I did type runat="server" in the label tag. its still not accessible.
I did copy this label from another webform. I've noticed when copying labels from others webforms, sometimes they are not accessible. What is the problem?
Check your designer code and see if its in there. If its not your markup and designer are out of sync unless of course you have the control in a template. I have ran into this issue recently and fixed it by just adding a literal control forcing the designer to regen and then deleting the literal.
from what you have given here, I see you typed runat=server without quotations.
try adding quotations and check again.
runat="server"
full example
<asp:label runat="server" ID="Label1" >Label1</asp:Label>
It's because your code behind class is missing reference to that control. You guess you dont have .designer with your page class, right? Then you have to "map" that control manually
YOu can definie class variable like Label myLabel and then later in Page_Load you have to use myLabel = Find('myLabelId') function, to map that label. (This might not be 100% accurate syntax).
Edit: Asuming your label has ID="Label2", code should look like:
Label _label2;
Page_Load(
// some code
_label2 = (Label)FindControl("Label2");
)
Related
I have a front end written in html that I am converting to asp, and many of the controls have names with "-" in them. This is causing crazy headaches, as there is no time to rename everything, and the ctrl-f and replace somehow breaks my css. Is there any way to access these controls in the code behind while they have the dashes? I have tried the code below.
//Can find when there is no dash in it, but that breaks the css after find/replace of full solution
HtmlGenericControl body = (HtmlGenericControl)this.Page.FindControl("page-list");
body.Attributes.Add("class", GlobalVariables.webAppSkin);
//I have also tried this, but logout stays null
WebControl logout = (WebControl)Page.FindControl("logout-link");
This is the html control:
<body id="page-list">
Sorry, that's not gonna happen.
You cannot have an element with an id containing "-", and still be a runat="server" ASP.NET control.
Microsoft's docs about the control's IDs states:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.control.id.aspx
Only combinations of alphanumeric characters and the underscore character ( _ ) are valid values for this property. Including spaces or other invalid characters will cause an ASP.NET page parser error.
If you tried adding runat="server" to the body tag you showed: <body id="page-list">, it would give you the following line in aspx.designer.cs:
protected global::System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl page-list;
Which is obviously throwing an exception on C# syntax.
<body id="page-list"> is not a HTML Control (i.e. an instance of (a subclass of) System.Web.UI.Control because it doesn't have the runat="server" attribute. If you were to add runat="server" then you would get a JIT compile-time error message informing you that "page-list" is not a valid identifier.
ASP.NET Web Forms 4.0 added the ClientIDMode attribute, however it doesn't allow you to set a completely custom ID attribute value. There's no easy solution for this without using <asp:Literal> or implementing your own control (or my preferred option: switching to ASP.NET MVC).
You can access controls in code behind with their ID if you write runat="server". Here is the example for your case
<body runat="server" id="testID">
In code behind you can access it like this:
body.Attributes.Add("class", value);
I created a child template from visual studio to manage my kentico template. The template worked fine except that all the controls in it is not accessible from code behind because it is not recognized. I have checked for on line solution but none solved the issue. I even got this link
Codebehind file doesn't recognize aspx-controls
without any luck since I can't even access the myfile.aspx.designer.cs.
What do I trie again?
Note: My controls are not inside any panel or other control. Just inside a normal div.
Try adding runat="server" to your id tag.
Here is an example.
<tr class="headerrow" id="tbrHeader" runat="server">
I am unfamiliar with Kentico, but this is what I have come up with as possible solutions without having seen your code:
Make sure all your controls have a 'runat' attribute: runat="server". I am not trying to insult your intelligence, but it is an easy thing to forget(As I have done before), without this the control won't be recognised from code-behind
If it is a template file, have you made sure the codebehind that refers to it, is the code-behind of the template file, as the codebehind of other pages will not be able to find the control in the template without you telling them where it is.
With your new comment on the question: If your class is abstract, have you tried wrapping it in a non-abstract class? (source: stackoverflow.com/questions/481305)
My Question
I managed to answer myself, however the same set of functionality has another problem. For some reason the first postback of the save event of the posted file hits the Ol' Object not set to an instance of an object error, but on the second attempt of uploading a file and firing my save event (converts to byte[] an stored as SQL Server BLOB) it does everything is supposed to do.
Same problem here
There is a good suggestion of using the AJAX AsyncUpload control however I am a firm believer of removing the cause and not treating the problem. I will continue down this route to best my understanding of asp.net etc.
Would there be a wizrd amongst you that could help me identify why I get "object ref not set to inst of obj" error on first postback but on second it works fine. Content page has a master page which wraps content page in an update panel. Not my decision to do this. There is also an update panel with postback triggers targeting my save event.
What are your thoughts people?
The problem (as seen here http://forums.asp.net/t/1060363.aspx) seems to be when you use the visibility property on the surrounding panel (as it seems you are from the linked question).
