hi, thanks for responding to my query. my grid is placed in the Form Tag. still it is giving this error. i am using Item Template to bind the data ...and i am using lables to display the grid data. how to resolve this?? any idea?? Thanks, Rahi

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hi, i am trying to export the data from ASP.NEt datagrid to Xls file. i am recieving this error : Control 'dgBillsReviewed__ctl2__ctl0' of type 'DataGridLinkButton' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server. i am using HTMLtext writer to export the data. i am taking template columns in my grid. if i remove these template columns(when i drctly set the datasource, it is working fine) please let me know the solution... Thanks, Rahi

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paul, thanks alot for your answer!!!!! i am sending Collection (object) to child window. almost 20 records(30 columns per record) of data but now i need only 4 values (need to populate 4 text box controls)from child window. i heard that if we use Show model dialogue to open the pop-up window, we can directly access the Parent winodow controls in the pop-up window, so that we can set the values directly from child window it self..i mean no need to pass the data using sessions..or anything... please discard my statement if it is wrong.......i am new to .Net technology.......this is my first project. when user hits on Close button on child window, parent window gets focused....at the same time we have to show these values on parent. any idea??????????? Thanks, Rahi

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Ok!! i will try this . but one more simple doubt.........is it possible to directly populate the data in the parent controls using this overloaded close function?? Many Thanks, Rahi

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Sorry Paul, i sent the wrong message...just now i modified my message. i am able to pass the data(in the form of object) from parent to child. my problem is i have to pass the data from child to parent. when user clicks on Close Button on child(pop-up window), i have to populate the controls which are on Parent form. Thanks once again for your response... Rahithi

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Hi, look at this code, i am checking the cell value when i am binding the data ....and if it is empty, then i am displaying it as '0' hope this will give you some idea resolve your problem!! Private Sub YourDataGridName_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridItemEventArgs) Handles YourDataGridName.ItemDataBound If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Then If e.Item.Cells(0).text="" then e.Item.Cells(0).text=0 End if end sub Thanks, Rahi

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Thanks Paul for responding to my query. I saw this article. Nice one. Unfortunately, I didn't find the solution for my problem. In this Article, Colin focused on passing the data from Parent to child but not child to parent. I am sending some data from the parent form to child in the form of object, when the user closes the popup window; I want to populate the controls which are placed on parent form, with the data which is processed in child form. Thanks, Rahi -- modified at 23:45 Saturday 28th July, 2007

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Hi all, i am using showModalDialog to open the popup window. I am sending one object from parent window to child window and doing some processing in child window. Now I have to set the values in the parent window based on the calculations in the child window. I came to know that from the child window, we can set the values for the controls which are in parent. I appreciate if some one can let me know how to do this….. Thanks in advance, Rahi

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Hi all, right now i am working on ASP & asp.Net project. actually we are navigating the user from asp site(existing site) to asp.net site (right now we are developing this site). i have to retrieve the asp page values in asp.net page. i tried this using query string, cookie, and session (also server variables), but nothing is working for me. when i displayed this values in the asp page using response.write statement, it is displaying correct values...but when i am trieying to retrieve these values in asp.net page, it is returning empty. please i appreciate if anyone let me know how to work on this........ advanced thanks, Rahi

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Hi all, i have one doubt. is it possible to use asp files to asp.net project?? Thanks, Rahi

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Hi, i am newbie for XML (also to .Net). i heard from some one that we can use XML for sending / retrieving the data from the database. for this we have to use HTTPWebRequet. HTTPwebrequest send/recive the data in xml string format. but how can we do this?? Thanks, Rahi

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Hi, we can sort the data grid on column. i saw this few days back in one article. you have tp set the AllowSorting property of the DataGrid to True. This property changes all of the column header text to hyperlinks. A click on the header text hyperlink causes a post-back and a call to the OnSortCommand event handler. In datagrid control creation u have to set these properties: AllowSorting as "True" and OnsortCommand as "SortCommand_OnClick" In the OnSortCommand event handler you simply need to specify how the data should be sorted, recreate the data source and bind the data to the DataGrid. Currently creating the data source and the data binding are done in the BindData() method, so really all you need to do is specify how the data should be sorted before calling the BindData() method. In other words, redefine the SQL statement. Since the SQL statement is a page-level variable you have access to it in the OnSortCommand event handler. u can write the OnSortCommand event handler. \\ Sub SortCommand_OnClick(Source As Object, E As DataGridSortCommandEventArgs) _sqlStmt = _sqlStmt & " ORDER BY " & E.SortExpression BindData() End Sub \\ hope this will give you some idea. Thanks, Rahithi Sharma

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Hi all, i have one doubt regarding exception handling statements sequence. we have various exceptions like.. System.ApplicationException System.ArgumentException System.ArgumentNullException System.ArithmeticException System.IO.FileNotFoundException System.IO.IOException ..................... .................... if we want to catch IO errors and some general errors in the same code ....then is there any sequence that we have to follow. i mean first catch block should handle only geneal exceptions, next catch block for IO errors... or we can use any order?? thanks, Rahi

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hi all, i have to set the Languages (english and spanish)for my web site. i mean my should should work for both the languages. what should i have to do?? i am newbie to .Net. i think we have to set the culture info (satellite assembly info or something i am not sure, but i don't know exactly. please let me know what should i do?? thanks, Rahi

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Hi Sreeram, Thanks for the suggestion. but how can we restrict the user from entering invalid data.....i mean here we should not say invalid data.....but proper formatted data. if any user enters Ln instead of Lane (or) Rd instead of Road... in our database the data is stored in a formatted way....do u think that without using 3 rd party address validation software like UPPS formatters etc., it is possible to achieve my problem using javascript?? Thanks, Rahithi Sharma

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Hi all, i need basic idea about this Address validation process. i am newbie to .Net technology, started working on a smaple project in .Net. it's about dish networking services project. Once a new customer comes in, his address (including zip code) details are taken and validated for correctness. here Zip code is not sufficient to validate the correctness, In the same Zip code also, according to the place, and building direction we can't provide Dish Networking services. so, it is necessary to take the address details and validate the address with the data which is stored in the database. so my doubt is how can i validate the address with database address details (backend data)?? because customers will enter the address in many ways.... please can anyone suggest me how to achieve this validation?? thanks, Rahi

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Hi all, if we want to use Stored procedures in VB.Net page, then what are the namespaces we have to import?? and how can we implement Transaction management in the stored procedure?? thanks, Rahi

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hi all, what if we remove web.config or machine.config from the application, then, Is this application will works? Thanks, Rahi

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hi, as a newbie, i prefer wrox publications book for ado.net. try to check that book if possible! thanks, rahi

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Thanks Mark. Excellent info. really amazing!! i will try this by implementing practically in my project. thanks once again, Rahithi

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