Working with ListBox in .Net Windows Application


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

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

Using Ajax in ASP.NET application -3 (JSON)


As we saw in our previous post

https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/using-ajax-in-aspnet-application-2/ 

How easy it becomes to parse the response and the values if it is in the XML rather than plain text.

But that is not the only way there is something called JSON as well

What is JSON?

JSON – Javascript object notation is a format for sending and recieving data similar to XML.

It’s a lightweight data fomat that’s easy to work with in JavaScript.

Check this site for more info http://json.org/

Let’s understand it by an example

We’ll here again modify the application created in our previous post to make use of JSON in place of XML

This time we will be returing an Object to our javascript code in JSON as response.

Let’s say we have on class like this which we would like to return as response to our calling ajax scripts

public class Emp

{

public Emp(){}

private string firstName;

public string FirstName{get { return firstName; } set { firstName = value; }}

private string lastName;

public string LastName{ get { return lastName; } set { lastName = value; }} 

private string[] skills = new string[3]; 

public string[] Skills{ get { return skills; }set { skills = value; }

}} 

To convert it to JSON let’s make use of a library.

We’ll make use of LitJSON here.

We can find all the information and the library for LitJSON here http://litjson.sourceforge.net/doc/manual.html 

(add reference to LitJson.dll in the project) 

Now make this change in our Default2.aspx page’s page Load

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Emp emp = new Emp();

emp.FirstName = “Donald”;

emp.LastName = “Duck”;

emp.Skills[0] = “ASP.NET”;

emp.Skills[1] = “WCF”;

emp.Skills[2] =”WPF”;

string json_Emp = JsonMapper.ToJson(emp);

Response.Write(json_Emp); 

}

Response.Write(json_Emp) will give us this

{“FirstName”:”Donald”,”LastName”:”Duck”,”Skills”:[“ASP.NET”,”WCF”,”WPF”]}

The changes that we need to make in our Default.aspx page are again in doUpdate function 

function doUpdate()

{

if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)

 {

//{“FirstName”:”Donald”,”LastName”:”Duck”,”Skills”:[“ASP.NET”,”WCF”,”WPF”]}

 var jsonData=eval(‘(‘+xmlHttp.responseText+’)’);

var firstName=jsonData.FirstName;

var lastName=jsonData.LastName; 

var skill1=jsonData.Skills[0];

var skill1=jsonData.Skills[1];

}}

This way we can parse the recieved as JSON which seems much easier comapred to XMLDOM. 

Bye 

Using Ajax in ASP.NET application -2


In part 1 of this post we saw our response returning us a simple text which was holding a single value.

But what if it is returing multiple values and it using some characters like | (pipe) or say semicolon for separating one value from another.

In this case, we need to make use of javascript string functions to get each and every value.

Here then our application should understand what ; and | or say , mean and what if their order changes.

So now we can have our responses send as XML so that we can make use of XMLDOM to parse through the response. Which infact would be quite easy and efficient.

Let’s update our application

https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/using-ajax-in-aspnet-application/

Things we need to change are

1)  Change doUpdate function

function doUpdate()

{

if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)

{ // replacing reponseText with responseXML to get the xml DOM tree reference 

var xmlDoc=xmlHttp.responseXML; // parsing through the response using dom methods

var firstName=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(“first”)[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

var lastName=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(“last”)[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

document.getElementById(“lblInfo”).firstChild.nodeValue=firstName+” “+lastName; }

 }

In the above case the response we are recieving from server is this, which is in xml

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<name><first>Mickey</first><last>Mouse</last>
</name>

2) Now we will change Default2.aspx to send us response back in xml.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e){ // this will inform our webpage about responses being sent as XML and not text

 Response.AddHeader(“Content-Type”, “text/xml;charset=UTF-8”);

Response.Write(“<?xml version=\”1.0\” encoding=\”utf-8\”?><name><first>Mickey</first><last>Mouse</last> </name>”);  

}

Now we can run our application and see our label’s text changing to Mickey Mouse. 

Bye

Using Ajax in ASP.NET application -1


Hi,

Here we’ll change the small application that we had written to get reponse from ASP.NET webpage rather than a webservice.

https://nishantrana.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/calling-aspnet-webservice-from-javascript-ajax/

Here we are using a label server control whose value we will be replacing with response from our asp.net web page through ajax call

1)  Create a new ASP.NET WebApplication  

2)  Put a label control on the form (Default.aspx)

<asp:Label ID=”lblInfo” runat=”server” Height=”49px” Text=”Label” Width=”209px”>ReplaceIt</asp:Label>

 3) Put this script code in the head section of the aspx page

var xmlHttp;

function getMessage()

{

xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);

xmlHttp.open(“post”, “Default2.aspx”, true);

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=doUpdate;

xmlHttp.send();  return false; }

function doUpdate() { if(xmlHttp.readyState==4)

{

var exch; exch=xmlHttp.responseText;document.getElementById(“lblInfo”).firstChild.nodeValue=exch;

}

}

4) Call the getMessage function in the body’s onLoad eventHandler

 <BODY onload=”getMessage()”>

5) Create another page Default2.aspx which will return us  the “Hello World” repsonse.

6) Write this in our Default2.aspx’s page load event

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Response.Write(“Hello World”);

}

7) Now comes the most imp part i.e. Deleting all the html tags  from our Default2.aspx leaving only this, otherwise the html will also come as a part of response. But we need only the Hello World text.

<%@ Page Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true” CodeFile=”Default2.aspx.cs” Inherits=”Default2″ %>

8- Now run the application, we should see our label’s text changing to “Hello World”

Bye

Using ALLColumns() in Dynamics CRM


Hi,

To retireve the values for all the attributes of an entity we can make use of ALLColumns ,

CrmService service=new CrmService();

service.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

QueryExpression query = new QueryExpression();

query.EntityName = EntityName.new_entityname.ToString();

query.ColumnSet=new AllColumns();

BusinessEntityCollection entities= service.RetrieveMultiple(query);

for(int i=0;i<entities.BusinessEntities.Length;i++)

{

new_entityname nEntity=(new_entityname) entities.BusinessEntities[i];

Response.Write(“<b>”+nEntity.new_id+” -></b>”);

Response.Write(“<i>” + nEntity.createdby.name + ” –></i>”);

}

}

Or by using QueryByAttribute  

It can be used when our query is very simple i.e. multiple equals conditions that are combined using AND.

But remember it doesn’t support OR
QueryByAttribute myQuery=new QueryByAttribute();
myQuery.ColumnSet=new AllColumns();
myQuery.EntityName=EntityName.opportunity.ToString();

    // Find all the opportunities with topic name test1 and city as Redmond
myQuery.Attributes=new string[]{“name”,”address1_city”};
myQuery.Values=new string[]{“Test1″,”Redmond”};
BusinessEntityCollection retrieved=service.RetrieveMultiple(myQuery);
Bye

Query for finding Team and it’s member in MS DYNAMICS CRM


Hi,

We can use this query to retrieve different teams and the users belonging to that team within Microsoft Dyanmics CRM

Select FT.name TeamName,FSU.Fullname UserName, FSU.Systemuserid from
dbo.FilteredSystemUser FSU
inner Join
dbo.FilteredTeamMembership FTM  
on FSU.Systemuserid = FTM.Systemuserid
Inner join  dbo.FilteredTeam FT
on FT.TeamID = FTM.TeamID
ORDER BY FT.NAME

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