The suggested workaround is to use CSS visibility instead so use this to make it invisible -
<asp:Panel ID="pnlUpload" runat="server" class="workerDetailsPanelLeft" style="display:none">
The explanation for this from the thread is
If your container is set to invisible, the upload control is not actually rendered as HTML, causing the form's enctype not to be set to enctype="multipart/form-data", causing the file upload control not to post the selected file back to the server. The workaround is either to make sure the FileUpload control is rendered to HTML (by setting its style to display:none in stead of Visible=false), or by manually setting the enctype
So another workaround would be to alter your form tag to this
<form id="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data" runat="server">
I think either one of those should solve your problem.
You could do the same thing via code on Page_Load event.. Enter this code and it will solve the issue.
Page.Form.Attributes.Add("enctype", "multipart/form-data");
I have an issue with the following text display:
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="Password_RegularExpValidate" runat="server"
Text="TEST!"
Display="Dynamic"
BorderStyle="None"
ControlToValidate="txtNewPass"
ValidationExpression="(?=^.{8,255}$)((?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9]))^.*"
meta:resourcekey="Password_RegularExpValidateResource1" /></td>
The pattern by itself is:
(?=^.{8,255}$)((?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])|(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9]))^.*
The text initially had some stuff in it as the ValidationExpression was different. I've changed the regex expression and that works, but when I write something in Text= it doesn't update on the page. I've restarted IIS, cleard the IE chache... everything I could think of. The old text keeps appearings (ie. "TEST!" doesn't show up when the validation fails as it should).
Any help would be appreciated.
Edit:
The code for txtnewpass:
<asp:TextBox ID="txtNewPass" runat="server"
TextMode="Password"
MaxLength="256"
meta:resourcekey="txtNewPassResource1"></asp:TextBox>
Also, it's worth noting that I can remove an entire table from a page that it disappears when I reload the page. But when I change text values from controls or anything that runat="server" and the page doesn't seem to update with the text....
And the code behind doesn't edit the field that displays, the validator validates the text in the textbox and uses that value later.
Edit 2: Same thing happening with -
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server"
Text="Change Password!!!!!"
meta:resourcekey="Label1Resource1"></asp:Label></td>
I've added the exclamation marks (!!!!!) and that's not showing up when I refresh the page either.....
Edit 3: As I've noted in one of the comments, if I delete a table from the page and reload the page, that table disappears, so I know the page is reloading properly. The runat="Server" property, does that work a certain way where it caches text or something? I'm out of ideas....
Like Kirill said, use ErrorMessage instead of Text.
But the main problem is, I think, your localization, which is handled through the meta:resourcekey tag and resources.
Here is a good explanation:
ASP.NET meta:resourcekey
If you set automatically or manually the resource localization file and change something afterwards, for example a Label Text property, then you need to do it in the resource file too. Because there should be your initial value, which is loaded at runtime.
There are a lot of possibilities for the source of the problem, and there's not really enough info to tell which one it is. It sounds to me like one of these:
1) An external issue with your application or page (perhaps your ViewState isn't being set up properly, or the validation is getting called before PostBack).
2) You should be using RegularExpressionValidator.ErrorMessage instead of Text, as Kirill suggested. You said that you had changed that, but I wonder if you've reloaded the page (you could try rebuilding the app or something if it's getting cached somehow).
3) Your regex might not be doing what you think it is. The pattern is extremely long, and it seems strangely written. Adding some whitespace, we find that it looks like this:
(?=^.{8,255}$)
(
(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])
|
(?=.*\d)(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[a-z])
|
(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])
|
(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[^A-Za-z0-9])
)^.*
Which simplifies down to something like:
^(
(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[\W_])(?=.*[a-z\d])
|
(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*([A-Z\W_]))
).{8,255}$
Is this what you intended? I see where you're going with the password rules, but it may be easier to just simplify them and require one capital, one lowercase, one number, and one special character. You could also try to get validation working with a simpler regex pattern, and then add complexity once everything else is working.
Try to use RegularExpressionValidator.ErrorMessage instead of Text.
Try restarting VS. Sometimes incredible bugs disappear after that.
Try removing and regenerating your ..aspx.designer.cs file (to
regenerate right click the aspx/ascx file and choose "convert to web
application").
Agree with others, you should indeed check your resource file.
I have this div that's got a style attribute..In that I am setting it's background image by calling a function from code behind..
<div id="id1" style = "background-image: url(<%=GetImage()%>);"></div>
now when I add runat="server" attribute in this div..it shows the Image path as method name itself and not http://localhost/myweb/images/image.jpg
when I remove runat..image path displays alright..Isn't the runat supposed to be there because it's got inline aspx tag ??? I am confused.
Runat controls whether a control instance will be created server side. Dynamic injection directives such as <%=%> are always processed whether runat is set or not.
No, runat is not supposed to be there. Since you do not need to access this control on server side, you do not need it.