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Get values out of an object into properties of another class

i have a gridview
INSEE1 Commune
------ -------
10002 AILLEVILLE
10003 BRUN
i have a script that return a list of object.
List<object> Temp = ASPxGridView_Insee.GetSelectedFieldValues("INSEE1");
my Temp is a list of object of INSSE1 that i have selected.
but now i add Commune also, so my script become:
List<object> Temp = ASPxGridView_Insee.GetSelectedFieldValues("INSEE1","Commune");
and my Temp is list of object of INSEE1 and Commune look at image:
how can i acces 10002 and AILLEVILLE ?
i have try with cast it of my Pers_INSEE class:
public class Pers_InseeZone
{
string _Code_Insee;
public string Code_Insee
{
get { return _Code_Insee; }
set { _Code_Insee = value; }
}
string _Commune;
public string Commune
{
get { return _Commune; }
set { _Commune = value; }
}
}
foreach (var oItem in Temp )
{
Pers_InseeZone o = (Pers_InseeZone)oItem;
}
but I not work, I can not cast it.
I have tried like this:
foreach (var oItem in Temp )
{
var myTempArray = oItem as IEnumerable;
foreach (var oItem2 in myTempArray)
{
string res= oItem2.ToString();
....
the value of res = 10002, but how can I get the value of AILEVILLE ?
the value of Temp[0].GetType(); is:
Thanks in advance

Ok I thought so, so as already mentioned in the comments you have a array of objects inside each object so you need to cast first every object in your list into an array of objects: object[] then you can access each part. Here is an example that recreates your problem:
object[] array = new object[] {10002, "AILEEVILLE"};
List<object> Temp = new List<object> {array};
And the solution:
// cast here so that the compiler knows that it can be indexed
object [] obj_array = Temp[0] as object[];
List<Pers_InseeZone> persList = new List<Pers_InseeZone>();
Pers_InseeZone p = new Pers_InseeZone()
{
Code_Insee = obj_array[0].ToString(),
Commune = obj_array[1].ToString()
};
persList.Add(p);
Applied to your code it would look something like this:
List<object> Temp = ASPxGridView_Insee.GetSelectedFieldValues("INSEE1","Commune");
List<Pers_InseeZone> persList = new List<Pers_InseeZone>();
foreach (object oItem in Temp )
{
object [] obj_array = oItem as object[];
Pers_InseeZone p = new Pers_InseeZone()
{
Code_Insee = obj_array[0].ToString(),
Commune = obj_array[1].ToString()
};
persList.Add(p);
}

The problem is down to the fact your class doesn't match the same structure as the data you are getting, so it can't be cast into it.
Instead why don't you just iterate over the results and build a new instance of the class?
var tempList = new List<Pers_InseeZone>();
foreach (var oItem in Temp)
{
tempList.Add(new Pers_InseeZone(oItem[0], oItem[1]));
}
You will need to add a constructor to your Pers_InseeZone class, and assign the variables there.

bind enum to combobox plus one custom choice

I've followed the advice given here : How to bind Enum to combobox with empty field in C# but it gave me some unusable content:
which is not what I would like to see... Here's the code I used to bind:
comboBox2.DataSource = GetDataSource(typeof (MessageLevel), true);
And here's the background:
public enum MessageLevel
{
[Description("Information")]
Information,
[Description("Warning")]
Warning,
[Description("Error")]
Error
}
----
public static string GetEnumDescription(string value)
{
Type type = typeof(MessageLevel);
var name = Enum.GetNames(type).Where(f => f.Equals(value, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)).Select(d => d).FirstOrDefault();
if (name == null)
{
return string.Empty;
}
var field = type.GetField(name);
var customAttribute = field.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(DescriptionAttribute), false);
return customAttribute.Length > 0 ? ((DescriptionAttribute)customAttribute[0]).Description : name;
}
public static List<object> GetDataSource(Type type, bool fillEmptyField = false)
{
if (type.IsEnum)
{
var data = Enum.GetValues(type).Cast<Enum>()
.Select(E => new { Key = (object)Convert.ToInt16(E), Value = GetEnumDescription(E.ToString()) })
.ToList<object>();
var emptyObject = new { Key = default(object), Value = "" };
if (fillEmptyField)
{
data.Insert(0, emptyObject); // insert the empty field into the combobox
}
return data;
}
return null;
}
How can I make a correct binding and adding one empty entry?

So the solution is to also set DisplayMember and ValueMember properties on ComboBox, so that it will know how to treat Key and Value properties.
comboBox2.DataSource = GetDataSource(typeof (MessageLevel), true);
comboBox2.DisplayMember = "Value";
comboBox2.ValueMember = "Key";

