Web Forms :: Chart, RenderControl, & System.NullReferenceException?
Feb 23, 2010
I need to get the html of a chart control built at runtime. When I call .RenderControl, I get System.NullReferenceException. What could the problem be? Is there another way to go about this (saving as image)? Below is my code.
i hav e1 drop down list where is is to filter shif code , ddl text field contaoins shift desc and value contains shift code.
when i select particular shift description it has to show all the 7 days shift description on text boxes iam using informix database
i have 1 dropdownlist which contains shiftcode & shift decription. where shift code is datavalue filed and desc is dat text field. ddl is conected to sql datasource.
i am getting this error:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I am having some issues accessing a literal in a usercontrol.
I get the following error: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at page.sbPageLoad(String sTypeCD, Int32 iCategoryID, String SortExpression)
When I browse to www.mysite.com/mycontroller/myaction/myid, everything works ok. But visiting www.mysite.com/mycontroller/myaction produces:Server Error in '/' Application.Object reference not set to an instance of an object.Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I got a master page with a server control in it. Randomly the server control is inaccessible from codebehind. This doesn't happen on a specific action (eg a Button click or so). Currently I have no clue what this could be. I don't think it's output caching since this is not explcitly activated and the error happens far to seldom for that. But I'm going to disable caching in the master page explicitly with next deployment.
The control is defined in markup. The accompaning codebehind is:
PGFMainNavi.HasAccessToFunction = HasAccessToNaviItem; // HasAccessToNavi is a local function
Exception is:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
I receive the following error in the code below: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. When I am logged into the page I do not receive the error. My Code:
Partial Class _Default Inherits System.Web.UI.Page Protected Sub SqlDataSource4_Selecting(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As SqlDataSourceCommandEventArgs) Handles SqlDataSource4.Selecting Dim MemUser As MembershipUser MemUser = Membership.GetUser() UserID.Text = MemUser.ProviderUserKey.ToString() e.Command.Parameters("@UserId").Value = MemUser.ProviderUserKey.ToString() End Sub End Class
I read the following online: You are trying to use a reference variable who's value is Nothing/null. When the value is Nothing/null for the reference variable, that means it is not actually holding a reference to an instance of any object that exists on the heap. You either never assigned something to the variable, never created an instance of the value assigned to the variable, or you set the variable equal to Nothing/null manually, or you called a function that set the variableto Nothing/null for you. The following is the Arthur's code example and his suggested fix which I am sure is right:
Private Sub TestString() Dim a As String If a.Length = 0 Then Console.Write("Yes") End If End Sub
I am getting error after publishing a website. At debug mode it works fine.
Private Sub fill_ddl_Dist(ByVal _query As String) Dim con As Connection con = New Connection
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I have read many posts in the past about TreeView in Custom CompositeControls and using RenderControl but have yet to see a solution. I declare a new Tree in the CreateChildControls method and in the render I try to call the RenderControls method and it gave me an object reference not set to instance of an object error. I have set the SkipLinkText to Nothing, String.Empty and "". Once I do that I get the second stack trace. The control worked when it was a control on the aspx page.
I am trying to find out what html is generated when a control is rendered. For most controls, the following worked fine: Dim tempbuilder As New System.Text.StringBuilder() Dim tempwriter As New
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter(New System.IO.StringWriter(tempbuilder)) Dim generatedhtml as String Me.imgImage.RenderControl(tempwriter) generatedhtml = tempbuilder.ToString()
However, when I tried doing it with an ImageButton, I recieved the following error: Control 'ctl00_cphExampleContent_imgButton' of type 'ImageButton' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server. What can I do to avoid this?
If I have an HtmlTextWriter with some content in it, is it possible to append the output of ontrol.RenderControl to the existing content of the HtmlTextWriter directly?
Or do I always have to output to a separate HtmlTextWriter/StringWriter/StringBuilder and then append the StringBuilder?
I then use .RenderControl on both rblQuestion and rfvQuestion, concatenate into a string then use the HTML String to populate a PlaceHolder.
