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Create Programmatically GridView Paging Style

Today, I am here to share with you a very useful technique of gridview paging style programmatically using vb.net shown below:

Protected Sub GridView1_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)

If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.Pager Then
Dim tRow As TableRow = TryCast(e.Row.Controls(0).Controls(0).Controls(0), TableRow)
For Each tCell As TableCell In tRow.Cells
Dim ctrl As Control = tCell.Controls(0)
If TypeOf ctrl Is LinkButton Then
Dim lb As LinkButton = CType(ctrl, LinkButton)
lb.Width = Unit.Pixel(15)
lb.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.DarkGray
lb.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.White
lb.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.style.backgroundColor='#4f6b72';")
lb.Attributes.Add("onmouseout", "this.style.backgroundColor='darkgray';")
End If
Next tCell
End If

End Sub

Checking out jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008 with SP1

Assuming you have installed the hotfix , downloaded the jQuery library and the jQuery VS 2008 IntelliSense documentation, follow these steps to move ahead.

Open Visual Studio 2008 > File > New > Website > Choose ‘ASP.NET 3.5 website’ from the templates > Choose your language (C# or VB) > Enter the location > Ok. In the Solution Explorer, right click your project > New Folder > rename the folder as ‘Scripts’.

Right click the Scripts folder > Add Existing Item > Browse to the path where you downloaded the jQuery library (jquery-1.2.6.js) and the intellisense documentation (jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js) > Select the files and click Add. The structure will look similar to the following:

Now drag and drop the jquery-1.2.6.js file from the Solution Explorer on to your page to create a reference as shown below:








Since you have applied the hotfix, you do not have to manually add a reference to the jquery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js file in your page. Once the reference to the runtime library has been added, Visual Studio automatically searches for the ‘vsdoc’ file and loads it. You just need to keep both the runtime library and the documentation file next to each other.

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Export GridView with Images to Word, Excel and PDF Formats

Export to Word Format

Private Sub Word_Export()

Response.Clear()
Response.Buffer = True
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.doc")

Response.Charset = ""
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-word "

Dim sw As New StringWriter()
Dim hw As New HtmlTextWriter(sw)

GridView1.AllowPaging = False
GridView1.DataBind()
GridView1.RenderControl(hw)

Response.Output.Write(sw.ToString())
Response.Flush()
Response.End()

End Sub


Export to Excel Format

Private Sub Excel_Export()

Response.Clear()
Response.Buffer = True
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=GridViewExport.xls")

Response.Charset = ""
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel"

Dim sw As New StringWriter()
Dim hw As New HtmlTextWriter(sw)

GridView1.AllowPaging = False
GridView1.DataBind()

For i As Integer = 0 To GridView1.Rows.Count - 1
Dim row As GridViewRow = GridView1.Rows(i)
'Apply text style to each Row
row.Attributes.Add("class", "textmode")
Next

GridView1.RenderControl(hw)

'style to format numbers to string

Dim style As String = ""

Response.Write(style)
Response.Output.Write(sw.ToString())
Response.Flush()
Response.End()

End Sub

Export to PDF Format

Private Sub PDF_Export()

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition","attachment;filename=GridViewExport.pdf")
Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache)

Dim sw As New StringWriter()
Dim hw As New HtmlTextWriter(sw)

GridView1.AllowPaging = False
GridView1.DataBind()
GridView1.RenderControl(hw)

Dim sr As New StringReader(sw.ToString())
Dim pdfDoc As New Document(PageSize.A4, 10.0F, 10.0F, 10.0F, 0.0F)
Dim htmlparser As New HTMLWorker(pdfDoc)

PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, Response.OutputStream)

pdfDoc.Open()
htmlparser.Parse(sr)
pdfDoc.Close()
Response.Write(pdfDoc)
Response.End()

End Sub

How to Catch Unhandled Exceptions in ASP.NET Using Global.asax

Most of the time asp.net developers faces some exceptions in their applications / websites which came in some exceptional and rare cases. To handle them, we will do something new by using global.asax

Also add a new class file under the App_Code folder. In my case, my file name is Myglobal.vb, inherit this class file to HttpApplication.

Now, open the file and select the page event Error in MyGlobal.vb class file and write your code to handle the exception whether you want to log the error or redirect to the customized error page or whatever do you want, it is upto you.

Now add a global.asax file into your project, make sure the Application_OnError event should be written in global.asax file.

Open the file and add a page directive into global.asax like this i.e.

<%@ Application Language="VB" Inherits="MyGlobal" %>

MyGlobal is the name of my class file which i added into App_Code folder earlier.

Test your code.

AJAX rating control using in Gridview

While browsing for answers through various ASP.NET blogs and forums, I often come across certain topics which repeat in one way or another.

This article is an exercise which answers some common GridView questions. In particular, here I am dealing with:

1. MS Access database connectivity.
2. MS AjaxControlToolkit's Rating extender, which is put on every row allowing the user to rate each row in real time. In other words, as soon as the user rates the row (chooses the number of stars), an asynchronous (AJAX) call to the server is made and the database is updated.
3. Data bound dropdownlists in each GridView row. Each row has a supplier, which is displayed in a dropdown list in order to facilitate record modification.
4. JavaScript client-side row manipulation. In particular, on checkbox click, the Product textbox is locked/unlocked.

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Sorting gridview bound with datatable

Protected Sub gvSorting(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewSortEventArgs)

dtData = CType(Session("Data"), DataTable)
Dim dv As DataView = dtData.DefaultView
Dim sortdirection As String


If ViewState("direction") <> "" Then
sortdirection = ViewState("direction")
If sortdirection = "asc" Then
sortdirection = "desc"
Else
sortdirection = "asc"
End If
Else
sortdirection = "asc"
End If

dv.Sort = e.SortExpression + " " + sortdirection
dtData = dv.ToTable
ViewState("direction") = sd

gvwList.DataSource = dtData
gvwList.DataBind()

End Sub

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ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Dynamic Data Road Map

ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview 4 Refresh

Refreshed 6/26

• DomainDataSource had errors updating foreign keys
• Cannot edit many to many relationship with table per type inheritance
• Better exception handling

The ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh is a new release of Dynamic Data based on some of the early bits we are working on for the next release of the framework. This preview release runs on .NET 3.5 SP1 / VS 2008 SP1. The final version will ship with .NET 4.0 and VS 2010.

This preview shows some of the areas in which we are expanding Dynamic Data:

• A new QueryExtender control, contained in the sample projects to simplify common data filtering operations. It supports a rich ASP.NET declarative query syntax that makes it easy to do things like search data for text or have filters based on ranges.
• A new Dynamic Data filter model that enables the developers to apply templates to pages just like field templates (including user defined filters).
• Support for inheritance in Entity Framework and Linq to SQL.
• Support for many to many relationships in Entity Framework.
• New Entity Templates which allow fine control over how an object is displayed and edited.
• Attributes for controlling the filters appearance and order.
• A DomainDataSource control that uses a data provider model which enables the developers to build their own custom business logic.
• A datasource control for ADO.NET Data Services that works with ASP.NET and an ADO.NET Data Service Provider for Dynamic Data.
• Starter templates for building new applications with the bits for DomainService, Entity Framework and Linq to SQL.
• Simple Dynamic Data for adding field templates, validation, and entity template support to existing ASP.NET data driven pages.

Download: ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh

This also contains the Dynamic Data Futures project which contains some things we the team is considering for future releases of Dynamic Data.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC Preview contains a preview release of Dynamic Data MVC. This contains samples of how Dynamic Data support may be added to future releases of MVC.