I would love to have an RSS feed for new messages in each forum. To one-up that, it'd be even better if there were a way for users to create an aggregated feed with only the forums we care about. For instance, I might be interested in C# and ASP.NET forums while someone else might be interested in Visual C++/MFC, ATL/WTL/STL, and (Managed) C++/CLI forums. This capability is in most popular forums now-a-days.

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I'm with you. I don't even know where the link to the comments search is at. This could definitely use some improving.

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Template. If you have a Google account, check out their personalized home page[^]. That's an example of a portal. Michael Flanakin Web Log Indigo Consulting Services

Business Intelligence (BI) is a term that refers to creating reports. Typically, a tool that professes to be a "BI" tool is very customizable. Examples are Crystal Reports and SQL Reporting Services. BI tools are separate from portals. A BI Portal would simply be a portal that displays BI information. This means you'll need two tools. Michael Flanakin Web Log Indigo Consulting Services

Have you done classic ASP before? If so, just do everything the same way - there's no difference. You'll notice a better interface, but other than that, everything should work the same. Michael Flanakin Web Log

I just logged into QA as the user the application is running as and the SP executed fine. I'm still having problems when executing it from the app, tho. This is pretty ridiculous. Michael Flanakin Web Log

A portal is basically a flexible, highly customizable web application that allows users to have one place to get information on a wide array of topics. For instance, if your company has separate HR, CRM, project management, and time-tracking systems, a portal application could provide an interface to interact with all of these systems in one place. So, all your employees would have to know is how to get to the portal. Additionally, most portals have a goal of reduced sign-on (RSO), if not single sign-on (SSO), which basically means the portal can pass credentials to other applications, which will automatically log you on. There are two major .NET portal tools: DotNetNuke[^] and Rainbow[^]. I'd suggest DNN because it has the larger community backing (users and 3rd party modules). Know that DNN is VB and Rainbow is C#. I don't like VB, but I still think DNN is the better solution and have chosen to use it for several of my clients. Michael Flanakin Web Log

Oh, and when the SP gets run from the application, it gets run by a DBO user. Michael Flanakin Web Log

I have a stored procedure that updates data in one table and saves who updated it and the update date in another table. For some reason, the user ID is updating, but the date isn't. I'm using the GetDate() function, so it should work fine, as far as I know. It's like the update statement doesn't even recognize the second column. Before you ask, I know the SQL is correct. In fact, if I execute the stored procedure from QA, everything works fine. Are there any issues with using the GetDate() function in a stored procedure? I wouldn't think there are. Here's my SQL:

UPDATE UserDefinedRows
SET UpdatedByUserId = @UserID,
UpdateDate = GETDATE()
WHERE UserDefinedRowID = @UserDefinedRowID

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That's exactly what I was trying to avoid. I found a way around it. Thanks for the suggestion, tho. Michael Flanakin Web Log

I have nested asp:Repeater controls on a page. I need to access the parent Repeater's Container.ItemIndex property. Is this possible? Michael Flanakin Web Log

I just decided to hard-code the virtual directory name. Not what I wanted, but it works. Michael Flanakin Web Log

Not sure why it'd be grayed out. Personally, I'd just add the HTML. Michael Flanakin Web Log

It's definitely odd. I've seen the same code in a DataList and DataGrid and they both work. I'm not sure if I've seen any implementations with a Repeater or not, but it just doesn't seem right for it not to work. Michael Flanakin Web Log

What do you mean by "frame option"? Are you talking about creating a <frameset>? Michael Flanakin Web Log

First off, you won't get too many Java people around these parts. Second, I'm still kind of lost as far as what you're looking for. What do you mean by "tab"? Are you working with a client or web app? Both are drastically different implementations. Michael Flanakin Web Log

The only thing I can assume is that, since I'm using URL rewriting and the physical page is at the root of the website, resolving the URL gives a relative path of Images/Edit.gif instead of /myVirtualDirectory/Images/Edit.gif, which is what I need. Michael Flanakin Web Log

Where are you suggesting I put a Response.Write()? Since this is all automatically done in .NET, I don't think this would get me anywhere. Michael Flanakin Web Log

This is all in the ASCX file, and yes, there is data. The image wouldn't even be displayed if there wasn't because the image is in the Repeater's ItemTemplate. Michael Flanakin Web Log

No. There's an option to use URL rewriting, which would pretty much knock any ability to get it relatively out of the water. The only real option is to use a root-relative path. I'm really wanting to know what's going on and why it doesn't work, more than anything. I've never seen anything like this before. Michael Flanakin Web Log