How to get cursor position in C#

In future if you are working on any Game Development project or any project where you need to find the current cursor position, this simple program might help you.

Code(.cs file) : 

namespace CursorPosition
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();

this.MouseMove+=Form1_MouseMove;
}

void Form1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
cursorPositionLabel.Text = e.Location.ToString();
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

}
}

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While developing web projects we generally keep our Connection String under the Web.config, which get stored in plain text format which anybody can read. Connection String contains database connections, username, password etc. which is threat to your secured data.

The best idea is to keep our connection string in encrypted format which is not easily readable and which makes your connection string safe.

HOW TO ENCRYPT CONNECTION STRING

1. First Create web project in asp.net, then add connection details to web.config file.

2. Go to Start >  All Programs >> Microsoft visual studio 2008 >> Visual Studio Tools >> Visual Studio 2012 Command Prompt

After Opening Command prompt type following command aspnet_regiis.exe -pef “connectionStrings” “C:\VisualStudio2008\Authorization”

After that you will get a message stating “Encrypting configuration section… Succeeded!”.

Now when you will open your web.config file you will find encrypted connection string.

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While developing a project you might come across a situation where you need to upload multiple files at a time. If you working on Asp.net project and you come across similar situation no need to worry you have nice options to accomplish this task.

We can make use of AjaxFileUpload Control. It offers several features.

1. Upload multiple files at a time.

2. Progress bar to display file upload status.

3. Drag and drop facility.

In order to use AjaxFileUpload control first you need to add AjaxControlToolkit to your application, wanted to learn how to do it? Please refer my previous post on How to add AjaxControlToolkit to Visual Studio 2012.

The best part of this control is you can control which file types you want to upload. You can make use of AllowedFileTypes property. You can simply allow different file types separated by commas in AllowedFileTypes control.

Using this Control is very simple you just need  to drag this control from ToolBox and drop it on your .aspx page, add directive to register assembly and add script manager and you are all set to use AjaxFileUpload control. Registering assembly and adding script manager shown in code given below.

// Register Assembly
< %@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="asp" %>

// AjaxFileUpload Control


AjaxFileUpload Control Properties :

• ThrobberID – The ID of a control that is shown while the file is uploading. The throbber image is displayed for browsers that do not support the HTML5 File API.
• ContextKeys – A dictionary that can be used to pass information to the server when a file is uploaded.
• MaximumNumberOfFiles – This property enables you to limit the number of files that a user can add to the upload queue.
• AllowedFileTypes – This property enables you to restrict the types of files that can be uploaded. You can assign a comma delimited list of file extensions to this property.
• IsInFileUploadPostBack – This property has the value true when a page is created in response to an AjaxFileUpload asynchronous postback.
• OnClientUploadComplete – The name of a JavaScript function executed in the client-side after a file is uploaded successfully.
• OnClientUploadError – The name of a JavaScript function executed in the client-side if the file upload failed.

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Ajax control toolkit contains rich set of controls which are used build highly responsive and interactive web applications. Ajax Control toolkit contains more than 40 controls to choose from which includes ColorPicker, AutoComplete, Calender, Accordion, Watermark, etc. Ajax Control Toolkit’s recently updated version came in September 2012. 

Now if you want to add Ajax Control toolkit to your asp.net project in Visual Studio 2012, you have two options.

1. Using NuGet Package Manager

This is very simple way to add AjaxControlToolkit to your asp.net project. Just right click on your project under Solution Explorer > Manage NuGet Packages > Online and then select AjaxControlToolkit and then install it.

2. Add Manually 

Step 1 : Download

Go to http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com > Downloads > Click on Ajax Control Toolkit 4 > Download.

Step 2 : Extract

Right Click Zip file > Properties > Unblock > And then Extract file

Step 3 : Add toolkit to Visual Studio

Right Click on your Toolbox Menus > Click on add tab > Name it as “AjaxControlToolkit” > Right Click on newly added tab > Choose Items > Browse > Select extracted AjaxControlToolkit.dll > Hit ok and there you go.

