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You are more likely to be limited by the size of the URL, rather than the number of elements you submit. A realistic limit for URL size is 255 characters.

Why are you using "get" rather than "post" though?

THose variables shouldn't need to be part of your URL. If you are using method=post, those variables will be hidden.

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Man I hope someone can help me with this. It's been driving me nuts.

I have a web service that takes a typed dataset as a parameter. It then creates a dataadapter for that dataset and calls update on it. This all works fine. If any row can't be updated it's RowError property is set, and the update continues, skipping the row. My problem is, on the client side the dataset isn't updated. If a deleted row couldn't be deleted, say, it's RowError value is not updated with the value on the server side.

So what I'm looking for is what I need to do to have the client dataset reflect the changes/errors made by the web service.

I thank you in advance for any insight you may have for me.

Travis Merkel

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"Many times when you start on a project you think, "Boy, this is never going to be finished," but then it is finished, and you think, "Wow, it wasn't even worth it." - Jack Handey

For those of you out there that are reading this and having similar problems, here is a link to the answer.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818587#appliesto[^]

Travis Merkel

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"Many times when you start on a project you think, "Boy, this is never going to be finished," but then it is finished, and you think, "Wow, it wasn't even worth it." - Jack Handey

My page(which contains a movie)is called from several different locations by a hyperlink. I'd like to go back to the page from which the hyperlink has been activated automatically. How do I do that? Can anyone help me? Thank you Confused | :confused:

Use the Referrer item in the HTTP Headers collection.

regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa

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I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was.

Crikey! ain't life grand?

Hmph... And all this time I thought that was for making payments on clickthru ads. D'Oh! | :doh:

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They're missing their idiot."

Hey all, I'm just getting into VS.NET and ASP.NET and etc. I previously used classic ASP and a text editor (I have InterDev 6.0 but never used it), so I'm just wondering how you've set up your VS.NET development environments. The VS.NET IDE makes much more sense to me then that InterDev junk, but I'm not sure how to set up my computer with it, because: I don't want to install IIS locally on my machine!

My development environment with Visual Studio 6.0 and ASP stuff was:

1. Development PC, Win2000 Pro, VS 6.0
2. Test server, Win2k advanced server, IIS 5.0
3. Production server, Win2k advanced server, IIS 5.0
** ALL machines are "mirrors" of patches/MDAC versions/updates/software versions/etc

Right now I've got VS.NET on my XP-Pro laptop with IIS 5.1 running. It's on my notebook because I don't want to change my development PC. For example, all three computers above have Win2k SP 3 with MDAC 2.5 (not SP4 with MDAC 2.7). I'm "learning" the VS.NET suite, so this one-computer environment works for me- for now.

But here's where I get concerned about the setup of test servers and production servers and not running IIS locally: When I create a new C# "ASP.NET Web Application", I tell VS to put it on http://localhost/myapp . That's all great for now since I'm using my laptop, and, of course, have full rights/access to the hard drive. (When I use VS.NET, I log in as administrator to XP-Pro, and pull the ethernet cable out.) How would I create a "ASP.NET Web Application" in the above 3-system development environment? Would I tell it to use http://mytestserver/myapp ? Or would i have to use the FQDN, such as http://mytestserver.mycompany.org/myapp ?

Would I just need to share the D:\inetpub\wwwroot folder out in my test server's AD? Or do I have to put read/write/everything privleges on the virtual directory inside the test server's IIS snap-in? Do I need to add additional shares to the test server... such as, does VS.NET try to put anything in the C:\WINNT directory? I'll need to install "Frontpage extensions" on the test server, right?

Also, how in the world would I move changes to my production server? Would I just copy over the files that have changed? Or do I need to copy the whole directory to the production server? Is there some kind of deployment wizard that would take care of this? Do I need FrontPage Extensions on my production server?? I'd rather not install those; I prefer to keep extra crud off the production systems.

I used to just develop ASP.NET pages in TextPad (an awesome text editor). I never used Visual Interdev 6, nor did I ever create a "web project" anywhere in VS 6.0. The classic ASP files were stored on my test server, and I'd access them via a directory share. After the edit was done, I'd save the file. Then I'd call up IE on my development PC, go to the website on the test server, and then run thru the application on my development PC. If all was good and happy, then I'd copy that one .ASP file from the test server to the production server.

I'd imagine this 3-system development environment is still a powerful method for VS.NET and ASP.NET- but I'm not sure how using VS.NET fits in- for prototyping, development, and production stages. I don't want IIS locally, that's for sure, but I also don't want a test server that's wide open with every directory shared out and full permissions on virtual web directories!

Or does everyone use the "isolated" application development model? (Running VS.NET and IIS without the use of a test server)?

Or, how does your development environment look? 1 PC? 1 PC and 1 server? 1 PC and 5 servers? Where does VSS fit in?

Thanks!!

-Thomas

I've had loads of things work in IE, and not NS, but now I've got one that works in NS, and not IE! D'Oh! | :doh:

When a <select> is changed, I call the onchangeevent() function as shown below. Depending on the index of the <select>ed item I wish to change the e_detail element to/from either a <text> box or <select> box, and populate them. When I first call this function everything works fine. However when I change it a second time, IE tells me "document.term.elements.e_detail.parentNode is null or not an object" on the line highlighted below.

