable way to do
that). As soon there's a <%# ... %> tag in the skin, VS seems not to
recognize the skin file  anymore. The property editor displays SkinID

I'm getting a string such as
name1\r\nname2
how can I remove the \r\n and just have the string as
name1

I am using ASP.NET AJAX to check username availability in a registration
form. Everything works fine in IE but not in FF. Using Firebug, i can find
the offending line but not sure what to about it. The error firebug gives
txtUsername has no properties. Not sure how to fix this. ...

I have a MasterPage with white background. Within my aspx page I want to
change this color using code behind. How can I achieve this easily?
Thanks
Joe

Can someone explain the difference of using these functions below? And
what is the advantage/disadvantage of each?
       static public SqlConnection GetConnectionString(string
ConnectionStringName)

I have a simple form with a radio button group on it and I need to do
some basic validation based upon which button is checked.  Here is a
little more detail.
if button one is selected, then we want to do validation on textbox

Is it possible to pre-empt the javascript function used to do a postback
from a linkbutton?
I'd like to use linkbutton to delete a record and want to add a confirmation
box via javascript "are you sure you want to delete this record?" before it

I have a .net running web app at www.someplace.com. on a shared
server.  I now need a testing site using the same codebase.  Is it
possible to run the same web app but off a subdomain?  i.e.
testsite.somplace.com?

I've already web pages written in asp.net 2.0, the features of ajax is
really impressive. I would like to use some on my asp.net 2.0 web
pages.
How much work I've to do for the conversion

External and Internal CSS Style sheets are supposed to only be in the Head
section of a page.
What about User Controls where there is no head section but you want to be
able to load a special page for that control?

I have <xhtmlConformance mode="legacy" /> in my web.config.
That works fine on my computer but not on an other developer's computer.
We get an errormessage in Visual Studio 2005.
Can I just delete this line from web.config?

My web app works when it is in the "Visual Studio Development Server with a
Port Number",
But
It does not work when I use " Use IIS web Server"

I have a very bizarre intermittent problem that occurs with some
ASP.NET 1.1 (C#) code I inherited.  I'll try to state the problem
sucintly; if more detail is needed please ask! The code is in a
WebApplication. The web application is configured in IIS 6.0 to run