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Ask your professors for some insight. That is what they are there for.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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I store an object to the clipboard like this
Clipboard.SetDataObject(CustomDataObject)
and retrieve it like this:
<br />
if (Clipboard.ContainsData("MyNameSpace.CustomDataObject"))<br />
{<br />
CustomDataObject objectName = (CustomDataObject)Clipboard.GetData("MyNameSpace.CustomDataObject");<br />
}<br />
The problem is that if (Clipboard.ContainsData("MyNameSpace.CustomDataObject")) evaluates true but when CustomDataObject objectName = (CustomDataObject)Clipboard.GetData("MyNameSpace.CustomDataObject"); is carried out objectName is assigned null. I read through the documentation on the Clipboard.GetData method and it says it only returns null if the specified format isn't on the clipboard. But it clearly said that format WAS on the clipboard, that's contradictory!
Oh and no error is given so Clipboard.GetData is working properly I suppose but returning null nonetheless.
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1. I've created a userControl that contains a Label and a TextBox.
2. I programmatically create a number of TabPages and add them to a TabControl.
3. On each TabPage I programmatically add a number of my userControls giving each control a unique name
and I pass information to the control to adjust the label.
This is all based off of an xml file. So I read this xml file and determine how many tabs and how many controls I need to
add to each page. The user will then edit the data in the textbox if needed.
Once the user is done and click save, I need to go through each control and get the value that the user entered. Then update my xml file with the new data.
I can not figure out how to loop through and get the controls off of each tab.
Hopefully I've explained this clearly.
Thanks in advance for any help!!!
Bob
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foreach(TabPage tp in tabcontrol1.TabPages)
{
foreach(Control ct in tp.Controls)
{
if(ct.GetType() == typeof(TextBox))
{
}
}
}
This would be ok for the textboxes inside the tabpage, if you have a groupbox or panel, you will have to add one more loop to find the controls inside them.
Is it not possible for you to directly access the text box? You are creating the textbox control from the xml list and you should have the textbox Name?
Tarakeshwar Reddy
MCP, CCIE Q(R&S)
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
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Good point, you interate through your XML file to build the controls, so you should be able to go through it again to know where to get values back out.
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Personally I would modify the test to be
if ( ct is Textbox ) ...
and others on here would use
TextBox temp ;
...
if ( ( temp = ct as TextBox ) != null ) ...
any of the three should serve you well.
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I have used if ( ct is Textbox ) kind of code also, but I really haven't researched the difference of this vs that. Does it improve performance or is it just a better way of coding it?
Tarakeshwar Reddy
MCP, CCIE Q(R&S)
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
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Perhaps not in this case.
But if the actual control were of some derived type of TextBox (e.g. MyTextBox) then the is would return true whereas the test for typeof(TextBox) would return false.
as would also work as expected, but the downside, in my opinion, is that as requires the declaration of a reference variable (not a big deal) and the assignment of that reference within the loop when there really is no need for the reference at all, except perhaps to make the code more readable.
I still haven't found a worthwhile use for as.
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Anytime you actually need to cast to a type, as is a nice shortcut that never fails, just leave the instance null if it doesn't work.  "doesn't work" sounds a lot like "fails", you know what I mean...
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Yes, but do you really need the additional reference and is it worth the (repetitious) assignment?
In cases like this, is and as may perform about equally; as requires more assignments and is requires more tests. (Perhaps?)
I'll have to try to make up a test program.
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In this case, no you don't need the extra object on the heap. But in situations where you actually need the case, and aren't just testing it's type, it is handy. Of course you are only holding the reference for a short time, but in THIS case where it's not necessary, that's just more work for the CG.
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Preliminary results confirm my theory:
as works well with a homogenous collection
is works well with a heterogenous collection
But cast/catch/ignore also works well with a homogenous collection, at times even better than as ! (Not that I recommend it... much.) It is horrible with a heterogenous collection.
On the other hand, as doesn't work with value types, but I've had success testing it with nullable types.
-- modified at 23:52 Tuesday 17th July, 2007
Whoops, need to add that the if ( o.GetType() == typeof(sometype) ) method is faster than both is and as, but at the cost of not checking the inheritance tree.
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Hello,
Thanks for the test results!
PIEBALDconsult wrote: that the if ( o.GetType() == typeof(sometype) ) method is faster than both is and as
Wow, I have not seen this comming!
PIEBALDconsult wrote: But cast/catch/ignore also works well with a homogenous collection, at times even better than as ! (Not that I recommend it... much.) It is horrible with a heterogenous collection.
Yep, it is the Exception calls, which makes it so expensive I think!
Again thanks for taking time to test it.
All the best,
Martin
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I still haven't found a worthwhile use for as.
