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Monday, June 13, 2011

Steps to remove empty lines using Visual Studio i.e format the coding

Steps to remove empty lines using Visual Studio i.e format the coding in .cs or .vb file
Start Visual Studio and follow these steps.
1.Click Ctrl-H (quick replace)
2. Tick "Use Regular Expressions"
3. In Find specify ^$\n

4. In Replace box delete everything.
5 Click "Replace All"
All empty lines will be deleted.



Regular expression for empty line consist of  
Beginning of line ^
End of line $
Line break \n


A regex to remove blank lines that are/aren't *really* blank (i.e. they do/don't have spaces):  
^:b*$\n

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Validating textbox using single CustomValidator Control in GridView

The below code validates all the textboxes in a Gridview using a single CustomValidator control

function isValidDate(sText) {
var reDate = /(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\/(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/(?:19|20\d{2})/;

if(sText.length==0)
return false;
else
return reDate.test(sText);
}
function isValidDecimalValue(sValue)
{
var reDecimal = /^\d{1,12}(\.(\d{1,2}))?$/;
return reDecimal.test(sValue);
}

function validateForm(source, value)
{
var isXDDateError = false;
var isGrossError = false;
var objError = document.getElementById("<%= spnError.ClientID %>");
objError.innerHTML="";
isXDDateError=ValidateDateValue();
isGrossError=ValidateGross();

if(isXDDateError || isGrossError)//Both false
{
value.IsValid = false;
}
else
value.IsValid = true;
}

function ValidateGross()
{
var obj = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
var objError = document.getElementById("<%= spnError.ClientID %>");
var objSpan, isError = false;
for(i=0; i<obj.length; i++)
{
if(obj[i].name.indexOf("txtGross") > 0)
{
if(!isValidDecimalValue(obj[i].value))
{
isError = true;
if(obj[i].parentNode != null)
{
for(j=0; j < obj[i].parentNode.childNodes.length; j++)
{
objSpan = obj[i].parentNode.childNodes[j];
if( objSpan != null && objSpan.id != undefined)
{
if(objSpan.id.indexOf("spnGross") == 0)
{
objSpan.innerText = "*";
}
}
}
}
}
else
{
if(obj[i].parentNode != null)
{
for(j=0; j < obj[i].parentNode.childNodes.length; j++)
{
objSpan = obj[i].parentNode.childNodes[j];
if( objSpan != null && objSpan.id != undefined)
{
if(objSpan.id.indexOf("spnGross") == 0)
{
objSpan.innerText = "";
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
if(isError)
{
if(objError.innerHTML.length>0)
objError.innerHTML+="* Please enter a value for Gross.</br>"
else
objError.innerHTML="* Please enter a value for Gross.</br>"
objError.display="block";
}

return isError;
}

<span id="spnError" runat="server" style="color:Red"></span>
<asp:CustomValidator ID = "CustomValidator1" runat = "server" ClientValidationFunction = "validateForm"></asp:CustomValidator>
<asp:Button ID="btnSave" CausesValidation="true" runat="server" Visible="true" class="tdsButton" Text="Save"
align="right" OnClick="btnSave_Click" />
<asp:GridView ID="HoldingsGrid" runat="server">
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Gross" SortExpression="SortOnGross">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="lblGross" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("PAYMENT_GROSS_LOCAL_CUST") %>' />
<asp:TextBox ID="txtGross" runat="server" />
<span id="spnGross" style="color:Red" ></span>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>

Validate date using Javascript dd/mm/yyyy

<html>
<head>
<title>Date Example</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function isValidDate(sText) {
        var reDate = /(?:0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\/(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])\/(?:19|20\d{2})/;
        return reDate.test(sText);
    }
    function validate() {
        var oInput1 = document.getElementById("txt1");
        if (isValidDate(oInput1.value)) {
            alert("Valid");
        else {
            alert("Invalid!");
        }
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>
    <P>Date: <input type="text" id="txt1" /><br />
    example: 06/07/2005<br />
    <input type="button" value="Validate" onclick="validate()" /></p>
</body>
</html>