How To Get The Values Of All Localizable Properties That Appear On A Page Object
Jan 28, 2011
I'm working on an application that uses an approach to localization where they just call a translate function for every piece of text on a page. It leads to a lot of redundant code that looks like this (psuedocode):
function page_load():
translateControlText(control1, language);
translateControlText(control2, language);
translateControlText(control3, language);
translateControlText(control4, language);
translateControlText(control5, language);
translateControlText(control6, language);
translateImageAlt(image1, language);
100 more lines of this on a single page
The application is massive, so I don't have the opportunity to rewrite the translation logic. However, I think I could just loop through all of the controls on a page, check their type, and translate the appropriate property. At least then I would just have to call 1 function per page, and then throw it in a base page or master. However, I probably wouldn't want to translate certain things, such as table cells. Regardless, there is an attribute called Localizable that is on many properties such as Control.Text and Image.Alt. I'd like to be able to get a list of every string on the Page that is stored in a Property marked Localizable. Is this possible? Is this possible without reflection?
I have a strongly typed view. I get model passed into the view and then i assign model values to labels etc. I would then also like to set Model values programmatically on .aspx page, like:
<%= Model.someValue = "foo"; %>
and then pass that model back to controller action and than access those values. I know that I can apply values to model like these:
I've posted the same question in the Object Data Source forum. This is a link to it http://forums.asp.net/t/1554083.aspx. Maybe I should've posted here to begin with. There seemed to be some overlap so I wasn't sure which was the best on to post the question in.
I'm trying to get a better understanding of how I could've designed my app so that the Object Data Source could work with the properties of my business objects. Please read the other post to see how it's currently being done. Sorry for the link to the other page. I didn't want to post a bunch of duplicate information. I would love to get some suggestions for alternative ways of doing this.
I am relatively new to ASP.NET. I am just wondering if there is way to read values from properties file (similar to rading a properties file from JSP or java).
For example if a property file has something similar to this:
[Code]....
I would like to read all the values for username_list (comma seperated) and also the value of is_valid.
Idealy i would like to get a web-page that looks like the popup-windows that you get in Visual Studio when you click an object while debugging. So if the object contains any arrays, i'd also like to see what's in them, and for all those objects inside i would also like to be able to go deeper into those objects.
The reason i'm asking this, is that I can't debug my code locally (because it uses a web-service that will only run on the production), and I can't install Visual Studio on the production server, So i need to be able to actually debug on the production server. I can write my code locally though, and upload it to the production.
I have a 3rd party server side control that generates JavaScript and I'd like to see what methods and properties it exposes.Currently I just type in an invalid function like asdf123() so VS will break and I can add a watch to the variable, but there are a ton of methods and I don't know what I'm looking for (I'm trying to make the control do something undocumented).
I'd like to add some custom instance properties to an ASP.Net User object. for example, I'd like to log every user's login and have something like: User.LoginTimes or calculate the User Profile's Completion percentage and be able to access it like: User.ProfileInfoPercentage, etc.
Now What I'd like to know is what would be the best approach to do this?
Forget about user instances? (e.g. define a database table with userid and ProfilePercentage info and retrieve data from profile like: DB.GetProfilePercentage(Context.Current.User.UserID) ) Override the ASP.Net User class and add my own functionalities. Use Extension methods for the user class.
I am interested to know what happens with unused properties of a class when an object is instantiated?
Are there performance hits for having additional unused properties? What about complex properties that are accessing the database, but I'm not using them, are they still being loaded?
I am using ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and I want to transfer my ViewModel properties to business object. I can do this manually or use AutoMapper or use new method available in ASP.NET MVC 2.0. My question is that does anyone know the name of the new method which allows to copy the properties from one object to another?
In the past I've used UserControls to create email templates which I can fill properties on and then use LoadControl and then RenderControl to get the html for which to use for the body text of my email. This was within asp.net webforms.
