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Can you please, be more specific
Thank you
Shay Noy
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I am relatively new to ASP.NET Web Parts and would like to implement a solution using ASP.NET rather than a workaround like I have in the past. Having extensive experience with Apache servers I can, and have, code a workaround using DHTML and JavaScript, but would like to learn the ASP.NET way to accomplish this common and seemingly simple task.
I am developing a SharePoint Web Part and for discussion lets say it has a drop down list and a button. The scenario is pretty simple the user selects an item from the drop down list and clicks on the button to process the entry.
The button fires off an AutoPostBack and when the button onClick event fires after return from the AutoPostBack the selected index of the drop down box is -1. How do I capture the the selected index of the drop down box after clicking the button but before the round trip to the server or an alternative solution?
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You just need to handle the OnSelectedIndexChanged event of the dropdownlist.
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Mark Nischalke wrote: You just need to handle the OnSelectedIndexChanged event of the dropdownlist.
I would need to set the AutoPostBack on the drop down list to true in order to fire that event and it would cause a round trip to the server each time the index was changed.
Aside from causing the screen to blink and the time needed for a round trip before the interface is responsive again I believe it would fire after the round trip to the server and more precisely after the Page CreateChildControls, RenderControls and OnLoad events making the SelectedIndex value -1, just like when I try to retrieve it in the button onClick event.
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You don't need to set Autopostback on the dropdownlist. The OnSelectedIndexChanged event will be triggered during a postback, any postback, including one caused by the button.
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Mark Nischalke wrote: You don't need to set Autopostback on the dropdownlist. The OnSelectedIndexChanged event will be triggered during a postback, any postback, including one caused by the button.
Even so it is triggered after the Page CreateClildControls, RenderControls and OnLoad events so the drop down box SelectedIndex is reset to -1 before it is triggered.
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Have you tried it or are you just theorizing?
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Mark Nischalke wrote: Have you tried it or are you just theorizing?
I have tried. The order of events for page rendering are the Page events CreateChildControls, RenderControls, OnLoad, (in that order) and then the control events take place.
Override these page events, add control events and write out a message to a log when each fires and you will see them firing in that order.
When I say I am a newcomer to ASP.NET I mean I have been writing Web Part code for the past 2 years as opposed to 10 years coding for Apache servers.
I still consider myself an intermediate when it comes to Web Parts and am just learning about things like Shared Zone, Display Zone, Edit Zone and Connection Zones, and their capabilities, but am gaining the knowledge to consider myself an expert over the next year or two. I don't consider myself expert until I know every aspect of a technology.
Having said that I don't speculate about a technology, but say things only after I perform due diligence in learning the technology.
I must ask you the question now, have you tried what you are saying or are you just theorizing?
For example, it is my understanding that unless you set the AutoPostBack to true the control events will not fire on controls that are set to false by default, such as a drop down box. This is consistent with my testing. If you know it to be wrong from experience please let me know how I can verify that.
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JimmyRopes wrote: I have over 36 years professional experience in developing solutions
JimmyRopes wrote: I must ask you the question now, have you tried what you are saying or are you just theorizing?
Don't be an ass (that's my job) and take a deep breath before responding. Without sitting there implementing paired programming, I have no way knowing what you have tried or not. You are not the ony one around here with experience, most just don't push it everyone's face like this.
Yes, I have constructed webparts that repond to postback events.
One way to handle this is to package your webpart as a user control. Some like this approach when the control has more interactive elements such as this. You may also want to read up on IPostBackDataHandler[^] and IPostBackEventHandler[^] if you haven't already
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Mark Nischalke wrote: Don't be an ass (that's my job)
That is what I was thinking when you said that the drop down box SelectedIndexChanged event will fire when the AutoPostBack is set to false.
It is my experience that in order to get a drop down box to fire an event you must set the AutoPostBack event to true. Do you have evidence that it will fire without the AutoPostBack being set to true? I think not, but I was willing to overlook that because I wanted to see if you had any other suggestions.
Instead you responded "Have you tried it or are you just theorizing?". Who is being the ass there?
