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Update Bubble Count For Filtered Lists - jQuery Mobile

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:09:00 GMT

When using the Filtered List search (http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/lists/lists-search.html) and the Bubble Count (http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/lists/lists-count.html) in the jQuery Mobile interface the bubble count number doesn't auto-populate/auto-update. This is something you need to add yourself. It would seem to me that this should be simple enough to do myself and with a little event binding this can all be fixed.

The following code assumes that your <ul> has an id of "orderedList", each header <li> tag has a class name of "headerBar" and each <li> including the header have an attribute called groupname that has the value of the grouping assigned to it.

The code binds the keyup event to the search input textbox and the click event on the clear button. When those events fire the populateBubble function executes which dumps the count of the visible items into the bubble tag.

Example.zip

<div data-role="page">
    <div data-role="header" data-position="fixed" data-theme="d">
        <h1>Header Bar</h1>
    </div>
    <div data-role="content" style="height:100%">
    <ul id="orderedList" data-role="listview" data-filter="true" data-filter-placeholder="Search Workorders...">
        <li groupname='group1' data-role="list-divider" class='headerBar'>12/8/2011<span class="ui-li-count"></span></li>
            <li groupname="group1">123 - Phrase</li>
            <li groupname="group1">124 - Test</li>
            <li groupname="group1">125 - Hello</li>
            <li groupname="group1">126 - World</li>
            <li groupname="group1">127 - Phone</li>
            <li groupname="group1">128 - Tent</li>
        <li groupname='group2' data-role="list-divider" class='headerBar'>12/9/2011<span class="ui-li-count"></span></li>
            <li groupname="group2">133 - Phrase</li>
            <li groupname="group2">134 - Test</li>
            <li groupname="group2">135 - Hello</li>
            <li groupname="group2">136 - Work order 1</li>
            <li groupname="group2">137 - Phrase</li>
            <li groupname="group2">138 - Phone</li>
        <li groupname='group3' data-role="list-divider" class='headerBar'>12/10/2011<span class="ui-li-count"></span></li>
            <li groupname="group3">143 - Phone</li>
            <li groupname="group3">144 - Test</li>
            <li groupname="group3">145 - Test</li>
            <li groupname="group3">146 - World</li>
            <li groupname="group3">147 - World</li>
            <li groupname="group3">148 - Work order</li>
    </ul>
    </div>

    <div data-role="footer" data-position="fixed" data-theme="d">
        <h4 id="footer">Footer Bar</h4>
    </div>
</div>

jQuery Mobile Search Filter Bar - Programmatically Search

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:13:00 GMT

I ran across another issue when trying to filter a list using jQuery Mobile's Filtered List (http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/docs/lists/lists-search.html) The functionality itself is really nice, jQuery framework does all the heavy lifting for you. All you need to do is create a <UL> or <OL> and add the attributes data-role="listview" data-filter="true" to the tag and your off. The problem I encountered, I wanted to programmatically execute the filter. On my page I had a number of re-populated search terms that I wanted to provide the users. Clicking on the button would pop the search string into the search input box. The problem was, adding the search string to the box wasn't enough. It required some event to trigger in order to filter the list down. After digging around and trial and error I found that a simple keyup event in the search box worked.

<div id="topButton">
   <a rel="external" href='#' data-role="button">Search Phrase 1</a>
   <a rel="external" href='#' data-role="button">Search Phrase 2</a>
   <a rel="external" href='#' data-role="button">Search Phrase 3</a>
</div>

<ul data-role="listview" data-filter="true" data-filter-placeholder="Search Workorders...">
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 3 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 2 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 3 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 2 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 2 Test</li>
   <li>Search Phase 1 Test</li>
</ul>

jQuery Mobile

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:41:00 GMT

I am starting to get my feet wet with jQuery Mobile and find the lack of documentation frustrating. I will be patient as I know that this is a new framework. But to help anyone running up against my frustration I will start posting issues and solutions that I have come accross.

Scenario: You have a page that has button on it that opens an external page dialog.

<a href="somepage.html" data-rel="dialog" data-role="button" data-icon="info" data-iconpos="notext">Open Dialog</a>

On the somepage.html you want to run some jquery code when the document loads.

$(function () {
$("#myTable tr:nth-child(even)").addClass("even");
});

The problem is, if you put the following javascript in the <head></head> tag the javascript will not execute. I tried adding it to the head of the referring page, looked into the pageshow event, no dice. What you need to do is add the javascript and style declarations that you want to use on the dialog page inside of the element that has the data-role attribute defined.

</div>

SharePoint System Dialogs and Customized MasterPages

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:23:00 GMT

Anyone who has tried to brand and customize SharePoint know what kind of madness and headaches that go along with it. Just when you think that your masterpage looks good you click into a deep dark subpage that makes your layout look hideous. Although things were made easier in 2010, for some reason I could never get the modal dialog pages look quite right. I finally determined that I wanted to just have those look OTB. I still wanted the system pages to have the branding, i just wanted to remove my branding from the dialogs. so with a little jaavscript/jquery calls, viola. First off you need to have set your branded system master page up with the proper class="s4-notdlg". This will allow sharepoint to hide headers, footers, quicklaunch, etc. But this doesn't remove the margins, paddings, and special layouts that may throw off the dialog layout. Mine, for instance, looked like this...

New Announcement

or even worse

New Page

So to the head area of your system masterpage add the following...

<SharePoint:ScriptLink name="~sitecollection/Style Library/MyBrand/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" runat="server"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery(document).ready(function() {
            if(jQuery('link[href*=dlg]').length > 0){
                jQuery('link[href*=MyBrand]').remove();
            }
        });
</script>

What this does is look for the css reference to the /_layouts/styles/dlgframe.css stylesheet. If it is found it then removes all style sheets in the MyBrand directory referenced, which are all the custom css written for the SharePoint site. The result is...

Hope this helps. I really wish they had a seperate masterpage for dialogs as well.

Simple jQuery Content Rotator

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:37:42 GMT

jQuery to the rescue, again, to make my javascript coding life easy. What I needed was a simple text rotator. I went looking for some good examples of jQuery rotators and found a ton of great examples. Who knew it would be this easy?

