Enter button in TextBox ASP.NET

This article is demonstrating how to wire up an enter key into a textbox. For example you have a search text box where you press enter then it will click go button and at the same page you have another textbox where you want to do another button click when you press the enter which means it’ is not necessary to post the page. This java script is used to capture the key event of enter and execute the LinkButton and ASP.NET button Click Event on the server side. Please add this javascript to your javascript common library or add this to your master page. This piece of code works in Firefox as well


function ButtonKeyPress(evt, thisElementName)
{
    if(evt.which || evt.keyCode)
    {
        if ((evt.which == 13) || (evt.keyCode == 13))
        {
            // alert('post back href: ' +document.getElementById(thisElementName).href);

            if (typeof document.getElementById(thisElementName).href != 'undefined')
            {
                location = document.getElementById(thisElementName).href;
            }
            else
            {
                document.getElementById(thisElementName).click();
            }
            return false;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        return true;
    }
}

And add this to your .NET code behind on the page load

 Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
         If Not Page.IsPostBack Then


            If (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) Then
                Response.Redirect("frmTimeMain.aspx")
            End If

            txtGUID.Attributes.Add("onkeydown", "ButtonKeyPress(event, '" + lnkSubmit.ClientID + "')")
            txtPassword.Attributes.Add("onkeydown", "ButtonKeyPress(event, '" + lnkSubmit.ClientID + "')")
          End If
    End Sub

ASP.NET Calendar selected day on click method

I’ve a case where I have an ASP.NET calendar that has a page load method that automatically select a date when it’s loaded. I also have an event defined for Selected_Changed which will be triggered only when the user select any other date other than pre-selected date on the load

Private Sub ctlCalendar_SelectionChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ctlCalendar.SelectionChanged
        If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(CalendarPreviousPage)) Then
            BaseCalendar.SelectedDate = ctlCalendar.SelectedDate
            Response.Redirect(CalendarPreviousPage)
        End If
    End Sub

But how do I wire up an event or when the selecteddate being clicked?You can use DayRender event and attach it to a javascript in this case I want to go back to previous page. BaseCalendar.Selected date can be any date where you want to set up/wire up the logic

 Private Sub ctlCalendar_DayRender(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DayRenderEventArgs) Handles ctlCalendar.DayRender
        Dim d As CalendarDay
        Dim c As TableCell
        d = e.Day
        c = e.Cell

        If (BaseCalendar.SelectedDate.Value = d.Date) Then
            c.Attributes.Add("OnClick", "history.go(-1)")
        End If

    End Sub

FormsAuthentication.GetRedirectUrl only get the first parameter of querystring

I found the issue with FormsAuthentication.GetRedirectUrl when it redirects then it redirects with the first querystring that you have while in fact you might have more than one querystring

e.g http://localhost/myweb/login.aspx?returnurl=myview.aspx?viewID=123&viewname=abc&viewall=false then the standard FormsAuthentication will redirect to http://localhost/myweb/myview.aspx?viewID=123

but where’s the remaining viewname querystring and viewall querystring??to fix this, just use the code below to pick the remaining querystring

Methods:

  'this is used to fix the issue with FormsAuthentication.GetRedirectUrl only pick the first query string
            'get the original Redirect URL
            Dim redirectUrl As StringBuilder = New StringBuilder(FormsAuthentication.GetRedirectUrl(" ", True))
            Dim coll As NameValueCollection = objRequest.QueryString

            'iterate through every key in query string
            'add the missing query string
            For Each key As String In coll.AllKeys
                If (String.Compare(key, "returnurl", True)  0) Then
                    Dim values As String() = coll.GetValues(key)

                    If (values.Length > 0) Then
                        Dim pair As String = String.Format("{0}={1}", key, values(0))

                        If (redirectUrl.ToString().IndexOf(pair) < 0) Then
                            redirectUrl.Append("&" + pair)
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
            Next

            'this is to retain the original URL as in the query string
            objResponse.Redirect(redirectUrl.ToString())

Resolve URL functions

This snippet code is credited to Scott’s Hanselman, This Resolve URL function is used where you want to implement it on your business layer.

