How to pass the variable value from codebehind to javascript

In this article i am going to show you how to pass the variable value from codebehind to javascript. It is quite easy and handy.

I have declared a protected type string variable Variable_codebehind in asp.net codebehind, assign a value to that variable on page load .
Code:

 using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Collections;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected string Variable_codebehind;
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Variable_codebehind = "Ashish Blog";
    }
}

Now, we going to diaplay this variable Variable_codebehind into html page using javascript.
Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">  
<head runat="server"> 
<title>Ashish's Blog</title>
  <script type="text/javascript">
         ////Getting variable from asp.net code behind  
          alert("<%=Variable_codebehind %>");
   </script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">  
<div>  
</div>  
</form>  
</body>
</html>

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How to open jQuery UI Dialog from codebehind

In this blog I will show how to open jQuery UI Dialog from codebehind. Basically what we are going to do is render the neccessary JS code for UI dialog from codebehind and when the page will render, it will show the dialog.

Here is Code:

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title>Ashish's Blog</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.9/jquery-ui.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script runat="server">
protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("$(function() { ");
sb.Append(" $('#dialog').dialog({");
sb.Append("    width: 350");
sb.Append(" });");
sb.Append("});");
Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(typeof(Page), "myscript", sb.ToString(), true);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form2" runat="server">
<div id="dialog" style="display: none">
Welcome to Ashish's Blog
</div>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Test" OnClick="Button1_Click" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Edit Gridview Using jQuery Dialog ASP.Net C#

In this article, I’ll explain how to Edit records in ASP.Net GridView control using jQuery Dialog UI. There is many other way to do that but here is the easiest way to do it.

Database:
For this tutorial, I am using Employee database.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[T_Employees](
	[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
	[FirstName] [nvarchar](20) NULL,
	[LastName] [nvarchar](20) NULL,
	[Department] [nvarchar](40) NULL,
	[Location] [nvarchar](40) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]
Insert INTO [dbo].[T_Employees] values ('Tanvi','Patel',' Physiotherapy ','Sydney') 
Insert INTO [dbo].[T_Employees] values ('Ashish','Patel','IT','Sydney')    
Insert INTO [dbo].[T_Employees] values ('Vaishu','Patel','Micro','Sydney')  
Insert INTO [dbo].[T_Employees] values ('Bhavik','Patel',' pediatrician ','Sydney')

Connection string:
Below is the connection string to connect to the database.

<connectionStrings>
    <add name="TempConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=ASHISH;Initial Catalog=Temp;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=sa;Password=********" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
  </connectionStrings>

Aspx Page:
In this tutorial, there are two aspx pages.

1. Default.aspx — To implement Gridview control
2. EditEmployee.aspx –To Edit Employee

Default.aspx page:
Below HTML Markup of the page you will notice that I have placed a Script Manager and an ASP.Net Update Panel on the page. Inside the Update Panel I have placed an ASP.Net GridView Control along with brnRefreah that will be used to refresh after Edit the records in the GridView Control.

        <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnablePartialRendering="true">
        </asp:ScriptManager>
         <asp:UpdateProgress ID="UpdateProgress1" runat="server">
        <ProgressTemplate>
        <img src="Loading.gif" alt="" />
        </ProgressTemplate>
        </asp:UpdateProgress>

    <asp:UpdatePanel runat="server" ID="UpdatePanel1" UpdateMode="Conditional" >
   <ContentTemplate>
       
       <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="ID"
            DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
            <Columns>
            <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="ID">
           <ItemTemplate >
               <a id="popup" href='EditEmployee.aspx?id=<%# Eval("ID") %>' >edit</a>
         </ItemTemplate>
           </asp:TemplateField>
              <asp:BoundField DataField="ID" HeaderText="ID" InsertVisible="False" 
                    ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="ID" />
               
