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   |  Missing sample code

posted at 04:54 PM | | |

When you read a page on MSDN, you can both rate it and enter comments. Other people can see the ratings, but the comments are not visible to all.

Now and again we'll have a look at a topic and wonder about the ratings. (Well, we generally wonder only about bad ratings. :-) ) There have been a few that we thought were pretty useful topics that have gotten low ratings. Then when we look at the comments, we'll find out that, oh, say, the code in the topic has a bug in it. There's a way to get yerself a low rating.

And do you want a really, really low rating? How about if you leave the sample code out altogether? Uh ... oops. We did this in a topic I was looking at today[1]:

How to: Locate the Web Forms Controls on a Page by Walking the Controls Collection

The comments were surprisingly un-vicious, considering. Anyway, here's the missing code:
' VB
<%@ Page Language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

<head runat="server">
<title>Locate the Web Forms Controls on a Page by Walking the Controls Collection</title>
</head>

<script runat="server">
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim allTextBoxValues As String = ""
Dim c As Control
Dim childc As Control
For Each c In Page.Controls
For Each childc In c.Controls
If TypeOf childc Is TextBox Then
allTextBoxValues &= CType(childc, TextBox).Text & ","
End If
Next
Next
If allTextBoxValues <> "" Then
Label1.Text = allTextBoxValues
End If
End Sub
</script>

<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:Button id="Button1" runat=server />
<asp:Label id=Label1 runat=server></asp:Label>
</form>
</body>
</html>
// C#
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

<head runat="server">
<title>Locate the Web Forms Controls on a Page by Walking the Controls Collection</title>
</head>
<script runat="server">
private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string allTextBoxValues = "";
foreach (Control c in Page.Controls)
{
foreach (Control childc in c.Controls)
{
if (childc is TextBox)
{
allTextBoxValues += ((TextBox)childc).Text + ",";
}
}
}
if (allTextBoxValues != "")
{
Label1.Text = allTextBoxValues;
}
}

</script>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:Button id="Button1" runat=server />
<asp:Label id=Label1 runat=server></asp:Label>
</form>
</body>
</html>
[1] It's not that we left it out, of course. There was some build problem and the code sample was dropped out of the topic. Same effect either way, tho.

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