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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Accordian - Dynamic addition/subtraction of panels?

I want to create an accordian at page load and dynamically add a number of panels with varying content at that time..any thoughts and optimally psuedocode on how to do this?Hi Mike,

You can do it just like other controls. Here's a small example:

<%@. Page Language="C#" %><%@. Register Assembly="AtlasControlToolkit" Namespace="AtlasControlToolkit" TagPrefix="atlasToolkit" %><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><script runat="server"> /// <summary> /// Dynamically create our accordion panes /// </summary> protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { base.OnLoad(e); AccordionPane pane1 = new AccordionPane(); pane1.HeaderContainer.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("Pane 1")); pane1.ContentContainer.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("Pane 2")); MyAccordion.Controls.Add(pane1); AccordionPane pane2 = new AccordionPane(); pane2.HeaderContainer.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("Pane 2")); pane2.ContentContainer.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("Content 2")); MyAccordion.Controls.Add(pane2); }</script><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head runat="server"> <title>Accordion Demo</title> <style> .accordionHeader { border: 1px solid #2F4F4F; color: white; background-color: #2E4d7B; font-family: Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; padding: 5px; margin-top: 5px; cursor: pointer; } .accordionContent { background-color: #D3DEEF; border: 1px dashed #2F4F4F; border-top: none; padding: 5px; padding-top: 10px; } </style></head><body><form runat="server"><div> <atlas:ScriptManager ID="Scripts" runat="server" /> <atlasToolkit:Accordion ID="MyAccordion" runat="server" SelectedIndex="0" HeaderCssClass="accordionHeader" ContentCssClass="accordionContent" FadeTransitions="true" FramesPerSecond="40" TransitionDuration="250" AutoSize="None"> </atlasToolkit:Accordion></div></form></body></html>
Thanks,
Ted

I think the code to add AccordinePane to Accordin is changed. the previous code didnt work for me.

// import Atlas Controlkit.

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using AtlasControlToolkit;

//Create a Atlas Accordion instance.
Accordion aAccord = new Accordion();


// Create AccordionPane instance.

AccordionPane accordPane = new AccordionPane();

// create your Header panel( the title of each Pane). and your component to each pane container.
// add Header Panel and Container panel, the panel which which will collape and open.

accordPane.HeaderContainer.Controls.Add( headerPanel );
accordPane.ContentContainer.Controls.Add( collapsePanel );

// add accordPane to Accordin instance.
aAccord.Panes.Add(accordPane);


// you can add as many AccordPanes as you want.


// Add Accordin object to the Panel.
myPanel.Controls.Add( aAccord );

Kishore.


Hi Kishore,

Yes - in response to user feedback we've hidden theControls collection and replaced it with the easier to useAccordionPane-onlyPanes collection.

Thanks,
Ted

Is there a way to add an unknown number of AccordionPanes? I'm trying to do thing:

List<string> addresses =newList<string>();
addresses.Add("123 Main St, Phoenix, AZ, 85041");
addresses.Add("658 Alta Vista Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85041");int name =1;
foreach (string sin addresses)
{
AccordionPane pane =newAccordionPane();
pane.HeaderContainer.Controls.Add(newLiteralControl(s));

pane.Width =

300;
pane.ID ="pane" + name;
Accordion1.Controls.Add(pane);//it doesn't add the right pane because it's named wrong. What should I change?
name++;
}

Thanks!


And I can add the code in VB:

This is in AJAX.aspx (for example):

<ajaxToolkit:AccordionID="aDynamicky"runat="server">

<Panes>

</Panes>

</

ajaxToolkit:Accordion>

And following is in code behind AJAX.aspx.vb:

Imports AjaxControlToolkit

Partial

Class AJAXInherits System.Web.UI.PageProtectedSub aDynamicky_PreRender(ByVal senderAsObject,ByVal eAs System.EventArgs)Handles aDynamicky.PreRenderDim panel1As AccordionPane =New AccordionPane

panel1.HeaderContainer.Controls.Add(

New LiteralControl("This is a header of 01."))

panel1.ContentContainer.Controls.Add(

New LiteralControl("And here is the content of 01."))

aDynamicky.Panes.Add(panel1)

Dim panel2As AccordionPane =New AccordionPane

panel2.HeaderContainer.Controls.Add(

New LiteralControl("This is a header of 02."))

panel2.ContentContainer.Controls.Add(

New LiteralControl("And here is the content of 02."))

aDynamicky.Panes.Add(panel2)

EndSub

End

Class

Of course, you can format your panels via CSS.

Accessing values from dynamically created controls

Hi. I'm writing a web application that uses Atlas todynamically create controls in a specific section of a web page. I have 2 update panels. One of them contains a DropDownList. The other one will contain thedynamically created controls. The controls are created in the SelectedIndexChanged event of the DropDownList, and I coded that in the server side. All those controls are arranged in a table server control, which is also created in the SelectedIndexChanged event. The page also has a Button server control that will allow me to start processing the values entered by the user in the created controls. Of course this processing will be done in the server side. This button is not part of either update panel.

