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Hi,
I have some .html templates, when the Form is submitted the code creates the document and modifies certain portions of the document with information obtained from the fields in the code.
What is a better way to do this, will XML help at all? I'm presently using StringBuilder to develop the content. Ideally I could reopen the documents and quicky make changes rather than re-create them each time.
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One way would be to have a template file with the sections that you want to replace marked out with unique text, then do a find/replace on this.
private string Replace(string item, string replace, string text)
{
if (item == null || item.Trim() == string.Empty)
return string.Empty;
return Regex.Replace(item, replace, text, RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
}This is a method to do a replace based on a regular expression. Call this as:
text = Replace(text, "^^ Unique Text ^^", "My replacement text");
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Hi,
how do i programmatically add a link to a css file e.g.
to a xml file?
Thats my code so far:
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();<br />
settings.Indent = true;<br />
settings.IndentChars = (" ");<br />
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(logFileXml, settings))<br />
{<br />
writer.WriteStartElement("log");<br />
writer.WriteEndElement();<br />
writer.Flush();
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Errm - you don't link CSS to XML. You link CSS to your generated (X)HTML.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Ok now i'm confused. I just want to style my xml-files so i can view it like a nice html table 
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For that, you're talking about XSLT (XML style sheets), which is a whole other animal. Google XSLT and you should find several good guides. But be fore-warned, XSLT is not complicated but it's fugly.
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OK thank you. I have to do it for work 
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I'm creating a WinForms application.
For a log running action I want to create some form in screen and write text to it from different methods allowing user to see the progress.
Any idea how to implement this ?
Where to find sample code which implements this ?
Andrus
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You could use an event to trigger an update on a control (label, textbox, progressbar, etc). Then give the event argument some type of identifier so you know where you are in the process.
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Thank you.
I create the following login class. However, login form does not show messages.
What i'm doing wrong ?
How to force login form to scroll when all lines are filled in form ?
using System;<br />
using System.Windows.Forms;<br />
using System.IO;<br />
<br />
class main {<br />
[STAThreadAttribute()]<br />
public static void Main() {<br />
<br />
LoginForm f = new LoginForm();<br />
f.Show();<br />
<br />
f.Writeln("Login message 1");<br />
f.Writeln("Login message 2");<br />
MessageBox.Show("");<br />
<br />
}<br />
<br />
class LoginForm : Form {<br />
<br />
int vpos = 0;<br />
<br />
public void Writeln(string s) {<br />
<br />
Label l = new Label();<br />
l.Visible = true;<br />
l.Text = s;<br />
vpos += 20;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}
Andrus
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In this example, you need to add the label to the controls collection of the form. But I would use a listbox so you can scroll through each. Using just the label, you'll never see "Login messge 1", for instance.
Take a look at events and delegates. It's what you really want to use.
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Yep, and in my opinion ListBox is the right control for collecting log strings.
My standard log method looks somewhat like this:
public void log(string s) {
if (s.Length!=0) s=DateTime.Now.ToString("hh:mm:ss.fff ")+s;
lb.Items.Add(s);
if (Control.ModifierKeys!=Keys.Control) lb.TopIndex=lb.Items.Count-1;
}
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Thank you.
I created the following code.
Is this best way ?
using System;<br />
using System.Windows.Forms;<br />
using System.IO;<br />
<br />
class main {<br />
[STAThreadAttribute()]<br />
public static void Main() {<br />
<br />
LoginForm f = new LoginForm("Performing task x");<br />
<br />
for (int i = 0; i <= 100; i++) {<br />
f.Writeln("Login message " + i.ToString());<br />
}<br />
MessageBox.Show("");<br />
<br />
}<br />
<br />
class LoginForm : Form {<br />
<br />
ListBox lb;<br />
<br />
public LoginForm(string s) {<br />
Text = s;<br />
Left = 0;<br />
Top = 1000;<br />
Height = 500;<br />
Width = 2000;<br />
lb = new ListBox();<br />
lb.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;<br />
this.Controls.Add(lb);<br />
Show();<br />
}<br />
<br />
public void Writeln(string s) {<br />
<br />
lb.Items.Add(s);<br />
if (Control.ModifierKeys != Keys.Control) lb.TopIndex = lb.Items.Count - 1;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}
Andrus
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Does this work at all ?
Normally:
1. you create an instance of your main form inside the static Main method
2. you dont have Show() in a form's constructor
3. you pass the formk to Application.Run() which brings life to it (and does not return)
4. your main form organizes the remainder of the job; a good place to put some stuff is
in the Load event handler. Everything else typically is in handlers that react to
some event such as a button click, a timer tick, ...
That would also be what you get when you ask Visual Studio to create a new Windows
application. Yours looks like a Console application with a dead? form added to it.
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> Does this work at all ?
I tried and it works OK.
