Christian Graus wrote: runat=server won't change the id It will, only if the control is in a container(like panel etc). In such cases, it prefixes the container id with the control id to make the name unique. In normal cases, it won't. Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions

There are all kinds of examples on blog posts etc... http://solidcoding.blogspot.com/2008/01/linq-to-excel-provider-20.html[^]

Do you have any idea at all ? How does 'this is not working' tell us anything ? What is happening ? How did you try to debug it to see if the code was being called at all ? Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

ratnakar_ravi wrote: global.aspx :confused: You can use Application variable to keep the current viewer count. Increase the count in Session_Start event and decrease it when the session ends. ASP.NET is multithreaded so application variables are not thread safe. Make sure you always use a lock around the operations. Something like Application.Lock(); int currentViewerCount = int.Parse(Application["viewers"]); Application["viewers"] = currentViewerCount + 1; Application.UnLock(); Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions

You can write a HTTP handler that adds your watermark to all images requested from the DB. Then you're asking a simple GDI+ question, how to draw an image transparently over another. The ImageAttributes class is what you need, google that for lots of examples. You can use a color range to draw transparently, on your logo. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.

you can use application variable for this purpose and increase in appliation variable on session_onstart() and decreament on session_onend() and your session mode in web.config file must be set to inproc otherwise session_onend() wont call... umerumerumer