Now, the problem is that when I try to get the values of the controls in the Button Click server event, using the table.FindControl() function, I see that the table itself is null, so I cannot access any control value. I think the problem has to do with the fact that the table and its controls are created in the update panel, and for some reason everything created there is not available for my Button Click server event.

How can I solve this scenario?

Thanks,

Julio

Modifying the controls colletion during a postback is generally not a good idea in ASP.NET. Additionally, dynamically added controls will not persist through viewstate so you'll have to re-create and add them to the container on each postback.

Instead of adding/removing controls, I suggest you use the "Visible" property of the control. You can set the control.Visible=false, which will prevent it from rendering down to the client.

Hope this helps,

-Tony


Thanks a lot Tony. The problem is that the user can choose 25 different elements in my combobox, and each element will require to create/show from 1 to 20 new controls on the dynamic section of the page. So if I take your advise and just put all possible controls on the page on design view, hidding or showing them asappropriate, wouldn't it be too much overhead for my page?

Julio


Julio,

Any way you choose is going to require quite a bit of code on your end to determine when to show/hide or create/destroy controls. You are correct in that should you choose to instantiate all controls on the page load, it will indeed add extra overhead.

To acheive the results you are looking for, you'll need to test for which item is selected, and fill the update panel accordingly. The earlier this happens in the page lifecycle the better off you are. The one problem you might encounter is that replacing a control on the fly like this, could cause viewstate errors since the control which saved its viewstate in the previous response, has now been replaced with a completely different control.

We've actually built the behavior you're looking for directly into the Infragistics WebTab. It provides LoadOnDemand behavior though an AJAX mechanism. Using a Tab Interface also speeds up the development since you can separate your content into individual tabs, displaying only the relevant tab. In most cases the performance overhead incurred is well worth the development time saved. Of course, you'd need to make that call based on your own project requirements.

Hope this helps,
-Tony


Hi Tony. You are completely right. I have just found that viewstate error you mention. I have tried to control that error, but I just keep getting errors when adding/removing controls. I would like to try using Infragistics WebTab, as our company has full licenses for the NetAdvantage suite. Could you please show me a small example of how could I achieve this behavior with the WebTab and the LoadOnDemand behavior? Or maybe give me a link to an example? I would reallyappreciate it.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Julio


Hi Julio,

You'll need to getNetAdvantage 2006 Volume 2 if you don't already have it. On the WebTab, set AsyncMode=On, and AsyncOptions.EnableLoadOnDemand=True. Next, using the interactive design surface, simply drag and drop your content into the desired Tab pane. You can even switch between tabs by clicking the desired tab on the design-surface. The WebTab has UpdatePanel-like behavior built directly into it, so postbacks will automatically be turned into AJAX callbacks. The LoadOnDemand behavior will also enable the initial page load to contain only the content for the selected tab, all other tab content will be dynamically retrieved as necessary.

Hope this helps,
-Tony


Hi Tony. It seems likeUltraWebTabAJAX features won't help me. Theasync behavior I'm looking for starts outside the tab control, but not in the tabs itself. My UltraWebTab has 25 tabs inside it. I also have a dropdownlist which is outside my UltraWebTab. Now, without any AJAX behavior, what my page does is that, when you select an element in the dropdownlist I hide all the tabs except for the one that is related to the selected value on the dropdownlist. This of course causes a full roundtrip to the server.

So, what I'd like to happen is that, when I change my selection on the dropdownlist, all the not related tabs just become invisible, but with no roundtrip. I enabled all the async options you mentioned, but I thing they are mostly targeted for the scenarios where the user navigates between tabs, and no with my particular scenario. So I just thought I could solve this by adding an Atlas UpdatePanel and putting the UltraWebTab inside it. I also added a trigger to the panel so that any time the dropdownlist change its value, the updatePanel would update its contents.

Here is the code for my DropDownList:

<table>

<tr>

<tdstyle="width: 3px"valign="top">

<asp:DropDownListID="MyDropDownList"runat="server"AutoPostBack="True"DataSourceID="MyDataSource"DataTextField="Description"DataValueField="Id"></asp:DropDownList><asp:ObjectDataSourceID="MyDataSource"runat="server"SelectMethod="GetMyItems"TypeName="MyProduct.MyClass"></asp:ObjectDataSource></td>

</tr>

</table>

...And this is the code for the UltraWebTab and the UpdatePanel:

<table>

<tr><tdstyle="width: 239px; height: 101%;"valign="top"><atlas:UpdatePanelID="Up1"runat="server"Mode="conditional"><ContentTemplate><igtab:UltraWebTabID="MyUltraWebTab"runat="server"BorderColor="#949878"BorderStyle="Solid"BorderWidth="1px"ThreeDEffect="False"SelectedTab="16"AsyncMode="On"><DefaultTabStyleBackColor="#FEFCFD"Font-Names="Microsoft Sans Serif"Font-Size="8pt"ForeColor="Black"Height="22px"><PaddingTop="2px"/></DefaultTabStyle><Tabs>

