Hello Scott.
I apologize for writing most of the things that i said. I should have
realized the tone of your reply was of a friendly nature. It's just the
"we'll remind you by not responding to your posts" that i thought was
wrong and i still do think it is wrong. I don't think you or anybody
should make the decision to not reply to a post because the poster makes
a crosspost when they shouldn't. If you are going to volunteer, thats
excellent. However, i think you are losing focus of the purpose of the
forums if you are going to say things like "we'll remind you by not
responding to your posts".
While we are at it. I also don't think your "You are not *entitled* to
anything here" statement is correct either. Whenever i consider buying
a Microsoft product, one of the first things that catches my attention
is the way Microsoft advertises that the forums are available for
questions. I have numerous Microsoft products and i paid good bucks for
them, so i think i am *entitled* to my share.
The most relevant place for your post is:
"microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.datagridcontrol". Try that
first
and see what happens. Is that so hard? <<
I'm sorry Scott, but at the time, i felt that the other forums that i
posted to were relevant to my question. Datagrids are not only
datagrids, they are asp.net web controls and they are asp.net related.
I have no idea of which volunteer experts keep track of which forum
posts, so how am i supposed to know when/where to crosspost or not
crosspost.
Perhaps, instead of making demands of those that are here helping
others, you could have taken some simple advice. <<
I didn't realize i was making demands. I thought i was just asking a
question and i did take the simple advice of Alvin and apologized for my
error. In spite of how this reply to you might sound, i will heed your
advice also.
Thanks for the knowledge, help, support and volunteer work of everyone
in these forums. I have learned a lot by frequenting them and hope to
continue to receive needed answers in the future.
Tony
Tony,
While there are certainly times that cross-posting makes sense, this is
hardly one of them since you clearly were able to find the
"microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.datagridcontrol" newsgroup
for your original post. If you had simply asked your question there
and it didn't turn up any useful answers, cross-posting to other groups
would be resonable.
Now, as for your response to my friendly advice:
By your own admission, you multi-post as your normal first attempt for
information:
It's a bad habit of mine. I always feel like i need to post ot as
many related groups as possible.
My message was in response to this statement. If you agree it's a bad
habit, then why are you upset with me essentially agreeing with you?
I resent your implication that a cross poster will not get the replies
that he is entitled to because he mistakenly viloated some posting
protocol.
These newsgroups are hosted by Microsoft, by they are populated by
individuals who help out others voluntarialy, giving of their own time
simply to help others. You are not *entitled* to anything here. If
those who give of their time to help others see someone habitually
behaving poorly here, they will simply choose not to help that person
in the future. This is perfectly reasonable. Sorry if that upsets
you.
If someone is in charge of who's questions get answered and who's
don't, then this forum is not what Microsoft claims it to be.
As I said above, these newsgroups continue to exist because of the
combined voluntary contributions of many people. There is not just one
person who decides who gets answers and who doesn't. Having said that,
there are certain people, who post in these newsgroups often, that are
not concerned with newsgroup netiquitte. The regular responders here
get to recognize who those people are. Most of the time those
offenders questions will go unanswered, not because there was some
secrect vote to blackball them, but simply because most regulars here
don't want to waste their time with such folks.
Microsft's description of the newsgroups does not say cross posting is
not allowed. In fact, they explain how to do it.
But, the rules of conduct do talk about keeping your posts relevant:
(
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/gallery/components/wn/2/locales/help_en-US.htm#RulesofConduct)
The most relevant place for your post is:
"microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.datagridcontrol". Try that
first and see what happens. Is that so hard?
Maybe you should spend more time trying to figure out what the
poster's problem is rather than reprimanding him for cross posting.
If you spend some time here (and in the other groups), you'll see that
I spend *just a bit* of time doing just that.
Perhaps, instead of making demands of those that are here helping
others, you could have taken some simple advice.
Good luck with your issue.
Hello Scott.
I didn't think that it was against the forum rules to multipost. I
don't feel that i am an abuser of multiposting. I choose the forums
to post ot based on which forums i think the problem is related to.
If your family of experts decides to keep knowledge from an individual
because they feel he is violating some secret code of cross posting
then I'll have to live with that.
I resent your implication that a cross poster will not get the replies
that he is entitled to because he mistakenly viloated some posting
protocol. If someone is in charge of who's questions get answered and
who's don't, then this forum is not what Microsoft claims it to be.
Microsft's description of the newsgroups does not say cross posting is
not allowed. In fact, they explain how to do it.
Maybe you should spend more time trying to figure out what the
poster's problem is rather than reprimanding him for cross posting.
Tony
I think that you'll find that around here, if you can't remember not
to multipost, we'll remind you by not responding to your posts.
I'm sorry Alvin.
It's a bad habit of mine. I always feel like i need to post ot as
many related groups as possible.
I will try to remember next time.
Thanks,
Tony
"Alvin Bruney [MVP]" <
www.lulu.com/owc> wrote in message
jeez, why the multipost? Ideally you should just post this
idatagrid control alone.
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Hello.
I'm developing and testing a web application using VS.NET 2003,
VB, .NET
Framework 1.1.4322, ASP.NET 1.1.4322 and IIS5.1 on a WIN XP Pro,
SP2
computer. I'm using a web form.
For a datagrid control, i used the Caption property. It displays
fine on the datagrid and allows me to run the program.
But, when i view the HTML for the web form, it shows this error at
the bottom.
c:\inetpub\wwwroot\CoyneTruckWebServices\WebForm1.aspx(50): Could
not find any attribute 'Caption' of element 'DataGrid'.
Why can't it find the Caption property if it's there ?
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks,
Tony