March 4th, 2010
Need to validate a form field based on the value of another field in ASP.Net? The .Net Framework provides a javascript function to do just that:
ValidatorEnable(val, enable)
This function takes the validator control (val) and a boolean to determine whether it should be enable or disabled. The problem with this function is that it triggers the validator to validate itself immediately, showing any validation error messages before the user has submitted the form, which may not always be want you want. The alternative is to set the validator’s enabled property to trigger this validator to validate itself when the user submits the form, and by using the Page_IsValid variable you can test whether the user has triggered a validation or not, then use ValidatorEnable function only after the validation has occurred when the user expects to see validation messages. Read the rest of this entry »
January 11th, 2010
I’m currently studying for the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0—Application Development Foundation (70-536) exam, using the Microsoft Press Training Kit and I am appalled at the number of errors, both editorial and technical, in this book. There are whole paragraphs that have been taken out of one chapter and used as a place holder in another chapter then never changed, at one stage I was very confused when the book was talking about two different classes that seemed to do the same thing, only to find that they were the same class, it’s name had just be written wrong in places, arrggg. Read the rest of this entry »
November 25th, 2009
Need to generate a pdf programmatically in dot net? You could purchase an HTML to PDF converter and worry about getting the page to format nicely for paper, or you could use the freely available ReportViewer control from Microsoft.
Microsoft offers SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with SQL Server 2005 and later editions to generate and publish reports using the Report Definition Language (RDL), as an alternative to Crystal Reports. SSRS requires a Report Server to publish reports to so they can be useful, however they also offer a ASP.Net or Windows Forms component called the ReportViewer which we can use in our code without the need for any SQL database to generate reports, and these reports can be saved as Excel files, PDF’s or images. Read the rest of this entry »
