I am building a site that gets a stock quote for a user, i would like to know the easiest way to accomplish this, using ASP.NET. The user would type a symbol into a textbox then hit a button and taken to the page that contains the quote. I am having a hard time figuring out the best way to do this.

Jon

If I understand you correctly, what you need is a server-side text box (ie, runat=server) and a server-side button.

Say your page is called "entry.aspx". The text box ID is "TextBox1" and the button ID is "Button1".

In the code-behind (entry.aspx.vb) you will have an event handler for the Button1_onclick event. It might look like this in VB.NET:

if TextBox1.text = "" then
   RegisterClientScriptBlock("X","alert('Please enter a stock symbol');")
   return
else
   Response.Redirect("display.aspx?symbol=" & TextBox1.text)
end if

You then have a page "display.aspx" that uses the querystring to determine which stock quote to display.

Or, if you have hard-coded pages, you just replace that else ... section with a select case TextBox1.text structure and redirect to the appropriate page.

I don't know if this is what your stuck on... I hope it helps.

-Van