Methods:


        #region "Image URL helpers"

        public static string ResolveUrl(string originalUrl)
        {
            if (originalUrl == null)
                return null;
            // *** Absolute path - just return
            if (originalUrl.IndexOf("://") != -1)
                return originalUrl;
            // *** Fix up image path for ~ root app dir directory
            if (originalUrl.StartsWith("~"))
            {
                string newUrl = "";
                if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current != null)
                    newUrl = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.ApplicationPath + originalUrl.Substring(1).Replace("//", "/");
                else  // *** Not context: assume current directory is the base directory
                    throw new ArgumentException("Invalid URL: Relative URL not allowed.");
                // *** Just to be sure fix up any double slashes
                return newUrl;
            }
            return originalUrl;
        }

        /// Works like Control.ResolveUrl including support for ~ syntax
        /// but returns an absolute URL.
        /// 
        /// Any Url, either App relative or fully qualified
        /// if true forces the url to use https
        /// 
        public static string ResolveServerUrl(string serverUrl, bool forceHttps)
        {    // *** Is it already an absolute Url?
            if (serverUrl.IndexOf("://") > -1)
                return serverUrl;
            // *** Start by fixing up the Url an Application relative Url
            string newUrl = ResolveUrl(serverUrl);
            Uri originalUri = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url;
            newUrl = (forceHttps ? "https" : originalUri.Scheme) + "://" + originalUri.Authority + newUrl;
            return newUrl;
        }

        /// 
        /// This method returns a fully qualified absolute server Url which includes
        /// the protocol, server, port in addition to the server relative Url.
        ///
        /// It work like Page.ResolveUrl, but adds these to the beginning.
        /// This method is useful for generating Urls for AJAX methods
        /// 
        /// Any Url, either App relative or fully qualified
        /// 
        public static string ResolveServerUrl(string serverUrl)
        {
            return ResolveServerUrl(serverUrl, false);
        }

        #endregion

Usage:

 sb.AppendFormat("

", row.WidgetItemClass); sb.AppendFormat("More Info", ProductsService.GetProductUrl(row.ProductID), ResolveServerUrl("~/GetWhiteLabelFile.aspx?whiteLabelFileID=" + row.WidgetItemLinkImageID.ToString())); sb.AppendFormat("

");

Convert DataTable to CSV Function

This is the class that you can use to create a CSV file from DataTable. Basically what it does is to iterate each column and row in datatable and separate them with comma.

Class/Function:

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;

namespace BusinessLayer
{
    public class CSVBuilder
    {
        public static string BuildCSVDocument(DataTable table)
        {
            StringBuilder   builder = new StringBuilder();
            DataColumn      col;

            // append header
            for (int index = 0; index < table.Columns.Count; index++)
            {
                col = table.Columns[index];
                builder.AppendFormat("{0},", col.ColumnName);
            }

            builder.AppendLine();

            // append rows
            foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
            {
                object[] values = row.ItemArray;

                for (int index = 0; index < values.Length; index++)
                {
                    object value = row[index];
                    string valueString;

                    if (value is DateTime)
                    {
                        valueString = Convert.ToDateTime(value).ToString("dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm");
                    }
                    else if (value is string)
                    {
                        valueString = value.ToString().Replace("'", "`").Replace(",", "");
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        valueString = value.ToString();
                    }

                    builder.AppendFormat("{0},", valueString);
                }

                builder.AppendLine();
            }

            return builder.ToString();
        }

        public static void StreamCSV(DataTable table, HttpResponse response, string fileName)
        {
            // convert the extract to CSV
            string csv = BuildCSVDocument(table);

            // Send it to browser
            response.ClearContent();
            response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + fileName);
            response.ContentType = "text/csv";

            // Write to the stream
            StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(response.OutputStream);
            sw.Write(csv);
            sw.Close();

            response.Flush();
            response.Close();
        }
    }
}

Usage

 private void GenerateMyCsv()
    {
        lblErrorOrderID.Visible = false;

        try
        {
            tdsReports.MissingBatchNumberSelectDataTable dtBatch =
                ReportFactory.GetMissingBatch(txtOrderID.Text);

            //display no results returned message
            if (dtBatch.Rows.Count != 0)
            {
               CSVBuilder.StreamCSV(dtBatch , Response, "MyCSV.csv");
            }

        }
        catch (ApplicationException ex)
        {
            lblErrorOrderID.Text = ex.Message;
            lblErrorOrderID.Visible = true;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            lblErrorOrderID.Text = ex.Message;
            lblErrorOrderID.Visible = true;
        }
    }

Using Transaction Scope on .NET

Basic Requirements:

1. Have the MSDTC(Distributed Transaction Coordinator) windows service running on your machine
2. Be talking to a SQL 2000 or 2005 Database configured likewise
3. Run this registry script to fix the windows XP SP2 that was causing MSDTC to fail (save as “.reg”)

Registry Script

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\RPC]
"RestrictRemoteClients"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Rpc\Internet]
"Ports"=hex(7):31,00,30,00,32,00,35,00,2d,00,31,00,30,00,35,00,35,00,00,00,00,\
  00
"PortsInternetAvailable"="Y"
"UseInternetPorts"="Y"

You can create a class/library to wrap the transaction code
Code:

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Transactions;

namespace BusinessLayer
{
    public class TransactionScopeWrapper : IDisposable
    {
        private TransactionScope _scope = null;

        public TransactionScopeWrapper()
        {
            if (ConfigHelper.UseTransactionScope)
            {
                int timeout = ConfigHelper.TransactionTimeoutMinutes;

                if (timeout == int.MinValue)
                {
                    timeout = 10;
                }

                _scope = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required, new TimeSpan(0, timeout, 0));
            }
        }

        public void Complete()
        {
            if (_scope != null)
            {
                _scope.Complete();
            }
        }

        #region IDisposable Members

        public void Dispose()
        {
            if (_scope != null)
            {
                _scope.Dispose();
            }
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

Usage of the wrapper:

public void CancelAuction(int auctionid)
        {
            using (TransactionScopeWrapper scope = new TransactionScopeWrapper())
            {
                tdsAuction.AuctionDataTable auctionTable = AuctionAdapter.AuctionSelect(auctionid);

                if (auctionTable.Rows.Count > 0)
                {
                    tdsAuction.AuctionRow auctionRow = auctionTable.Rows[0] as tdsAuction.AuctionRow;

                    auctionRow.AuctionStatusID = (int)AuctionStatusEnum.Cancelled;
                    AuctionAdapter.Update(auctionRow);

                    // return the Stock to inventory
                    if (auctionRow.IsAuction)
                    {
                        InventoryData.InventoryReturnLotsCancelAuction(auctionid);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        InventoryData.InventoryReturnLotsForDeal(auctionid);
                    }
                }

                scope.Complete();
            }
        }

the server committed a protocol violation section= responsestatusline

I’ve got this error and try to spend almost an hour to resolve this:

“the server committed a protocol violation section= responsestatusline” when I tried to get the response back from the payment gateway. It happens when you send HTTP Request one after another on the same page. The solution is to add unsafeheaderparsing to true in web.config and to seet keepAlive property to false from the http request it self

Web.Config


		
			
		
		
			
		
    
      
        
      
    
  

Calling Code:

   Private Function SendXML(ByVal strSend As String) As Boolean
        Dim blnSuccess As Boolean = False
        Dim objSendXML As XmlDocument
        Dim objRequest As HttpWebRequest
        Dim mywriter As StreamWriter
        Dim objResponse As HttpWebResponse
        Dim objReturnedXML As XmlDataDocument
        Dim objElementRoot As XmlElement
        Dim objElementTransaction As XmlNode
        Dim objElementCreditCardInfo As XmlNode
        Dim x As XmlNode

        Dim strApproved As String = String.Empty
        Dim blnCreditCardInfo As Boolean = False

        ' Must reset the variable incase of error
        Me._Paid = False

        objSendXML = New XmlDocument
        objRequest = WebRequest.Create(strPaymentURL)


        'if it is using proxy/behind proxy
        If (UseProxy And Not (String.IsNullOrEmpty(ProxyServer))) Then
            objRequest.Proxy = New System.Net.WebProxy(ProxyServer, True)

            'if there is credential
            If (UseDefaultCredential) Then
                objRequest.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
            Else
                objRequest.Proxy.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(UserName, Password)
            End If

        End If

        objRequest.Method = "POST"
        objRequest.ContentLength = strSend.Length
        objRequest.ContentType = "text/xml"

        'to solve protocol violation problem
        objRequest.KeepAlive = False

Invalid postback or call argument

It’s quite often I have this error because of the content has been changed during postback or because of the control id. I’ve read most of the article suggested to disable the event validation by putting this on the page which is loosen up the security of that particular page. I found the other method without need to change the EnableEventValidation to false. What i found is that you can reregister your control on the render method
VB.NET

Protected Overrides Sub Render(ByVal writer As HtmlTextWriter)

Register(Me)
MyBase.Render(writer) End Sub

Private Sub Register(ByVal ctrl As Control)
For Each c As Control In ctrl.Controls

Register(c)

Next

Page.ClientScript.RegisterForEventValidation(ctrl.UniqueID)

End Sub

C#

protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)

{
Register(this);base.Render(writer);

}
private void Register(Control ctrl)

{
foreach (Control c in ctrl.Controls)

Register(c);

Page.ClientScript.RegisterForEventValidation(ctrl.UniqueID);

}

Create hyperlink column in gridview or datagrid

Sometimes when you display the data on the datagrid or gridview , you want to create some link. let’s say when you displaying your user detail data in the grid. you want the user to be able to click the link in email column that automatically open microsoft outlook for you. You also would like to avoid writing some string replacement or creating a function in rowbound event. This is the easiest way to do it. Edit the column and add this into DataFormatString

{0:G}

this can be used to pass some variable from the fields(query string) to some address.