JAVASCRIPT

$(document).ready(function() {

    contentRotator($("ul#banner > li:first"));

});

var doAnimate = true;

function contentRotator(content) {

    if (doAnimate) {

        content.fadeOut("fast", function(content) {

            return function() {

                /* HIDE ALL ITEMS */

                $("ul#banner > li").hide();

                content.fadeIn(2500, function() {

                    /* GO BACK TO FIRST ITEM */

                    if ($(this).attr("id") == $("ul#banner > li:last").attr("id")) {

                        setTimeout(function() {

                            contentRotator($("ul#banner > li:first"));

                        }, 5000);

                    else { /* FADE IN NEXT ITEM  */

                        setTimeout(function() {

                        contentRotator($(content.next()));

                        }, 5000);

});

};

        } (content));

CSS

.bannertext {

    font: 48px "Century Gothic", Helvetica, Arial, san-serif;

    color: #ffffff;

    line-height: 48px;

    text-transform: uppercase;

    position: absolute;

#banner{

    list-style-image: none;

    list-style-type: none;

#banner li{

    display: none;

HTML

<div id="homebanner">

    <ul id="banner">

        <li id="statementOne"><strong>Vision</strong> For The Future</li>

        <li id="statementTwo"><strong>Safety</strong></li>

        <li id="statementThree">A <strong>Great</strong> Place To Work</li>

    </ul>

</div>

Output

Credit to http://www.clecompte.com/building-simple-jquery-rotating-carousel/ for lending me the ideas to start.

Technorati Tags: jQuery,ASP.Net

Add Label To jQuery Slider Handle

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:06:00 GMT

While in process of using the jQuery UI Slider in creating an alpha slider for a rolodex interface I came across some desired UI enhancements. Instead of having a slider that was plain i want to add the current value of the slider to interface. A quick simple line to the slider function gave me my desired appearance.

$("#slider-vertical").slider({

    orientation: "vertical",

    animate: true,

    range: "min",

    min: -90,

    max: -64,

    value: -64,

    step: 1,

    slide: function(event, ui) {

        if (ui.value == -64) {

            $(".ui-slider-handle,a").css("text-decoration", "none").css("text-align", "center").text("*");

            sliderCharacter = '';

        } else {

            sliderCharacter = String.fromCharCode(ui.value * -1);

            $(".ui-slider-handle,a").css("text-decoration", "none").css("text-align", "center").text(sliderCharacter);

},

    stop: function(event, ui) {

        //CALL AJAX TO RETRIEVE LIST

        slideAction(sliderCharacter);

});

BEFORE

AFTER

XML Document to XSD To Strong Typed Class

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:06:35 GMT

Convert XML to XSD to Class

From a command prompt run the following statements to convert first to an XSD then to a CS file.

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin>xsd c:\myXML.xml /out:c:\

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin>xsd c:\myXML.xsd /out:c:\ /classes /language:CS

Then move the XML and XSD to your web application’s APP_Data for safe keeping and move the cs file to App_Code folder. Then load and read the XML data.

XML

        1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

       2: <links>

       3:     <link title="Yahoo" url="www.yahoo.com" />

       4:     <link title="Google" url="www.google.com" />

       5:     <link title="Bing" url="www.bing.com" />

       6:     <link title="Asp.Net" url="www.asp.net" />

       7:     <link title="MSN" url="www.msn.com" />

       8: </links>

CODE

       1: System.IO.StreamReader str = new System.IO.StreamReader(document); 

       2: System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xSerializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(links));

       3: links links = (links)xSerializer.Deserialize(str);

       4: foreach (linksLink l in links.Items)

       5: {

       6:     litXMLReader.Text += l.title + " : " + l.url + "<br />";

       7: }

       8: str.Close();

       9:  

      10: litXMLReader.Text += "";

Great Article On Cascading DropDown List and jQuery

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:53:00 GMT

Not to poach a blog post/article you need to go to www.mikesdotnetting.com and read his great article on Cascading DropDownLists with jQuery and ASP.NET.

http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/97/Cascading-DropDownLists-with-jQuery-and-ASP.NET

After I read this article I decided to recreate it and build in some features of my own. The feature I wanted most was a way to preserve the values on post back so that I didn't have to reload the list. Also I wanted to be able to select the car (radio button) and then post that as well. The approach I took was using hidden variables (<asp:HiddenField />) that got updated as the dropdown list got changed and edited. Then on postback reload the lists based off of the values. If anyone has suggestions to better ways to accomplish the same thing I am listening. Here is the resulting code.

