ProgramGood.Net

The biggest part is that SiteFinity uses User Profiles which are not available at design time in a web application (therefore it doesn’t compile). To get around this we use the Web Profile Builder, which is a wrapper class which acts as a workaround.

This was the only code I had issue with:

//ProfileCommon profile = (ProfileCommon)ProfileCommon.Create(CreateUserWizard1.UserName, true);

WebProfile profile = new WebProfile(WebProfile.Create(CreateUserWizard1.UserName, true));

http://forums.asp.net/p/1042824/3451445.aspx

Then we convert to a Web Application. The major difference is that in web sites each page has its code-behind compiled into a seperate library, whereas in a web application all code behind gets compiled into a single library.

There is a secondary file too called yourpage.aspx.designer.cs which moves all of the control declarations into it (a partial class). This allows VS2k5, 2k8, 2010 to generate code without dumping into the main .cs class, and allows the class access to the controls on the page.

Used FileZilla and it all works. Now, next post on VS2010 publishing / deploying!

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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Default Values in Eval

( c# language )

I’m getting data using LINQ to SQL, then showing on the front end. If I want a null coming from the database to default to something:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn HeaderText="Image" UniqueName="Image">  
                        <ItemTemplate>  
                            <asp:Label ID="asdf" runat="server" Text='<%# String.IsNullOrEmpty(Convert.ToString(Eval("Image1"))) ? "noImage.jpg" : Eval("Image1")%>'></asp:Label>
                           <a href="<%=VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/")%>showFrontEndMaterialDetail.aspx?materialId=<%# Eval("Id")%>">
                            <img src="<%=VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~/")%>Images/Uploaded/Thumbs/<%# Eval("Image1") ?? "noPhoto.jpg" %>"></img></a>
                   
                        </ItemTemplate>  
                     </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

Thanks to these people:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3411155/c-eval-aspx-fun

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3410942/linq-to-sql-default-value-nullable

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Difference Between a Property and a Field using Repeaters

( c# language | SiteFinity )

When displaying a repeater on an aspx page:

<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
            <ItemTemplate>
            <%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "FileName")%>
            </ItemTemplate>
        </asp:Repeater>

or shorter:

<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
           <ItemTemplate>
           <%#Eval("FileName")%>
           </ItemTemplate>
       </asp:Repeater>

It is important to remember to make FileName a property and not just a public field ie this works

public class ImageThing
{
    public string FileName {get; set; }
}

private void DisplayThumbnailImages()
{
    ImageThing imageThing1 = new ImageThing();
    ImageThing imageThing2 = new ImageThing();
    imageThing1.FileName = "asdf.jpg";
    imageThing2.FileName = "aaa.jpg";

    List<ImageThing> imagesToRender = new List<ImageThing>();
    imagesToRender.Add(imageThing1);
    imagesToRender.Add(imageThing2);

    Repeater1.DataSource = imagesToRender;
    Repeater1.DataBind();
}

this doesn’t

public class ImageThing
    {
        public string FileName;
    }

A property encapsulates a field.

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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Sitefinity - Theming

( SiteFinity )

31mins. He took a template from freecsstemplates.org and put it into SiteFintiy

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/webinars/designing-skinning-with-sitefinity.aspx

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Delete All Tables in an MSSQL DB

( Database )

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1 = "DROP TABLE ?"

Be careful you are in the correct db! I had to manually drop some tables in the correct order due to FK’s

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Selenium

( Selenium )

A web application testing system

http://seleniumhq.org/download/

Selenium Remote Control runs tests in multiple browsers.. can do in C#

Selenium Grid can distribute tests across multiple servers.

http://thetestingblog.com/2010/02/02/selenium-rc-in-console-app/

Here is a console, running in C# calling the Selenium libraries, which call a java webserver

To start the server dowloads\selenium-remote-control-1.0.3 java -jar selenium-server.jar

There did seem to be an issue with the include statement of the Selenium core.. I got it working by deleing the using statement, then Ctrl . somewhere.. code in C:\code\SeleniumTest