Having:
<asp:FormView ID="frmEmployee" runat="server">
<EditTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtFirstName" runat="server" />
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is there a way to reference this control statically, without having to use FindControl?
VB.Net
txtFirstName.Text = "George"
C#
txtFirstName.Text = "George";
Let's say I have an abstract class IA, with subclasses A1, A2, A3. For each subclass, I had a page with a FormView to insert/edit/view, with code specific to that class. The templates for insert/edit/view are all very similar, so it was mostly cut & paste, and the compiler had no problem that there were controls with the same IDs in the different templates. Something like this:
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I am looking to create several custom controls (PictureBox Derivatives) on during runtime. I've read that the best way is to create template controls that will be created, and duplicate them in the Controls array.
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but what's the best way to store the template? I considered a seperate form with all the templates laid out on it for easy access for my editing, and keeping them out of the user's sight. I also considdered doing a Struct for each template, and smply mirroring values onto the control being created from the Struct to the created control.
I'm looking for ease of development first and foremost, as I'm most likely going to have a vast number of these templates, and keeping the system as simple as possible will eliminate a lot of hair-pulling. After development ease, I'd go for optimisation.
Where and how do I look for to access the default templates of say for e.g a checkbox, so that I can modify few styles in it.
View 1 RepliesI have a checkbox and a panel inside of a FormView control, and I need to access them from the code behind in order to use the checkbox to determine whether or not the panel is visible. This is the code that I originally used, but since I put the controls inside of the FormView, it no longer works.
Protected Sub checkGenEd_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
If checkGenEd.Checked = True Then
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There aren't any errors anymore, but nothing happens when I click the checkbox. I think there needs to be some kind of event to trigger it but I don't know how you can put an event handler inside of an event handler.
I have created a Customized Excel template for Office 2007 using VSTO. currently i am showing this template under my templates. is it possible to show under Installed templates?
like we have in office 2007 Billing Statement, Blood Presser Tracker, Time Card , etc. Is it possibe to show the template which is created by me; under Installed templates?
I have 2 formviews, the first SELECTS the SUM of one of my fields in my tablr and displays the result in a label. The second contains a form that submits data into this table. When i submit a new value into the second form i want the first form to update. My VB currently has:
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I have a VB 20008 Express project which currently uses a DLL. I would rather distribute a single .EXE
I used DLL2lib and converted it to a library, but as I haven't done this before,
How can remove the DLL from my project? The Project menu has an "Add resource" option, but I can't find any way to remove it (it doesn't show up in Project/Properties). Do I simply remove the Imports statements from my code? How do I statically link to the library?
Basically in visual basic 6 I could access word tables in existing templates with the code owordactivedoc.tables(1).select() where owordactivedoc refers to the active word document and tables(1) refers to the first table in the template.Trying the same code in VB 2003 just leads to errors. Secondly how do I access bookmarks or alternatively word variables.Furthermore how do one deploy web.services. For example the current program I am building is for another computer. Simply copying the web service to Inetpubwwwroot dont work because it is not picked up by the Internet Information Services program. I have to create the web service in vb2003 on the other computer change msconfig manually. Copy and paste the existing service vb file in the created folder replacing the empty vb file.
View 3 RepliesI have an application in VB/C# .NET which needs to interact with a third party API, but I would like to interface it out so I can use a mock API for testing purposes.[code]...
View 2 RepliesIn my managed VB.NET code, I am able to write a file out to my desktop. Although, the statically referenced unmanaged code is unable to. I have hunted all over MSDN to find out how I can elevate the security permissions for this library method, but am unableto find anything.I declare the method as...Declare Sub WriteFile Lib "DataLog.dll" (ByVal fileName As String)Although, it throws an exception due to being forbidden from writing to the desktop. Is there an attribute
View 7 RepliesIs there a way to iteratively reference an ASP.NET control based on it's name pattern? Perhaps by a "pointer" or something?What I have are a large set of comboboxes (each with an associated DropDownList and TextBox control). The DropDownList always has an item selected by default, but the use may wish to submit a NULL value. I come up with the following code to handle three cases: NULL, Existing Item, New Item.
'TextBoxControl & DropDownListControl should iteratively reference their
' respective TextBox & DropDownList controls by the actual control name
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The problem is, with so many comboboxes, I could easily end up with hundreds of lines of code. I wish to handle this in a more dynamic way, but I do not know if it is possible to reference controls in this way. Say I wanted to reference all the TextBox Controls and DropDownList Controls, respectively.
I can do string formatting with a given naming pattern to generate a name ID for any of the controls because they are all named with the same pattern. For example by attaching a specific suffix, say "_tb" for TextBox Controls and "_ddl" for DropDownList Controls:
Left(item.SelectedItem.ToString, item.SelectedItem.ToString.Length - 3) + "_tb"
Can this sort of thing be done in VB? Ultimately, my goal is to take the value entered/selected by the user, if any, and send it to a stored procedure on SQL Server for insertion into the database.
I am writing a simple control translation function that reads an XML file containing control names and their localized text. Within the application, each time a form is loaded, it iterates through every control and tests to see if that control is defined in the XML file. If it is, it then sets the control text to whatever localized text is defined in the XML file.
There are some tests and additional requirements (i.e. nested loops) for TabControl and MenuStrip etc., but the control that is giving me the most trouble is the ContextMenuStrip.[code]...
