We are currently under-going a new security service and the company is
leaning towards using SiteMinder. My question is: why not just use
the .NET membership and roles provider and create a custom provider
suitable to the business need? What else does SiteMinder do that

In the middle of my event handler (for a button), I have an if/then
statement (using vb.net):
if (whatever) then
strScript="<script .......

I am using aspnet_regiss.exe utility from command prompt to register
asp.net to IIS. But my requirement is to do it programmatically so
that client need not worry about this registration. Can we do this
programmatically??

When my web pages display in my I.E. 7 Browser there are apparent random
background colors in the textboxes - mostly yellow, sometimes green, some
are white.  This does not happen using firefox.  My skin file calls for a
white background in the text boxes.  The same occurs if I ...

Is this late binding?
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Dim dSet As DataSet
dSet = New DataSet

Often in code, when retrieving a value from table where I don't have to do
any math calculations, I store the value in a string variable instead of
converting to an int and then storing in an int variable.
Do you guys see anything wrong with this practice?

I have a gridview with paging enabled.
I need to know how many rows of data are on the last page!!!  
When I look at the Gridview1.Rows.Count in the Page_Load, it always returns
the number that the paging is set to... currently 13, but if there are only 4

I have a gridview and I need it to display correctly in Opera.
I need to set the row height, so that even on the last page of data all the
rows are the same height as on the other pages.
In IE and firefox, setting a height in the rowstyle of the gridview and not

asp.net
In my webproject I have defined 2 roles, Customer and Admin. A person
registered at the website can be member of both roles. I want the Customer
role to see some standard webpages, and the Admin role to see the standard

Yesterday I posted a message about a problem hitting a breakpoint when
debugging Javascript in VS2003.
Today I've found out what the problem is.  I created a new VS2003 web
solution with a single aspx page, with three controls - a text box, a

I have several hardcoded paths in my global.asax.cs, declaring how and
what controllers should do in my ASP.NET 3.5 MVC code.
Is it possible to read from the current assembly and pick out the
controllers and their parameters and dynamically make the Route Table

hey all,
can someone please tell me if there's a big difference among the following:
i want to store a string and an int in session.
is it better to store it like:

I have just installed Visual Studio 2005, and ported a 2003 Web
Application to VS 2005. I noticed that I can choose to debug my
application using either the IIS Web Server or the Visual Studion
Development Server (VSDS)

i'm using this CSS style on my table header rows (gridview in my case)
in order to freeze them from scrolling.
.LockedHeaderCell
{

I have an aspx page with a GridView named gvTasks that has a linkbutton on
each row that calls up another pop-up window using the following js
function:
   function openTask(id, coid)