Re: Simple ASP.NET form
 

Thanks. Now that you understand the issue, is it possible for me to take a working asp form and add fields or am I screwed because I will still need to get at the compiled code-behind pages.
You would think that one could take a form that works and add fields without access code-behind pages.
It must be possible, yes?
It's just a form.
Why can't HTML be added to the .aspx that correlates to the extra fields?

Re: Simple ASP.NET form
 

here's the original td with the copied td
can anyone see an error why this would not work to create a form element from an existing one?

                 <tr>

            <td class="Listings" valign="top" width="62">

                Comments2

            </td>

            <td class="Listings" width="303">

                <asp:TextBox cssclass="inputTXT" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="5" ID="txtComments2" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

            </td>

            <td class="Listings" valign="top" width="50">

                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvMailBody2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtComments"

                    ErrorMessage="Required" Display="Dynamic"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator></td>

        </tr>

                

                                

                  <tr>

            <td class="Listings" valign="top" width="62">

                Comments

            </td>

            <td class="Listings" width="303">

                <asp:TextBox cssclass="inputTXT" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="5" ID="txtComments" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

            </td>

            <td class="Listings" valign="top" width="50">

                <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvMailBody" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtComments"

                    ErrorMessage="Required" Display="Dynamic"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator></td>

        </tr>

Re: Simple ASP.NET form
 

I think there is some critical form element crap in the compiled dll file called App_Web_i5ksdbwd and inherited into the form. Since it's a dll file, is there no software that will open it so I can edit it?

<%@ page language="VB" masterpagefile="~/pages/airedale911.master" autoeventwireup="false" inherits="feedback, App_Web_i5ksdbwd" title="airedale911.org: Feedback" %>

Re: Simple ASP.NET form
 

Squarkman,
Please notice that you can't have nested forms in a page. Each form is a single instance. The main-form-tag is in the masterpage probably opening at the beginning-tag of the contentplaceholder and closing after the contentplaceholder. This means that ALL your code in the page is within the form-tag.

for example like this:

<Masterpage>

   <Form>

      <ContentPlacehoder \>

   <\Form>

<\Masterpage>

The only option would be to add another form in the masterpage but I think that is not what you want.....

Regards,

[edit]
Ofcourse there is some reverse-engineering software available but that still requires you to reverse the complete webapplication and choose to upload the uncompiled version ór the compiled application.
Compiled applications have a slightly better performance than uncompiled applications because the FrameWork has to compile the code-behind at each 1st-request.