ASP.NET

11-Apr-14 6:55

Hi All,

I am trying to prebuild and application when I have put the xcopy commands as below, initially it threw error as the specified folder doesn't exist at the target location.
Is there any way to write some intelligent login for the precompile so that when the precompile is happening, if there is no specified directory in the target location, it will create one automatically, if there is it will over write all the directories and files automatically without prompting the user.

Please any kind of help or support is very helpful, any link or suggestion or example would help a lot.

thanks in advance.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Richard Andrew x6412-Apr-14 15:18

12-Apr-14 15:18

Use the /E switch with xcopy. That will copy the directory structure, including empty directories.

C++

xcopy C:\Source\*.* D:\Target\*.* /E

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indian14314-Apr-14 7:39

14-Apr-14 7:39

Hi,

I have used the same thing, it successfully does precompile once but then the folder and files are not available already it fails, by throwing error the command xcopy exited with code 2. May be it is unable to replace the existing ones.

Can you please give me option for both situations when there is no folder available and when there is everything available but still replaces with without prompting any message on to the command prompt.

Can you please help me in this regard.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Richard Andrew x6414-Apr-14 15:33

14-Apr-14 15:33

You can look at all the options available with xcopy by opening a command prompt window and entering "xcopy /?"

But it sounds like your problem is not with xcopy. It sounds like your problem is with some other program that is launching xcopy, is this correct?

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indian14316-Apr-14 10:20

16-Apr-14 10:20

Hi,

I don't what is causing the problem, these DOS and Windows errors hard to debug. I have used my xcopy with all the below switches. With every switch it is giving me the same error.
Switches:

xcopy "$(SolutionDir)\Core\*.aspx" "$(ProjectDir)\Core\"  

/c /y

/e /k /i /c

 /c /d /e /h /i /k /q /r /s /x /y

And error is same for all the switches. Any help please any sort of help is appreciated.

 Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities.AgileTestPlatformSpec' to type 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities.TestAssemblySpec'.
 
Failed - CopyDirectory to Destination folder failed. Robocopy Error # 16

I am not at all using Robocopy in my application once I used it some time before but now I replaced it with xcopy and above switches. I am not understanding what is the problem. Is it caching up I don't know why is it giving Robocopy error.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Richard Andrew x6416-Apr-14 10:25

16-Apr-14 10:25

I'm sorry but I cannot work out what programs you are using.

That error that you show is not an xcopy error. That's an error from some other program that you haven't disclosed.

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search function C#

Tumtum2111-Apr-14 4:29

Tumtum21

11-Apr-14 4:29

hey guys

I want to create a search function that searches for files with in a folder that matches the text that a textbox holds , how do i got about this

my code below looks for all the files and put it in a gridview but dont know how to make it so that it looks for a match betwwen the textbox and the files within the folder and only displays those

DataTable Dt = new DataTable();
Dt.Columns.Add("File", typeof(string));
Dt.Columns.Add("Size", typeof(string));
Dt.Columns.Add("Dir", typeof(string));
foreach (string filename in Directory.GetFiles(@"C:\files"))
{
    FileInfo fileinfo = new FileInfo(filename);
    Dt.Rows.Add(fileinfo.Name, fileinfo.Length +"KB", fileinfo.FullName);


}
GridView1.DataSource = Dt;
GridView1.DataBind();

PLease help Thanks

Re: search function C#

Richard Andrew x6414-Apr-14 15:38

Rollback DB changes through the UI - requesting advice

14-Apr-14 15:38

I believe you can use wildcards with Directory.GetFiles(). So just take the text box content and use it in the call to GetFiles().

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pmcm11-Apr-14 1:40

pmcm

11-Apr-14 1:40

Hi I've an application with an admin section, for example a dropdown list is poopulated with cities but if the user was to delete some records through the UI, verify their actions in the dropdown and then decided they wanted to undo their change. What would be the best way to enable rollback functionality like this?

Re: Rollback DB changes through the UI - requesting advice

Marco Bertschi11-Apr-14 2:28

Marco Bertschi

11-Apr-14 2:28

Set a boolean field [deleted] for each entity you want to rollback. Instead of actually deleting the records, you can just set deleted=true and then, if you want to rollback, set it to false again.
Of course you need to consider the deleted field in your select queries.

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Need a solution for my problem

indian14310-Apr-14 10:30

10-Apr-14 10:30

Hi All,

I have a Web Application called FDP which is in .Net 2.0 and there are other 4 applications which are in classic asp. Now we are planning to convert all these 5 applications in to .Net 4.5. We need to use a common master page for all 5 of them I have already implemented and tested it with static data.
Now the other problem is we have some user controls in FDP we have to use on Master page eventually would be common for all 5 applications going forward. Now the problem is when I reference the ascx file in master page by using the Virtual Path, then as the master page is referenced in other applications as dll, this Virtual Path and ascx file is not available there. And the application is throwing error.

Is there any way to reference ascx file in master page as dll or accessing the ascx file of the master page dll in the other applications. And this ascx file has code to access some database and config values, which have to be coming from those other application.

