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Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01214-Jul-11 7:54

14-Jul-11 7:54

Hi Shameel. The text renders correctly when set up as a label directly on the page. I believe you are correct about the encoding issue. Is there a way to decode? WHEELS

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel14-Jul-11 8:08

Shameel

14-Jul-11 8:08

It depends on how you render the output. You have still not shown the code that actually renders your html output.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 7:45

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 7:45

I had to abandon the Common control approach. I added a simple BulletedList to the .aspx file, but I am still having a very challenging time setting a hyperlink on a given word in a bullet sentence. I am starting to believe this can't be done.

There are three DisplayMode options for a BulletedList: Text, HyperLink, and ImageButton, but no Text/Hyperlink combo.

If you have time can you try to create one that does what I am looking for?

Thanks, WHEELS

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 7:58

Shameel

15-Jul-11 7:58

Bulleted list and hyperlink will definitely work. Try this:

HTML

<ul>
<li><a href="http://google.com">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bing.com">Bing</a></li>
</ul>

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:04

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 8:04

Sorry Shameel. I was not entirely clear. I have done that sucessfully, but what I am looking for is the following:

* This is an example of <hyperlink on="" the="" word="" good=""> programming. Then when you click the underlined word good it takes you to http://www.codeproject.com.

* is a bullet.

WHEELS

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 8:11

Shameel

15-Jul-11 8:11

I dont see any problem with that too:

HTML

<ul>
<li>To Access Google, click <a href="http://google.com">here</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bing.com">This</a> takes you to Bing</li>
</ul>

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:14

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 8:14

It seems to work well in the .aspx, but now I have to put it in as a dynamic variable. Is there any issue with including the a href in the string?

WHEELS

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 8:19

Shameel

15-Jul-11 8:19

Depends on how you put the 'href' within that string. As long as the correct html is rendered, you shouldn't have any problem. Can you care to show me your entire code that renders the output?

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:37

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 8:37

<ul>
                            <li id="liBullet" />
                            <li><a href="http://bing.com">This</a> takes you to Bing</li>
                            </ul>	

C#

protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem liBullet;
this.liBullet.Attributes.Add(BULLETTHREELBHL);
private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "Employee earnings can be submitted through the <a href=\"/EECHG/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=EECHG&title=Employee+Changes\">Employee Changes</a> service by a plan administrator with access to update employee changes.";

WHEELS

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 8:42

Shameel

15-Jul-11 8:42

Attributes.Add() method takes 2 arguments, this code shouldn't compile at all. You should ideally be using ListItem.Text property to render your output.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:47

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 8:47

When I dynamically populate the .text property, I get an Object reference not set to an instance of an object error. System.NullReferenceException.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 8:49

Shameel

15-Jul-11 8:49

Can you show the code here?

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:53

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 8:53

protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem liBullets;

private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "Employee earnings can be submitted through the <a href=\"/EECHG/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=EECHG&title=Employee+Changes\">Employee Changes</a> service by a plan administrator with access to update employee changes.";

this.liBullets.Text = BULLETTHREELBHL;

<ul> 
						    <li id="liBullets" />    
						    <li>To Access Google, click <a href="http://google.com">here</a></li>                      
                            <li><a href="http://bing.com">This</a> takes you to Bing</li>
                            </ul>

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 9:00

Shameel

15-Jul-11 9:00

so, does this throw some exception or it renders the text with the tags ?

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 9:05

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 9:05

I have to declare the

id, and protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem liBullets; is incorrect. That appears to be reserved for drop-down or list boxes. I'm not sure what type the

is to be decalred as.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 9:10

Shameel

15-Jul-11 9:10

You should have told this earlier, try this:

System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl liBullet = new System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl("li");

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 9:22

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 9:22

What property do I use in liBullet? There doesn't seem to be a text property, and innertext didn't work.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 9:26

Shameel

15-Jul-11 9:26

innerText should work, what do you mean by didn't work? you mean nothing was rendered?

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 9:29

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 9:29

The bullet rendered, but nothing else.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Shameel15-Jul-11 9:32

Shameel

15-Jul-11 9:32

Try other alternatives suggested in this post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6142393/custom-control-asp-net-unordered-list-with-link-inside-lis-control[^]

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

Wheels01215-Jul-11 9:35

Wheels012

15-Jul-11 9:35

Thanks for the help. We'll keeping working on it after the weekend.

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

BobJanova13-Jul-11 22:26

BobJanova

13-Jul-11 22:26

If it's a custom control you need to make sure that you actually render an <a href=...> tag.

Emulate a helpbutton with a toolstripbutton c#

Luis Amador13-Jul-11 7:59

Luis Amador

13-Jul-11 7:59

Well in my work, we're trying to do a help button for our toolstrip. The situation is that we found an article here in CodeProject that explains how to emulate a help button, for doing this emulation we import a dll and add some code in the event "when click()" the code is this one:

helpbtn.Capture = true;
SendMessage(this.Handle, WM_SYSCOMMAND, (IntPtr)SC_CONTEXTHELP, IntPtr.Zero);

The problem with the code is that only works with a simple button not a toolstripbutton, 'cause the property .Capture is only for simple buttons. We had also try to add the code to a simple button and then use PerformClick() but the toolstripbutton keeps doing nothing. Can anyone help us please?

Re: Emulate a helpbutton with a toolstripbutton c#

Ravi Bhavnani14-Jul-11 12:01

Ravi Bhavnani

14-Jul-11 12:01

You could try setting the .Capture property of the help button's parent ToolStrip and see if that gets you further.

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Managing windows updates (WUApilib)

Jacob D Dixon13-Jul-11 4:32

Jacob D Dixon

13-Jul-11 4:32

I'm working on a application that will manage Windows updates for you (asynchronous). Everything is working except it will popup messages to users.

Like when installing Language Packs it will display the installation for that, and if trying to install Internet Explorer 9 it will popup and ask the user to Accept, Ask me Later, or Don't Install.

Is there a way to hide everything and just install it? I've search through Microsoft's pages on this API and can't find it.

Here is where I perform the install. I didn't include any of the code for the callbacks or downloads because it would a huge post which you all probably wouldn't like lol. If you want me to I can.

public static void Install(UpdateCollection installs)
        {
            if (installer != null || installs.Count > 0)
            {
                if (updateSession == null)
                    updateSession = new UpdateSessionClass();

                try
                {
                    installer = updateSession.CreateUpdateInstaller();
                    installer.Updates = installs;
                    installer.AllowSourcePrompts = false;
                    installer.parentWindow = null;

                    WUInstProgress installProgress = new WUInstProgress();
                    WUInstCompleted installCompleted = new WUInstCompleted();

                    installCompleted.InstCompleted += new InstCompletedDelegate(installCompleted_InstCompleted);
                    installer.BeginInstall(installProgress, installCompleted, null);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    ReportError(ex.ToString());
                }
            }
            else
                ReportLog("Install collection was null or empty");
        }

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