Where am I going wrong

tommykehoe · November 29th, 2013, 05:49 PM

Hi I have just restarted practising vb express 13 after a long illness all seemed to be working until I started the containers exercise agail all seemed to be going well until I did the wizard about you
favourite Language and result. the code : Result.Text &= "<br />Your favourite Language is " & Favoritelanguage.selectedValue does not work and I get an error notice that it is not part of the wizzard steps ?

Imar · November 29th, 2013, 06:06 PM

Hi there,

Hope you're feeling better!

Can you post the code of the ASPX file and its code behind?

Cheers,

Imar

tommykehoe · November 29th, 2013, 06:38 PM

Protected Sub Wizard1_FinishButtonClick(sender As Object, e As WizardNavigationEventArgs) Handles FavoriteLanguage.FinishButtonClick
Result.Text = "Your name is " & yourname.Text
Result.Text &= "<br />Your Favorite language is " & FavoriteLanguage.SelectedValue
Protected Sub Wizard1_FinishButtonClick(sender As Object, e As WizardNavigationEventArgs) Handles FavoriteLanguage.FinishButtonClick
Result.Text = "Your name is " & yourname.Text
Result.Text &= "<br />Your Favorite language is " & FavoriteLanguage.SelectedValue

Imar · November 29th, 2013, 06:40 PM

This is just the code behind and not the markup so there may also be other issue but one thing that stands out is this:

Code:

Result.Text = "Your name is " & yourname.Text

This resets the Text property, effectively overwriting the text from the previous lines of code. The following should fix it:

Code:

Result.Text &= "Your name is " & yourname.Text

Cheers,

Imar

tommykehoe · December 1st, 2013, 08:27 AM

Hi Imar I still have not solved this problem
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>

<asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" Text="Show Panel" OnCheckedChanged="CheckBox1_CheckedChanged" />
<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" Visible="False">
<asp:Wizard ID="FavoriteLanguage" runat="server" ActiveStepIndex="0" Width="500px">
<WizardSteps>
<asp:WizardStep runat="server" title="About you">
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Type your name"></asp:Label>
<asp:TextBox ID="yourname" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</asp:WizardStep>
<asp:WizardStep runat="server" title="Favorite Language" StepType="Finish">

<asp:DropDownList ID="favouriteLanguage" runat="server">
<asp:ListItem>C#</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem>Visual Basic</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem>Css</asp:ListItem>
</asp:DropDownList>

</asp:WizardStep>
Protected Sub Wizard1_FinishButtonClick(sender As Object, e As WizardNavigationEventArgs) Handles FavoriteLanguage.FinishButtonClick
Result.Text = "Your name is " & yourname.Text
Result.Text &= "<br />Your Favorite language is " & FavoriteLanguage.SelectedValue

End Sub
Sorry for being a nusience But I am determined to do this and will carry on with the rest of the exercises.

Thank you

Imar · December 1st, 2013, 11:42 AM

I think you confused yourself a bit with the control names. You named the wizard FavoriteLanguage and the drop down favouriteLanguage. The ID of the wizard doesn't matter (and isn't used in code), but the drop down's ID is important as you access it in code to get its selected value. However, your code tries to access the wizard instead. SO this:

Code:

Result.Text = "Your name is " & yourname.Text
Result.Text &= "<br />Your Favorite language is " & FavoriteLanguage.SelectedValue

should be this:

Code:

Result.Text = "Your name is " & yourname.Text
Result.Text &= "<br />Your Favorite language is " & favouriteLanguage.SelectedValue

When you post code here, can you paste it in Notepad first to get rid of the color coding and then use the Code button on the toolbar (#) to format your code? That makes it a lot easier to read.

Thanks,

Imar

tommykehoe · December 1st, 2013, 04:38 PM

Thank you Imar I will retry to do it again