       1: <asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" runat="Server">

       2:     <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src='<%=ResolveClientUrl("~/") %>resources/scripts/jquery.selectboxes.min.js' ></script>   1:     2:     <script type="text/javascript">   3:         $(function() {   4:             $('#<%= this.ddlMake.ClientID %>').change(function() {   5:                 $("#<%= this.hidModel.ClientID %>").val('');   6:                 $("#<%= this.hidColor.ClientID %>").val('');   7:                 $("#<%= this.hidSelect.ClientID %>").val('');   8:                 $('#output').empty();   9:                 getModels();  10:             });  11:             $('#<%= this.ddlModel.ClientID %>').change(function() {  12:                 $("#<%= this.hidModel.ClientID %>").val($(this).val());  13:                 $("#<%= this.hidColor.ClientID %>").val('');  14:                 $("#<%= this.hidSelect.ClientID %>").val('');  15:                 $('#output').empty();  16:                 getColors();  17:             });  18:             $('#<%= this.ddlColor.ClientID %>').change(function() {  19:                 $("#<%= this.hidColor.ClientID %>").val($(this).val());  20:                 $("#<%= this.hidSelect.ClientID %>").val('');  21:                 $('#output').empty();  22:                 getCarListByColor();  23:             });  24:    25:             $('#<%= this.ddlModel.ClientID %>').attr('disabled', true);  26:             $('#<%= this.ddlColor.ClientID %>').attr('disabled', true);  27:    28:             if ($('#<%= this.ddlMake.ClientID %>').val() != '') {  29:                 getModels();  30:             }  31:    32:             $(".carSelect").live("click", function() {  33:                 $("#<%= this.hidSelect.ClientID %>").val($(this).val());  34:             });  35:         });  36:    37:         function getModels() {  38:              $.ajax({  39:                 type: "POST",  40:                 url: "WebServices/CarService.asmx/GetCarsByModel",  41:                 data: "{make: '" + $('#<%= this.ddlMake.ClientID %>').val() + "'}",  42:                 contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",  43:                 dataType: "json",  44:                 success: function(response) {  45:                     var models = (typeof response.d) == 'string' ? eval('(' + response.d + ')') : response.d;  46:                     $('#<%= this.ddlModel.ClientID %>').attr('disabled', false).removeOption(/./).addOption('', ' -- Select Model -- ');  47:                     $('#<%= this.ddlColor.ClientID %>').attr('disabled', true).removeOption(/./);  48:                     for (var i = 0; i < models.length; i++) {  49:                         var val = models[i];  50:                         var text = models[i];  51:                         $('#<%= this.ddlModel.ClientID %>').addOption(val, text, (val == $("#<%= this.hidModel.ClientID %>").val()) ? true : false);  52:                     }  53:                     if ($('#<%= this.ddlModel.ClientID %>').val() != '')  54:                     {   55:                         getColors();  56:                     }  57:                 }  58:             });  59:         }  60:    61:         function getColors() {  62:             $.ajax({  63:                 type: "POST",  64:                 url: "WebServices/CarService.asmx/GetCarsByColor",  65:                 data: "{make: '" + $('#<%= this.ddlMake.ClientID %>').val() + "', model: '" + $('#<%= this.hidModel.ClientID %>').val() + "'}",  66:                 contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",  67:                 dataType: "json",  68:                 success: function(response) {  69:                     var Colors = (typeof response.d) == 'string' ? eval('(' + response.d + ')') : response.d;  70:                     $('#<%= this.ddlColor.ClientID %>').attr('disabled', false).removeOption(/./).addOption('', ' -- Select Color -- ');  71:                     for (var i = 0; i < Colors.length; i++) {  72:                         var val = Colors[i];  73:                         var text = Colors[i];  74:                         $('#<%= this.ddlColor.ClientID %>').addOption(val, text, (val == $("#<%= this.hidColor.ClientID %>").val()) ? true : false);  75:                     }  76:                     if ($('#<%= this.ddlColor.ClientID %>').val() != '') {  77:                         getCarListByColor();  78:                     }  79:                 }  80:             });  81:         }  82:    83:         function getCarListByColor() {  84:             $.ajax({  85:                 type: "POST",  86:                 url: "WebServices/CarService.asmx/GetCarListByColor",  87:                 data: "{make: '" + $('#<%= this.ddlMake.ClientID %>').val() + "', " + "model: '" + $('#<%= this.hidModel.ClientID %>').val() + "', " + "color: '" + $('#<%= this.hidColor.ClientID %>').val() + "'}",  88:                 contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",  89:                 dataType: "json",  90:                 success: function(response) {  91:                     var cars = (typeof response.d) == 'string' ? eval('(' + response.d + ')') : response.d;  92:                     $('#output').empty();  93:                     for (var i = 0; i < cars.length; i++) {  94:                         var checked = ($('#<%= this.hidSelect.ClientID %>').val() == cars[i].ID) ? 'checked' : '';  95:                         $('#output').append('<p><input class="carSelect" ' + checked + ' type="radio" name="car" value="' + cars[i].ID + '" /><strong>' + cars[i].Make + ' ' +  96:                               cars[i].Model + '</strong><br /> Year: ' +  97:                               cars[i].Year + '<br />Doors: ' +  98:                               cars[i].Doors + '<br />Color: ' +  99:                               cars[i].Color + '<br />Mileage: ' + 100:                               cars[i].Mileage + '<br />Price: $' + 101:                               cars[i].Price + '</p>'); 102:                     } 103:                 } 104:             }); 105:         } 106:     </script>

       3:  

       4: </asp:Content>

       5: <asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="Server">

       6:     <div>

       7:         <div>

       8:             <p>

       9:                 <label>

                    Please choose a Make:</label><br />

                <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlMake" runat="server" />

            </p>

        </div>

        <div>

            <p>

                <label>

                    Please choose a Model:</label><br />

                <select ID="ddlModel" runat="server" />

            </p>

        </div>

        <div>

            <p>

                <label>

                    Please choose a Color:</label><br />

                <select ID="ddlColor" runat="server" />

            </p>

        </div>

        <div>

            <asp:Button ID="btnSubmit" runat="server" Text="Submit" 

                onclick="btnSubmit_Click" />

        </div>

        <div id="output">

        </div>

    </div>

    <asp:Label runat="server" ID="lblResults" />

    <asp:HiddenField runat="server" ID="hidModel" />

    <asp:HiddenField runat="server" ID="hidSelect" />

    <asp:HiddenField runat="server" ID="hidColor" />

</asp:Content>

In order to capture the car selected on postback I added an ID to each car. I needed to adjust the car object by adding an ID field. Here is the resulting code.

       1: using System;

       2: using System.Web;

       3: using System.Web.Services;

       4: using System.Web.Services.Protocols;

       5: using System.Web.Script.Services;

       6: using System.Collections.Generic;

       7: using System.Linq;

       8:  

       9: public class Car

{

    public int ID;

    public string Make;

    public string Model;

    public int Year;

    public int Doors;

    public string Color;

    public float Price;

    public int Mileage;

}

  

/// <summary>

/// Summary description for CarService

/// </summary>

[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]

[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]

[ScriptService]

public class CarService : WebService

{

    List<Car> Cars = new List<Car>{

    new Car{ID=1,Make="Audi",Model="A4",Year=1995,Doors=4,Color="Red",Price=2995f,Mileage=122458},

    new Car{ID=2,Make="Ford",Model="Focus",Year=2002,Doors=5,Color="Black",Price=3250f,Mileage=68500},

    new Car{ID=3,Make="BMW",Model="5 Series",Year=2006,Doors=4,Color="Grey",Price=24950f,Mileage=19500},

    new Car{ID=4,Make="Renault",Model="Laguna",Year=2000,Doors=5,Color="Red",Price=3995f,Mileage=82600},

    new Car{ID=5,Make="Toyota",Model="Previa",Year=1998,Doors=5,Color="Green",Price=2695f,Mileage=72400},

    new Car{ID=6,Make="Mini",Model="Cooper",Year=2005,Doors=2,Color="Grey",Price=9850f,Mileage=19800},

    new Car{ID=7,Make="Mazda",Model="MX 5",Year=2003,Doors=2,Color="Silver",Price=6995f,Mileage=51988},