> 1. you create an instance of your main form inside the static Main method
Yes, I create MDI parent form in my application.
Main() is for testing loginform() class only.
> 2. you dont have Show() in a form's constructor
Why not ?
I need to create and show login form using single command.
This works OK.
> dead? form added to it.
This form is not dead.
It shows login messages.
I it OK to use this Loginform call in MDI application ?
Andrus
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AndrusM wrote: I it OK to use this Loginform call in MDI application ?
I dont know; I dont use MDI/SDI models. Sorry.
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ListBox is only for WinForms application.
Every Winform application I have seen used SDI or MDI windows.
How can you create WinForm application without using SDI or MDI ?
Andrus
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If SDI means you can see, read, operate on only one document or window, then I dont (unless
it happens to be a Console app).
If MDI is just the concept of working on more than one document at a time, then I am "using" MDI. If it involves special classes that support this, then I dont.
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MDI means that there are parent window containing all other windows, having MDIPArent property set to true. Those other windows cannot moved outside of parent window.
Andrus
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What type of application is your long running application service? Console App?
If it is a Console application then you can use the delegate event method mentioned, which when called posted the text passed as a param (keeping it simple)
If it is a service, is a windows form really the correct way to do it? manybe the Windiws Eventlog would be more appropriate.
If it is a windows application, look at Trace and Trace Listener (if I am thinking of the right things), the trace listener could access a windowow with a ListBox
Just ideas
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I'm creating MDI Winforms application.
There is no trace listener which outputs text to winforms window visible for end user.
Also trace listeners work only when debugging application.
For this reason I need to create separate logging class.
Andrus
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I understand that you are working in MDI, but what is your long running application? Is this the MDI app??
I assumed that the MDI app was a reporting tool
If it is long running are you sure this is appropriate as it screams service to me!
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thank you. Using your hint I created login form class below.
However I have the following issues with it:
1. Log message is shown only after messagebox is displayed.
How to force text to be displayed in login form immediately after calling Log method ?
2. Log window is displayed in top of screen.
Top = (int)(0.6 * (double)screen.WorkingArea.Height);
seems not working. How to show login form in lower part of screen ?
3. If there are more items than login area height, a scroll bar appears.
How to remove the scroll bar.
4. How to remove icon and all buttons from login form title bar ?
Andus.
using System;<br />
using System.Windows.Forms;<br />
using System.IO;<br />
<br />
class main {<br />
[STAThreadAttribute()]<br />
public static void Main() {<br />
<br />
Status s = new Status("Performing task x");<br />
s.Log("This text is not shown immediately");<br />
<br />
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(8000);<br />
MessageBox.Show ("now it is shown");<br />
}<br />
<br />
public class Status : Form {<br />
<br />
ListBox lb;<br />
<br />
public Status(string title) {<br />
<br />
lb = new ListBox();<br />
lb.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;<br />
Controls.Add(lb);<br />
<br />
Screen screen = Screen.AllScreens[0];<br />
AutoScroll = false;<br />
FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedSingle;<br />
Text = title;<br />
Left = 0;<br />
Top = (int)(0.6 * (double)screen.WorkingArea.Height);<br />
Height = screen.WorkingArea.Height / 3;<br />
Width = screen.WorkingArea.Width;<br />
Show();<br />
}<br />
<br />
public void Log(string s) {<br />
lb.Items.Add(s);<br />
lb.TopIndex = lb.Items.Count - 1;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
}
Andrus
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Hi,
1.
I am not surprised; you are doing it in a strange (probably wrong) way as I told you before.And it is only getting worse. You should not have the Sleep, dont do MessageBox if there is
something better (your form), dont include Show() in a form's constructor,
use Application.Run so you have a message pump, etc.
2.
A form's location is either automatic or user defined, depending on Form.StartPosition
3.
Normally the idea of logging is to have a record of the entire history.
If you dont like it, you could make the listbox taller, remove the oldest logs,
not use a listbox at all, etc
4.
read up on Form properties. If you set a sufficient number of them to false or "" you
can get rid of anything you dont want.
I must insist you study some more, and start doing things in a more conventional way;
otherwise you will have problems all over the place.
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Luc,
1. This issue reproduction performs some task and exists.
It uses form only to show progress messages.
Since it does not need to enter to message bump it does not call Application.Run() method.
My actual MDI application calles Run() method for MDI parent form.
However, it encounters exactly the same issue.
So my questions were:
A. How to force listbox to show new item immediately, without entering wait state ?
B. How to force status window to continue display messages when I switch to other application and then back to my application ?
Current not responding appears and window stops updating.
2. StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual; fixes the issue. Thank you.
3. I close login window immediately after task is completed.
So I'm looking a way not to hold all messages in listbox and remove listbox scrollbar or to use some other method which does not waste memory.
4. After setting some properties to false, all icons from title bar disappear. Thank you.
Andrus
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