Select the way which suits you add AjaxControlToolkit to your toolbox and enjoy making a responsive, interactive web applications.

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Description : 

Whenever we wanted to develop Log In and register page we think of Text Box to enter required details and then a button to submit that data to database.  Asp.Net came with few controls they gives a ready Log In and Create New User control, by making use of these controls we can easily develop Log In page.

All you need to do is just drag and drop Log In and Create New User Control on your webpage and THAT’S IT, rest work is done by Asp.Net controls. AMAZING RIGHT?

Both controls comes with predefined templates, even you can style them as per your need, by making use of LayoutTemplate.

After adding those controls it automatically adds a database in your back end, add columns to it and whenever you add new user it  fires query and add that user data into database. The best part of it is it Stores password in ENCRYPTED as well as HASHED format.

There are few other controls which are add on to these controls.

Log In Name, Log In View, Log In Status, Password Recovery, Change Password which gives power to these two controls.

You just need to add few elements into your web.config file. 

Demo : 

.aspx Code

LogIn.aspx

Register.aspx

< %@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Register.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

Home.aspx

< %@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Home.aspx.cs" Inherits="Home" %>

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>

Web.Config

< ?xml version="1.0"?>


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Description :

I am going to design contact us page where you will fill up necessary fields and click button to submit it.

I will make use of few textboxes to enter some necessary fields and then at the end there will be a button called submit which will send data in form of an email notification.

Demo :

Email Notification : 

.aspx Code :

Code Behind Button :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace AmazingThingsDemoOG
{
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

//This function will be called on button click to send email
protected void SendEMail()
{
try
{
//url of your website
String url = “YourURL”;

//Email id and Password of that Email id which you will be using to send email
NetworkCredential loginInfo = new NetworkCredential(“EmailId”, “Password”);

//Declare new MailMessage object and initialize with values such as from address, to address, bcc address, subject etc
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress(“FromAddress”);
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress(emailTextBox.Text));
msg.Bcc.Add(new MailAddress(“BccAddress”));
msg.Subject = “Notification from:Your Website Name”;
msg.Body = “Hi,” + nameTextBox.Text + ”
Thanks for contacting us. We will contact you soon.
” + “Our System has recorded a message
” + messageTextBox.Text + ”
Thanks and Regards
” + url;
msg.IsBodyHtml = true;

//Name the client which you will be using to send email.
SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(“smtp.gmail.com”);

client.EnableSsl = true;
client.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
client.Credentials = loginInfo;
client.Send(msg);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
confirmationLabel.Text = ex.Message;
}

}

protected void submit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
//It Will call function SendEmail and confirms that message sent succesfully.
SendEMail();
confirmationLabel.Text = “Thanks for contacting us. We will get back to you in 24Hrs.”;
confirmationLabel.Visible = true;
subjectTextBox.Text = “”;
emailTextBox.Text = “”;
nameTextBox.Text = “”;
messageTextBox.Text = “”;
}
catch (Exception) { }
}
}

}

 I have used CSS to make contact us page attractive.

CSS Code :

.TextBox
{
padding: 9px;
border: solid 1px #E5E5E5;
outline: 0;
font: normal 13px/100% Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif;
width: 200px;
background: #FFFFFF url('bg_form.png') left top repeat-x;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left 25, from(#FFFFFF), color-stop(4%, #EEEEEE), to(#FFFFFF));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF, #EEEEEE 1px, #FFFFFF 25px);
box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-moz-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0,0,0, 0.1) 0px 0px 8px;
}

.TextBox:hover, textarea:hover,
.TextBox:focus, textarea:focus
{
border-color: #C9C9C9;
-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) 0px 0px 8px;
}

.Button
{
width: auto;
padding: 9px 15px;
background: #617798;
border: 0;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FFFFFF;
-moz-border-radius: 5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
cursor: pointer;
}

[box type=”success” align=”aligncenter” width=”620″ ]This project was successfully compiled using  Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 [/box]

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