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How to find control with in repeater on button click event

December 10, 2013 Leave a comment

<asp:Repeater ID=”RptInfo” runat=”server”>

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:Panel ID=”pnlReadonly” runat=”server”>

….

</asp:Panel>

</ItemTemplate>

</asp:Repeater>

Code : 

Protected Sub btnCancel_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCancel.Click

Dim pnlReadonly As Panel = DirectCast(RptSoccerInfo.Items(0).FindControl(“pnlReadonly”), Panel)

If (Not pnl Is Nothing) Then
‘ some code
End If

End Sub

Will add some more detail soon .

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Unable to write to output file [FileName] .pdb: Unspecified error Visual Studio

July 12, 2013 1 comment

“Unable to write to output file [FileName] .pdb: Unspecified error” for one of the projects.

I have cleaned the project solution , deleting references but that didn’t help

Figured out that there was a missing file in one of the projects. To know which file it is please follow the steps

[1] Close visual studio

[2] Reopen the solution (DON’T build)

[3] Check the Errors List

You should see

Error    1    Unable to open module file [FileName].vb : The system cannot find the file specified.    [FileName] [Project]

Hope its helps!

 

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Visual Studio – Database Project Not Loading

March 3, 2013 Leave a comment

Have you ever created a Database project and after some time you are not able to load it in the Visual Studio? Probably you might be getting following error:

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

The database project requires an active database connection to load at design time. Probably it uses that to compile/verify scripts. The problem here is Visual Studio is not able to connect to any such instance. Following are few solutions (these worked for me)

  1. Make sure the instance to which you want to connect is running and allows remote connections.
  2. After performing step 1, if it is still not loading then you may need to start the SQL Browser Service. Make sure it’s running.
  3. If the problem is still there, it has to be fixed from Visual Studio itself. Actually database project do not store to which instance it can connect. It’s a Visual Studio setting.In VS2008 go to Tool > Options > Database Tools > Design-time Validation Database > Connection Options. Specify your instance name here like “\SQLEXPRESS”

Also If you upgraded your database project from 2005 to 2008 and if  you try to open the 2008 database project solution file then you may get the following error:

Coluld not load file or assembly ‘System.Data.SqlServerCe, Version=3.5.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken = 89845dcd8080cc91’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

To resolve this you need to install SQL Server CE 3.5 SP1 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dc614aee-7e1c-4881-9c32-3a6ce53384d9&displaylang=en

Hope it helps !

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Comparing ListView with GridView,DataList and Repeater

April 13, 2012 Leave a comment

The ListView control is a new data presentation control that was added in ASP.Net 3.5.You may wonder why its added to the framework , and what it provide .

From what i have seen, ListView control was added to provide The following functionalities :

  1. A very flexible and customizable layout.
  2. A built in data paging support with the new DataPager control.
  3. Support data grouping (repeating items) in a flexible way.
  4. Built in support for deleting,inserting,paging,sorting,and updating the data.

Now , to compare the ListView control with the dataList,GridView and repeater control , lets look at the table below :

Supported Funcationalities
Control Paging Data Grouping Provide Flexible Layout Update,Delete Insert Sorting
ListView supported supported supported supported supported supported
GridView supported Not supported Not Supported supported Not Supported supported
DataList Not supported supported supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Repeater Not supported Not supported supported Not supported Not supported Not supported


* Supported: means that it’s provided out of the box without any custom code or hacks.

* Not Supported: means that it’s not provided out of the box by the control but it could be possible to implement it using custom code \ hacks.

The GridView : it supports paging but it doesn’t provide a flexible layout , since its mainly used to display the data in a table based layout.And If we looked at data inserting , the Gridview doesn’t have a built in support for inserting data( since it doesn’t call the insert method of it underlying data source when you click on a button with a CommadName set to “Insert” ).

The DataList : it support data grouping ( through its RepeatColumns property) , but it doesn’t have a built in support for paging,inserting ,deleting , updating the data. and if you looked at its laout , you will find that by default  the datalist renders as html table and you will have to set its flowLayout to “Flow” to stop that behaviour.

The Repeater control : you will find that it provides a flexible layout but it doesn’t support data grouping ,inserting,deleting , updating  and paging through the data .

Summary :

The ListView control was added to provide a rich data control that can support all the required functionalities at the same time , so now you can easily display a fully customizable layout that supports Grouping,paging , inserting , deleting , updating and sorting the data.

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