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Good day! When working with multiple server validation controls for one input control, you often encountered wide space gap if the validation controls are placed inside a single container such as div or td such as the sample screenshot below. The solution to remove the wide gap is to set the Display property of the validation controls to Dynamic. <td> <asp:TextBox ID= "txtCreditLimit" runat= "server" Width= "150" /> <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ValidationGroup= "valCustomerEntry" Display= "Dynamic" ID= "regexpName" runat= "server" ErrorMessage= "The value entered is not valid" ControlToValidate= "txtCreditLimit" ValidationExpression= "\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+" ForeColor= "Red" /> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ValidationGroup= "valCustomerEntry" Display= "Dynamic" ID= "RequiredFieldValidator6" runat= "ser

Good day! Here's a simple example on how to Serialize .NET classes that applied the concept of Inheritance to XML. Given the model classes below: [Serializable] public class Employee { public int EmployeeId { get ; set ; } public string Name { get ; set ; } public string Address { get ; set ; } } [Serializable] public class Utility : Employee { public string Category { get ; set ; } } [Serializable] public class Supervisor : Employee { public int OverrideCode { get ; set ; } } The code to populate and serialize the objects to XML is presented here using XmlSerializer class: List<Employee> employees = new List<Employee>(); Supervisor supervisor1 = new Supervisor(); supervisor1.Name = "Michael" ; supervisor1.Address = "Manila" ; supervisor1.EmployeeId = 11111; supervisor1.OverrideCode = 234; employees.Add(supervisor1); Utility utility1 = new Utility(); utility1.Name = "Erick" ; utility1.Address = "Masba

Hello, I was testing the addBool() method of jQuery validation to a CheckBoxFor() which will prevent the form from submitting if the checkbox is unchecked. To my surprise, the JavaScript code below doesn't work. @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jquery") @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval") <script type= "text/javascript" language= "javascript" > (function ($) { $.validator.addMethod('checkboxrequired', function (value, elem) { var $elem = $(elem); if ($elem.prop('type') == 'checkbox') { if (!$elem.prop('checked')) { return false; } } return true; }); $.validator.unobtrusive.adapters.addBool('checkboxrequired', 'required'); }(jQuery)); </script> After series of investigation, I disc

Hello, In this tutorial, I will demonstrate on how to upload and publish a Visual Studio 2012 project to GitHub. Steps 1 and 2 are needed because editions of Visual Studio (2013 and 2015) has built-in extension for Git. So to start with, perform the detailed steps below. 1. Close all instance of Visual Studio. Download and Install Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 (Latest Update) 2. Download and Install Visual Studio Tools for Git. (Search in marketplace.visualstudio.com) 3. Create a sample Repository. (Uncheck Initialize this repository with a README) 4. Copy the url generated by the repository with .git extension. This will be used when you publish the project. 5. Open Sample project to be committed. Right click on the solution and choose Git instead of Team Foundation Version Control. 6. Open Team Explorer via View Menu (View-> Team Explorer). 7. Click Home (Home icon) and then choose Changes. This will open up the project in which you can select files to be Included o

Hi! Today, I just created a repository account in GitHub .NET Genetics . I'll be adding some snippets and projects posted in this blog or in the .NET Community VBForums. Cheers! :-)

Greetings! Going back to a previous project of mine, I found out that some DataGridView control's DataSource where set using List<T> and as a result, prevented the users to add new data to the DataGridView. private void List() { List<Item> list = new List<Item>(); for ( int i = 0; i < 100; i++) { list.Add( new Item() { ID = i, Name = String.Format( "{0}:{1}" , "Test" , i.ToString()) }); } DataGridView1.DataSource = list; } The common solution is to use DataTable as the DataSource but if we want to use a List type object, we could use BindingList<T> or BindingSource. Both of these have AllowNew property which indicates that you can add items to the list using the AddNew() method. It is stated in DataGridView.AllowUsersToAddRows that " If the DataGridView is bound to data, the user is allowed to add rows if both this property and the data source's IBindingList.AllowNew property are set to true. ".Well, Lis

Hi, A common issue when deserializing a JSON object in C# is to pass the filepath of the JSON file to the Deserialize() method instead of the string content of that file such as the code below. var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Employee>( @"D:\Data\Employee.json" ) When calling the Deserialize() method, you need to make sure that the parameter passed is a JSON string value instead of the file path. Use StreamReader class or File.ReadAllText() to get the content of the JSON file. using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader( @"D:\Data\Employee.json" )) { string json = reader.ReadToEnd(); var obj = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Employee>(json); }

Hi all, Given a database table such as User with fields Id, UserName and Password that will be mapped to a class using Entity Framework called User with an additional field of ConfirmPassword. public class User { public int Id { get ; set ; } public string UserName { get ; set ; } public string Password { get ; set ; } public string ConfirmPassword { get ; set ; } } I would like to exclude the ConfirmPassword field from being mapped to the User table. So, after doing some searching, the solution is to decorate the property with [NotMapped] attribute and make sure to reference the DataAnnotations namespace ( System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema ). using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema; public class User : IEntity { public int Id { get ; set ; } public string UserName { get ; set ; } public string Password { get ; set ; } [NotMapped] public string ConfirmPassword { get ; set ; } }

Hello, Here's how to update DataTable value(s) using Method or Query syntax in LINQ. C# Code private void Form1_Load( object sender, EventArgs e) { DataTable dt = new DataTable( "tblEntTable" ); dt.Columns.Add( "ID" , typeof ( string )); dt.Columns.Add( "Amount" , typeof ( decimal )); dt.Rows.Add( new object [] { "1" , 100.51}); dt.Rows.Add( new object [] { "2" , 200.52}); dt.Rows.Add( new object [] { "3" , 500.24}); dt.Rows.Add( new object [] { "4" , 400.31}); dt.Rows.Add( new object [] { "5" , 600.88}); dt.Rows.Add( new object [] { "6" , 700.11}); //QuerySyntax(dt); MethodSyntax(dt); } private void QuerySyntax(DataTable dt) { var result = from row in dt.AsEnumerable() select new { ID = row.Field< string >( "ID" ), Amount = 900.23 }; DataGridView1.DataSource = result.ToList(); } private void MethodSyntax(DataTa

Good day! A question was raised on how to assign a date value with format dd-MM-yyyy (05-11-2016) to a DateTimePicker control Text property. Using Convert.ToDateTime() to assign the given value will cause an exception String was not recognized as a valid DateTime . So, a workaround for this is to parse the date value using DateTime.ParseExact() as presented below. The default format of the DateTimePicker control is long. var dateObj = DateTime.ParseExact( "05-11-2016" , "dd-MM-yyyy" , CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); DateAttendancePicker.Text = dateObj.ToString(); Make sure that the second parameter of the function is the correct format of the input value.