Hi Yes we have tried this however the formatting of the documents is lost and the HTML created is too complex to make it easily alterable. We have since found out the documents are originally in PDF so we are simply going to embed the PDF documents in the page. Thanks anyway Regards Andy

Hi Does anybody know of any tools or methods for displaying a Word document in an ASP.NET application? Our problem is that we have a library of Word documents that would be very time consuming to build into HTML pages where as the library can be maintained in Word documents easily by some somebody non technical, these items basically form a knowledge base that we wish to present to the site visitor on demand. Regards and thanks in advance Andy

Hi I have implemented some drag n drop functionality using the example by WickedCode with their colour dragger, the dragging and dropping works perfectly however.... I have implemented a callback facility using so that when the user drops the object on its target I can perform the relevant update on the server refresh the screen and continue and this is where the problem lies. After the callback has completed my drag and drop no longer works! I'm guessing it something to do with the Javascript code gaining a reference initially to the drag and drop objects but then when I perform the callback those objects get recreated within the updatepanel and although they have the same id the reference is obviously lost?? Has anybody got any references, links to helpful documentation on this subject as it seems quite sparse! Thanks in advance Andy

SOLUTION It transpires that the Network Switch has a Intrusion Protection facility that was determining the form to be a malicious attack and preventing its submission! :rolleyes:

Plot thickens LOL!!! if I enter this: - it hangs, take one of those lines off and it works!

Hi We have a backoffice system for an e-Commerce solution that allows the user to setup their own javascript blocks that can be added to the site for tracking purposes. Now when we click submit on the form to save the entry the page hangs, now I have created a test form and now know its not making it back to the Page_Load event of the form. The other weird thing is that every now and again everything works perfectly ok without issue and then just when you think you've narrowed the problem down it stops working again!! The page always renders immediately without problem, the issue only occurs on the post back. This seems to be very strange and I am at a loss as to the source of the problem, below is the script block I am using to test. Any ideas? _uacct = "[google.account]"; urchinTracker(); <!-- var strMsg = '[script.var.mode]'; var strSubTotal = '[script.var.order.value]'; if (strSubTotal == '') strSubTotal = "0"; if (strMsg == '') { //alert(typeof(ROIID) + '::::'); if (typeof(ROIID) + '' != 'undefined') { TrackEvent('LandingPage', 0); } } else { //alert(strMsg.substr(0,32)); if (strMsg.substr(0,32) == 'Thank you for placing your order') { //alert('order placed'); if (typeof(ROIID) + '' != 'undefined') { gt_cid="CustomerID"; TrackEvent('Sale', '[script.var.order.value]', '[script.var.order.no]'); } } else if (strMsg == 'Thank you for adding your email address to our mailing list.') { //alert('thankyou - newsletter signup'); //When a newsletter sign up has been completed if (typeof(ROIID) + '' != 'undefined') { TrackEvent('NewsConf', 0); } } else if (strMsg == 'Thank you for recommending one of our products to your friends.') { //alert('thankyou - email a friend'); //When an email to a friend has been completed if (typeof(ROIID) + '' != 'undefined') { TrackEvent('EmailConf', 0); } } else if (strMsg == 'Thank you, your comments have been forwarded to our customer care team and we will respond to you as soon as possible.') </x-turndown>

Hi We have been battling with page timeouts over the last week or to and decided today to get our heads around the problem! The problem has been highlighted by a reporting facility that if used to extract a wide date range can take several minutes to produce the report. We discovered that the browser always displayed the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message after 63 seconds, firstly we thought this weird because it is the IE error page not a page rendered by ASP.NET 2/IIS 6. So after an age investigating on the net and finding all manner of registry settings that had no effect etc. we set up a test app that simply sleeps our test page for 5 minutes we then managed to deduce that the only setting of consequence was the attribute of executionTimeout which did within reason do exactly as we thought that is displayed the ASP.NET script timeout error. However, once the executionTimeout value exceeded 63 seconds we then received the IE page "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and this behaviour was replicated in some form in Firefox, Opera and Safari! So next we tried running the same page via a remote desktop connection on our server, and guess what, it worked perfectly we then tried from another remote computer using a different ISP and that worked also! Hence we deduced from all this that the problem lies with AVG and after further investigation specifically AVG 8 Web Shield disable this little monster and all works fine. Hope that helps somebody somewhere because it has been causing us sleepless nights for weeks! Andy