I know you don't know what my experience level is so I told you. That way you wouldn't assume I am a new comer to the field or do not know how to test implementations before asking for help when I run out of options at the time. Your response asking me "Have you tried it or are you just theorizing?" smacked of arrogance.
A look at your profile reveals that you are undoubtedly good at taking tests but that just means that you are good at taking tests, nothing more.
I gain my knowledge the old fashioned way, through empirical (unit) testing. I know it has fallen out of favor these days, probably because it takes a lot of work.
Mark Nischalke wrote: One way to handle this is to package your webpart as a user control. Some like this approach when the control has more interactive elements such as this.
In my original post I mentioned that it was a SharePoint Web Part. This code is published as a user control that is included on the page in an edit zone.
I override the CreatChildControls, RenderControls and OnLoad Page events, as well as setting some control events. I have logged essential information from each of these events so I will know know what is going on at each stage of rendering.
If you have any examples of capturing the state of the drop down control prior to post back please paste a code snippet in a reply and where in the code (which event) to use it.
Thank you for your assistance. I am not interested in speculating about how things should work, but would rather see a working example and where it should be executed in the rendering process.
I have also been reading about the order of UnLoad events; Control UnLoad events followed by Page UnLoad event which does hold some promise.
At this point I would just be speculating about it working until I get to work tomorrow and try some empirical testing.
PS - I have looked into the documentation about IPostBackDataHandler and IPostBackEventHandler. Thanks for the suggestion. It is not really clear where this code should reside which is typical of MSDN. If you have a working model please post a code snippet also.
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JimmyRopes wrote: It is not really clear where this code should reside which is typical of MSDN.
You should check into you're apparent superiority complex.
Since you consider yourself to be better than anyone else you shouldn't need to be asking questions here. You should be the one writing the documentation and articles.
JimmyRopes wrote: A look at your profile reveals that you are undoubtedly good at taking tests but that just means that you are good at taking tests, nothing more.
A class act to critize the skills of others when you can't solve a problem. It shows excellent character.
JimmyRopes wrote:
I gain my knowledge the old fashioned way, through empirical (unit) testing.
Prove it. Post some articles, show us what you have learned.
You're just not worth the time so go away and solve this problem the old fashioned way, after all isn't your're motto "if want something done right, do it yourself."
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Mark Nischalke wrote: JimmyRopes wrote:It is not really clear where this code should reside which is typical of MSDN.
You should check into you're apparent superiority complex.
Since you consider yourself to be better than anyone else you shouldn't need to be asking questions here. You should be the one writing the documentation and articles.
Now you are really being a ass. I ask questions here when I have a problem I am having difficulty solving.
I am not better than anyone else and am willing to learn from anyone who has knowledge of a subject, not people like you pretending to know.
Mark Nischalke wrote: A look at your profile reveals that you are undoubtedly good at taking tests but that just means that you are good at taking tests, nothing more.
A class act to critize [sp] the skills of others when you can't solve a problem. It shows excellent character.
Actually asking a question when I don't know the answer does show at least good character.
My having a problem and asking about it here speaks volumes about what I think of others. As I said before I am willing to learn from anyone with knowledge.
I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt until you started on a diatribe.
As I have stated before your response asking if I was theorizing before asking if I had actually tried to implement what I was asking about was arrogant. I don't have any patience with arrogant people like you.
Mark Nischalke wrote: JimmyRopes wrote:I gain my knowledge the old fashioned way, through empirical (unit) testing.
Prove it. Post some articles, show us what you have learned.You're just not worth the time so go away and solve this problem the old fashioned way, after all isn't your're motto "if want something done right, do it yourself."
I would like nothing more than to post articles but I happen to work professionally and sign confidentiality contracts which prevent my publishing work done for my clients.
PS - thanks for the 1 vote on my previous post. It just shows that you are petty as well as arrogant.
