What are the new features in Visual Studio 11 Beta version:


The following points shows about the features of Visual Studio 11 Beta version:
  1.      It support for TFS and unit testing tools.
  2.      It Included ASP.NET MVC 3 and ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta
  3.      It supports HTML 5
  4.      With VS11 Beta, you can create a unit test project into an existing web solution. Unit test explorer is    fully functional to run unit tests and view results.
  5.      It provides  Page Inspector, new CSS editor, new JavaScript editor.
  6.      It includes New HTML editor functionalities.
  7.      With VS11 Beta, you can also use profiling with IIS Express.
  8.      The default database for Visual Studio 11 is SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB.
  9.      Visual Studio 11 Express Beta allows the project and website to target .NET framework 4.5 or 4.0. Developers should feel more freedom to choose the targeting framework with this release.


Insert or Upload document into database and retrieving, downloading with Saving option using C# and asp.net


First Create a table with the name Document in database which requires to saving  and  retrieving from database.
For Save, Just am saving NameOftheDocument,Document,DocumentType and Filename.
For that Design textbox and fileupload control and one Save button using asp.net
Then  in Save button click event write the following code:
    protected void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string NameOftheDocument = txtNameOfDocument.Text;
            byte[] imgbyte = new byte[0];
            string DocType = string.Empty;
            string FileName = string.Empty;
            if (AsyFUCreateDocument.HasFile)
            {
                int length = AsyFUCreateDocument.PostedFile.ContentLength;
                imgbyte = new byte[length];
                HttpPostedFile img = AsyFUCreateDocument.PostedFile;
                img.InputStream.Read(imgbyte, 0, length);
                DocType = AsyFUCreateDocument.PostedFile.ContentType;
                FileName = AsyFUCreateDocument.PostedFile.FileName;
             }

//Pass these fields are as parameters to database and Save it.

 // Create SQL Connection

            SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("data Source=ADMIN;initial catalog=databasename; user id=Sa; password=123");
            // Create SQL Command
             SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand();
            cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO Document(NameOftheDocument,Document,DocumentType , Filename)" + " VALUES (@NameOftheDocument,@Document,@DocumentType ,@ Filename)";
            cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;
            cmd.Connection = con;
            SqlParameter NameOftheDocument       new SqlParameter("@NameOftheDocument",SqlDbType.VarChar, 50);
           NameOftheDocument.Value = NameOftheDocument.ToString();
            cmd.Parameters.Add(NameOftheDocument);

           
            SqlParameter Documentnew SqlParameter("@Document ",SqlDbType.Image, imgbyte.Length);
           Document.Value = imgbyte;
            cmd.Parameters.Add(Document);
            SqlParameter DocumentType new SqlParameter("@DocumentType ",SqlDbType.VarChar, 50);
           DocumentType.Value = DocumentType.ToString();
            cmd.Parameters.Add(DocumentType);

            SqlParameter Filenamenew SqlParameter("@Filename ",SqlDbType.VarChar, 50);
           Filename.Value = Filename.ToString();
            cmd.Parameters.Add(Filename);

            con.Open();

            int result = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

            con.Close();

            if (result > 0)

                lbmsg.Text = "Document Uploaded";



Then retrieve data from document table by using data Adapter and fill it into dataset.


After that:


The following article is showing about download a document file form dataset table[0] means one datatable.

For that first you have to retrieve data from database and Fill it into One Datatable.
Then write the following methods where ever you requires.


public string GetMimeTypeByFileName(string sFileName)
     {
         string sMime = "application/octet-stream";

         string sExtension = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(sFileName);
         if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(sExtension))
         {
             sExtension = sExtension.Replace(".", "");
             sExtension = sExtension.ToLower();

             if (sExtension == "xls" || sExtension == "xlsx")
             {
                 sMime = "application/ms-excel";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "doc" || sExtension == "docx")
             {
                 sMime = "application/msword";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "ppt" || sExtension == "pptx")
             {
                 sMime = "application/ms-powerpoint";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "pdf")
             {
                 sMime = "application/pdf";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "rtf")
             {
                 sMime = "application/rtf";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "zip")
             {
                 sMime = "application/zip";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "mp3")
             {
                 sMime = "audio/mpeg";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "bmp")
             {
                 sMime = "image/bmp";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "gif")
             {
                 sMime = "image/gif";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "jpg" || sExtension == "jpeg")
             {
                 sMime = "image/jpeg";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "png")
             {
                 sMime = "image/png";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "tiff" || sExtension == "tif")
             {
                 sMime = "image/tiff";
             }
             else if (sExtension == "txt")
             {
                 sMime = "text/plain";
             }
         }

         return sMime;
     }



The following DataTable dt, you can take from your dataset tables[0] then write the method and

Call the following method in Download button click:
     public void download(DataTable dt)
     {
         Byte[] bytes = (Byte[])dt.Rows[0]["Image"];
         string filename = dt.Rows[0]["FileName"].ToString();
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = false;
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Charset = "";
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
      HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = GetMimeTypeByFileName(filename);

      HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename="+filename.Replace(" ", "_"));
      HttpContext.Current.Response.BinaryWrite(bytes);
  
      HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();
      HttpContext.Current.Response.End();

     }

After clicking Download button then you will get Open with file and Save file Options.
    

Give validation to textbox that accepts min 6 charecters and max 12 charecters in Asp.net


For that add textbox control with the property MaxLength=12 and add RegularExpressionValidator with RegularExpression.

<asp:TextBox ID="TxtName" runat="server" MaxLength="12" Width="200px"></asp:TextBox>

<br />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator
ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" 
ControlToValidate="TxtName"                                
ValidationExpression="(?=^.{6,12}$)(?=.*\d)(?=.*\W+)(?![.\n]).*$"
runat="server"
Text="Password must have minimum 6 characters & maximum 12 characters"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>




Fill Years to Dropdownlist dynamically with some range in Asp.net


Filling Dropdownlist dynamically with the range of 1900 to this Year, for that
write the following code in PageLoad:



protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!Page.IsPostBack)
        {

             int thisYear = Convert.ToInt32(System.DateTime.Now.Year);

            for (int i = 1999; i <= thisYear; i++)
            {
                ddlYear.Items.Add(new ListItem(i.ToString(), i.ToString()));

            }
            ListItem lsitem = new ListItem("Select Year", "0");
            ddlYear.Items.Insert(0, lsitem);
        }
    }








Fill Month Names and values to Dropdownlist dynamically in Asp.net


Add the following Namespace on the top for DateTimeFormatInfo:

using System.Globalization;


then write the following code in PageLoad:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
               
   if (!Page.IsPostBack)
  {

        DateTimeFormatInfo info = DateTimeFormatInfo.GetInstance(null);
        for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++)
        {
            ddlMonth.Items.Add(new ListItem(info.MonthNames[i], i.ToString()));
           
        }
        ListItem lsitem = new ListItem("Select Month", "0");
        ddlMonth.Items.Insert(0, lsitem);
    }

  }