    new Car{ID=8,Make="Ford",Model="Fiesta",Year=2004,Doors=3,Color="Red",Price=3759f,Mileage=50000},

    new Car{ID=9,Make="Honda",Model="Accord",Year=1997,Doors=4,Color="Silver",Price=1995f,Mileage=99750},

    new Car{ID=10,Make="Audi",Model="A6",Year=2005,Doors=5,Color="Silver",Price=22995f,Mileage=25400},

    new Car{ID=11,Make="Jaguar",Model="XJS",Year=1992,Doors=4,Color="Green",Price=3450,Mileage=92000},

    new Car{ID=12,Make="Jaguar",Model="X Type",Year=2006,Doors=4,Color="Grey",Price=9950f,Mileage=17000},

    new Car{ID=13,Make="Renault",Model="Megane",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="Red",Price=8995f,Mileage=8500},

    new Car{ID=14,Make="Peugeot",Model="406",Year=2003,Doors=4,Color="Grey",Price=3450f,Mileage=86000},

    new Car{ID=15,Make="Mini",Model="Cooper S",Year=2008,Doors=2,Color="Black",Price=14850f,Mileage=9500},

    new Car{ID=16,Make="Mazda",Model="5",Year=2006,Doors=5,Color="Silver",Price=6940f,Mileage=53500},

    new Car{ID=17,Make="Vauxhall",Model="Vectra",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="White",Price=13750f,Mileage=31000},

    new Car{ID=18,Make="Ford",Model="Puma",Year=1998,Doors=3,Color="Silver",Price=2995f,Mileage=84500},

    new Car{ID=19,Make="Ford",Model="Ka",Year=2004,Doors=3,Color="Red",Price=2995f,Mileage=61000},

    new Car{ID=20,Make="Ford",Model="Focus",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="Blue",Price=9950f,Mileage=19000},

    new Car{ID=21,Make="BMW",Model="3 Series",Year=2001,Doors=4,Color="White",Price=5950f,Mileage=98000},

    new Car{ID=22,Make="Citroen",Model="C5",Year=2005,Doors=5,Color="Silver",Price=5995f,Mileage=38400},

    new Car{ID=23,Make="Toyota",Model="Corolla T3",Year=2004,Doors=5,Color="Blue",Price=5995f,Mileage=71000},

    new Car{ID=24,Make="Toyota",Model="Yaris",Year=2005,Doors=3,Color="Grey",Price=5350f,Mileage=39000},

    new Car{ID=25,Make="Porsche",Model="911",Year=2003,Doors=2,Color="Red",Price=16995f,Mileage=88000},

    new Car{ID=26,Make="Ford",Model="Fiesta",Year=2004,Doors=3,Color="Red",Price=5759f,Mileage=49000},

    new Car{ID=27,Make="Honda",Model="Accord",Year=1996,Doors=4,Color="Black",Price=1995f,Mileage=105000},

    new Car{ID=28,Make="Audi",Model="A3 Avant",Year=2005,Doors=5,Color="Blue",Price=12995f,Mileage=22458},

    new Car{ID=29,Make="Ford",Model="Mondeo",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="Gold",Price=12250f,Mileage=8500},

    new Car{ID=30,Make="BMW",Model="1 Series",Year=2006,Doors=4,Color="Black",Price=16950f,Mileage=19500},

    new Car{ID=31,Make="Renault",Model="Clio",Year=2005,Doors=3,Color="Red",Price=5995f,Mileage=32600},

    new Car{ID=32,Make="Toyota",Model="Verso",Year=2008,Doors=5,Color="White",Price=12995f,Mileage=5800},

    new Car{ID=33,Make="Mini",Model="Cooper",Year=2003,Doors=2,Color="Black",Price=7950f,Mileage=36800},

    new Car{ID=34,Make="Mazda",Model="6",Year=2007,Doors=4,Color="Blue",Price=16995f,Mileage=11300},

    new Car{ID=35,Make="Ford",Model="Mondeo",Year=2004,Doors=5,Color="Green",Price=8759f,Mileage=66000},

    new Car{ID=36,Make="Honda",Model="Civic",Year=1997,Doors=4,Color="Grey",Price=1995f,Mileage=99750},

    new Car{ID=37,Make="Audi",Model="Q7",Year=2005,Doors=5,Color="Black",Price=22995f,Mileage=25400},

    new Car{ID=38,Make="Jaguar",Model="XK8",Year=1992,Doors=4,Color="Blue",Price=3450,Mileage=92000},

    new Car{ID=39,Make="Jaguar",Model="S Type",Year=2006,Doors=4,Color="Red",Price=9950f,Mileage=17000},

    new Car{ID=40,Make="Renault",Model="Megane",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="Yellow",Price=8995f,Mileage=8500},

    new Car{ID=41,Make="Peugeot",Model="406",Year=2003,Doors=4,Color="White",Price=3450f,Mileage=86000},

    new Car{ID=42,Make="Mini",Model="Cooper",Year=2008,Doors=2,Color="Red",Price=14850f,Mileage=9500},

    new Car{ID=43,Make="Mazda",Model="5",Year=2006,Doors=5,Color="White",Price=6940f,Mileage=53500},

    new Car{ID=44,Make="Vauxhall",Model="Vectra",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="Blue",Price=13750f,Mileage=31000},

    new Car{ID=45,Make="Ford",Model="Puma",Year=1998,Doors=3,Color="Red",Price=2995f,Mileage=84500},

    new Car{ID=46,Make="Ford",Model="Puma",Year=2004,Doors=3,Color="Red",Price=2995f,Mileage=61000},

    new Car{ID=47,Make="Ford",Model="Focus",Year=2007,Doors=5,Color="Grey",Price=9950f,Mileage=19000},

    new Car{ID=48,Make="BMW",Model="3 Series",Year=2001,Doors=4,Color="Red",Price=5950f,Mileage=98000},

    new Car{ID=49,Make="Citroen",Model="C5",Year=2005,Doors=5,Color="Yellow",Price=5995f,Mileage=38400},

    new Car{ID=50,Make="Toyota",Model="Corolla T3",Year=2004,Doors=5,Color="Red",Price=5995f,Mileage=71000},

    new Car{ID=51,Make="Toyota",Model="Yaris",Year=2005,Doors=3,Color="Black",Price=5350f,Mileage=39000},

    new Car{ID=52,Make="Porsche",Model="911",Year=2003,Doors=2,Color="White",Price=16995f,Mileage=88000},

    new Car{ID=53,Make="Ford",Model="Fiesta",Year=2004,Doors=3,Color="Grey",Price=5759f,Mileage=49000},

    new Car{ID=54,Make="Honda",Model="Accord",Year=1996,Doors=4,Color="Green",Price=1995f,Mileage=105000}

