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quick question about access and vb.net

Diddy Kong · 2005-10-07 07:06:56

Just a small question, im messing about with a web site for meself , asp.net/vb.net. I have an access db setup, with some information and some links in it, eg http://www.google.ie. and i want to be able to view the links as active links on my site. I have no trouble opening the db and viewing the links, but making them…

07-10-2005 7:06am

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Diddy Kong

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Just a small question, im messing about with a web site for meself , asp.net/vb.net. I have an access db setup, with some information and some links in it, eg http://www.google.ie. and i want to be able to view the links as active links on my site. I have no trouble opening the db and viewing the links, but making them active is doin my head in.

anyone have any suggestions or can this be done??

cheers

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#2 07-10-2005 8:08am

Seth Brundle

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When you say that you can view the links in the DB, do you mean that they are hyperlink fields? This is irrelevant when trying to display them on the web page.
You need to create your dynamic link within HTML -
See www.w3schools.com/aspnet/aspnet_dbconnection.asp and http://www.w3schools.com/aspnet/control_htmlanchor.asp

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#3 07-10-2005 10:04am

Diddy Kong

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thanks for the info

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