Anyone got any ideas please? Thanks everso for any help at all! Smile | :)

<code>function dochangeevent()
{
e=document.term.e_event.value;
var obj;
if(e==5||e==7||e==8||e==10)
{
obj=document.createElement("input");
obj.type="text";
obj.name="e_detail";
obj.value=0;
obj.maxlength=2;
obj.size=2;
document.term.elements.e_detail.parentNode.replaceChild(obj, document.term.elements.e_detail);
}
else
{
obj=document.createElement("select");
obj.name="e_detail";
obj.size=1;
for(i=0; i<20;i++)
{
var opt=document.createElement("option");
opt.value=i;
if(details[e-1][i])
{
var txt=document.createTextNode(details[e-1][i]);
opt.appendChild(txt);
obj.appendChild(opt);
}
}
document.term.elements.e_detail.parentNode.replaceChild(obj, document.term.elements.e_detail); // <------ ERROR HERE
}
}

I could really use some help with a problem I am having using Word Automation. Using ASP I have created an Online Reports Website were our Project Managers go and upload their status reports to the website itself. My boss wants me to combine the single reports into one big report as they are being uploaded to the site. The only way that I can figure out to do it is with Automation. I have never done it before or for that matter heard of it before. I have this so far.

set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
set objAppendFileFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
if objAppendFileFSO.FileExists(strAppendFileName) then
Set newReport = objWord.Documents.Add(strReadFile)
set completeReport = objWord.Documents.Add(strAppendFileName)
newReport.Selection.WholeStory()
newReport.Selection.Copy()
completeReport.Selection.PasteAndFormat(wdPasteDefault)
completeReport.InsertPagebreak()
completeReport.ActiveDocument.Close()
newReport.ActiveDocument.Close()
else
Set newReport = objWord.Documents.Add(strReadFile)
set completeReport = objWord.Documents.Add()
newReport.ActiveWindow.Selection.Range.WholeStory
newReport.ActiveWindow.Selection.Range.Copy
completeReport.Add.Content.Paste
'completeReport.ActiveWindow.Selection.PasteAndFormat(report)
completeReport.InsertPagebreak()
completeReport.SaveAs("D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CJISReport\CJISreportPage\" & strYear & "\monthlyList\" & strmonth & "\MajorProjects\All Reports.doc")
completeReport.ActiveDocument.Close()
newReport.ActiveDocument.Close()
end if

The if is to determine if it was the first report of the month. It will create the new report if so. There is different code in them cause I have been trying different things with each of them and unfortuenetly none of them work. It just tells me this error: Permission Denied. It tells me this for the line "end if". I have no Idea what this means.

Any help would be really apprecieated.
Thank you in advanced.

Sokar

ctl - alt - del
if that dosen't work,
bang your head on the keybord.

sounds to me like the files are marked readonly (doubtful) or that you dotn have write permission on that folder. Check that out first and then let me know if that was the reason.

- Sage

I have full control over the folder(I am running locally on my computer). THe files are not read only files. I am pretty sure that It has something to do with the copy and past part. I have been playing around with the word macros in the VB editor and have had some ideas but nothing has born fruit as of yet.

btw, thank you for helping I do appriciate it.

Sokar

ctl - alt - del
if that dosen't work,
bang your head on the keybord.

I am looking at the API here (Word.10) and under Word.Document I see a Merge feature.

Sub Merge(FileName As String, [MergeTarget], [DetectFormatChanges], [UseFormattingFrom], [AddToRecentFiles])
Member of Word.Document

This looks hopeful .. I am going to mess with it here for a sec and see if this helps you because it sure sounds like the type of function you are trying to execute.

- Sage

sounds interesting I will look into it as well.

ctl - alt - del
if that dosen't work,
bang your head on the keybord.

this document here might help you out...

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/4/lev3/32/pid/708/qid/471051

here we go:::

strAppendFileName = "C:\MBrokers\Doc1.doc"
strReadFile = "C:\MBrokers\Doc2.doc"

Set WordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set WordDoc = WordApp.Documents.Add()

WordApp.Selection.InsertFile strAppendFileName
WordApp.Selection.InsertFile strReadFile

WordDoc.SaveAs "C:\MBrokers\Doc1.doc"
WordDoc.Close
WordApp.Quit

Set WordDoc = Nothing
Set WordApp = Nothing

Response.write "<H3>Document Merged</h3>" & VbCrLF

BUT !!!!!

to make it work, I had to change IIS's security context to be administrator instead of IUSR_<MAchine Name>

but it works fine.....

This looks great thank you. One question though. I bealive I am running on admin already but Its telling me permission denied: CreateObject. Is that Why you had to switch to admin status? If so how can I check if its set that way? I feel stupid asking but I asked around here and I got a big I don't know, but the general consencus was that I was already at that satus.

Thanks again.

Sokar

ctl - alt - del
if that dosen't work,
bang your head on the keybord.

Hi I have an asp.net web application. I want to deploy it. If i copy it to another computer's default web site, it works well. But if i copy it under to different web site, it does not work. What should i do?
thanks

I recommend moving your Q to the ASP.NET forum. Also when you do, post the details of the error message you are getting. We cannot help based on "it does not work". Smile | :)

regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa

Miszou wrote:
I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was.

Crikey! ain't life grand?

web.config and global.asax need to be in the root of the web site.

try moving those 2 files to the root of the website and see if that helps.

- Sage

I have a webpage that uses frames on it. I use a button on the bottom of the lower frame that goes back to the homepage. But when you click on the button, the frame on the top still stays there. I don't want the frame to stay there for certain links. Can anybody help me out there? Thank you.

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In Javascript, I can change the .innerText property of a hyperlink to adjust the visible text of said hyperlink in IE.

For Netscape, we seem to have a .text property which can be read but when I try to amend it, the whole thing falls over.

Does anyone have any idea how this can be done?

Paul

If you mean Netscape 6 and above then .innerText is supported. Below Netscape 6 (i.e. 4.x) good luck, hope you have lots of cows to sacrifice.

regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa

Miszou wrote:
I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was.

Crikey! ain't life grand?