A little knowledge is indeed a dangerous thing. This question may be beyond the ability to receive an answer on a user forum but what the heck! It might be easier to find a good book or take a good course on Visual Studio .NET.

Specifically, I am working with ASP.NET at this point. Here is what I am doing:

1. Web Form.
2. Web Controls.
3. Attach to a table.

Here are my results.

When I create a web form VS.NET enters a line of code into the first row:

<% Page Language=”vb” AutoEventWireUp=”false” codebehind=”WebControls1.aspx.vb” Inherits=”WebApplication1.Webform2”%>

I can then drop Web Controls on the form and position them in Design Mode exactly where I want them! This is outstanding! If I need to reposition them that is no problem. My clients change his/her minds every few hours and my ASP forms have over a hundred objects on them. I can see where ASP.NET could save me a great deal of time.

However, I cannot get any code to fire from the Page_Load. All methods can be called from Script and work fine. Code related to data does not fire.

So, what I did was to remove that first line of code and Page_Load fires as does code related to data. I can populate a datagrid and it looks very promising!

When I go to reposition an object on the form is collapses to the bottom left of the form. Absolute Position code is gone and it behaves like a typical HTML control without Absolute Positioning.

So I have to include that line of code ASP.NET creates to have Absolute Positioning and give up handling data and code called from Page_Load.

Any suggestions from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

Tom