VWD 2005 Express.  Visual Basic.  How may I create a "pop up" window (with it own controls for closing the window) and call it (open it) from the code behind?  Thanks for the help.

to create a popup window you need javascript

(javascript:window.open('myPopup.aspx",other properties here)

this site will make the js you need for a popup window : http://javascript.internet.com/generators/popup-window.html

you should not need to call it from codebehind you just call it from client side javascript.

this is what i use all the time :

var param = "width="+width+", height="+height+", scrollbars="+scrollbars+", resizable, status";

 A message box or a popup window is not available in asp.net.  You could use javascript or if you have AJAX the modal popup extender is a great control.

Create a form call it WebForm2.aspx, on WebForm1.aspx add a button with id Button1. onpage_load event use the below code

Button1.Attributes.Add("onclick","window.open('WebForm2.aspx','','height=300,width=300');return false")

HC

Thanks Haissam.  You have been of much help to me today.  I will give your "popup" suggestion a try.

I suspect that javascript will not work on my Windows 2003 Server running asp.net 2.0???

javascript works on almost everything. its dependant on the CLIENT not the server. and 99% of all web clients have some form of javascript installed.

mcm

Javascript wont work except if the client has his/her web browser javascript disabled other than this it should work.

Remember javascript is client side scripting language which means it runs on the client machine and not on the server.

Suppose that I want to pass some text content to the WebForm2.aspx file that is opened by your example.  How would I pass this text information?  What I am trying to do is display a particular message (which will come from a database and hence is not fixed) in the pop up window.  Thanks for your continued help.

You can save the string in a session variable which can be read in webform2 to be displayed. Take a look into the below example.

// WebForm1 page_load event

Session["Test"] = "Hello World";

Button1.Attributes.Add("onclick","window.open('WebForm2.aspx','','height=300,width=300');return false");

// WebForm2.aspx page_load event

Response.Write(Session["Test"].ToString());

Check this link http://apriendavisualstudio.net/?p=21

 It's a video How-to add javascript (pop up window) to a ASP.NET button with 1 line of code.  You can even add other cool stuff to the button.  Sample code is available for download. 

or you could just make a database call on the load event of the new page your opening.  it doesn't matter that javascript is opening it, its still a normal Aspx page.  So you can just make it get the data from the database when it loads (like any other page)

mcm

The session variable is good.  But I will be having a variable number of controls that will need to use this pop up window.  Each control will have different text I need to display in the pop up window.  Hence, using a single session variable will not work, unless there is a way to assign a value to the session variable when I "click" the control and before the pop up page is displayed.  Have any ideas??

use an asp control and add this in your code-behind :  

 
'Any value you want to put in session variables
'Any process you want to do 

Dim strPop As String = "<script language='javascript'>" & vbCrLf _
& "window.open(YourPAge.aspx','Report');" & vbCrLf _
& "</script>" & vbCrLf
ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "Pop", strPop)
 
'Anything after this point won't be reach by your application
 

Hope it helps

I would love to use this, but without an explanation of what it does and how to use it, I am dead in the water.

I need to be able to open a pop up menu or aspx page and pass it information when I click on a label control.  How will this accomplish that?  Thanks.