I have a dropdown list.  I attached a objectDataSource which is populating
this dropdown list.  But I want the first item In text like " select the User
Nmae." and When I  click on side of dropdown list it should show list of
Users which I got from Objectdatasource.  How can I do ...

My following code is not working
I have a gridview that contains a linkButton in a template field. I
want to set the visibility of the linkbutton based on a int field in a
database.

Hi, all!
I have a question about CurrentCulture
( System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture ). As I understand,
by default, System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture has the

I am getting an error Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerServerErrorException:
An unknown error occured while processing the request on the server.  The
status code returned from the server was:500.
It appears that this error occurs after I browse to the specific page and

I understand that with URL rewriting we can have a request come in for, say
Page1.aspx, and rewrite it so that PageA.aspx gets served up to the user.
My question (assuming the above is correct): What does the user see in the
browser after URL Rewriting? In the above case, when ...

I have the following problem in my ASP.NET project.
On my form I have a gridview with column that can be dynamically chosen by
the user.  The user has some way to enter which columns should be visible,
and it is impossible to know at design time which columns will exist at

In looking at the asp.net TextBox, I noticed that there is a property called
"OnTextChanged".  I tried to use this control to call a subroutine called
"GetCompanyProperties".  The field is the account number.  When a user
enters an account number and then tabs or points to ...

ASP NET 2.0 visual studio 2005.
I am tryng to create a dynamic dropdownlist in the Page_Load event.
myDDL = new DropDownList
I populate it in the IsPostBack branch of  Page_Load.

Is there a way to retrieve a derived class name inside a subroutine or a
function of the base class? I am trying to get some data from the database,
based on which derived class is calling the subroutine. I know the base
class name can be retrieved by using reflection namespace:

I've got the following in a skin:
Headerstyle-BackColor="#5C6A51"
HeaderStyle-ForeColor="#FFFFFF"
Headerstyle-Font-Names="Verdana"

 How can we send SMS via .net code.
which are the API's responsible for achieving this
thanks

How can I Prevent user from accessing any page directly without Login ?
User should not be able to by pass the Login screen by typing the Url of any
page directly.
I am using ASP.Net 2.0 with Visual Studio 2005.

I need to replace a string in an XML file. For that purpose I have
writtent he below code. It is working file for a small file say about
100 lines. But It failed and went to out of memory exception if I use
a bigger file.  Please let me know if there is any alternate way of

hi,
i'm a new bie to regular expressions..
i'm trying to see if a string ends with teh below
pattern \filename.xls  or \filename.xlsx...

OK,  this is sort of a two part question here.
The scencario is that I am building an article.aspx page which takes a
parameter ( ArticleID ) and this represents an article in the database. This
all works fine and as its a public site, google has index it.