Dotnet Galaxy: October 2013

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

How to use Ajax FilteredTextBoxExtender

Did you ever think of getting a ready made textbox with validation in ASP.NET? In this article I am going to explain you an Ajax control names FilteredTextBoxExtender. This control will help you to filter the user input without any additional script or coding.

Advantage of FilteredTextBoxExtender is there is not much configuration required. IT has only few properties.

1. TargetControlID—> You may specify the control you wanted to filter.

2. FilterType—> Here you mention what kind of filter you want to apply on your textbox control.

3. ValidChars—>As it’s name suggests you may enter the valid characters user supposed to enter in your textbox.

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="FilteredTextbox.aspx.cs" Inherits="Blog.FilteredTextbox" %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <ajaxToolkit:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="server">
        </ajaxToolkit:ToolkitScriptManager>
        <br />
        <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Please Enter Only Numeric Value"></asp:Label>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
        <ajaxToolkit:FilteredTextBoxExtender ID="TextBox1_FilteredTextBoxExtender" runat="server" Enabled="True" TargetControlID="TextBox1" ValidChars="0123456789" FilterType="Numbers">
        </ajaxToolkit:FilteredTextBoxExtender>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Output will be like below,

FilterType="LowercaseLetters"

FilterType="UppercaseLetters"

FilterType="Numbers"

Hope you enjoyed this article. As usual your comments are always welcome.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

How to insert comma separated value in a table using Stored procedure

Are you looking for a way to insert comma separated value in a table using SQL Stored Procedure? This article will help you to insert comma separated value in a different row. I thought I will write an article with full details because I used to see this question in Microsoft forums.

Let’s start by creating a sample table first.

--Create table:

CREATE TABLE tblNoOfAttempt(UserID INT IDENTITY,NoOfAttemp VARCHAR(50))

Since we have the table ready we will create the stored procedure to insert the comma separated value in our table.

-- Create Stored Procedure:

Create PROCEDURE sp_InsertNoOfAttempt

-- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here

      @NoOfAttempt VARCHAR(100)

AS

BEGIN

SET NOCOUNT ON;

declare @XML xml

SELECT @XML=CONVERT(xml,'<root><s>' + REPLACE(@NoOfAttempt,',','</s><s>') + '</s></root>')

INSERT INTO tblNoOfAttempt

SELECT [Value] = XM.SP.value('.','varchar(50)')

FROM @XML.nodes('/root/s')XM(SP)

END

GO

Now it’s the time to execute the stored procedure by passing some comma separated value.

-- Execute stored procedure by passing the comma separated value 
sp_InsertNoOfAttempt '8,7,10,9,5'

Since the first field is an identity column we don’t need to pass the parameter for that. Value will be inserted automatically.

At last let’s see how the value is inserted in to he table by running select query.

-- Select the table values to see the out put

select * from tblNoOfAttempt

Out put of the above query will be,