                <asp:BoundField DataField="FirstName" HeaderText="FirstName" 
                    SortExpression="FirstName" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="LastName" HeaderText="LastName" 
                    SortExpression="LastName" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="Department" HeaderText="Department" 
                    SortExpression="Department" />
                <asp:BoundField DataField="Location" HeaderText="Location" 
                    SortExpression="Location" />
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
        <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" 
            ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:TempConnectionString %>" 
            SelectCommand="SELECT Top 10 * FROM [T_Employees]"></asp:SqlDataSource>

           <asp:Button ID="btnRefresh" Text="refresh" runat="server" 
            onclick="btnRefresh_Click" />
   </ContentTemplate>
</asp:UpdatePanel>

You notice that in gridview I have placed Edit link (line 17 in above code) to pass ID of Employee to EditEmployee page. (For example. ‘editEmployee.aspx?id=1).
Now when user click on Edit link, Dialog box will display and load EditEmployee.aspx page. To create dialog box on click event of Edit link we are going to use jQuery Dialog UI. Here is code

 
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.6/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <link type="text/css" rel="Stylesheet" href="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.6/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $('a#popup').live('click', function (e) {
                
                var page = $(this).attr("href")  //get url of link
              
                var $dialog = $('<div></div>')
                .html('<iframe style="border: 0px; " src="' + page + '" width="100%" height="100%"></iframe>')
                .dialog({
                    autoOpen: false,
                    modal: true,
                    height: 450,
                    width: 'auto',
                    title: "Edit Employee",
                    buttons: {
                        "Close": function () { $dialog.dialog('close'); }
                                },
                    close: function (event, ui) {
                        
                       __doPostBack('<%= btnRefresh.ClientID %>', '');  // To refresh gridview when user close dialog
                    }
                });
                $dialog.dialog('open');
                e.preventDefault();
            });
        });
    </script>

In dialog Close event, I use __doPostBack(‘<%= btnRefresh.ClientID %>‘, ”); to refresh Gridview. This code fire btnRefresh_click event thats why we need to place gridview1.databind() in it to refresh gridview.
Codebehide (Default.aspx.cs):

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        
    }
    protected void btnRefresh_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        GridView1.DataBind();
    }
}

EditEmployee.aspx Page:
In this page, we get Employee ID from Querystring. After getting Employee ID We use sql connection to get FirstName, LastName, Location and Department from Database.

EditEmployee.aspx

<form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
    </asp:ScriptManager>
    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
    <ContentTemplate>
    <h3>Edit Employee</h3>
        <asp:Label ID="lblResult" runat="server" ForeColor="Green"></asp:Label>
        <asp:Panel ID="pnlEdit" runat="server">
        
    <p>ID:<asp:TextBox ID="txtID" ReadOnly="true" runat="server"></asp:TextBox></p>
    <p> FirstName: <asp:TextBox ID="txtfName"  runat="server"></asp:TextBox></p>
    <p> LastName:<asp:TextBox ID="txtlNmae"  runat="server"></asp:TextBox></p>
    <p>Department: <asp:TextBox ID="txtDept"  runat="server"></asp:TextBox></p>
    <p>Location:<asp:TextBox ID="txtLocation"  runat="server"></asp:TextBox></p>
<p> <asp:Button ID="btnSave" runat="server" Text="Save" onclick="btnSave_Click" />
    </p>
    </asp:Panel>
    </ContentTemplate>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>
    </form>

Codebehind code: EditEmployee.aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Configuration;

public partial class EditPopup : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    string CT = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["TempConnectionString"].ConnectionString;
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            string EID = Request.QueryString["id"];
            
            using (SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection(CT))
            {
                string query = "Select * from T_Employees where ID='" + EID + "'";
                using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, cn))
                {
                    cn.Open();
                    SqlDataReader dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
                    if(dr.Read() )
                    {
                        txtID.Text = EID;
                        txtfName.Text = dr["FirstName"].ToString();
                        txtlNmae.Text = dr["LastName"].ToString();
                        txtDept.Text = dr["Department"].ToString();
                        txtLocation.Text = dr["Location"].ToString();
                    }
                    cn.Close();
                    cn.Dispose();

