Machine.config does seem like a good idea. You can use ConfigurationManager.OpenMachineConfig[^], which even has a ConnectionStrings[^] section to store and retrieve connection strings. Regards Senthil [MVP - Visual C#] _____________________________ My Blog | My Articles | My Flickr | WinMacro

Use one of the many synchronization objects that .NET provides. Take a look at AutoResetEvent[^], ManualResetEvent[^] and Mutex[^]. In all the cases, you would have to do something like Thread A DoX(); syncObject.WaitOne(); // Wait until Thread B signals DoY(); Thread B DoP(); syncObject.Release(); // Signal Thread A to resume operations. DoQ(); The advantage of using synchronization objects instead of looping with a flag is that threads waiting on a synchronization primitive do not consume CPU cycles. Windows knows about synchronization primitives and so doesn't schedule the thread for execution until the sync object is signalled. With looping, Windows is forced to schedule that thread and it uses up its time slice looping. Regards Senthil _____________________________

Hi. I am still having trouble with VS2005 websites and visual sourcesafe. I created a new ASP.NET website for testing in 'C:\Projects\MyWebSite' and noticed there is two different options in the SourceControl menu: - Add solution to source control and - Add web site to source control When choosing the second option the solution file is not added to source safe, just the folders and aspx files. That's fine for me. Then another developer entered source safe and 'get latest version' to his workstation. The website is copied without a solution file, so we need to create one. And this is the point where we get stuck. We create a new empty web site and point it to 'C:\Projects\MyWebSite'. But after doing this the aspx files seem like they have lost the integration with source safe. Can anyone give me a simple example on how to setup things to share a website in source safe? Thank you very much.

To get reference to the TextBox, you simply use the FindControl method in the event handler of the RowCreated event: TextBox textBox = e.Row.FindControl('TextBoxId') as TextBox; You now can set the ReadOnly property of the TextBox. However, you'd better use the RowDataBound event to set the ReadOnly property as the RowCreated event always happens, and you might not need that on postback. In addition, you can also use the databinding expression to set the ReadOnly property of the TextBox in the control declaration: ... ReadOnly='<%# ... %>' ...

Actually that's not exactly what I wanted. The example I gave was not complete. Here's what I want to do: - Select @Res = max(Y) From table1 where X=0 - Update table1 set X=1 where Y = @Res I want to get the max record where X=0 and then update that record. The problem is that there may be two processes executing this stored procedure at the same time. Thus, they may execute the 'select' part at the same time, get the same 'max(Y)' and then update the same record. That's what I wnat to avoid. I need to assure that between the 'select' and the 'update' there is no process accessing the same record in the table. This is a concurrency problem.

There is no need for 100 pages on a site. Not even the large well written site has that many. Use UML to design it and break it down. This is overkill. 1 line of code equals many bugs. So don't write any!!

PeteConc wrote: Should Enterprise Services and wrapping .NET components to COM+ be used or not? We use Windows Services for some tasks, there's no tangible performance hit for doing so. But overall, I'd do that only where I needed a backgroun task that ran independently of the web site. Otherwise, I'd steer clear of COM interop if I could, just because I don't see a reason to use it if I can stick to managed code. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

When a program or DLL references a strongly-named DLL, all components of the DLL's identity are recorded - assembly name, version number, culture, and public key token. Only that version of the DLL will be loaded. The GAC can contain multiple assemblies with the same base name if they have different version numbers, cultures, and/or public key tokens. That last allows different vendors to use the same base name independently, although this will be pretty confusing to a user! When loading a strongly-named DLL, the GAC is searched first, then the application's directories. See How the Runtime Locates Assemblies[^] for more. To cause a different version of an assembly to be loaded from that listed in the referencing assembly's manifest, you have two options: Publisher Policy[^], or <assemblyBinding>[^] elements in the application's configuration file. The former allows all uses of an assembly to be directed to a new version, but the documentation is a bit unclear. The latter has to be applied to every executable that will use the updated assembly. I'll reiterate that for components that aren't going to be released to third-party developers, I'd recommend keeping your class library assemblies private, without strong naming. If the assembly isn't strongly named you can overwrite without regard to version numbers. It does make deployment slightly more difficult, since you have to copy the updated assembly to the directories of every application you want to use it, but then you should probably only update those

You Can rereg your iis using 'aspnet_regiis.exe -i' rebuild directory in the iis and then pont to it

That method was very easy and useful. Thanks for your suggestion.

hi there, this can be done by adding js code while binding each datagird item please read the article below for more detail http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/AlPaMOD.asp#xx879011xx << >>

Yes, by the the data binding expression I mean you can use the inline code inside the .aspx web page. You can take a look at the syntax from here: Data Binding Expression Syntax[^] You can provide a snippet of code to check the data bound value in the expression or simply make a call to a method which is responsible for checking that for you. The method can be defined in the code-behind or the .aspx page.