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Thanks combo, You have given me an idea how to proceed. There has to be a pony in this pile of s*%t somewhere.

I have a series of cells made up of one vertical cell and 6 merged rows each. Each cell can contain quite a large amount of text data. Each cell represents a single day in an appointment scheduling system I have built, based on a tutorial by Randy Austin from Excel Freelancers. I don't wish to...

I have developed an web application in Visual Studio 2013 which uses the development server that comes with VS. I now want to port it to a Website to use IIS running on my PC. I have had a thousand challenges to date, not the least of which is the Global.asax file which registers all the web...

The web application I have built queries a SQL Server 2008 database. My application runs downstream from the main enterprise app and runs only one query on a frequent basis. The DBA's informed me one of my queries had been running for four hours and they were killing it. They later changed the...

Just a thought. If its only for the one user, setup their id and password in the appsettings section and then encrypt the web.config file. You can then access their credentials from appsettings via the usual techniques, then use impersonation. There has to be a pony in this pile of s*%t...

In the CommandField Row of the DetailsView, you can utilise the ControlStyle-CssClass property. e.g. ControlStyle-CssClass="Staffing_Manage_Cost_Centres_Selected" And then in CSS .Staffing_Manage_Cost_Centres_Selected { background-image:url(../../Images/yellow-background.jpg); border:solid...

I am performing a left join on two data tables (dt_Clients and dt_ConnXclients) using Linq. The problem I have is the select statement, where I am trying to return an array of datarows to populate a data table I have created with columns from both tables (duplicate removed). Dim...

This example is for a linkbutton There is another parameter called commandArgument. In this case I am sending the value of two fieldsin the gridviewrow. CommandArgument='<%# Container.DataItem("service_request_id") & "%" & Container.DataItem("Client_Id") %>' You can parse the value you set this...

I am on Office 2010. I have several hyperlinks in a document that reference other word documents in the current folder. Autosave is configured to save to the default location i.e. C:\Users\@Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word For some reason, Word is closing unexpectedly, restarts, and then...

I have SQL Server 2005 setup executables that I have successfully set up on Windows XP previously. I am now trying to install it to my Windows 7 machine. On firing up setup.exe, I immediately received the message that there was a compatability issue and that I needed to install SQL Server 2005...

Thankyou, it worked. I added the padding/margin setting to the body element. I am working in ASP.net which has a css theme for the page, but the body margin and padding were set to zero, so I don't quite understand where it was being set....will continue the search. What gets us into trouble is...

Thankyou Vacunita, I understand what you are saying and thanks for the info. The paragraph is not actually on a new line, it flows immediately to the right of the image as expected, is positioned at the same height as the floated image, both of which are pushed down a line from the top of the...

I have the following HTML with inline styles. <img src="../Images/ciap_bg_3.JPG" style="float:left" alt="Ciap" /> <p style="background-color:Fuchsia">Here is the first paragraph</p> <p style="background-color:green">Here is the second paragraph</p> A quote from extensive reading on the float...

I have created a network directory for each Manager(47 Managers) and an excel file called 'LaunchPad_Cost_Centres.xls' in each of these directories. I am not sure of the exact mechanism that takes place, but I recently had a file locking issue where the following message was posted for each file...

I have installed SQL Server Express 2005 using an enterpise windows installer package file. I installed it to my PC using a network domain account HEAHS/50013135. After installation, I cannot see HEAHS/50013135 as a Login, but I can see another domain account I have not heard of HEAHS/50007345...