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Web Controls ASP.NET

The document discusses web controls, highlighting their rich user interface, consistent object model, and high-level features compared to HTML server controls. It covers the basic classes, control hierarchy, and important properties such as AccessKey, BackColor, and Font, along with enumerations for colors and border styles. Additionally, it explains concepts like transparency, focus management, and default button behavior in web applications.

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Web Controls ASP.NET

The document discusses web controls, highlighting their rich user interface, consistent object model, and high-level features compared to HTML server controls. It covers the basic classes, control hierarchy, and important properties such as AccessKey, BackColor, and Font, along with enumerations for colors and border styles. Additionally, it explains concepts like transparency, focus management, and default button behavior in web applications.

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Web Controls

Limitations of HTML Server Controls

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Web Controls
Initially predicted as future of Internet application development several
years back. It is now already proven by its heavy use.

1. Rich user interface


A web control is programmed as an object, but it may
correspond to more than one tags. e.g. Calendar, GridView
2. Consistent object model
<input type=“text”> ,<input type=“password”>, <textarea> are
consolidated as a single textbox class.
.text property
3. Automatically tailored output
Browser detection
Best possible set of features
4. High level features
As compared to Html controls.
additional events, methods, properties
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Basic Web Control Classes

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Web Control Tags
<asp:TextBox id=“txt” runat=“server” />

<input type=“text” id=“txt” name=“ctrl” />

WebControls Namespace
– System.Web.UI.WebConrtrols

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Web Control Hierarchy

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WebControl Base Class
AccessKey: keyboard shortcut
BackColor, BorderColor, ForeColor:
BorderWidth: size of control border
BorderStyle: values from enum
Controls: System.Web.UI.Control, Ctype( )
Enabled: If F, control is visible, but doesn’t receive input/ focus.
EnableViewState: auto state mgt
Font: font of any text rendered in the control
Height & Width:
Page:
Parent:
TabIndex: for controlling tab order.
ToolTip: text message displayed when user hovers mouse over control.
Visible: not rendered if F.

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Four Important Classes
1. Unit
2. Enumerations
3. Color
4. Font

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Unit
• Unit.Pixel(20)
• Unit.Percentage(50)

• Pnl.Width=Unit.Pixel(300)

• Dim myunit as New Unit(300,UnitType.Pixel)

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Enum
This example uses the Enum statement to define a set of named
constants.
In this case, the constants are colors you might choose to design data
entry forms for a database.

Public Enum InterfaceColors


MistyRose = &HE1E4FF&
SlateGray = &H908070&
DodgerBlue = &HFF901E&
DeepSkyBlue = &HFFBF00&
SpringGreen = &H7FFF00&
ForestGreen = &H228B22&
Goldenrod = &H20A5DA&
Firebrick = &H2222B2&
End Enum

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Public Enum MyColors
Red=“#FF0000”
Green=“#00FF00”
Blue=“#0000FF”
End Enum

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BorderStyle Enumeration
• Ctrl.BorderStyle=BorderStyle.Dotted

• <asp:Label BorderStyle=“Dotted” Text=“any text value” id=“ctrl”


runat=“server” />

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Color
• Color.FromARGB(a,r,g,b)
• Color.Yellow
• ColorTranslator.FromHtml(“Blue”)

• System.Drawing namespace

• Ctrl.ForeColor=Color.FromARGB(255,255,255,255)

• Ctrl.ForeColor=Color.Red

• Ctrl.ForeColor=ColorTranslator.FromHtml(“Blue”)

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Transparency
Alpha measures the transparency of a pixel or image.

In 32-bit uncompressed RGB video, four components define each


pixel: an alpha channel (A) and three color components (RGB).

A pixel with an alpha value of zero is completely transparent.

A pixel with an alpha value of 255 is opaque.

Between these values, the pixel has various degrees of


transparency.

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Font
• Ctrl.Font.Bold=“True”
• Ctrl.Font.Size=FontUnit.Point(14)

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Focus
• The Focus( ) method effects only input controls that accept
keystrokes from user.

• When the page is rendered in browser the user starts in the focused
control.

• No built in way to set focus in Html

• In .aspx
<form id=“Form1” DefaultFocus=“TextBox2” runat=“server”>

• In .vb
Dim ctrl As New TextBox
Me.Form.Controls.Add(ctrl)
ctrl.Focus()
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Default Button
• <form id=“Form1” DefaultButton=“cmdSubmit” runat=“server”>

• The default button is the button that is clicked when the user
presses the Enter key.

• The Panel control also exposes the DefaultButton property, which


works when any input control it contains gets the focus.

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