Posted within Development on by Cornflower Design
Another note to myself…
When wanting to programmatically hide a WebPart, don’t try to set it’s Visible property to False. This will cause you lots of trouble and create errrors. The correct method is to set its Hidden property to True.
if (items.Count == 0)
{
this.Hidden = true;
return;
}
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
An interesting forumla to remember for rounding numbers to the nearest X.
Int32 value = 43.7;
Int32 toNearest = 5;
Int32 result = Math.Round(value / toNearest) * toNearest;
Posted within Doodles on by Cornflower Design
These design solutions were created as part of the University’s move from a 10 year old, bespoke, Classic ASP driven Intranet (which I originally developed) to Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Their purpose was to act as a starting point for discussion among staff and students and to generate feedback.
Homepage
Sub Page
Posted within Development on by Cornflower Design
There seems to be no built-in function or property to quickly return the correct URL for a SharePoint list item. The obvious property, SPListItem.URL, always returns an invalid URL along the lines of http://sharepoint/Lists/MyList/155_.000. Not ideal.
To get around this and return a correctly formatted web address, you can use the following code:
item.Web.Url + "/" + item.ParentList.Forms[PAGETYPE.PAGE_DISPLAYFORM].Url + "?ID=" + item.ID
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
ArticleCollection articles = new ArticleCollection();
articles.Where("IssueID", 10);
articles.Load();
if (articles.Count > 0)
{
foreach (Article a in articles)
{
Response.Write(a.Headline + ", ");
}
}
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
BigInt = Int64 (Long)
Int = Int32 (Integer)
SmallInt = Int16 (Short)
TinyInt = Byte
e.g. byte recurrenceType = reader.GetByte(8);
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
This is a useful little tip. By default, AM and PM time designators are output in uppercase (in the 1033 language set atleast) but there are times (in this case, enforced by a coporate style guide) when they should be lowercase. There are two ways to achieve this – one is…
DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
String nowString = now.ToString("dddd, d MMMM yyyy a\\t h.mm");
nowString = nowString + now.ToString("tt").ToLower();
… which is okay if you’re just using it the once. More than once, you’re better off using a DateTimeFormatInfo to set the AM and PM designators. Like so…
DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
dtfi.AMDesignator = "am";
dtfi.PMDesignator = "pm";
String nowString = now.ToString("dddd, d MMMM yyyy a\\t h.mmtt", dtfi);
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
Clipboard.SetText( “Hello World!”);
Short and sweet! :)
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
Thanks to a reply to one of my posts within the SubSonic forums, I was pointed to this very nifty utility at Developer Fusion – a tool that will automatically convert C# code to VB.Net and back again.
Posted within Development on by Ryan Ball
As I am always formatting dates and always forgetting the parameters to do so, I am placing them here as a quick reference.
Dim timeNow as DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim timeFormatted as String = rightNow.ToString("MMM dd, yyyy")
Dim timeNow as DateTime = DateTime.Now
Dim timeFormatted as String = String.Format("{0:MMM dd, yyyy}", timeNow)
Dim timeNow As New DateTime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
Dim timeFormatted As String = timeNow.ToString("dddd - d - MMMM")
' In the U.S. English culture, timeFormatted has the value:
' "Saturday - 1 - January".
timeFormatted = timeNow.ToString("yyyy gg")
' In the U.S. English culture, timeFormatted has the value: "2000 A.D.".
| Pattern | Description |
|---|---|
| d | ShortDatePattern |
| D | LongDatePattern |
| f | Full date and time (long date and short time) |
| F | FullDateTimePattern (long date and long time) |
| g | General (short date and short time) |
| G | General (short date and long time) |
| m, M | MonthDayPattern |
| r, R | RFC1123Pattern |
| s | SortableDateTimePattern (based on ISO 8601) using local time |
| t | ShortTimePattern |
| T | LongTimePattern |
| u | UniversalSortableDateTimePattern using the format for universal time display |
| U | Full date and time (long date and long time) using universal time |
| y, Y | YearMonthPattern |
The table below shows the case-sensative patterns that are available to construct custom patterns.
| Pattern | Description |
|---|---|
| d | The day of the month. Single-digit days will not have a leading zero. |
| dd | The day of the month. Single-digit days will have a leading zero. |
| ddd | The abbreviated name of the day of the week, as defined in AbbreviatedDayNames. |
| dddd | The full name of the day of the week, as defined in DayNames. |
| M | The numeric month. Single-digit months will not have a leading zero. |
| MM | The numeric month. Single-digit months will have a leading zero. |
| MMM | The abbreviated name of the month, as defined in AbbreviatedMonthNames. |
| MMMM | The full name of the month, as defined in MonthNames. |
| y | The year without the century. If the year without the century is less than 10, the year is displayed with no leading zero. |
| yy | The year without the century. If the year without the century is less than 10, the year is displayed with a leading zero. |
| yyyy | The year in four digits, including the century. |
| gg | The period or era. This pattern is ignored if the date to be formatted does not have an associated period or era string. |
| h | The hour in a 12-hour clock. Single-digit hours will not have a leading zero. |
| hh | The hour in a 12-hour clock. Single-digit hours will have a leading zero. |
| H | The hour in a 24-hour clock. Single-digit hours will not have a leading zero. |
| HH | The hour in a 24-hour clock. Single-digit hours will have a leading zero. |
| m | The minute. Single-digit minutes will not have a leading zero. |
| mm | The minute. Single-digit minutes will have a leading zero. |
| s | The second. Single-digit seconds will not have a leading zero. |
| ss | The second. Single-digit seconds will have a leading zero. |
| f | The fraction of a second in single-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| ff | The fraction of a second in double-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| fff | The fraction of a second in three-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| ffff | The fraction of a second in four-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| fffff | The fraction of a second in five-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| ffffff | The fraction of a second in six-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| fffffff | The fraction of a second in seven-digit precision. The remaining digits are truncated. |
| t | The first character in the AM/PM designator defined in AMDesignator or PMDesignator, if any. |
| tt | The AM/PM designator defined in AMDesignator or PMDesignator, if any. |
| z | The time zone offset (“+” or “-” followed by the hour only). Single-digit hours will not have a leading zero. For example, Pacific Standard Time is “-8″. |
| zz | The time zone offset (“+” or “-” followed by the hour only). Single-digit hours will have a leading zero. For example, Pacific Standard Time is “-08″. |
| zzz | The full time zone offset (“+” or “-” followed by the hour and minutes). Single-digit hours and minutes will have leading zeros. For example, Pacific Standard Time is “-08:00″. |
For additional information see: