Category: Windows Application

Let’s start with a very simple application.

Drop OpenFileDialog control in the application.

When user click on Pick File button using OpenFileDialog he will select a rtf file to display in richtextbox control.

The content of richtextbox control will be saved in the sql server table.

This is how our table looks like.

File content is the image data type column where we will store our rtf content.

<!–[if gte vml 1]> <![endif]–>

Put the following code in Pick file button click.

if(openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)

{

try

{

rtfContent.LoadFile(openFileDialog1.FileName);

}

catch(Exception ex)

{

MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);

}

}

Put the following code in Save Button Click

SqlConnection conn=new SqlConnection(“Data Source=D-0824;Initial Catalog=WordInterOp; uid=sa;pwd=sa;”);

SqlCommand cmd=new SqlCommand();

cmd.CommandText = “Insert into RtfStore (fileName,fileContent) values ( @fname,@fcontent)”;

cmd.Connection=conn;

SqlParameter fileName=new SqlParameter(“@fname”,openFileDialog1.SafeFileName);

rtfContent.SaveFile(@”c:\temp.rtf”, RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText);

FileStream stream = new FileStream(@”c:\temp.rtf”, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);

int size = Convert.ToInt32(stream.Length);

Byte[] rtf = new Byte[size];

stream.Read(rtf, 0, size);

SqlParameter fileContent=new SqlParameter();

fileContent.ParameterName=”@fcontent”;

fileContent.SqlDbType=SqlDbType.Image;

fileContent.Size=rtf.Length;

fileContent.Value=rtf;

cmd.Parameters.Add(fileName);

cmd.Parameters.Add(fileContent);

conn.Open();

int success=cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

if(success==1)

{

MessageBox.Show(“Entered data successfully”);

}

openFileDialog1.SafeFileName- To get the name of file instead of the complete path.

rtfContent.SaveFile- Saving the content of the control in a rtf file.

RichTextBoxStreamType.RichText– This tells that we are saving richtext having some formatting and not just plain text.

Finally through filestream we are reading that file and saving it’s content in our sqlserver table.

Similary to read the rtf content from the database and display it in Richtextbox control, this is what we need to do

// cmd.commandText=”select fileContent from RtfStore where filename=’xyz’ “;

SqlDataReader dr =  cmd.ExecuteReader();

if (dr.Read())

{

Byte[] rtf = new Byte[Convert.ToInt32((dr.GetBytes(0, 0,

null, 0, Int32.MaxValue)))];

long bytesReceived = dr.GetBytes(0, 0, rtf, 0, rtf.Length);

ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();

rtfContent.Rtf = encoding.GetString(rtf, 0, Convert.ToInt32(bytesReceived));

}

Bye

Say we want to implement some functionality as shown in the image below in our windows form

Using >> button we want to move values from optional sections to mandatory sections list box and vice versa using << button. But we don’t want the sections which are mandatory to move to optional list box.

Finally we can rearrange items in the Mandatory list box using up and down buttons.

Let’s see the code for all this

Our listboxes are named lstOptional and lstMandatory

>> button is named btnSelect

<< button is named btnDeSelect

When button >>(btnSelect is clicked)

private void btnSelect_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

// if there are no item in lstOptional Listbox return

if (lstOptional.Items.Count == 0)
{

return;
}

// if some item is selected in the lstOptional Listbox check if we already have it in lstMandatory

// if it is there or nothing is selected than return

int g = lstMandatory.FindStringExact(lstOptional.Text);
if(g>-1||lstOptional.Text ==””)
{
return;
}

// finally add that item to lstMandatory, refresh it to make it appear and remove it from lstOptional

lstMandatory.Items.Add(lstOptional.Text );
lstMandatory.Refresh();
lstMandatory.Text = “”;
lstOptional.Items.Remove(lstOptional.Text);
}

When button << DeSelect is clicked

private void btnDeSelect_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

// if nothing is selected in lstMandatory just put the focus over the listbox

if (lstMandatory.Text == “”)
{
lstMandatory.Focus();
return;
}

// checking if the selected item is mandatory on.

