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Hi Samee,
By design, the RadFileExplorer control does not provide access to the content provider used. Could you please describe your scenario in details and / or provide a sample runnable project so we can investigate the case and get back to you with an appropriate solution?
Sincerely yours,
Dobromir
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By design, the RadFileExplorer control does not provide access to the content provider used. Could you please describe your scenario in details and / or provide a sample runnable project so we can investigate the case and get back to you with an appropriate solution?
Sincerely yours,
Dobromir
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answered on 13 Mar 2010, 04:18 PM
Hi.
I am using your sample project about DbContentProvider and need to connect the dbcontentprovider to pull data from many sqlservers.
I understand that in this assignation
You setup this property to future binding of the assembly. Works fine if like in the sample, the dbconnection is taken from a fixed setting in web.confg.
I need to this work dynamically, so, i need to pass the dbconnection in server code, i modified the code to send the new dbconnection in the searchpatterns property and works fine for the 1st time the sample runs
Buf if in another page load if the addressbox.text have another value, the fileexplorer ignores this new value. I understand that the problem is that this controls dont have a refresh() method and looking in the sample code, you always only validate if the underlying placeholder values are null one time and in that case instantiate the required object, but if i change the contentprovidertypename, the underlaying objects are already instantiated ( are not null ) so this new value is ignored.
Line in the dbcontentprovider.cs file to check for dataserver instantiation
If there is not a refresh() method that reload the entire contents (treeview & grid ), how can i subclass the radfileexplorer control to make the underlying internal variable that holds the instantiated object becomes null, or i assign it with a new instance of the custom content provider with a new address on it?
With this little piece of code i know the name of the protected variables, but looks like i am creating a 2nd object instead of overwriting the one i want
Any idea where can i achieve this refresh ?
LEster
I am using your sample project about DbContentProvider and need to connect the dbcontentprovider to pull data from many sqlservers.
I understand that in this assignation
| RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.ContentProviderTypeName = typeof(Telerik.Web.Examples.DBContentProvider).AssemblyQualifiedName; |
You setup this property to future binding of the assembly. Works fine if like in the sample, the dbconnection is taken from a fixed setting in web.confg.
I need to this work dynamically, so, i need to pass the dbconnection in server code, i modified the code to send the new dbconnection in the searchpatterns property and works fine for the 1st time the sample runs
| protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { |
| RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.SearchPatterns = new string[] { "datasource=" + addressbox.text + ";......." }; RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.ContentProviderTypeName = typeof(Telerik.Web.Examples.DBContentProvider).AssemblyQualifiedName; |
Buf if in another page load if the addressbox.text have another value, the fileexplorer ignores this new value. I understand that the problem is that this controls dont have a refresh() method and looking in the sample code, you always only validate if the underlying placeholder values are null one time and in that case instantiate the required object, but if i change the contentprovidertypename, the underlaying objects are already instantiated ( are not null ) so this new value is ignored.
Line in the dbcontentprovider.cs file to check for dataserver instantiation
| private DataServer DataServer |
| { |
| get |
| { |
| if (Object.Equals(_dataServer, null)) |
| { |
| _dataServer = new DataServer(ServerAddress, ClientRoot ); |
| } |
| return _dataServer; |
| } |
| } |
If there is not a refresh() method that reload the entire contents (treeview & grid ), how can i subclass the radfileexplorer control to make the underlying internal variable that holds the instantiated object becomes null, or i assign it with a new instance of the custom content provider with a new address on it?
With this little piece of code i know the name of the protected variables, but looks like i am creating a 2nd object instead of overwriting the one i want
| protected class testFE : RadFileExplorer |
| { |
| public void X( ) |
| { |
| this.ContentProvider = null; |
| } |
| } |
| protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) |
| { |
| RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.SearchPatterns = new string[] { "Datasource=" + Addressbox.text + "......." }; |
| RadFileExplorer1.Configuration.ContentProviderTypeName = typeof(Telerik.Web.Examples.DBContentProvider).AssemblyQualifiedName; |
| testFE b = new testFE(); |
| b.X(); |
Any idea where can i achieve this refresh ?
LEster
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Hello Lester,
If you think that the DataServer object is not being updated properly after changing the connection string, try modifying the content provider code and add a check if the connection string has changed. For example:
This way the object will be recreated each time the ConnectionString changes.
Another solution can be to subclass the RadFileExplorer control override the ContentProvider property. This way you can check that you have the correct connection each time it is accessed and change it if necessary.
Regards,
Lini
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If you think that the DataServer object is not being updated properly after changing the connection string, try modifying the content provider code and add a check if the connection string has changed. For example:
private DataServer _dataServer;private string _dataConnectionString;private DataServer DataServer{ get { if (_dataConnectionString != ConnectionString) { _dataServer = null; } if (Object.Equals(_dataServer, null)) { _dataConnectionString = ConnectionString; _dataServer = new DataServer(_dataConnectionString); } return _dataServer; }}This way the object will be recreated each time the ConnectionString changes.
Another solution can be to subclass the RadFileExplorer control override the ContentProvider property. This way you can check that you have the correct connection each time it is accessed and change it if necessary.
Regards,
Lini
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answered on 15 Mar 2010, 06:01 PM
Hello. Lini
Any clue about the subclassng option ? that is what i am trying to do. But it creates me another object, cant use the instantiated control defined in the aspx part.
Any clue about the subclassng option ? that is what i am trying to do. But it creates me another object, cant use the instantiated control defined in the aspx part.
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Hello Lester,
Here is a sample class you can place in the App_Code folder of your web site and then use on the page instead of the original file explorer:
(place in App_Code)
(sample usage in ASPX page)
You can then reference the RadFileExplorer1 control in your code just the same as you would a normal telerik file explorer.
Regards,
Lini
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Here is a sample class you can place in the App_Code folder of your web site and then use on the page instead of the original file explorer:
(place in App_Code)
namespace mynamespace{ public class myExplorer : Telerik.Web.UI.RadFileExplorer { protected override Telerik.Web.UI.Widgets.FileBrowserContentProvider ContentProvider { get { //add custom code here to check and update the content provider depending on connection string return base.ContentProvider; } set { base.ContentProvider = value; } } }}(sample usage in ASPX page)
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %><%@ Register Assembly="App_Code" Namespace="mynamespace" TagPrefix="myControls" %><%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtm"><head runat="server"> <title></title></head><body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server"> </asp:ScriptManager><myControls:myExplorer ID="RadFileExplorer1" runat="server"></myControls:myExplorer>...You can then reference the RadFileExplorer1 control in your code just the same as you would a normal telerik file explorer.
Regards,
Lini
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