    };

  

    [WebMethod]

    public List<Car> GetCarsByDoors(int doors)

   {

        var query = from c in Cars

                    where c.Doors == doors

                    select c;

        return query.ToList();

    }

  

    [WebMethod]

    public List<Car> GetAllCars()

   {

        return Cars;

    }

  

    [WebMethod]

    public List<string> GetCarMakes()

   {

        var query = (from c in Cars

                     orderby c.Make

                     select c.Make).Distinct();

        return query.ToList();

    }

  

    [WebMethod]

    public List<string> GetCarsByModel(string make)

   {

        var query = (from c in Cars

                     where c.Make == make

                     orderby c.Model

                     select c.Model).Distinct();

        return query.ToList();

    }

  

    [WebMethod]

    public List<string> GetCarsByColor(string make, string model)

   {

        var query = (from c in Cars

                     where c.Make == make && c.Model == model

                     orderby c.Color

                     select c.Color).Distinct();

        return query.ToList();

    }

  

    [WebMethod]

    public List<Car> GetCarListByColor(string make, string model, string color)

   {

        var query = from c in Cars

                    where (c.Make == make &&

                    c.Model == model &&

                    c.Color == color)

                    select c;

        return query.ToList();

    }

}

Please note that I renamed colour to color throughout my project and I store my webservice (asmx) page in a folder called WebServcies. Also I am using a MasterPage so I used the $("#<%= this.<CONTROLID>.ClientID %>") name throught out the code.

Make IE scale images more smoothly

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:37:00 GMT

First off, I ~~hate~~ really dislike IE, although IE 8 is better. Secondly there are ways to overcome the ~~hate~~ dislike. Here is a nice explanation of fixing the img scaling issue in IE.

http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/22.html

In short, add this to you site css file.

img { -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; }

Hide The Default SharePoint Content Libraries/Lists HACK

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:21:00 GMT

Recently for a client I created a custom Document Library that is specific to their organization. After creating it I wanted to hide the standard document library that comes with SharePoint. I don't want to delete it, just hide it so it can't be accidentally created. Here in lies my problem. I search high and low for a possible solution. While waiting to here back from the SharePoint blog team, I decided try and find a workaround. This is what I came up with.

I decided to look at the actually aspx page that you see when you select "Create" from the site content area. I thought maybe I can hide the fields as they are created on this page. The file is called "/_layouts/create.aspx" and can be found at "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS". If you go down to line 158 you can see the code setting a string variable to the list template name. I found gold. After this line is where I inserted my nasty little hack.

//IF YOU WANT TO HIDE CERTAIN LIBRARIES FROM BEING AVAILABLE
if ((strTemplateDisplayName == "Document Library") || (strTemplateDisplayName == "Translation Management Library"))
continue;

This will hide the libraries from the view of the user. Just be aware that this might break if there is a Service Pack and/or Patch applied for SharePoint.

If you can shed some light on a better way please, let me know.

Acid 3 test – Safari 4 Beta, SAFARI 3.5, IE 7, IE 8, Firefox 3.06, Firefox 3.1 and Chrome

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:33:00 GMT

I recently downloaded the latest version of Apple Safari 4 Beta and was happy to see someone is making progress in standardization. The acid 3 test can be found and run at http://acid3.acidtests.org/.

And the winner is….

Safari 4 – 100/100

Firefox 3.1 Beta – 93/100

Chrome – 79/100

Safari 3.5 – 75/100

Firefox 3.06 – 71/100

IE 8 – 20/100

IE 7 – ??? WTF?

Whats the deal with LiveWriter?

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:48:00 GMT

Whenever I publish my blog post through LiveWriter it doesn't show up on http://weblogs.asp.net/. Has anyone else experieced this? Am I missing a setting in LiveWriter?

Sweet! Remote Desktop Tools

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:45:00 GMT

A while back I found a really cool tool on CodePlex called Terminals. It allows you to store all you RDP, VNC, VMRC, RAS, Telnet, SSH, ICA Citrix, Amazon S3, etc in the same interface. It has a really useful tabbing feature that tabs out all the active connections you have for quick switching. If you work in the RDC world its a must check out.

http://www.codeplex.com/Terminals

Today a fellow colleague sent me an email telling me about this cool little MMC Snap-In. This will allow you to list all of the computers and Servers and connect to them via RDP Sessions quickly. This snap-in is included in the Adminpak.msi.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309375

http://www.microsoft.com/downloadS/details.aspx?FamilyID=c16ae515-c8f4-47ef-a1e4-a8dcbacff8e3&displaylang=en

After installing the admin pack, click Start –> Run –> tsmmc.msc.

This will open the MMC. Add you connections. Then File –> Save As to save the connections.

I work with around 6 servers and on a daily basis and this makes it really easy to login and logout quickly. Anyone else have any cool RDP tools?

Install Windows Live Writer & Use With Your weblogs.asp.net account

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:24:00 GMT

This morning I went about finally setting myself up with Windows Live Writer so that I can start taking my blog experience a little more serious. This post will document the procedure needed to setup you weblog.asp.net blog with Windows Live Writers blogging tool.

1) Download and Install Windows Live Writer(http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/)

2) Start the program. It should launch the configuration/setup wizard. Click Next.

3) Select “Other blog service”. Click Next.

4) Enter your blog address and blog credentials (http://weblogs.asp.net/%3cBlogName>). Click Next.

5) Select “Community Server” and enter http://weblogs.asp.net/metablog.ashx for the blog type. Click Next.

6) It will run through an install and identify the name of you blog and finish. You are now all set.

I already like the interface. It makes it very easy to add images and code snippets. In fact, this post was created with it.

Display SharePoint Documents On Your Company Internet Site

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:05:00 GMT

I was recently working on a small POC project. Basically I had an internal MOSS 2007 server site and an locally hosted public facing website. I wanted to have the ability to add files to various MOSS document libraries and then give outside website visitors the ability to view and download these documents. So, what I did was:

Created a document library in MOSS with Version and Content Approval enabled. I also added additional custom fields to the document library that could display along with the document on the public web.
Created a user control that I could drag to the public pages to display the documents and wired up the user control to access SharePoints webservices to rectrieve and display the document libraries specifics. (SEE CODE BELOW)

This is only a POC so bare with me. You should be able to follow the basics of what I am doing. Nothing is rocket science.