I'm in the throws of building an mvc website and wanted to do something similar. I've actually considered putting this functionality in a seperate class library and am looking into how I can do this so that in my web layer I can just call EmailTemplate.SubscriptionEmail() which will then generate the html from my template with properties in relevant places (obviously there needs to be parameters for email address etc in there).
I wanted to create a single Render control method for which I can pass a string to the path of the UserControl which is my template. I've come across this on the web that kind of suits my needs:
[code]....
Does that make sense? I was just wondering if this is at all possible in the first place and how I'd implement it? I'm not sure if it would be possible to map the properties set on 'object' to properties on the loaded user control and if it is possible where to start in doing this?
I have advice that this might work for programmatically filling a set of literals from a set of object properties:-
[code]....
However, the line: ctl.Text = pageData.help(i).trim() fails because it's not understood that pageData.help(i) should translate to pageData.help1, pageData.help2, etc.
I have a WCF service that when the objects serialize to clients an extra property is getting added with a 'Speficied' suffix. At first I thought it had to to with a couple of nullable type properties, but it is happening to all of my value types even if it is not declared Nullable. How can I get rid of this?
I know how to deploy and retrieve a single element in LINQ, but how can I do to change all the properties in a list. In the line below, I can only modify a record, I would modify several.
I'm not sure if I'm asking this correctly, but I'm having a problem with a web service. The company hosting a web service wants to see what I'm submitting to the API. Is there something in the debugger I can use to "print" or somehow get the request object and all of it's properties with values in Visual Studio? I'm guessing there's some way to get the XML request?
i want to generate the output of an asp.net page by reading a text file, get the controls out of the text, change te properties of these controls, render it and displaying it.
Prior to using a ViewModel, I could easily pass the "soon to be edited" object directly to the view without needing to fuss over setting individual properties etc as the View conveniently accepted the Employee type directly..
[HttpGet] public ActionResult EditEmployee(int? id) { EmployeeRepository ER = new EmployeeRepository(); Employee SomeEmployee = ER.GetEmployee(id.Value); if(SomeEmployee!=null) return View(SomeEmployee);
But now I'm using a ViewModel with DataAnnotations attributes applied over the top of various properties for validation purposes. Which creates a problem.. After fetching the "soon to be edited" object from the db, setting the ViewModel's values is suddenly a whole lot more complicated. I can't simply pass the retrieved object straight to the view, as the View now expects the VMEmployee type instead. I would like to be able to do something like:
[HttpGet] public ActionResult EditEmployee(int? id) { EmployeeRepository ER = new EmployeeRepository(); Employee SomeEmployee = ER.GetEmployee(id.Value); if(SomeEmployee!=null) return View(new VMEmployee(SomeEmployee));
All paths seem to lead to a huge constructor which manually sets the values of each individual property. But I never had to do that before when I wasn't using a ViewModel. Model binding was a blessing! My objects also have complex child objects, which my form is also collecting values for, so this would be a huge/verbose task against DRY principals. I don't even really want to use a ViewModel, but am forced to because I need two different DataAnnotations rule sets for different validation scenarios applied to the same object.
All I want to do is be able to have two different DataAnnotations rule sets for different scenarios. I.e. public-facing www site vs internal-facing admin site. DataAnnotations doesn't seem to be flexible enough to easily cater for this common need. I've tried AutoMapper, but it throws an error saying it can't map my object types, I suspect because Employee was auto-generated by LINQ to SQL. What is the most elegant way to achieve this while sticking to DRY principals?
I have been using properties and have idea that using properties with private fields we can implement validations and buisness rules in them.
But I am just thinking asp.net client side validation controls provide good strength and they provide good user experience as well. They can be used for any type of validation (using regular expression) on client side and their re-use is possible on server side. When validation controls are a must and they are powerful; is making properties not just wastage of time ?
i have defined profile properties in my web config file but unable to access them in code behind. even profile object is not available. i have to writer fully qualified name like System.Web.Profile. below is my web config