                }
            }
        }
           
    }
    protected void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        ///save Employee Recoed code
        ///

        using (SqlConnection cn = new SqlConnection(CT))
        {
            string query = "Update T_Employees  Set FirstName='"+txtfName.Text+"', LastName='"+txtlNmae.Text +"', Department='"+txtDept.Text +"', Location='"+txtLocation.Text +"' where ID='" + txtID.Text  + "'";
            using (SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(query, cn))
            {
                cn.Open();
                cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
                
                cn.Close();
                cn.Dispose();
                lblResult.Text = "Employee Data Saved!!";
                pnlEdit.Visible = false;
            }
        }
        
    }
}

CSS File to style Gridview:

th {
font: bold 11px "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: #4f6b72;
border-right: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
border-bottom: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
border-top: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
letter-spacing: 2px;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-align: left;
padding: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
background: #D5EDEF;
}
 
td {
border-right: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
border-bottom: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
background: #fff;
padding: 6px 6px 6px 6px;
color: #4f6b72;
}
 
td.alt
{
background: #F5FAFA;
color: #797268;
}
 
td.boldtd
{
font: bold 13px "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background: #D5EDEF;
color: #797268;
}

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Redirection from iframe in asp.net or javascript

In this tutorial we will learn how to perform redirection from IFrame in asp.net.
For example, I has a webpage that contains the form containing two textboxes and one asp:button. When click on button it redirects the user to another page but problem was that the next page was being opened inside the iframe rather than in parent window because the webpage that containing the form was also in iframe.

Solution 1
Here we using the server side onClick event of asp:button to redirecting user to another page and client side OnClientClick event to open new page in parent window. NewWindow() JavaScript code that we have written in the OnClientClick event of asp:button will take care that user must be redirected to next page within parent window rather than IFrame.

Code: (iFrame)

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default2.aspx.cs" Inherits="Default2" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Ashish Blog</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function NewWindow() {
            document.forms[0].target = "_top";
        }
</script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    Ashish&amp;amp;#39;s Blog<br />
        UserName:<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
        <br />
        Password:<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" ></asp:TextBox>
        <br />
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" OnClientClick="NewWindow();" onclick="Button1_Click"  />
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>
 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Redirect("Default.aspx");
    }

Solution 2:

 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       
        ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "redirect", "if(top!=self) {top.location.href = 'Default.aspx';}", true);  
    }

Note:- In case if this code is not working properly in IE9 then you have to give the absolute path of targeting webpage such as

 protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
       
        ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(this.GetType(), "redirect", "if(top!=self) {top.location.href = 'http://ashishblog.com/Default.aspx';}", true);  
    }

Search, Sort in gridview using C#.Net, Ajax and jQuery

In this article, I will show you how to search in Gridview by using SqlDataSource’s FilterParameters and Sort by using jQuery tablesorter plugin.

Step:1 Create Searchbox and Gridview
Create asp:textbox called txtSearch to search data.
then create a simple Gridview called Gridview1 with TemplateFields for the fields that you would like to search for. Here I created a Two TemplateField for my two search fields, First Name and Last Name. The other point of interest is that the Eval statement for these 2 fields is wrapped around a function that we’re going to write called HighlightText which is use to highlight search text.

 
<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager" runat="server" />
      Search: <asp:TextBox ID="txtSearch" runat="server" OnTextChanged="txtSearch_TextChanged"  />
    <asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server" >
        <ContentTemplate>
            