Create a new WebSite in Visual Studio.
Add a new web_reference. Point it at your SharePoint server (http://<Your SharePoint Server>/_vti_bin/List.asmx)
Add a new user control to your website. (SEE CODE BELOW)
Add a new webpage and drag on your user control to it. Run and enjoy.

Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO
Imports MOSS 'THIS IS YOUR WEB_REFERENCE
 
Partial Class SPDocuments
    Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
 
    'THIS IS THE KEY TO IT ALL. THIS USER MUST HAVE READ ONLY CREDENTIALS
    'TO THE DOCUMENT LIBRARY. THAT WAY THE SEE THE LATEST PUBLISH DOCUMENT ONLY.
    Dim networkCredential As New NetworkCredential("username", "password")
 
 
    Private _DocumentLibraryID As String
    Public Property DocumentLibraryID() As String
        Get
            Return _DocumentLibraryID
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _DocumentLibraryID = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    Private _DocumentLibrary As String
    Public Property DocumentLibrary() As String
        Get
            Return _DocumentLibrary
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _DocumentLibrary = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    Private _FileServer As String
    Public Property FileServer() As String
        Get
            Return _FileServer
        End Get
        Set(ByVal value As String)
            _FileServer = value
        End Set
    End Property
 
    Protected Overrides Sub OnInit(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        MyBase.OnInit(e)
        If DocumentLibraryID Is Nothing Then
            DocumentLibraryID = GetListID(DocumentLibrary)
        Else
            DocumentLibrary = GetListID(DocumentLibraryID)
        End If
        BindLiteral()
    End Sub
 
    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        If Not Page.IsPostBack Then
 
        End If
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub BindLiteral()
        'THE USER CREDENTIALS HERE SHOULD HAVE READ ONLY ACCESS ACCROSS THE LIST LIBRARY
 
        'Declare and initialize a variable for the Lists Web service
        Dim listService As MOSS.Lists = New MOSS.Lists()
 
        'Authenticate the current user by passing their default 
        'credentials to the Web service from the system credential cache.
 
        listService.Credentials = networkCredential
 
        'Set the Url property of the service for the path to a subsite.
        listService.Url = String.Format("http://{0}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx", FileServer)
 
        ' Instantiate an XmlDocument object
        Dim xmlDoc As System.Xml.XmlDocument = New System.Xml.XmlDocument()
 
        ' Assign values to the string parameters of the GetListItems method, using GUIDs for the listName and viewName
        'variables. For listName, using the list display name will also work, but using the list GUID is recommended. For 
        'viewName, only the view GUID can be used. Using an empty string for viewName causes the default view 
        'to be used.
        Dim listName As String = DocumentLibraryID
        Dim viewName As String = ""
        Dim rowLimit As String = "1000"
 
        'Use the CreateElement method of the document object to create elements for the parameters that use XML.*/
        Dim query As System.Xml.XmlElement = xmlDoc.CreateElement("Query")
        Dim viewFields As System.Xml.XmlElement = xmlDoc.CreateElement("ViewFields")
        Dim queryOptions As System.Xml.XmlElement = xmlDoc.CreateElement("QueryOptions")
 
        'To specify values for the parameter elements (optional), assign CAML fragments to the InnerXml property of each element.*/
        query.InnerXml = QueryCAML()
        viewFields.InnerXml = "<FieldRef Name=""DocIcon"" /><FieldRef Name=""ProgId"" /><FieldRef Name=""FileRef"" /><FieldRef Name=""Public_x0020_Title"" /><FieldRef Name=""Public_x0020_Description"" /><FieldRef Name=""LinkFilename"" /><FieldRef Name=""Modified"" /><FieldRef Name=""Author"" /> "
        queryOptions.InnerXml = ""
 
        ' Declare an XmlNode object and initialize it with the XML response from the GetListItems method. The last parameter specifies the GUID of the Web site containing the list. Setting it to null causes the Web site specified by the Url property to be used.
        Dim nodeListItems As System.Xml.XmlNode = listService.GetListItems(listName, viewName, query, viewFields, rowLimit, queryOptions, Nothing)
        nodeListItems.Normalize()
 
        For Each node As System.Xml.XmlNode In nodeListItems
            If node.Name = "rs:data" Then
                For Each childNode As System.Xml.XmlNode In node.ChildNodes
                    If childNode.Name = "z:row" Then
                        'For i As Integer = 0 To childNode.Attributes.Count - 1
                        '    strHTML += childNode.Attributes(i).Name & "<br />"
                        'Next
                        Dim strDocIcon As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_DocIcon").Value
                        Dim strLinkFilename As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_LinkFilename").Value
                        Dim strLinkFileRef As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_FileRef").Value.Replace(childNode.Attributes("ows_ProgId").Value, "")
                        Dim strLastModified As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_Modified").Value
                        'CUSTOM FIELD
                        Dim strPublicTitle As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_Public_x0020_Title").Value
                        'CUSTOM FIELD
                        Dim strPublicDescription As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_Public_x0020_Description").Value.Replace(childNode.Attributes("ows_ProgId").Value, "")
                        'Dim strBody As String = childNode.Attributes("ows_Body").Value
                        'strBody = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(strBody, "<[^>]*>", "")
 
                        Dim ib As ImageButton = New ImageButton()
                        ib.ImageUrl = GetIcon(strDocIcon)
                        ib.CommandArgument = strLinkFilename
                        AddHandler ib.Click, AddressOf ImageButtonGetFile
 
                        Dim lb As LinkButton = New LinkButton()
                        lb.Text = strPublicTitle
                        lb.CommandArgument = strLinkFilename
                        AddHandler lb.Click, AddressOf LinkButtonGetFile
 
                        Me.phDocuments.Controls.Add(ib)
                        Me.phDocuments.Controls.Add(lb)
                        Me.phDocuments.Controls.Add(New HtmlGenericControl("br"))
                    End If
                Next
            End If
        Next
    End Sub
 
