ASP.NET

19-Jan-10 0:47

Hello,

In our project, we have a requirement to export a web page (Asp.Net) to PDF file. All the controls on the page (The web page completely along with its format) should be exported to PDF file. Anybody has worked on this before?

Can you please shed some light on this to get it work?

As we have some constraints, we have to do it without spending money.

Thank you in Advance,
Raheem MA

Anurag Gandhi19-Jan-10 1:13

Anurag Gandhi

19-Jan-10 1:13

Try using some free ware pdf components like PDFSharp, MigraDoc, etc.

The following link may help you:

http://alt-soft.com/Support_kb_generating_pdf_from_asp_net.aspx[^]
http://www.pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp/[^]

Anurag Gandhi.
http://www.gandhisoft.com
Life is a computer program and every one is the programmer of his own life.

Raheem MA19-Jan-10 17:46

19-Jan-10 17:46

Anurag,

Thank you for your reply.

I did go through the links you provided. First one, AltSoft might match our requirement but it is not free of cost. Second One, just creates PDF files in Asp.net but does not export the asp.net page to PDF.

Our requirement is exporting the complete Asp.net page (.aspx) to PDF file.

Can you please provide any other information regarding this.

Thank you in Advance,
Raheem MA

Anurag Gandhi19-Jan-10 19:01

Anurag Gandhi

19-Jan-10 19:01

Hi,
The following link may help you:

Pdfizer, a dumb HTML to PDF converter, in C#[^]
Generate PDF documents from a HTML page using ASP.NET[^]

I my self haven't tried them, but hoping that it will solve your problem.

Anurag Gandhi.
http://www.gandhisoft.com
Life is a computer program and every one is the programmer of his own life.

deepikakhorana19-Jan-10 17:40

deepikakhorana

19-Jan-10 17:40

Hi Raheem
The procedure is
step1:render the page through asp.net code in a web browser, this will return a bitmap
public System.Drawing.Bitmap CaptureWebPage(string URL)
{
// create a hidden web browser, which will navigate to the page
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser web = new System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser();
web.ScrollBarsEnabled = false; // we don't want scrollbars on our image
web.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true; // don't let any errors shine through
web.Navigate(URL); // let's load up that page!

// wait until the page is fully loaded
while (web.ReadyState != System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserReadyState.Complete)
System.Windows.Forms.Application.DoEvents();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1500); // allow time for page scripts to update
// the appearance of the page

// set the size of our web browser to be the same size as the page
int width = web.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width;
int height = web.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Height;
web.Width = width;
web.Height = height;
// a bitmap that we will draw to
System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(width, height);
// draw the web browser to the bitmap
web.DrawToBitmap(bmp, new System.Drawing.Rectangle(0, 0, width, height));

return bmp; // return the bitmap for processing
}
Step 2: and then save this as PDF

Raheem MA19-Jan-10 19:51

19-Jan-10 19:51

Thank you Deepika for your response,

But I dont want to capture the complete webpage. Following is the scenario:

We have "Export" button on every webpage(contains Charts, graphs etc...). On Export button click, the charts , graphs ... of the particular page should be exported to PDF file.

Any ideas ?

Thank you in Advance,
Raheem MA

deepikakhorana20-Jan-10 21:53

deepikakhorana

20-Jan-10 21:53

Hi Raheem

You need to create one page named preview and render only those things which u need to export on that page (if it is a chart then only render chart on that page) and then try that code.
at the time of export just redirect to the export page(another page which will run the bitmap and web browser code) which will do the stuff for you and then call the preview page in url then it will export only charts etc.

Thanks
Deepika

Raheem MA20-Jan-10 1:43

GridView is Caching does not Update

20-Jan-10 1:43

Hello Friends,

My requirement is we will have many Asp.Net server controls on a webpage and a export button. On clicking Export button, all the content & asp.net controls should be exported to PDF file.

Please help me, this is urgent.

Thank you in Advance,
Raheem MA

alaminfad18-Jan-10 23:07

alaminfad

18-Jan-10 23:07

Hello Experts
I've this Gridview of tasks a Hyperlink TemplateField that takes the user to another page where he can accept/reject[buttons] the very task , on clicking accept/reject[buttons] the page redirect the user again to the tasks Gridview , unfortunately , the same task is still there unless if the user manually Press F5[Refresh] I tried the following nothing worked Frown | :(

1- EnableViewState ="false"
2- In the ObjectDataSource , EnableCaching ="false"
3-i tried to use Ajax but it gives me a whole lots of errors from the webconfig ,my website is working ,I can’t stop users from accessing my site in order to wrestle with Ajax
what else that I can do?
One more question Experts,
the approach I am taking on developing my site is to work in my local machine when I am finished with my changes I literally Copy/Paste the new aspx/aspx.vb overwriting the old file with the new one , this approach is working fine but it causes the server to a bit slow esp. in the first time after change, is there a more Professional way?
Thanks in advance

Re: GridView is Caching does not Update

Nishant Singh19-Jan-10 0:10

Nishant Singh

19-Jan-10 0:10

Another Page is opening in PopUp ???