This seems to work fine, all appears as expected apart from the RequiredFieldValidator - I get a red asterix (My ErrorMessage) next to each RadioButtonList - But this appears as soon as the page loads, not on a post/button click.
I am using TreeView Control in Asp.net. I have placed this control inside a panel. The tree control is completely binded (we don't want populate on demand) with an Xmldatasource during a callback and then I call Panel.renderControl to return the response (HTML) to the client side callback handler. Problem: 1. The tree expand/collapse (on click of plus sign) is causing postback whereas when I normally bind a tree with xml during postback and without using renderControl of container control, the expand/collapse (on click of plus sign) is being handled at client side. I want to stop this postback and allow tree node to call javascript to toggle nodes as it does when tree is binded and renderd in case of normal page life cycle.(when render control function is not used)
I'm trying to build a chart in my application which will act as a client for an ASP.NET 3.5 web service that I created. The error I get is as follows:
Series data points do not support values of type System.Data.DataViewManagerListItemTypeDescriptor only values of these types can be used: Double, Decimal, Single, int, long, uint, ulong, String, DateTime, short, ushort.
I've tried various ways to resolve this but can't. This error points at the chtStats.DataBind() line in the code below:
I want to do a Jquery POST and get a chart using renderControl attribute of CHart which will return HTML attributes back to browser. The CHart is created dynamically based on parameters passed from post and from model. I have successfully done this on WEbforms,
However the same with MVC give a empty image. The handler doesn't perform the same in MVC2 3.5. I went near to 50 sites now.
I can't use other solution like base64encoding as IE6, 7 don't support it.
What I'm trying to do? I have few data parameteres to be sent (POST) to server and in response get the Chart image as tag along with other attributes and data appended in HTML form and sent to browser, all this to be done using JQUERY. No postbacks to be used.
I have badly searched on google, bing nothing turns out to be valuable.
I have an issue in using dot net chart control. In chart last column is not completely shown which give bad appearance and on right side of chart it looks like TickMark are enabled. I set MajorTickMark of AxisY2 disabled but still tick marks on right side.
I have a drop downlist,and next to it there is an MS bar chart.i want to change the datate of the MS chart ,once the user selects another year from the dropdownlist.
When the page loads ,the chart displays the default year(2011) and it works.The problem is that is does not change the data when you select another year from the dropdownlist.
I am using MS Chart control (3.5), and have a requirement where I need to display 2 pie charts. The datapoints for the pie charts is set programatically. My doubts are as follows:
1. Can I display both the pie charts in a single chart control and area, or do I have to use two controls? (Currently I am using two controls)
2. How can I maintain the same size for both the pie charts? This is my main concern, since the pie sizes keep changing, depending on the number of datapoints. I tried using custom properties like "MinimumRelativePieSize", but it's not working.
i'm trying to create a stacked bar chart on a vb web form using vs2010.My data source returns:
Error in Functionality Awaiting on Supplier
1IMT IssuesmActive6
IMT Issues,Awaiting on Supplier
2,IMT Issues,Awaiting on User 4
IMT Issues Closed 120
Login / Password Active
But I can't get this into a stacked chart. I know I must have to do quite a bit of work declaring what the series are and soforth, or having a different dataset but can't find any documentation on it.A link to some documentation or an example of a stacked chart from an sql datasource would be much appreciated.
I started using the awesome chart controls with my asp.net apps recently and so far they've been nothing short of breath taking. Right now I have a weird problem, on the first load of my page, the chart control appears correctly and the tooltip is correct, however, when I update it with new data, the chart displays correctly, but the tooltips are for the previous set of data.
I hope this makes sense. The first time I load the chart, the pie chart segments and tooltips are correct, after a partial postback (to get the new data), the pie chart segments are correct but the tooltips are for the previous data set.
Basically once the tooltips are set the first time, they can't be updated after that without a full page postback.
Here's how I set the tooltip:
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Anyone else noticed this behaviour and have a work around?
Currently my only workaround is to check for a partial postback and not render the tooltip, which I'd rather not do as the tooltip display actual statistical data as opposed to the pie itself (which uses percentages).