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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

AJAX ProgressUpdate issue

I had an issue with the UpdatePanel and ProgressUpdate AJAX extensions controls in ASP.NET.

The following error occurred in the Javascript:
if (this._dynamicLayout) this.get_element().style.display = 'block';

I solved the problem by moving my ProgressUpdate control out of the UpdatePanel's tags. I guess I was looking for trouble when I did that.

Having the ProgressUpdate within the UpdatePanel work in certain instances, but I also had another UpdatePanel in the same UserControl, so it got a bit hairy.

I'd like to verify this, but as always, the deadline looms.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Constraint cannot be special class 'object'

I was busy creating a generic method to convert a List to a DataTable when I received the error:
Constraint cannot be special class 'object'
on this statement:
public DataTable ListToDataTable(IList list) where T : Object

Blegh... why would this be? Anyhow, I did a workaround by changing the statement to the following:
public DataTable ListToDataTable(T list) where T : IList

A bit annoying, since now one has to send a List and can't simply pass a List.

Another workaround is to use a blank interface, with the statement as:
public DataTable ListToDataTable(IList list) where T : IBlank

Now one can send List if MyClass 'implements' the IBlank interface.

I'm not really too happy with any of these workarounds. I see no reason why the Object class is "too special" to be used as a generic placeholder.

Oh, and merely for interest sake. Here is the generic List to DataTable converter method:
public DataTable ListToDataTable(List list) where T : IBlank
{
DataTable dataTable = new DataTable();

Type type = typeof(T);
PropertyInfo[] properties = type.GetProperties();

// Create the columns
foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
    dataTable.Columns.Add(property.Name, property.PropertyType);

// Populate the rows
foreach (T obj in list)
{
    DataRow newRow = dataTable.NewRow();

    foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
        newRow[property.Name] = property.GetValue(obj, null);

    dataTable.Rows.Add(newRow);
}

return dataTable;
}
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