John, Make sure your connection string includes the following: ConnectionString = "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;" _ + "Integrated Security=True;" _ + "AttachDBFilename=" + [DB filename and path] & ";" _ + "Initial Catalog=" + [DB filename] + ";" _ + "Connect Timeout=30;" _ + "User Instance=True" example: "Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=True;AttachDBFilename=C:\mydb.mdf;Initial Catalog=mydb;Connect Timeout=60;User Instance=True"

Could you try making a search on your windows directory for aspnet_regiis.exe, you say that you uninstalled VS and IIS, the thing is this error is usually caused by installing visual studio and then installing IIS, so the asp.net extensions are not installed on the IIS. Greets! Joel

All you have to do is type some of the error message into Google, like this[^], and you'll get lots of hits... A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

Hi What you need to do is allow the user to have a search filter - for example we will use firstname and age. If we wanted to know all the people whose firstname began with an Dan and were older than 18 we would have a quesry like: SELECT * FROM T_EMPLOYEES WHERE FIRSTNAME LIKE 'Dan%' AND AGE > 18 If you can post your errors i will be able to help more Dan Edit** Try using a stored procedure instead of dynamic SQL too. Try this URL http://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp -- modified at 10:16 Tuesday 3rd July, 2007

As I understand, you want to know how to create a new cookie. Below is a simple example how to do that. Depends on your needs, set appropriate properties of System.Web.HttpCookie object. Basically you simply add a new cookie object into Response.Cookies collection and that's all. Using Respose.Cookies class you can also remove or change any cookie your application creates. Dim cookie As System.Web.HttpCookie Dim cookieName As String Dim cookieValue As String cookie = New System.Web.HttpCookie(cookieName, cookieValue) Response.Cookies.Add(cookie) -- Mariusz 'mAv' Wójcik master e-software engineer

<!-- Original: Russ Swift (rswift220@yahoo.com) --> <!-- This script and many more are available free online at --> <!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com --> <!-- Begin function validatePwd() { var invalid = " "; // Invalid character is a space var minLength = 6; // Minimum length var pw1 = document.myForm.password.value; var pw2 = document.myForm.password2.value; // check for a value in both fields. if (pw1 == '' || pw2 == '') { alert('Please enter your password twice.'); return false; } // check for minimum length if (document.myForm.password.value.length < minLength) { alert('Your password must be at least ' + minLength + ' characters long. Try again.'); return false; } // check for spaces if (document.myForm.password.value.indexOf(invalid) > -1) { alert("Sorry, spaces are not allowed."); return false; } else { if (pw1 != pw2) { alert ("You did not enter the same new password twice. Please re-enter your password."); return false; } else { alert('Nice job.'); return true; } } } // End --> Enter your password twice. (At least 6 characters, 12 characters max, and spaces are not allowed.) Password: Verify password: Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source Will the asp code help aswell??? John Michael Kinsella kinsellajohn@hotmail.com

ASP.NET is a framework which generates HTML on the server. Javascript is the language that runs in your browser, and the language in which ASP.NET generates code to do anything that runs on the client ( such as validation ). Buy a javascript book and work through it, or look up some tutorials on the web. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )

Hi John, Why don't you uninstall your VS 2003 and try re-installing it again. You may wanna take a look at this article, which explains in details how to setup a development environment for ASP.NET using VIsual studio. http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/Subversion.asp Regards, Blumen

thank you for your suggestion, could you suggest the javascript that i could use as i dont actually have any experience with it.. just a snippet of code that forces a value of between 6 - 12 characters would be greatly appreciated.. John Michael Kinsella kinsellajohn@hotmail.com