You would of course need to save n number of previous password hashes to compare the new one against. Where to save them is up to you but a simple update trigget on the table could be used. only two letters away from being an asset

thanks for the response. I tried to read the fields from the control but it wouldnt work, then all of a sudden it started to work. cause yeah I understand the user control shouldnt be dependent on anything else, or it breaks. I also found out, you dont use POST to transfer stuff anymore, just do postbacks, then transfer via response.redirect using querystring. did I get that right? thanks!

You either encrypt the markup by replacing the >, < with the >, < or select the check box "Ignore the Html tags ..." when posting a message. Anyway, you can see the sample code in MSDN which uses the DetailsView control, but I think you can easily replace it with the FormView http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178538(VS.80).aspx[^] In the example, you will see that they simply specify the key (id) in the DataKeyNames and no need to use the Delete parameter.

thanks man!

You might want to read the tutorial in MSDN to see how to use the ObjectDataSource[^].

thanks. I figured it out, its actually pi.GetValue(this, null) but you have to check for null before you run it. M

Hi there, You can bind the value to the SelectedValue property of the ListBox control instead of the Text property of the ListItem.

But with this code the purpose of having the base class is somewhat lost as your method requires the subclasses to specifically call DoOtherThing() rather than properly inherite the behaviour of the base constructor. "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog

how? is there an example somewhere out there?

yeah thats what Im doing: I have overloaded functions that do Gets, Insert, Deletes and Updates for ALL tables. My question was: where should I put these overloaded functions? in a base class or as common static methods in another class called Utils? I realized base classes are only useful for object classes, meaning non-static instances. And also, in my business layer, I do have one class for each table which becomes an object. These table objects then use my data layer to get, insert, delete and update. pretty clean huh! :) M

excellent. that worked, thanks man. M

Hi there, The ASP.NET starter kits from the site[^] can give you an idea.

hmm, I got it to work. I had to add OnDayRender="calEvents_DayRender"> to the calendar control on the aspx design page. Why is that? I thought .net 2.0 didnt need that? M

Assuming your table contains an Identity column .. create procedure EmployeeCreate (@name varchar(20), @dept varchar(20), @employeeid numeric out) as begin insert into Emplyee (Name, Department) values (@name, @dept) select @employeeid = @@identity end So when you execute your SQL command from .net and pass parameters, pass a parameter for "@employeeid". You wont need to set a value for this SqlParameter, but you'll have to set the correct Direction. - Malhar

moazzamahmed wrote: so whats the use of static classes over non-static? which ones should we use for what TYPE of object? Use a static class when you don't need to create objects from the class. Generally static classes don't contain any data at all, or if they do, it's data that is common to the entire application. moazzamahmed wrote: whats better for speed and performance? Calling a static method means that a reference to the object isn't included in the call, saving one instruction. This difference is hardly ever anything that you have to be concerned about, though. Concentrate on what gives the best structure to the code, and start thinking about optimizing when you run into performance problems. But even then, there are a lot of other things that are likely to boost performance a lot more than using static methods instead of non-static. --- b { font-weight: normal; }