ASP.NET ImageButton not supported in Firefox 2.0I recently discovered that the ImageButton and LinkButton ASP.NET controls do not function properly in Firefox 2.0. I wasted almost two days trying to figure out what was wrong with my code. Apparently, I was chasing a ghost! For more information on this problem can be found here. Unfortunately, the only workaround for this problem is to either upgrade to Firefox 3, which ROCKS by the way, or use a standard ASP.NET button and style it using CSS. Using FlexiGrid in your ASP.NET applicationI’ve been exploring JQuery for quiet some time now and I’m already a huge fan! Not only is it light-weight but its extensible too - there are plugins for everything, just name it! Well, almost everything Add the following code to the head section of the document in which you want to display the grid. 1 <link href=“style/flexigrid.css” rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” /> 2
3 <script src=“scripts/jquery.js” type=“text/javascript”></script> 4
5 <script src=“scripts/jquery.flexigrid.js” type=“text/javascript”></script> 6
7 <script type=“text/javascript”> 8
9 $(document).ready(function(){ 10
11 $(“#flex1″).flexigrid 12 (
13 {
14 url: ‘GetData.aspx’, 15 dataType: ‘xml’, 16 colModel : [ 17 {display: 'ISO', name : 'iso', width : 40, sortable : true, align: 'center'}, 18 {display: 'Name', name : 'name', width : 180, sortable : true, align: 'left'}, 19 {display: 'Printable Name', name : 'printable_name', width : 120, sortable : true, align: 'left'}, 20 {display: 'ISO3', name : 'iso3', width : 130, sortable : true, align: 'left'}, 21 {display: 'Number Code', name : 'numcode', width : 80, sortable : true, align: 'right'} 22 ],
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24 /*searchitems : [ 25 {display: 'ISO', name : 'iso'}, 26 {display: 'Name', name : 'name', isdefault: true} 27 ],*/ 28 sortname: “iso”, 29 sortorder: “asc”, 30 usepager: true, 31 title: ‘Countries’, 32 useRp: true, 33 rp: 15, 34 showTableToggleBtn: true, 35 width: 700, 36 height: 400 37 }
38 );
39 });
40
41 </script> The grid is going to get its data from an aspx file called “GetData.aspx”. In the Page_Load(..) event of this page, generate the XML and send it back to the requesting page. 1 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) 2 {
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4 int page = int.Parse(Request.Form["page"].ToString()); 5 int rp = int.Parse(Request.Form["rp"].ToString()); 6 string sortname = Request.Form["sortname"].ToString(); 7 string sortorder = Request.Form["sortorder"].ToString(); 8
9 string sort = String.Format(“ORDER BY {0} {1}”, sortname, sortorder); 10
11 int start = ((page - 1) * rp); 12
13 string limit = String.Format(“LIMIT {0}, {1}”, start, rp); 14
15 Response.ClearHeaders(); 16 Response.AppendHeader(“Expires”, “Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT”); 17 Response.AppendHeader(“Last-Modified”, DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString() + ” “ + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()); 18 Response.AppendHeader(“Cache-Control”, “no-cache, must-revalidate”); 19 Response.AppendHeader(“Pragma”, “no-cache”); 20 Response.AppendHeader(“Content-type”, “text/xml”); 21
22 // Generating XML Data 23
24 EnumerableRowCollection<DataRow> data = GetCountryDataTable(sort, limit); 25
26 XDocument xmlDoc = new XDocument( 27 new XDeclaration(“1.0″, “utf-8″, “yes”), 28 new XElement(“rows”, 29 new XElement(“page”, page.ToString()), 30 new XElement(“total”, GetTotalRecords().ToString()), 31 data.Select(row => new XElement(“row”, new XAttribute(“id”, row["iso"].ToString()), 32 new XElement(“cell”, row["iso"].ToString()), 33 new XElement(“cell”, row["name"].ToString()), 34 new XElement(“cell”, row["printable_name"].ToString()), 35 new XElement(“cell”, row["iso3"].ToString()), 36 new XElement(“cell”, row["numcode"].ToString()) 37 )
38 )
39 )
40 );
41
42 Response.Write(xmlDoc); 43 Response.End(); 44
45 }
I used LINQ to create the XML document but you can do it using Strings or any other method you prefer. Happy Programming! HOW TO: Display RSS Feeds in your PRADO appThis guide will show you how to easily parse and display RSS Feeds in your php application no matter what framework you use. However, I will be using the PRADO framework for this demonstration. The Parser Since I’m a big fan of open-source software, I used MagpieRSS. MagpieRSS provides an XML-based (expat) RSS parser in PHP. The toolkit can be very easily integrated to your PHP application with just one line of code. Follow these steps to install the toolkit into your prado application:
If we don’t rename rss_fetch.inc to rss_fetch.php in the previous step we cannot use the prado style include statement as shown in Line 1; Instead we have to use include_once(..). I did that just to maintain consistency in my coding style - no biggie |
Today I’m going to demonstrate how we can use the excellent FlexiGrid plugin in our ASP.NET applications.
