I have an asp.net inventory application that is run from handheld
scanners all over our company.  Users are able to perform various
inventory transactions from the handheld, and then server side they
can print transaction tickets to our network printers.  We also have

my DAL is in a separate dll/project than the website project.
how would I go about accessing/referencing a connectstring in the web.config
file in the website project ?
so I don't have to hard code the connect string in the code file of the DAL

I'm having a periodic issue on one of my sites with defacement: people are
using some process or exploit to replace/deface pages. I want to know how
exactly they are doing this, and what process or user is doing this. How can
I best audit what user or machine process has altered ...

I fear that I have stumbled on to a bug in VS2008. I have controlls added to
a page that is within a MasterPage and when I try to access the controls
from the .cs file the compiler doesn't recognize the control members.
I have this in my aspx file.

I have LinkButtons that are dynamically created in one of the PostBack
events. They must be created in the PostBack event because one of the
variables required to determine which ones to create comes from the event
arguments. Because the LinkButtons are not created in the Init ...

Hi i run into some difficulties getting rowupdating to fire when
clicking Update link/button on gridview
I set datasource at runtime, basically a datatable
Edit and Cancel works. I don't know why RowUpdating just doesn't fire.

I'm using the released version of VS2008 running alongside VS2005 on my
server2003 machine.  I have a new 3.5 website in VS2008 using the ajax
toolkit 3.5.
I am getting the following error:

I f I place an .mdf file inside the App_data to deploy a web app - can
I deply my site so that the database at runtime is picked up in the
App_data directory?
Would my server need to have sql server installed for this to work or

I have two textboxes on the page...shipdate and duedate.  When the
page loads, shipdate has today's date loaded and duedate has a date
that's 28 days later than today.  When I change the dates and submit
it's not updating in the database instead I'm getting the two dates in

I use  form authentication mode to verify users like:
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="MyCookie" loginUrl="Login.aspx" defaultUrl="Home.aspx"
protection="Validation">

I have a Master page with property for ErrorMsgs. From my aspx pages I
can set that property resulting in a popup.
Whats the best way to have that same result from a user control. Say I
get an error in my usercontrol and I want to trip that popup in the

I am completely new to AJAX.
I have a GridView control and my client is complaining that, whenever they
select a row in the grid, the page resets to the top of the page.
It seems like AJAX would be ideal if I could have the GridView update

Have a "standard" asp.net web solution which uses the standard asp.net
authentication and authorization methods (forms authentication).
Some users have raised concern that even if you logout (which brings
the user back to the login.aspx page) you can seemingly navigate back

I have the following code to download the data from my web application:
the code is:
Dim rawan As New List(Of String) ' for File Name
Dim rawan1 As New List(Of Byte()) ' for the data for each file

I installed an ASP.NET application on my web server, but it doesn't
work. When I browse to a page, I get an error message. The message
doesn't say much, but it does tell me:
An error message detailing the cause of this specific request failure