    Private Function QueryCAML() As String
        'Use this tool to build the CAML for you http://www.codeplex.com/SPCamlViewer
        Dim oSb As New System.Text.StringBuilder
 
        oSb.Append("         <OrderBy>")
        oSb.Append("              <FieldRef Name=""Public_x0020_Title"" />")
        oSb.Append("         </OrderBy>")
        oSb.Append("         <Where>")
        oSb.Append("              <And>")
        oSb.Append("                   <Eq>")
        oSb.Append("                        <FieldRef Name=""Publicly_x0020_Available"" />")
        oSb.Append("                        <Value Type=""Boolean"">1</Value>")
        oSb.Append("                   </Eq>")
        oSb.Append("                   <Eq>")
        oSb.Append("                        <FieldRef Name=""_ModerationStatus"" />")
        oSb.Append("                        <Value Type=""ModStat"">Approved</Value>")
        oSb.Append("                   </Eq>")
        oSb.Append("              </And>")
        oSb.Append("         </Where>")
 
        Return oSb.ToString()
    End Function
 
    Private Sub ImageButtonGetFile(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ImageClickEventArgs)
        'THE USER CREDENTIALS HERE SHOULD HAVE READ ONLY ACCESS ACCROSS THE DOCUMENT LIBRARY
        Dim ib As ImageButton = CType(sender, ImageButton)
        GetFile(ib.CommandArgument)
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub LinkButtonGetFile(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
        'THE USER CREDENTIALS HERE SHOULD HAVE READ ONLY ACCESS ACCROSS THE DOCUMENT LIBRARY
        Dim lb As LinkButton = CType(sender, LinkButton)
        GetFile(lb.CommandArgument)
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub GetFile(ByVal strFileName As String)
 
        Dim strURI As String = String.Format("http://{0}/{1}/{2}", FileServer, DocumentLibrary, strFileName)
        Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(New Uri(strURI))
 
        request.Credentials = networkCredential
        Dim webResponse As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
        Dim webStream As Stream = webResponse.GetResponseStream()
 
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ClearHeaders()
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + strFileName)
 
        Dim binaryReader As BinaryReader = New BinaryReader(webStream)
        Dim buffer As Byte() = binaryReader.ReadBytes(webResponse.ContentLength)
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, webResponse.ContentLength)
        System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush()
 
        webResponse.Close()
        webStream.Close()
 
    End Sub
 
    Private Function GetIcon(ByVal strDocIcon As String) As String
        'THIS IS JUST FOR FANCY DISPLAY
        Dim imgLocation As String = ""
        Select Case strDocIcon
            Case "doc", "rtf", "wps", "txt", "docx", "dot"
                imgLocation = "~/images/word.png"
            Case "xls", "csv", ".xlw", "xlt", "xlsx"
                imgLocation = "~/images/excel.png"
            Case "ppt", "pptx"
                imgLocation = "~/images/powerpoint.png"
            Case "pdf"
                imgLocation = "~/images/pdf.png"
            Case "zip", "rar", "gzip"
                imgLocation = "~/images/zip.png"
            Case Else
                imgLocation = "~/images/default.png"
        End Select
        Return imgLocation
    End Function
 
    Function GetListID(ByVal strListName As String) As String
        Dim strListID As String = ""
        'THE USER CREDENTIALS HERE SHOULD HAVE READ ONLY ACCESS ACCROSS THE LIST LIBRARY
 
        'Declare and initialize a variable for the Lists Web service
        Dim listService As MOSS.Lists = New MOSS.Lists()
 
        'Authenticate the current user by passing their default 
        'credentials to the Web service from the system credential cache.
 
        listService.Credentials = networkCredential
 
        'Set the Url property of the service for the path to a subsite.
        listService.Url = String.Format("http://{0}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx", FileServer)
 
        ' Instantiate an XmlDocument object
        Dim xmlDoc As System.Xml.XmlDocument = New System.Xml.XmlDocument()
 
        ' Declare an XmlNode object and initialize it with the XML response from the GetListItems method. The last parameter specifies the GUID of the Web site containing the list. Setting it to null causes the Web site specified by the Url property to be used.*/
        Dim nodeListItems As System.Xml.XmlNode = listService.GetListCollection()
        nodeListItems.Normalize()
        For Each node As System.Xml.XmlNode In nodeListItems
            If node.Name = "List" AndAlso node.Attributes("Title").Value = strListName Then
                strListID = node.Attributes("ID").Value
                Exit For
            End If
        Next
        Return strListID
    End Function
 
    Function GetListName(ByVal strListID As String) As String
        Dim strListName As String = ""
        'THE USER CREDENTIALS HERE SHOULD HAVE READ ONLY ACCESS ACCROSS THE LIST LIBRARY
 
        'Declare and initialize a variable for the Lists Web service
        Dim listService As MOSS.Lists = New MOSS.Lists()
 
        'Authenticate the current user by passing their default 
        'credentials to the Web service from the system credential cache.
 
        listService.Credentials = networkCredential
 
        'Set the Url property of the service for the path to a subsite.
        listService.Url = String.Format("http://{0}/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx", FileServer)
 
        ' Instantiate an XmlDocument object
        Dim xmlDoc As System.Xml.XmlDocument = New System.Xml.XmlDocument()
 
 
        ' Declare an XmlNode object and initialize it with the XML response from the GetListItems method. The last parameter specifies the GUID of the Web site containing the list. Setting it to null causes the Web site specified by the Url property to be used.*/
        Dim nodeListItems As System.Xml.XmlNode = listService.GetListCollection()
        nodeListItems.Normalize()
        For Each node As System.Xml.XmlNode In nodeListItems
            If node.Name = "List" AndAlso node.Attributes("ID").Value = strListID Then
                strListName = node.Attributes("Title").Value
                Exit For
            End If
        Next
        Return strListName
    End Function
 
End Class

    <div>
        <pcoe:SPDocuments ID="SPDocuments1" runat="server" FileServer="<SERVER NAME>/<SITE NAME>" DocumentLibrary="<DOC LIB NAME>" />
    </div>

Like I said this is only a POC I created to demostrate how it can be done. I am sure there are several ways to achomplish the same task. I would be interested in hearing them.

