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Amit viewstate or any such thing has no relevance with this. Just put another textbox and try with that as now i cant find anything wrong in it.

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Thanks for the reply.. I am not using fileupload within UpdatePanel. The FileUpload is contained within WizardStep directly..

Thanks.

Raiserror('Message', 16, 1) The above message will show up like an error thrown by the server. It'll get caught by try/catch blocks.

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To add a textbox runtime just try protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!IsPostBack) { ViewState["txt"] = 0; } } public void name(object sender, EventArgs e) {int txt = (int)ViewState["txt"]; TextBox txt1 = new TextBox(); txt1.ID = "txt" + (++txt).ToString(); Panel1.Controls.Add(txt1); txt1.Text = ; ViewState["txt"] = txt; } After creating a Panel in the .aspx page. Can't understand why u need gridview. Hope it helps BYE

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We tried it with the Filezilla? but the same error occurs

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Thanks ...its working.