Is there a way to create a form on a button click using C# and ASP.NET?

dont create new controls (which you can do dynamivally) but instead the controls are already there but just their Visible is set to False and when the button click happens turn the visible state to true

or use a span and just change the visible state of the span from false to true and vice versa

Can you give me a code example of a simple text box like this?

I created everything and set them to invisible.  Can you please help me with the code for clicking the button to turn these to visible?

you have a text box on the aspx page called txtName
set Visible="false" on the aspx page

when the button click happens and now you want to make the text box visible jsut add txtName.Visible = true;

Actually the real problem I am having here now is figuring out how to get the button to turn the boxes visible and link the SSN text box to the selected employee in the ddl.  Any clue on how to do that?

This is all I have...

protected void New1(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        String strConn3 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; "
               + "Data Source=" + Request.ServerVariables["APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH"]
               + "/Database/Company.mdb";
 
        String sqlSelect = "Select * "
                                  + "from Performance_Review "
                                  + "INNER JOIN Employee "
                                  + "ON Performance_Review.ee_ID = Employee.ssn "
                                  + "WHERE Employee.ssn="
                                  + ddlEmp.Text;
    }          

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Here is your code for showing the textboxes with the data according to the selected value in the DropDownList

 <div>
        <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlEmp" runat="server">
            <asp:ListItem>Item1</asp:ListItem>
            <asp:ListItem>Item2</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" OnClick="Button1_Click" /><br />
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Visible="false"></asp:TextBox><br />
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Visible="false"></asp:TextBox>
    </div>  
 
 
 
 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        String strConn3 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; "
       + "Data Source=" + Request.ServerVariables["APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH"]
       + "/Database/Company.mdb";
        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(strConn3);
        String sqlSelect = "Select * "
                                  + "from Performance_Review "
                                  + "INNER JOIN Employee "
                                  + "ON Performance_Review.ee_ID = Employee.ssn "
                                  + "WHERE Employee.ssn="
                                  + ddlEmp.SelectedItem.Text;
        SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(sqlSelect, con);
        DataTable dt = new DataTable();
        da.Fill(dt);
        if (dt.Rows.Count > 0)
        {
            TextBox1.Text = dt.Rows[0]["ee_ID"].ToString();
            TextBox2.Text = dt.Rows[0]["ee_year"].ToString();
            TextBox1.Visible = true;
            TextBox2.Visible = true;
        }
        else
        {
            TextBox1.Visible = false;
            TextBox2.Visible = false;
        }
    }

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I kept getting an error on the "SqlDataAdapter" code so I modified your code a bit and now I can view the page however when I select an employee and click button I get the following error:

 No value given for one or more required parameters.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.OleDb.OleDbException: No value given for one or more required parameters.

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    
   {
        String strConn3 = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; "
               + "Data Source=" + Request.ServerVariables["APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH"]
               + "/Database/Company.mdb";
 
        
        String sqlSelect = "Select * "
                                  + "from Performance_Review "
                                  + "INNER JOIN Employee "
                                  + "ON Performance_Review.ee_ID = Employee.ssn "
                                  + "WHERE Employee.ssn="
                                  + ddlEmp.SelectedItem.Text;
        
        OleDbConnection objConn3 = new OleDbConnection(strConn3);
        OleDbCommand objCommand3 = new OleDbCommand(sqlSelect, objConn3); 
        OleDbDataAdapter objAdapter3 = new OleDbDataAdapter(objCommand3);
 
        DataSet objDataSet = new DataSet();
 
          
        DataTable dt = new DataTable();
        objAdapter3.Fill(objDataSet, "dt");
        
        if (dt.Rows.Count > 0)
        {
            eeID.Text = dt.Rows[0]["ee_ID"].ToString();
            evalyr.Text = dt.Rows[1]["evaluation_year"].ToString();
            eeID.Visible = true;
            evalyr.Visible = true;
        }
        else
        {
            eeID.Visible = false;
            evalyr.Visible = false;
         }
    }

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