Is it possible to implement this solution. Please give me some advice or any link which can support me. I am also doing my best for this implementation. Please any type of support if very helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Nico Haegens10-Apr-14 22:50

10-Apr-14 22:50

Could you please give more details?
- What is your first problem? You only described your situation, not what the problem is.
- As for the second, we need to know how you try to reference the user controls and which error is being thrown.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="pre" Namespace="nameofnamespace" Assembly="nameofthedllwithoutextension" %>

So it should include a prefix, these are the letters you'll use to use any control contained in the assembly(the dll)
the namespace is the namespace that contains the usercontrol
the assembly is the name of the dll file(most likely in your debug folder while testing) but without the dll extension added. No path should be required afaik.

indian14311-Apr-14 6:36

11-Apr-14 6:36

The problem is we want to have only one common master file across the projects. For that I have solved it by using the master page dll concept as given here in this blog. () [^] But the problem is as I am accessing a dll of master page if I want to add a user control to it then its ascx file is not available when we reference its dll.

Then I came up with a solution to convert the user controls also into custom controls so that I can put them on the master page and access them.
Now for that I am getting the following error.

Error	86	Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory.	ASPNETCOMPILER	0	0	Core

And I have another doubt, that if I have any images and configuration values used in a customer control code, how should I deal with them? Can you please guide me or help me or send a link to me so that I can implement it in best possible way.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Nico Haegens11-Apr-14 7:28

11-Apr-14 7:28

I'm lacking a lot of details but here is my educated guess:
You're trying to reference the dll in your webpage by using a relative path that goes above your web application root.

You should add the dll as a reference to your project, then refer to the name of the dll. Do not include the path or the extension.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="ctl" Namespace="CustomControlNamespace" Assembly="CustomControl" %>

The attribute Assembly refers to the name of the dll.

As for your doubts about configuration and images, really gonna need to see some of your code to help you out there.

indian14311-Apr-14 13:27

11-Apr-14 13:27

I have put the image file path in appSettings of the Web config of web application which is consuming the Custom Control as below

<add key="Images" value="~/Images"/>

Then I have placed code piece in the code behind of the custom control

ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["Images"].ToString<pre>();

If we do this we is it going to work?

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Nico Haegens12-Apr-14 14:11

12-Apr-14 14:11

That code will work but that way of retrieving settings from Web.config is outdated/deprecated and may not work in future versions of .net.
This link is the recommended way of doing it, according to Microsoft:
Microsoft Recommendation

indian14313-Apr-14 20:09

13-Apr-14 20:09

Hi,

Yes that is absolutely correct, we are in process of converting this 2.0 application into 4.5, so the one that I have put was 2.0 code, but your suggestion definitely helped me. Thank you very much.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

indian14314-Apr-14 6:01

14-Apr-14 6:01

But I don't know why but the namespaces and classes from that assembly are not at all coming in the intellisense. When I put those names explicitly they were giving syntax errors.

Please help me in this regards.

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Nico Haegens14-Apr-14 11:56

apply styles in excel with Openxml

14-Apr-14 11:56

In code-behind pages, you link a prefix to the assembly, which is done in the code I posted in previous post. After that, you place a control on your webpage. It will have a prefix, then the name of your control, and only the name of that control. Giving the full name will indeed give syntax errors.
If you placed

<%@ Register TagPrefix="vg" NameSpace="coolstuff" Assembly="coolstuff" %>

on top of your page, you should place

<vg:CoolControl id="testcontrol" runat="server">

in your page where you place your control(s).
If I'm misinterpreting your question, please provide more details.

byka10-Apr-14 6:18

byka

10-Apr-14 6:18

I am using OpenXML to generate Excel doc how to I apply styles for specific cell?

Dim CellStyleFormats As New CellStyleFormats
     With CellStyleFormats
         .?????
     End With
     mergeCell.Append(CellStyleFormats)
         mergeCells.Append(mergeCell)

Converting aspx pages into ascx pages

indian1439-Apr-14 14:08

Re: Converting aspx pages into ascx pages

9-Apr-14 14:08

Hi,

I have some aspx pages, as we are adding some new applications which are going to use some of the same pages we want to make those common pages as user controls.

I started making the aspx pages into User controls I changed the name of the files to ascx, ascx.cs, removed page attribute and put the control attribute, removed html, body and form tags from aspx file, in code behind I made change to inherit from UserControl class. Everything looks good upto this.

But those previous aspx pages were accessing some user controls, now those controls are displaying error message. Like at uc1:htmlhead and uc1:formheader it is displaying error message as "Unrecognized tag prefix or device filter uc1".

Below are the register and control directives for the user control. For the current User Control I have taken Control directive and for other ones I have taken Register directive. Am I missing any where. Please help me or suggest me or give me a link, any type of help is very helpful. Thanks in advance.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="HtmlHead" Src="../Includes/HtmlHead.ascx" %>
<%@  Page Language="c#" CodeBehind="ChangePass.ascx.cs" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="DIS.CnpWeb.Core.ChangePass" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="FormFooter" Src="../Includes/FormFooter.ascx" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="uc1" TagName="FormHeader" Src="../Includes/FormHeader.ascx" %>

<uc1:htmlhead id="HtmlHead1" runat="server"></uc1:htmlhead>
<uc1:formheader id="FormHeader1" runat="server"></uc1:formheader>

Thanks & Regards,

Abdul Aleem Mohammad
St Louis MO - USA

Blikkies9-Apr-14 22:55

Blikkies

9-Apr-14 22:55

Can you provide the top section of you user control?

Re: Converting aspx pages into ascx pages

indian14310-Apr-14 6:08