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A quick test seems to work fine for me. Though I'm sure you will find something wrong since it won't live up to your high standards.
public class DDLWebPart : WebPart
{
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
base.CreateChildControls();
Button btn = new Button();
btn.Text = "Click Me!";
Controls.Add(btn);
DropDownList ddl = new DropDownList();
ddl.SelectedIndexChanged += new EventHandler(ddl_SelectedIndexChanged);
for(int x = 0; x < 10; x++)
{
ListItem item = new ListItem("Item " + (x + 1), (x + 1).ToString());
ddl.Items.Add(item);
}
Controls.Add(ddl);
}
public void ddl_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Label lb = new Label();
lb.Text = ((DropDownList)sender).SelectedItem.Text;
Controls.Add(lb);
}
}
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And this ddl_SelectedIndexChanged fired when the button was clicked?
did you check the SelectedIndex? Was it -1?
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Why not just try it and see, or shall record a web video to show you since you want empirical proof, not just theory.
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I will try it tomorrow. Is the SelectedIndex = -1?
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It is time for me to eat crow as the expression goes.
I couldn't get the code you posted to work at first in a SharePoint web part but after reviewing it I realized that what I didn't do was render the label control in the RenderWebPart override and it worked.
I appreciate your efforts in supplying this code and I apologize for doubting you when you tried to explain it to me.
I was frustrated from SharePoint behavior that was not working as I had expected, but putting the SelectIndexChange event in now allows me to access the drop down control from a button click event which is what I was trying to do all along.
I am still a little fuzzy about the inner workings but will live with working functionality until I gain a deeper understanding of the inner workings.
Do you have any book recommendations?
I would like to find some literature to get an in-depth understanding of ASP.NET Web Parts and ASP.NET. I have a lot of experience with web sites on Apache servers but not so much on ASP.NET.
I have read "Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5", "The Web Part Infrastructure Uncovered", "SharePoint 2007: the Definitive Guide", "SharePoint Server 2007: Best Practices", "Programming C#", as well as taking a SharePoint and InfoPath course that was offered at work last year.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again, and sorry for being such a pain.
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Thanks for the recommendations.
I ordered them today.
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Hi and thanks for your interest. I am trying to use an ad rotator and as soon as I use parameters in the link it shows an error. If I remove the parameters it works. How can I use parameters in the link?
Thank you.
<Advertisements><br />
<br />
<Ad><br />
<ImageUrl>http:
<br />
</ImageUrl><br />
<NavigateUrl>http:
<br />
<Impressions>50</Impressions><br />
</Ad><br />
</Advertisements>
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You might be using this in an incorrect way. i always use XML as my Datasource and my XML loks like this
< Advertisements >
< Ad >
< imageUrl >~/images/home/Banner_1.gif< /imageUrl>
< NavigateUrl >http://www.VuyiswaMaseko.com< /NavigateUrl >
< AlternateText > Alternate Text goes here< /AlternateText >
< Impressions>50</ Impressions>
< Keyword > My Banner</ Keyword>
< /Ad >
< /Advertisements >
Now from the above you can find out what you did wrong, because that is how its Supposed to be.
Vuyiswa Maseko,
Spoted in Daniweb-- Sorry to rant. I hate websites. They are just wierd. They don't behave like normal code.
C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET/SQL7/2000/2005/2008
http://www.vuyiswamaseko.com
vuyiswa@its.co.za
http://www.itsabacus.co.za/itsabacus/
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the way you use it works fine. if you add a querystring parameters it stops working.
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Can you post on how you use it ?
Vuyiswa Maseko,
Spoted in Daniweb-- Sorry to rant. I hate websites. They are just wierd. They don't behave like normal code.
C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET/SQL7/2000/2005/2008
http://www.vuyiswamaseko.com
vuyiswa@its.co.za
http://www.itsabacus.co.za/itsabacus/
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I posted, in the question...there is a query string parameter there.
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Hi all,
I have an ASP.NET Application that read bytes from a file (rpkey.cer) and then write bytes to another file (serverCer.cer):
String serverCertPath = @"C:\rpkey.cer";<br />
byte[] temp1 = File.ReadAllBytes(serverCertPath);<br />
string temp2 = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(temp1);<br />
String serverCer = @"C:\TempFile\Envelope\serverCer.cer";<br />
byte[] temp3 = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(temp2);<br />
File.WriteAllBytes(serverCer, temp3);
Then I copy 2 files to one folder and I realize that file A and B do not match to each other by using fc command in DOS:
fc rpkey.cer serverCer.cer
Is there something wrong in my conversion?
Best regards,
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