Generally if I need to know whether a variable is of a particular type, I need to use some method of that type that isn't in the base type. So for example, if I wanted to select all the text in the textboxes on a form, where the form has other types of control as well, I'd write:
TextBox tb;
foreach( Control ctl in Controls )
{
if ( null != ( tb = ctl as TextBox ) )
{
tb.SelectAll();
}
}Using as saves performing the type check twice: once to get the result of is, and again to perform the cast.
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I understand that, I just wonder if trading a test for an assignment is worthwhile, in some cases it may well be, but perhaps not in such a simple example. In your example, if you perform a number of operations on tb, then you may well see better performance by having the one assignment rather than a bunch of casts.
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if (null != Something) {} looks really strange to me for some reason.
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Oh, well then try the cast and catch/ignore the exception.
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Far, far, far slower than using as. Exceptions take milliseconds to handle because they require a pass through the kernel.
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(I meant to put a smiley on that post.)
My preliminary results show cast/catch/ignore to actually be faster... sometimes... on a small enough homogenous collection... where no exceptions are actually thrown...
If I understand the original poster's design, he has TabPages that contain some (small) number of instances of his custom control and nothing else; that would qualify as a small homogenous collection, and if in this case:
A) Speed truly outweighs good design (doubtful)
and
B) The presence of some other type of Control in the collection should trigger an Exception
then why not simply perform the cast and catch the exception as you would anyway?
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Every control, including Form has a property called Controls. And of course in cases like TabControl, controls are nested. So the form will have the TabControl in it's Controls collection, and each TabPage in the TabControl will have whatever is on the tab in it's controls collection. If the IDs you give each control is enough information for you to tell what you're looking at, you should be able to do what you need that way.
foreach (Control tab in this.Controls) {
TabControl t = tab as TabControl;
if (t == null) { continue; }
foreach (TabPage p in t.TabPages) {
foreach (Control cp in p.Controls) {
if (!(cp is MyControl)) { continue; }
MyControl mc = cp as MyControl;
}
}
}
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I need to create an application where a user can select some records from a DataGridView and create a Crystal Report based on those records. I basically created most of the necessary functionality using the DataGridView.SelectedRows property to get the selected rows and then importing those rows into a data table that I use to create the report, like so:
foreach(DataGridViewRow r in this.gridView_Hydro_Results.SelectedRows)
{
int selectIndex = r.Index;
row = resultsTable.Rows[selectIndex];
dtSelectedRecords.ImportRow(row);
}
Unfortunately, when I create the report, the records are not in the order of selection. Instead, the records are in the reverse order. It seems like the rows are getting added in a last in, first out order. While that may be easy to counter, my customers actually probably don't care what order the y select the records in, but want the report ordered according to some field in the database, like time or date. I suppose I could build a method to sort the Data Table (or the collection gridview rows) after I create it, but I was wondering if there is a more elegant solution.
In the same vein, is it possible to use a generic list collection in a SQL statement. I was thinking of adding the value of the primary key for each selected row to a List<> object and then using a SELECT * FROM Table WHERE KEY IN (List<>), but am not sure if that will work.
Anyway, any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Have you tried
dtSelectedRecords.Rows.Add(row)
instead? I've always gone this route, and not sure about how ImportRow behaves when inserting rows.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Thanks for the advice.
I actually did try the dtSelectedRecords.Add(row) command first, but kept getting the error that the row already belongs to another table. I didn't want to delete the row from the original table (because the original table is the one that's bound to the grid view), so I had to find some other method that imports a copy of the rows. ImportRow fits that need and it seems to simply insert the records into the table at the last position in the table. What seems to have caused the trouble is the way the rows are added to the DataGridViewRowCollection.SelectedRows collection. I think the rows are added in a last in-first out structure.
What I wound up doing-something that works for now-is import all the rows into the datatable that I need in there and then sort the datatable using the DataTable.Select function to assign the sorting criteria. I import the rows from the DataRow [] into a target table from which I create the report. It's a bit more convoluted than I want and it might not be the most efficient method, especially if the user is selecting quite a few records, but it seems to do the job.
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Hi All,
i have a list view with two column header , one is for ItemName and second for ItemDescription , now i have to implement a search in the list view ,
and i have to make my scrollbar to be at the correct item and i have to make the selected text colored .
Can anyone has any idea how to do it , please?
Praveen Sharma
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foreach (ListViewItem lvi in listView1.Items) {
if (lvi.IsTheOneIWant) {
lvi.ForeColor = Color.Red;
}
}
If you need help with determining if any given item is the one you're looking for, you'll need to be more specific. I personally like to put the object I'm representing in the ListViewItem's Tag property so I can pull it out and inspect it. Gives you a lot more options when doing something like this.
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