I was reading a best practices document created by the DotNetSpider team which covered many aspects of programming in .NET. I was really impressed by it and I think its a very good reference document. So I’ve decided to make a series of posts where I’ll post sections of their document covering a specific topic.
Tags: bestpractice, c#
I was creating a website which had pages with multiple views. I wanted a fairly simple sitemap solution, without creating any custom sitemap provider, which could show the current view name in the breadcrumb trail like this –
Home >> Parent Page >> Current Page >> Current View 1
Home >> Parent Page >> Current Page [...]
This code will strip out all the HTML tags and truncate the text to 4 lines.
public static string TruncateText(string txtIn, int newLength)
{
string txtOut = txtIn;
string pattern = @”<(.|\n)*?>”;
//Strip out HTML tags
if (Regex.IsMatch(txtIn, pattern, RegexOptions.None))
[...]
Find a control within a control recursively:
protected void Control FindControlRecursive(Control Root, string Id)
{
if (Root.ID == Id)
return Root;
foreach (Control Ctl in Root.Controls)
{
Control FoundCtl = FindControlRecursive(Ctl, Id);
[...]
Tags: c#
Check to see if all the controls within a specific control are valid:
protected bool checkIsValid(Control c)
{
bool result = true;
foreach (Control child in c.Controls)
{
if (child is BaseValidator && !((IValidator)child).IsValid)
[...]
Tags: c#