I'm looking to "internationalize" a new ASP.NET application (.NET 3.5) and
I'm considering various localization issues. In particular, the default
languagte will be English, but when localizing for some cultures, the text
will of course be longer than the English equivalent.

Just learned (hard way) one gotcha about working with WebRequest.
Decided to share with with you guys since it's kind of not documented ( at least I did not see it).
Given following code
try

Hi. I have a unique problem.  I have some HTML which displays correctly when
I input it into an aspx page or html page.  But when I use javascript's
document.write() to write the html directly to the page, I get a script
error.  The nature of the program requires me to use ...

I am trying to use the menu control to add a history function to a page.
When the user selects an item (thru search or navigation) an item is added
to the "History" menu item.  Now while testing this I am getting a
cornucopia of problems.

asp.net 2.0
I have set my web.config as follows: <forms timeout="30"/> (I know that's
the default but I may chang it so the line's in there)
I also have a few cookies I'm setting on my login page to hold the UserName,

i want to know the number of rows in a gridview bound to a sqldatasource.
I tried this:
Protected Sub grv_DataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles grv.DataBound

Does anyone know why dotnet would ignore themes on a particular
website?
I created a dummy website and added themes to it and it worked OK, but
when I try to theme my existing site, the theme is ignored. (No css

the dropdownlist is fed by code-behind with property 'autopostback'="true".
What i want is to put a color to the items of the dropdownlist. I tried two
ways: with Attributes.Add("style", "color:red")  and with
DropDownList1.ForeColor.

Plamen Ratchev helped me set up my stored procedure which is working
well, thanks again Plamen!
Create procedure GetByDate
@FromDate datetime,

A DataGrid displays 3 columns from a database table - ID, Name &
Subject. When the DataGrid is in the editable mode, I want the 3rd
column Subject to a DropDownList so that users can change the subject.
This is how I tried it:

can anybody tell me what the -v flag does on aspnet_compiler when -p is
specified also.
the documentation says you need to supply both, but the example says the
metabase is not used when -p is present. when I specify -p, it seems to be

I'm creating a datatable (see below) that is going through each row of my
dataset and add new rows per each column created. Is there a way to store
the GrossSales figures so I can use
those numbers in for a calculation within the Expenses row?

In my ASP.NET application I want to rerieve the APPDATA folder of the logged
in user. The Web Application is using C# .NET 1.1  and has
Impersonation=True
I use this code:

We have an issue with connecting to a Crystal Report in a web page.
Our ReportDocument instance's Load method protests due to our
Filename property (which is set with a relative path to the web app).
If we hardcode the path it works, but with relative addressing... somehow we

Hi.  I'm using SQL Server 2005.  I'd like to know if anyone has any
reference on how to allow users to upload a file **onto a database**.
In other words, a user can have several related files belonging to
him.  Also, I would need a syntax that allowed me to retrieve those