Five Things You Should Do Before Posting To Forums

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:26:00 GMT

<RANT>

First off, I like newbies. I like their excitement and their drive. I like what they bring to the community. What I don't like is ill-conceived posting of questions that require follow up questions. The community shouldn't have to pry pertinent information from the poster needed to answer the question. I know, sometimes you don't know where to start or what to divulge. I always think that when asking a question one should always divulge as much as possible. But more importantly think through your post. Here are five things you should do prior to posting.

1) Provide a good background. We don't need the architecture of the entire application, but provide enough information for so we can see the general workflow of the page or function. Sometimes it is this background that allows the community to make suggestions on taking a different more efficient approach. But more than that, it allows you to think it out on paper. Sometimes writing it down in allows you to think through the problem yourself.
2) Did you test it yourself? I don't mean uploading it to the web server and accessing it through your browser. I mean setting breakpoints and watches and stepping through your code line by line to see what's happening on a line by line basis? I have seen too many posts where a simple break point would reveal that the method is never fired or the variable never set. Check out this simple tutorial on debugging. http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/Debuging-Breakpoints.aspx
3) Show me the code. There's nothing worse than questions like this, "My button is posting back twice. Can somebody help?" Where do you start in answering this? A snippet of the code on the front and back side will help out tremendously and speed up receiving the correct answer.
4) Have you tried to Google it? Have you searched the forum you are posting in? Chances are someone out there has had a similar problem and you can probably benefit from the steps they went about in attempting to solve it. http://bytes.com/groups/net-asp/543184-postback-twice-button-click
5) Now this one isn't necessarily a before posting gripe but a post posting gripe, MARK THE ANSWER. Nothing worse than finding a post exactly like the issue you are encountering only to find there wasn't any resolution. Even if no one answers your question and you solve it yourself, go back and post how it was solved. This is courtesy.

Recently I have been turned on to a really innovated Q&A Forum, http://www.stackoverflow.net/, that allows the community to vote up or vote down the best answer. The most helpful answers float to the top of the posting right below the question. This allows one to quickly find the most helpful answers. No more searching over pages and pages of posts only to find nothing helpful and nothing marked as resolved. Brilliant!

I hope this helps.

</RANT>

Intellisense For AppSettings/ConnectionStrings

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:33:00 GMT

One of the most time consuming things to do when starting a new web project is setting up the sites directory structure, until recently. I finally took the time to create myself a few generic templates for Visual Studio enviroment. This has made my ramp up time on starting a new project close to nil. I have my folder stucture all set. I created a few Classes that I typically create in all my projects, add a small library of default images and now just recently dialed the application in with jQuery wired up. Check out Sara Ford's article on making project templates in VS 2005 (Works the same in VS 2008). http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2008/10/16/did-you-know-you-can-create-project-templates-336.aspx

One of the files in my project template is a class file I call SiteConfigs. This file contains all my values in my webconfig files appsettings and connectionstrings. Putting them in this file saves me the time of typing in ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("WebDomain").ToString() everytime I want to access my webconfig. It also provides me with intellisense for all my keys in my appsettings/connectionstrings. Now all I do is...

Response.Write("Code Version: " & SiteConfigs.CodeVersion)

Here's an example.

<WEB.CONFIG>

<appSettings>
    <add key="WebUrl" value="127.0.0.1"/>
    <add key="WebDomain" value="127.0.0.1"/>
    <add key="ApplicationName" value="/"/>
    <add key="CodeVersion" value="1.0.0"/>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
    <add name="SiteCS" connectionString="Data Source=;Initial Catalog=;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=;Password=" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
    <add name="ADConnectionString" connectionString=""/>
</connectionStrings>

<SITECONFIG.VB>

Public Class SiteConfigs
 
#Region "APPSETTINGS"
 
    Public Shared ReadOnly Property WebUrl() As String
        Get
            Return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("WebUrl").ToString()
        End Get
    End Property
 
    Public Shared ReadOnly Property WebDomain() As String
        Get
            Return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("WebDomain").ToString()
        End Get
    End Property
 
    Public Shared ReadOnly Property ApplicationName() As String
        Get
            Return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("ApplicationName").ToString()
        End Get
    End Property
 
    Public Shared ReadOnly Property CodeVersion() As String
        Get
            Return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings("CodeVersion").ToString()
        End Get
    End Property
#End Region
 
#Region "CONNECTIONSTRINGS"
 
    Public Shared ReadOnly Property SiteCS() As String
        Get
            Return ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("SiteCS").ToString()
        End Get
    End Property
 
    Public Shared ReadOnly Property ADConnectionString() As String
        Get
            Return ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ADConnectionString").ToString()
        End Get
    End Property
 
#End Region
 
End Class

Getting all those Infopath forms relinked in SharePoint!

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:20:00 GMT

This is something I threw together when having to relink a couple dozen InfoPath libraries all containing 100-1000 forms. Why Microsoft doesn't have a check all button at the top of the page is beyond me. Here it is...

1) Open the library. Click Settings -> Form Library Settings -> Relink documents to this Library
2) Open this page in SharePoint designer.
2) Add this to the top of the page after the <Form> tag.

3) Save, Refresh the page, click and thank me :)!

Getting jQuery to work with MasterPages

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:28:00 GMT

Maybe someone from the ASP.Net community can enlighten me, I have always had the hardest time getting the script, css, etc working/rendering correctly when used on the masterpage. On the masterpage I always have to use an absolute path on the script or link tag or generate the script/link tag from the code behind on the masterpage in order for it to render/execute properly. Is there a better method. I recently ran accross this using jQuery trying to get the intellisense to work on the pages inheriting the master page.This is what I came up with. Seems like a hack. Any suggestions?

MasterPage head tag:

I read Scott G's post on jQuery and intellisense and it works great for non-masterpaged files. Does anyone else have methods that don't seem so hacked.

Sending Mail To Your File System (No Need For A Mail Server)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:41:00 GMT

This is a great nuggest I came across the other day. I found this great post (http://blog.donnfelker.com/post/Sending-Email-in-a-Development-Environment-without-an-SMTP-Server.aspx) that shows how to redirect mail to a folder instead of an SMTP. Previous to this I would send it to IIS SMTP service and look into the folders it creates. Big pain! Now I can send email to a file system and view the email quickly. No more waiting for the mail to reach your gmail account.

I must be honest. I post this here for my own guilty pleasure in being able to find it next time i need it :).

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">
        <specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="c:\temp\maildrop\"/>
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
</system.net>

Make sure the user/app pool/etc has write premissions to folder you have as your pickup directory.