Hi I have a third party payment system to integrate into my application. The final page in my application displays the order details and allows the user to confirm their order. Upon clicking confirm the order is created and at this point in my code behind file I would like to generate a post to a third party payment form that expects some form post values and the users browser should then be redirected to that page within the same session obviously so that the posted values can be used accordingly. Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Thanks in advance Andy

thanks for your feedback Michael much appreciated :) can I build reports in the SQL 2005 environmentand then migrate them to SQL 2000, do you know? does SQL EXPRESS 2005 support trport services? thanks in advance Andy

Is this SQL 2005 specific?

Hi After 3 years of bodging our reporting requirements with anything and everything from HTML browser based reports to Tall PDF based reports, and a brief flirtation with ComponentOne's reporting engine we have now decided to attempt to solve this issue once and for all LOL!!! Anyway we have some very complex reports, some include charts intermingled with tabular data, some require the titles to be displayed vertically etc. and then more simple mail merge type requirements so a good varied range of reporting styles and layouts. So what are peoples opinions, what are peoples experiences of different tools, anybody used Crystal Reports?? Suggestions please, all help greatly appreciated it looks like a mine field out there everybody claims the earth but little has delivered to date! Thanks in advance Andy

Hi Unfortunately my client is on SQL 2000 so thats a no go, however I found this article during my investigations and with a bit of tweaking works a treat for me :) http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=366078

Hi All Background ---------- I have a database table namely tblSection that stores sections that have parent child relationships e.g. Section 1 | |--Section 2 | |--Section 3 | | | |--Section 4 | |--Section 5 | Section 6 The column structure for this table is: SectionGUID uniqueidentifier PK ParentGUID uniqueidentifier ALLOW NULL Title nvarchar(100) So my root level records are anything where ParentGUID IS NULL and the remaining records can have variable levels of nested children. My Problem ---------- So what would people suggest with regards handling this structure within SQL for example a typical request is to return all sections below a specific node within the hierarchy? Currently I deal with the scenarios I have by extracting all folders into a single System.Data.DataTable object and then traverse the tree within my code which is OK for certain types of process but now I am looking at more number crunching type processes that approach is slow and cumbersome :( Thanks in advance Andy

Hi I have been attempting to implement a WSE3 secured web service which is invoked by my PDA based application using the compact framework however I cannot get my PDA based app to compile due to the following object not existing: System.Threading.SendOrPostCallback Is the compact framework not compatible with WSE3 or am I doing something wrong, incidentally the error actualy occurs within the Reference.cs file which is created by VS when referencing the web service. What is the best method to secure web services that are to be invoked by a PDA, originally we were thinking of HTTPS and our own username/password/pinnumber combination being passed through within each method call??? Thanks in advance Andy

Hi We have been developing a ASP.NET 1.1 business management system over the last few months and have now delayed the inevitable long enough, reporting??? In the past we have used TallComponents TallPdf to produce reports in PDF format which works well although the object model is a bit tedious to work with at times and reporting writing can be a time consuming task. However once written it was ideal, we could produce a PDF document with the report contained store it within the archive and send it to the client, email it as an attachment etc etc etc. So the issue is, we would now like a product that has some form of report designer interface to speed up report development, but has also a code based object model, and once the report is built output it in several formats i.e. html, pdf, word, excel, rtf etc. that can be saved in the report archive and dealt with as required :) So anybody had any experience of this process and maybe have a recommendation?? Many thanks in advance Andy