Properties Explorer (Is it just me or am i stupid)

Bradml · May 3rd, 2006, 07:03 AM

In Chapter 17 of this book (Page 558, step 7 to be precise) the book asks us to use the properties explorer, and being the novice i am automatically used typo!

How wrong i appear to have been. Now im stumped because i have no idea how to access it... i know i should but oh well...

Anyway if someone could give me directions to the where abouts of the elusive explorer i would be most grateful.

Cheers,
Brad

Thearon · May 14th, 2006, 02:19 PM

I believe that this should have been the Properties window and not Properties explorer.

Thearon

lanzetta · May 17th, 2006, 08:37 AM

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quote:Originally posted by Thearon
I believe that this should have been the Properties window and not Properties explorer.

Thearon

lanzetta · May 17th, 2006, 10:52 AM

Hi Brad. That makes 2 of us. I could not find it either and do not think it is the properties window mentioned in another post.
I tried editing the HTML source to replace all instances of javascript with vbscript but still could not get the example to work.
I get the following error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: 'btnClient_onclick'

I will keep trying.
Hopefully, someone will post the solution.

bnews987 · May 18th, 2006, 08:35 PM

I assume the issue here is trying to find the DefaultClientScript property. It appears that the DefaultClientScript property of the document object has been removed since the beta version of VB 2005. I was never able to confirm the removal, but it is not available in the released version anymore that I can find. Here is a what happens behind the scenes if you would set that property.

You can switch to source view on the default.aspx page. That is at the bottom left of the design area. In between the start and end <head> tags put the following

<meta content="text/VBScript" http-equiv="content-script-type" />

Then when you create your client script it will default to vbscript. That is what selecting the defaultclientscript would do for you.

Here is more info from MSDN2

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5y06x9d7.aspx

Hope this helps. I will ask to have this listed in the errata.

Bryan