            <div class="GridviewDiv">
           
                 <asp:GridView ID="Gridview1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" AllowPaging="True"
                    AllowSorting="true" DataSourceID="dsGridview" Width="540px" PageSize="10" CssClass="yui">
                    <Columns>
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="id" HeaderText="ID" SortExpression="id" ItemStyle-Width="40px"
                            ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Center" />
                        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="First Name" SortExpression="FirstName">
                            <ItemStyle Width="120px" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                            <ItemTemplate>
                                <asp:Label ID="lblFirstname" Text='<%# HighlightText(Eval("FirstName").ToString()) %>' runat="server"
                                    CssClass="TextField" />
                            </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>
                        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Last Name" SortExpression="LastName">
                            <ItemStyle Width="120px" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
                            <ItemTemplate>
                                <asp:Label ID="lblLastname" Text='<%# HighlightText(Eval("LastName").ToString()) %>' runat="server"
                                    CssClass="TextField" />
                            </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Department" HeaderText="Department" SortExpression="Department"
                            ItemStyle-Width="130px" />
                        <asp:BoundField DataField="Location" HeaderText="Location" SortExpression="Location"
                            ItemStyle-Width="130px" />
                    </Columns>
                </asp:GridView>
                </div>
        </ContentTemplate>
         <Triggers>
                <asp:AsyncPostBackTrigger ControlID="txtSearch" EventName="TextChanged" />
            </Triggers>
    </asp:UpdatePanel>

Note that in above code, I put gridview1 into asp:updatePanel and set trigger to refresh UpdatePanel (Gridview1) when txtSearch value changed. Please do not put txtSearch into UpdatePanel.

Step 2: Create a datasource with a FilterExpression
In order to enable our search functionality, add a FilterExpression to the datasource. The FilterExpression that I’m using checks for the first name and last name against the txtSearch Text box.

 
 <asp:SqlDataSource ID="dsGridview" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:TempConnectionString %>"
        SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [Employees]" FilterExpression="firstname like '%{0}%' or lastname like '%{1}%'">
        <FilterParameters>
            <asp:ControlParameter Name="firstname" ControlID="txtSearch" PropertyName="Text" />
            <asp:ControlParameter Name="lastname" ControlID="txtSearch" PropertyName="Text" />
        </FilterParameters>
    </asp:SqlDataSource>

Step 3: CodeBehind C#
Basically every time we’re displaying the First and Last name data in our Gridview, we check to see if there is any search text, and if there is, use a regular expression to enclose the search string in a CSS span which turns the text yellow.

 
   string SearchString = "";
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
txtSearch.Attributes.Add("onkeyup", "setTimeout('__doPostBack(\\'" + txtSearch.ClientID.Replace("_", "$") + "\\',\\'\\')', 0);");
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            Gridview1.DataBind();
        }
    }
    protected void txtSearch_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
         SearchString = txtSearch.Text;
    }
    public string HighlightText(string InputTxt)
    {
        string Search_Str = txtSearch.Text.ToString();
        // Setup the regular expression and add the Or operator.
        Regex RegExp = new Regex(Search_Str.Replace(" ", "|").Trim(), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        // Highlight keywords by calling the 
        //delegate each time a keyword is found.
        return RegExp.Replace(InputTxt, new MatchEvaluator(ReplaceKeyWords));
        // Set the RegExp to null.
        RegExp = null;
    }
    public string ReplaceKeyWords(Match m)
    {
        return "<span class=highlight>" + m.Value + "</span>";
    }

Important: txtSearch_TextChanged event will not fire until you press enter. But to do a fast and easy search just typing in the textbox without havig to push any button or ‘enter’ to get the result back using AJAX updatepanel need to use Onkeyup event. just add this line to the Page_Load:

 
    txtSearch.Attributes.Add("onkeyup", "setTimeout('__doPostBack(\\'" + txtSearch.ClientID.Replace("_", "$") + "\\',\\'\\')', 0);");

Step 4: Add the CSS class for highlighting

Step 5: Sorting Gridview
I’m using jQuery tableSorter plugin to sort gridvew. you can download from here.

 
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ashishblog.com/ash/source/jquery.tablesorter-2.0.3.js"></script>
  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://ashishblog.com/ash/source/style.css" />
  <script type="text/javascript">
     jQuery(document).ready(function () {
         $("#Gridview1").tablesorter({ debug: false, widgets: ['zebra'], sortList: [[0, 0]] });
     });
</script>

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