<!--Here comes my Tabs and controls -->

</Tabs><RoundedImageFillStyle="LeftMergedWithCenter"HoverImage="[ig_tab_winXP2.gif]"LeftSideWidth="7"NormalImage="[ig_tab_winXP3.gif]"RightSideWidth="6"SelectedImage="[ig_tab_winXP1.gif]"ShiftOfImages="2"/><SelectedTabStyle><PaddingBottom="2px"/></SelectedTabStyle><BorderDetailsColorBottom="90, 120, 160"ColorRight="90, 120, 160"/><AsyncOptionsEnableLoadOnDemand="True"/></igtab:UltraWebTab></ContentTemplate><Triggers><atlas:ControlValueTriggerControlID="MyDropDownList"PropertyName="SelectedValue"/></Triggers></atlas:UpdatePanel></td>

</tr>

But now I'm just getting an "Unknown Error" popup window every time I change my selection in the dropdownlist. It seems like any combination of UltraWebTab and UpdatePanel just does not work. I have already written Atlas apps with my current installation (June CTP) and they work fine until I add an UltraWebTab. All Atlas configurations in the web.config and the script manager are on place, so it should work.

Is there a known compability issue between UltraWebTab and UpdatePanel? If it is, is there any way I could achieve my desired behavior with UltraWebTab async and loadOnDemand options?

Thanks a lot,

Julio


Hi Julio,

You should contact Infragistics Developer Support and provide them the details above. A hotfix was made available on Friday, July 28th which may address this issue.

-Tony

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Accents with ASP.NET AJAX

Hi Everybody, I'm starting study ASP.Net AJAX, and i have a problem!

I create an application with DataBase and GridView, and accents in mine language is not functioning! (portuguese-Brazil) !!!!

What do i must do?

Sorry, I'm Brasilian, My english isn't good!!!

hello.

well, you should take a look at the globalization element:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hy4kkhe0.aspx


I tried this, but it does not function exactly, places invalid characters!!!

Tanks

(Portugues)

Eu ja tentei isso, mais ainda n?o funciona! Ele coloca caracteres invalidos!!!

Obrigado


Hi,

In the gridview, there's a property calledHtmlEncode which allows me todisplay the text as I whished, even if the thare accents (I'm doing it with french), and also I have declared in my globalization enviroment the french (<globalizationrequestEncoding="utf-8"responseEncoding="utf-8"culture="fr-FR"/>)... I suppose that should be enough...

I once had a similar issue during display of some text from the database and I was able to solved with the statement:

Server.HtmlDecode(MyString)

about AtlasUIDragDrop.js

hi,

i have seen some article described the method how to create the drag and drop window,but all are static.such as:

<control id="content1">
<behaviors>
<draggableListItem handle="content1Title" dataType="HTML" />
</behaviors>
</control>

i has checked that Sys.UI.DraggableListItem is a class in the AtalasUIDragDrop.js,but why i can not use in this way:

var obj=new Sys.UI.DraggableListItem();

the browser alert that it is an error!!!

but why i can use this:

var obj=new Sys.Timer();?

if i can use Sys.UI.DraggableListItem,i think i will implement the dynamic crreating drag and drop function.

who can help me?

Hi,

please verify that

1) you added a reference to the AtlasUIDragDrop.js file.
2) you put the dynamic code after the framework (i.e. the Sys.Application object) has raised the load event.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

A little problem

So! I have a little problem here. Im trying to create a Ajax application on my webhost. I added the dlls from the C:\Program\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025 and then i tried uploading one of the sample apps. After this i changed the PublicKeyToken so that it were all caps.

Now, it still doesnt work. This is the URL: http://public.smartit.se/ajaxtest/0_Default.aspx

Error:
Parser Error Message:Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Preview' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

What could possible be wrong?

Thank you all!

MS-Ajax needs to be installed on the server(IIS) too


Ohh.. I see. Thats too bad :(

Well thank you for the fast answer!

A how to question...

Hi,

Please can someone point me in the right direction...?

Does anyone have any idea what is used to create the chat windows onwww.iloveim.com ?

I am currently working on a project where I want to spawn mutiple independant databaound views on a form dynamically from a gridview control. www.iloveim.com is about as close as I can get to what I am aiming for, but, I have no idea where to start... Does this use multiview? or is it dynamic panels?

Any help greatly appriciated.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

Further to the above. I am also looking at Meebo.

Same principal of spawning [x] new "windows" dynamically.

Again, any help greatly appriciated, even just the name of the control that was used.

Tony


I am aware that prgram such as Meebo, ILoveIM and e-messenger are dimly viewed by Microsoft, but, please if anyone can help with what control is used for the dialog box, I'd be very grateful as I have a client that wants this type of appraoch for his system.

He has a gridview populated with tasks, currently, when he wants to view/update a task, the application fires a new browser window. He has seen this approach and wants to fire on of these panels so he can keep the app in a single window.