// Here we have saved the mandatory items in a hidden listbox on form load

int g = lstHidden.FindStringExact(lstMandatory.Text);
if (g > -1)
{
MessageBox.Show(“This section is mandatory”,”Information”);
}
else
{
lstOptional.Items.Add(lstMandatory.Text);
lstMandatory.Items.Remove(lstMandatory.Text);
}
}

When button Up is clicked we need to move the selected item in upward direction

int selectedItemIndex = lstMandatory .SelectedIndex;
String selectedItemText = lstMandatory .Text;
if (selectedItemIndex != 0)
{
lstMandatory .Items.RemoveAt(selectedItemIndex);
lstMandatory .Items.Insert(selectedItemIndex – 1, selectedItemText);
lstMandatory .SelectedIndex = selectedItemIndex – 1;
}
lstMandatory .Refresh();
lstMandatory .Focus();

Finally when button Down is clicked

int selectedItemIndex = lstMandatory.SelectedIndex;
String selectedItemText = lstMandatory.Text;
int total = lstMandatory.Items.Count;
if (selectedItemIndex < total – 1)
{
lstMandatory.Items.RemoveAt(selectedItemIndex);
lstMandatory.Items.Insert(selectedItemIndex + 1, selectedItemText);
lstMandatory.SelectedIndex = selectedItemIndex + 1;
}
lstMandatory.Refresh();

Bye

Hi today we will see how to create wizard like window application in .NET 2.0.

1) Create a new window application.
2) Add three forms in it. I have named the form as FirstStep, SecondStep and ThirdStep.
3) In FirstStep add two button – Next and Cancel
4) In SecondStep add three button- Previous, Next and Cancel
5) In ThirdStep add two button- Previous and Cancel
6) Than add a new class file – name it WizardData.cs
7) Add following code to it

// this wizardData class will have a enumeration and a property to display the appropriate form
public class WizardData
{
public enum wizardForms
{
FirstStep =1, SecondStep=2, ThirdStep=3,Cancel =99
}
private wizardForms formToShow;
public wizardForms FormToShow
{
get
{
return formToShow;
}
set
{
formToShow=value;
}
}
}

8. Then go to program.cs and modify it in the following manner

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
MyInitialization();

//Replace Application.Run(…. ) with MyInitialization() – custom function
}

9) The code for MyInitialization() goes like this

// Create instances of all the forms to be displayed
private static void MyInitialization()
{
WizardData wData = new WizardData();
wData.FormToShow = WizardData.wizardForms.FirstStep;
Form step1 = new FirstStep(wData);
Form step2 = new SecondStep(wData);
Form step3 = new ThirdStep(wData);while (wData.FormToShow != WizardData.wizardForms.Cancel)
{
switch (wData.FormToShow)
{
case WizardData.wizardForms.FirstStep:
{
step1.ShowDialog();
break;
}
case WizardData.wizardForms.SecondStep:
{
step2.ShowDialog();
break;
}
case WizardData.wizardForms.ThirdStep:
{
step3.ShowDialog();
break;
}
}
}10) Now go to your FirstStep Form. Replace the constructor with this

public FirstStep(WizardData wd)
{
this.wData = wd;
InitializeComponent();
}

11) In the cancel button and next button click event handler write the following code

private void btnNext_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// to show the SecondStep form
wData.FormToShow = WizardData.wizardForms.SecondStep;
this.Close();
}private void btnCancel_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
wData.FormToShow = WizardData.wizardForms.Cancel;
this.Close();
}

12) Repeat the same step 11 for SecondStep and ThirdStep form.
for previous button click event handler add the following codeprivate void btnPrevious_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// replace the wizardForm.(…) with appropriate form to be displayed
wData.FormToShow = WizardData.wizardForms.FirstStep;
this.Close();
}


That’s it