When I go into debug mode and the web page I am working on opens in the
browser via the local Cassini Web Server I get a path appended onto the full
path e.g.
localhost:7859/FolderName/filename_that_should_be_in_the_root.aspx

I have a jpeg image as a background to a aspx page.
Unfortunately, it is too obvious, so I was wondering if there is any way of
making that image dimmed so it is much easier to view the controls &
associated data?

For simplicity sake,
How do you get the value of selected dropdown on a postback?  I understand
for a dynamic control, you need to re-create it on each postback, but how do
I modify the code to grab the SelectedValue?  

What's the equivalent in asp.net for the old "form method=post" using the
submit.  I want to redirect to another page with parameters, but I don't
want the parameters to be displayed in the url.  So I want to pass
ClientName and ClientCompany to

Just a basic question, if i develop my site with asp.net 2.0 and ajax, end
user do they need any .net framework on their computer.
Thanks
Ganapathi

I have created a report and subreport in VB/ASP.NET. The report works fine
but the subreport will not display. The subreport, when displayed as a
standalone report, works fine.
Any help I can find on this error refers to the WinForms.ReportViewer and

i have a web project that sending a mail is a necessary work
but i have an error
this is my page
using System;

I am trying to make a web application using C#. I need to access database in
every webpage and for that I have created new database connection each time.
This is not an efficient way at all.
Is it possible to have some kind of Global database object which we can

How to call javascript in a asp.net master's content page, i tried something
like this but it's not working.
<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Default.master"
AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="RegisterUser.aspx.cs"

Is there a way to open a URL, one that shows nothing other than a directory
listing, and iteratively go through the list to download the files?

Maybe I don't understand cookies correctly. When some visits my site
and logs in, they get a cookie that stores their login information.
When they come back, that info is read from the cookie and they can
log in without having to remember their id/pw.

I am performing the same recordset multiple times, just passing
different parameters each time.  Is there a way to do this more
efficiently without having to close and re-open the connection and
reader?  I thought there might be a cleaner way, this code seems to

Can anyone tell me why this is not working ?
I have an aspx page with the following definition,
<asp:ImageButton ID="MenuBtnOpen" ImageUrl='<%#
Page.ClientScript.GetWebResourceUrl(typeof(WebResources.Resource),

I am new to web design and programming and was wonder which of these
two would be better to invest my time to learn.
Visual Web Developer 2005 vs. Microsoft Expression.
I would like to make very complex and neat looking web sites. I plan I

Yesterday, I posted a question dealing with an issue of trying to
reference (from javascript on the client side) an item within a
Repeater.  My code was hard-coded to use the actual ClientId, but
someone admonished me, stating that I shouldn't do that because the id