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  snteran

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  True Newbie converting Classic ASP to .Net site. - Hyperlink for main page.

  Feb 11, 2012 10:13 PM|LINK

  I am moving an existing asp site to C# .net site.  I have decided to move forward with a Web application.  I have my home page display a list of all our servers.  I next want to have the server_name column be a hyperlink for complete informaiton regarding that server.  In asp I would just do a query.string and pull a list of all data out of a table where server_name like the query.string.  Is there a "Best Practice" method I should follow or what would be the right way moving forward.

  I'm sorry if this question is vague but I guess I don't know how I'm suppose to move forward.

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  fred_b

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  Re: True Newbie converting Classic ASP to .Net site. - Hyperlink for main page.

  Feb 12, 2012 01:09 AM|LINK

  try this:

  string server = Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_NAME"];
  string url = Request.ServerVariables["URL"];
  string querystring = Request.ServerVariables["QUERY_STRING"];

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  Re: True Newbie converting Classic ASP to .Net site. - Hyperlink for main page.

  Feb 12, 2012 08:09 AM|LINK

  Query String would work in ASP.NEt too...other ways fo trasnfering data from one page to other page - http://www.intstrings.com/ramivemula/articles/data-transfer-between-two-asp-net-pages/ That link got good explanation on when to use each technique...

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  snteran

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  Re: True Newbie converting Classic ASP to .Net site. - Hyperlink for main page.

  Feb 12, 2012 04:47 PM|LINK

  Thank you for the information.  The blog gave me some ideas, however I initially started my home page with a Gridview to show all available servers and from there I wanted to convert the first column to a hyperlink.   Do I need to scrap the gridview to incorporate a hyperlink?  I'm searching the web for a method to begin our web application.

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  snteran

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  Re: True Newbie converting Classic ASP to .Net site. - Hyperlink for main page.

  Feb 12, 2012 04:59 PM|LINK

  OK, I was able to find the answer here on the forum.

  In the gridview:

  original:

  <asp:BoundField DataField="SERVER_NAME" HeaderText="SERVER_NAME"
                      SortExpression="SERVER_NAME" />

  Removed the first column to the following:

  <asp:HyperLinkField DataNavigateUrlFields="SERVER_NAME" DataNavigateUrlFormatString="info.aspx?ID={0}"
                DataTextField="SERVER_NAME" HeaderText="Server Name" SortExpression="SERVER_NAME" />                
                 

  Now I just need to create my list for all the information in the DB concerning that server.

  Thousand mile journey. - One step at a time.

  • Marked as answer by snteran on Feb 28, 2012 02:53 AM