Just a quick Question:

tariq · August 31st, 2010, 08:24 PM

I am at the end of chapter 11 right now.
I have a confusion about the contactform:
When i click the contactus either in DarkGray theme or in Monochrome i end up in Monochrome them seetings for filling out the form.
Is this suppose to b like this or am i missing something.

Tariq

Imar · September 1st, 2010, 02:15 AM

Maybe that page doesn't inherit BasePage in its Code Behind and Monochrome is the default theme in web.config?

Imar

tariq · September 1st, 2010, 11:17 AM

Yes your are right Imar Monochrom is the default theme in the webconfig file, but when i changed it to the DarkGrey now the story is other way around i get the contactform in DarkGrey theme settings.
Is there any way to specify both themes at one time in web.config.

the code behind for the contactform lookis like this :

Code:

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

using System.IO;
using System.Net.Mail;
public partial class Controls_ContactForm : System.Web.UI.UserControl

not sure where to change the inheritence.
I followed the book completely.

Tariq

Imar · September 1st, 2010, 11:46 AM

That's the code for the User Control; how does the page that uses that control look? And can you post the code for the <pages /> element in web.config?

Imar

tariq · September 1st, 2010, 02:04 PM

This is the code between <pages> in the web.config

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!--
  For more information on how to configure your ASP.NET application, please visit
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=169433
  -->
<configuration>
	<system.web>
		<pages theme="DarkGrey">
			<controls>
				<add tagPrefix="Wrox" tagName="Banner" src="~/Controls/Banner.ascx"/>
			</controls>
		</pages>

and what page you are refering to?
You mean Contact.aspx?

Imar · September 1st, 2010, 02:20 PM

Yes, that looks fine. And yes, I meant Contact.aspx, if that's your page you're having problems with. As mentioned earlier, the UC is not relevant; it's the page that applies the theme.

Cheers,

Imar

tariq · September 1st, 2010, 02:33 PM

This is how Contact.aspx looks:

Code:

<%@ Page Title="Contact Us" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/Frontend.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Contact.aspx.cs" Inherits="About_Contact" %>

<%@ Register src="../Controls/ContactForm.ascx" tagname="ContactForm" tagprefix="uc1" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" Runat="Server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="cpMainContent" Runat="Server">
    <uc1:ContactForm ID="ContactForm1" runat="server" />
</asp:Content>

Imar · September 1st, 2010, 02:41 PM

Please look at my initial reply:

Quote:

Maybe that page doesn't inherit BasePage in its Code Behind and Monochrome is the default theme in web.config?

It's the Code Behind here that's relevant. Remember the discussion in the book about the BasePage? My guess is that you didn't use your custom template for this page, or forgot to manually update the Code Behind.

Post the Code Behind so I can take a look at that.

Cheers,

Imar

tariq · September 1st, 2010, 02:56 PM

This is code behind for contact.aspx, there is nothing in this file except the statdard stuff.

Code:

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

public partial class About_Contact : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
}

and this is the code behind the Contactform.ascx(user control)

Code:

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

using System.IO;
using System.Net.Mail;
public partial class Controls_ContactForm : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
    protected void CustomValidator1_ServerValidate(object source, ServerValidateEventArgs args)
    {
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(PhoneHome.Text) || !string.IsNullOrEmpty(PhoneBusiness.Text))
        {
            args.IsValid = true;
        }
        else
        {
            args.IsValid = false;
        }
    }
    protected void SendButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (Page.IsValid)
        {
            string fileName = Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/ContactForm.txt");
            string mailBody = File.ReadAllText(fileName);

            mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##Name##", Name.Text);
            mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##Email##", EmailAddress.Text);
            mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##HomePhone##", PhoneHome.Text);
            mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##BusinessPhone##", PhoneBusiness.Text);
            mailBody = mailBody.Replace("##Comments##", Comments.Text);

            MailMessage myMessage = new MailMessage();
            myMessage.Subject = "Response from web site";
            myMessage.Body = mailBody;

            myMessage.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "Sender : Tariq");
            myMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]", "Receiver : Sardar"));

            SmtpClient mySmtpClient = new SmtpClient();
            mySmtpClient.Send(myMessage);

            Message.Visible = true;
            MessageSentPara.Visible = true;
            FormTable.Visible = false;
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
        }
    }
}

Imar · September 1st, 2010, 04:19 PM

Quote:

there is nothing in this file except the statdard stuff.

Which is exactly what the problem is, and what I've been trying to say from the start. Your Page does not inherit BasePage, and thus the user selected theme is not applied, but the one from the config file. Change your code to this:

public partial class About_Contact : BasePage

Refer to chanpter 6 to see what the BasePage does and how it works.

Quote:

and this is the code behind the Contactform.ascx

Don't let the UC confuse you. As I said earlier, the page is responsible for theme, not the UC; it's just part of the page and not relevant to your problem.

Cheers,

Imar