I currently do all development work in VB.NET 2008, winforms; but within 18 months will be switching to WPF (for better or worse). I have had great success using Matthew MacDonald's "Pro NET 2.0 Windows Forms and Custom Controls in VB 2005" book. This is an excellent reference focused entirely on the development of custom controls in windows forms. ( Many of the controls that I use have to have a very specific UI look and feel, so they end up being custom.
I'm looking for pretty much the exact same thing, except focused on WPF. MacDonald has a new book coming out on WPF in general ,but not on custom controls. Books are my preferred reference material, but any good web references.
I was trying to make my program see if facebook.com was running in internet explorer.
I added the following
Private Function isFaceBookOpen() As Boolean
For Each ie As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer In New SHDocVw.ShellWindows()
Dim filename As String = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(ie.FullName).ToLower()
If filename = "iexplore" Then
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And added reference; Microsoft Internet Controls (COM tab) but i also need to add this reference; Microsoft.mshtml (.NET tab)
Problem is that i can't find that reference. BTW, I want the function to be triggered by a timer.
I'm wondering about a feature in Visual Studio. Personally it bugs me when I open a solution someone else has been working on and it's full of Controls with Ids like "label27" "textbox3" etc. One of the first things I do is either rename them or remove them if they are never referenced in code behind (as is usually the case with the labels).
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i am building a tab control (using VS 2010 and 4.0 framework). on Tab 0, this works as expected:
Me.ddUE_B1.SelectedValue = Me.B1.Text <-- changes the combo box selection to what is in the label.
on the other tabs this does not work. when I do a messagebox to show, say, Me.Ea1.Text on Tab 1, nothing is returned.
Is there an issue with referencing controls on tabs that I am missing? In general, I will need to set combo box's value to what is in the database when the form loads.
This code passes a button name ("Button2") and a value (4) to be displayed on it. Can the "UpdateButtonName" procedure be streamlined by replacing the "For Next" and "If Endif" code with something else since the button name is already known? It shouldn't have to check control on the form to see if it is the one I want.
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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In my code I use two classes. One contains the UI form, the other containsa method to write to a file. During coding I found out some behaviourwhich I don't understand. The code below shows (what I believe to be)the relevant part. The file writing part is substituted by a MsgBox for simplicity.I have the following controls in one form:
NumericUpDown
Button
With the following classes and methods:
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'This code usualy works when placed within the forms code, however I am wanting to create a class with several text manipulators. The error says System.windows.Controls is not defined
Imports System.Object
Imports System.Windows.Forms.Form[code].....
I have a user control that I'm adding to a webpage dynamically. The ascx has a couple of controls that I want to have access to at runtime. I can access the ascx itself, but none of the controls on the ascx are available. I have tried adding a simple public variable and also tried adding a public property to the ascx, but I am unable to get access to either of them at design time (compile errors). I added the following to the code-behind of the ascx control:
Public Property areaCode() As String
Get
Return iebEmpPhoneAreacode.Text
End Get
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I've created some dynamic controls on page load and added an event handler to handle the click event of a dynamic link button. Within the sub of the click event handler, I need to reference some other (non-dynamic) controls on the page and change their value. However, I get a null reference exception - object not set to an instance of an object - each time I try to reference a control on the page (in this case label1). What am I doing wrong in creating these dynamic controls or with my event handler?
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
'Get the data to populate the controls
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Currently, when I want to use Microsoft Chart Controls on a website, I need to add the following onto every aspx page where I want to use it:
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Is there any way to move this to the web.config file, so that I don't have to put it on every page ?
I have a really simple user control.Using the Designer I put two TextBoxes on it, nothing else.Here's the entire .vb file for this user control:[code]
View 6 RepliesLets say that I had three TextBox's and they are named TextBox1, TextBox2, and TextBox3, is there a way to do like TextBox And Rand(1,3).Text = Nothing? Something similar to this where you click a button and it will choose at randomly a textbox to clear?I know I could do like Dim Number = Rand(1,3)if Number = 1 Then TextBox1.Text = Nothingend ifif Number = 2 Then TextBox1.Text = Nothingend ifor use else if and such, but I have 12 different textbox's, not three, so, I want to shorten the code, if you could do something like TextBox And Rand(1,12).Text = Nothing that would defenitely be way shorter, can you do anything like that to put together "TextBox" and the number to reference the control? I am not looking to use the full controls list to search for the right control nor to make an array that contains the controls, I just want to reference them without adding extra arrays or searhing for them.
View 2 RepliesE.g. how do I get VB.Net to statically type a local variable to be the static type of the expression on the right had side of the assignment?
View 1 RepliesDoes vb.net allow use of function templates like in C++, so that the function can be generic?
View 3 Repliesi am using vb.net 2008 express edition. I want to create a report using crystal report but there is no crystal report in my vb.net.
View 2 Repliestell me the difference between the different project templates, or examples of when to use each? Or is there a good place I can find explanations? The short descriptions in the statusbar don't really explain well enough for me to clearly understand.
View 2 RepliesIm working on a Winforms application that reads an XML file containing html templates and generates some html to send to another application.Each template will have about 25 values to replace.I thought about using the String.Replace method for this but wanted to get some ideas from the people here.
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