Paul Brown

Ever want to use JavaScript on a Textbox inside a DetailsView? It can be done, you just need to overcome two issues. The first is that .Net will change the ID from "MyTextBox" to something like "ct100_ContentPlaceholder1_DetailsView1_MyTextBox". The second is that these controls may exist only in Edit or Insert mode. The first thing we want to do is get the ID of MyTextbox that gets sent to the browser. Since MyTextbox only exists when we're editing or inserting, we need to use the PreRender event. We check to make sure we are in Edit/Insert mode and then use FindControl to get a handle on the textbox. Next we use the ScriptManager RegisterHiddenField method to register a hidden control that has the ClientID as its value. Protected Sub DetailsView1_PreRender( ByVal sender As Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DetailsView1.PreRender If DetailsView1.CurrentMode = DetailsViewMode.Edit Or DetailsView1.CurrentMode = DetailsViewMode.Inse...

LINQ To SQL likes to use TimeStamp columns for version tracking and makes it really easy to do so. However, in a lot of the apps I work on, we need to keep track of when the last change was made so we have a DateTime column titled LastUpdated. Using Steve Michelotti's post , I was able to use this column for row version control. Everything was fine until I was using a DetailsView and got the message "Row not found or changed". This message is LINQ's way of telling you that the row has been changed and you now have a concurrence conflict. Since I was working on my local box, I knew this wasn't the case. Pulling up SQL Profiler, I was able to see that LINQ was sending the LastUpdated date back without milliseconds. Since this isn't the same as the value on the row, it thinks a change has occurred. I was displaying the LastUpdated field in a readonly column so it shouldn't have been getting changed. I also had it as DataKey and could see that it was getti...

Here's some JavaScript functions that I use like VB's DateDiff function. I've seen some other functions but most take the number of days and end up close but not quite. They also don't correctly handle leap years. DateDiffYears will return the number of years between two dates while DateDiffMonths will return the number of months. Couple of things to remember. DateDiffYears is often used to determine age so it won't go negative but will return zero. Thus, if the end date precedes the start date you'll get zero as the result. Also, pass start and end as date objects rather than strings. LAstly, you need DateDiffYears to use DateDiffMonths. // Calcuates the number of years between two dates. // start - a date object that defines the beginning of the range // end - a date object that defines the end of the range function DateDiffYears(start, end) { var years = end.getFullYear() - start.getFullYear(); var month1 = start.getMonth() var month...