Re: GridView is Caching does not Update

alaminfad19-Jan-10 19:46

alaminfad

19-Jan-10 19:46

on hyperlink click it redirects the user to Another Page

Date-Time Format in C# and SQL Server

Zeyad Jalil18-Jan-10 22:48

Zeyad Jalil

18-Jan-10 22:48

hi all,

I use sql server 2005 and C#(asp.net) to build a library system (web site),
but my problem is..
i can insert a row into database at datetime format MM/dd/yyyy, but if my server date format changed to any format my web site is stop work and do an exception ..( the conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value).

can u help me please,,,

thanks all

Re: Date-Time Format in C# and SQL Server

SeMartens18-Jan-10 23:12

SeMartens

18-Jan-10 23:12

Hi,

could you post the code how you are trying to insert the new row? I guess the sql-server is expecting a datetime-row and you try to store the date as string.

Regards
Sebastian

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Check out my CodeProject article Permission-by-aspect.

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Re: Date-Time Format in C# and SQL Server

Nishant Singh19-Jan-10 0:16

Nishant Singh

19-Jan-10 0:16

Try to Change the DateFormat to MM/dd/yyyy before inserting into database
Like this

DateTime.Today.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy")

Cannot connect mysql server from ftp server

Jinoju18-Jan-10 22:12

Jinoju

18-Jan-10 22:12

I have deployed a project in ftp location. It is a .net with mysql application.
But i am trying to open the site getting the execption like the following

"Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.***********System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 174.143.28.30:3306 at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.EndConnect(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at MySql.Data.Common.StreamCreator.CreateSocketStream(IPAddress ip, Boolean unix) at MySql.Data.Common.StreamCreator.GetStream(UInt32 timeout) at MySql.Data.MySqlClient.NativeDriver.Open() "

But i could connect the remote mysql server from my local application.Its working fine at time..

If anybody knows why this occur,please replay .Thanks in advance

Re: Cannot connect mysql server from ftp server

Unforgiv3n19-Jan-10 1:44

Unforgiv3n

19-Jan-10 1:44

so this problem doesn't happen when you connect to the localhost but when you try from a other pc to connect to the server it doesn't work?

Content Management System

aniju mathew18-Jan-10 21:59

aniju mathew

18-Jan-10 21:59

Hi i am new to CMS.
From where i can get CMS basics

Clear Session While Browser Close

Amit Patel198518-Jan-10 20:30

Amit Patel1985

18-Jan-10 20:30

Hi All,

How to clear session when i close the browser.

I have assigned the following value in session

Session["SessionId"] = sessionId;
Session["userId"] = userId;

I want to clear this value while user close Browser

Thanks and regards,

Amit Patel

Abhishek Sur18-Jan-10 21:48

Abhishek Sur

18-Jan-10 21:48

Why do you require an extra server call to clear session..

Rather you can use Session Timeout easily which is automatically called.

Abhishek Sur
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Amit Patel198519-Jan-10 1:26

Amit Patel1985

19-Jan-10 1:26

Hi

I want to implement functionality where user can login from one system only if he logs in from other machine then he should logged out from another machine so for this we implemented forced logout

for this i created on dictionary in App code in global which contains user id and corrospoding session id

but when i closing my browser it is not getting removed

so when i m logging from same machine it is also iving forced logout is session is not expired

so i dont want to show this message

Thanks
amit

Brij18-Jan-10 22:17

Brij

18-Jan-10 22:17

For that you have to capture the browser close event from javascript and if it is browser close then open a new page remove the session from server side of that page then close that page.I have impleneted in this way.The sample code is :

Javscript code to capture the browser close event and accordingly open the new page to remove the session

function CloseSession()     {         
// Check Browser Close [X] , Alt+F4 , File -> Close             
if(window.event.clientX < 0 && window.event.clientY <0)           
{            
window.open("CloseSession.aspx",          "OpenWindow_Close_Session",'left=12000,top=1200,width=10,height=1');
 }     
}

Call this method on unload of your master Body .

onunload="DeleteUserLog()"

Now in CloseSession.aspx pages, you can do what ever you want and register the client script to close it automatically after doing the task.

Hope it'll help you. Smile | :)

Cheers!!
Brij