C# Observable Collection LDAP Paths Children for WPF TreeView

I'm hoping someone can help. A long time windows forms/aspx user, moving to WPF.
Not expecting a coded answer to this, but any pointers on a different way to approach would be greatly appreciated - I am probably approaching this in a very backward way.
So the objective is to have an ObservableCollection with sub ObservableCollection "childen" within to then bind to my WPF treeview control.
I can bind my collection to the treeview without issues, and have styled it with checkboxes images as desired, frustratingly, its the ObservableCollection with children of children of children I am having trouble generating in the first place.
I have a table in SQL with LDAP Paths, and various other information I'm storing against that LDAP path, which I read into my ObservableCollection.
Single level, no problem, the bit I'm struggling with is sorted the sub objects of sub objects by LDAP Path, so when I bind to the treeview is presented as AD OU's are structured.
EG:
TopOU
Users
Front Office Users
Helpdesk Users
Example LDAP Paths in my DB
LDAP://OU=Front Office Users,OU=Users,OU=TopOU,DC=dev,DC=local
LDAP://OU=Helpdesk Users,OU=Users,OU=TopOU,DC=dev,DC=local
LDAP://OU=OU=Users,OU=TopOU,DC=dev,DC=local
LDAP://OU=OU=TopOU,DC=dev,DC=local
private ObservableCollection<AssignmentData> OUTreeAssignmentsCollection = new ObservableCollection<AssignmentData>();
public class AssignmentData : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
public Int32 AssignmentID { get; set; }
public String AssignmentName { get; set; }
public AssignmentTypes AssignmentType { get; set; }
//other stuff....
//For TreeView all sub nodes
public ObservableCollection<AssignmentData> Children { get; set; }
}
I then start to read from my db in a rather nasty way, and this is where it all goes wrong, and I could use some pointers.
cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT UserGroups.UserGroupID, UserGroups.Name, UserGroups.LDAPPath FROM UserGroups WHERE UserGroups.TypeID=1", DBCon);
reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (reader.Read())
{
String strLDAPHierarchical = GetLDAPHierarchical(reader[2].ToString());
AssignmentData newItem = new AssignmentData()
{
AssignmentID = Convert.ToInt32(reader[0]),
AssignmentName = reader[1].ToString(),
AssignmentImage = ouIcon,
AssignmentLDAPPath = reader[2].ToString(),
AssignmentCNPath = GetCNFromLDAPPath(reader[2].ToString()),
AssignmentTooltip = GetADSLocationTooltip(reader[2].ToString()),
AssignmentType = AssignmentTypes.UserOU,
AssignmentLDAPHierarchical = strLDAPHierarchical
};
if (strLDAPHierarchical.Contains(","))
{
//Now check all the root nodes exist to continue
String strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath = strLDAPHierarchical;
String[] SplitLDAPHierarchical = strLDAPHierarchical.Split(new Char[] { ',' });
Int32 reverseI = SplitLDAPHierarchical.Length - 1;
String prevPath = "";
for (int i = 0; i < SplitLDAPHierarchical.Length; i++)
{
String path = SplitLDAPHierarchical[reverseI];
//now check if this node is already there and if not look it up and create it
if (path != "")
{
if (i == 0) { strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath = path; }
else { strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath = path + "," + prevPath; }
WriteLog("CHECK:" + strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath);
LookupItemByLDAPHierarchical(strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath, newItem);
if (i == 0) { prevPath = path; }
else { prevPath = path + "," + prevPath; }
reverseI = reverseI - 1;
}
}
}
else
{
//is top level object, so create at the root of the collection
UserOUCollection.Add(newItem);
}
Function to add sub items :-/
internal AssignmentData LookupItemByLDAPHierarchical(String strLDAPHierarchical, AssignmentData fromItem)
{
AssignmentData currentItem = null;
foreach (AssignmentData d in UserOUCollection)
{
if (d.AssignmentLDAPHierarchical == strLDAPHierarchical) { currentItem = d; break; }
if (d.Children != null)
{
currentItem = CheckChildNodesByLDAPHierarchical(d, strLDAPHierarchical);
if (currentItem != null) { break; }
}
}
String strMessage = "null";
if (currentItem != null) { strMessage = currentItem.AssignmentLDAPPath; }
if (currentItem == null)
{
String strWhere = "LDAPPath LIKE 'LDAP://" + strLDAPHierarchical + "%'";
SqlConnection DBCon = new SqlConnection(SQLString);
DBCon.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT UserGroupID, Name, LDAPPath FROM UserGroups WHERE " + strWhere + " AND TypeID=1", DBCon);
SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (reader.Read())
{
strLDAPHierarchical = GetLDAPHierarchical(reader[2].ToString());
AssignmentData newItem = new AssignmentData()
{
AssignmentID = Convert.ToInt32(reader[0]),
AssignmentName = reader[1].ToString(),
AssignmentImage = ouIcon,
AssignmentLDAPPath = reader[2].ToString(),
AssignmentCNPath = GetCNFromLDAPPath(reader[2].ToString()),
AssignmentTooltip = GetADSLocationTooltip(reader[2].ToString()),
AssignmentType = AssignmentTypes.UserOU,
AssignmentLDAPHierarchical = strLDAPHierarchical
};
String strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath = strLDAPHierarchical;
foreach (String path in strLDAPHierarchical.Split(new Char[] { ',' }))
{
//now check if this node is already there and if not look it up and create it
if (path != "")
{
strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath = strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath.Replace(path + ",", "");
currentItem = LookupItemByLDAPHierarchical(strLDAPHierarchicalCheckPath, currentItem);
if (null == currentItem)
{
UserOUCollection.Add(newItem); //new root item
}
else
{
if (currentItem.Children == null)
{
//add new child
currentItem.Children = new ObservableCollection<AssignmentData> { newItem };
}
else
{
//add more children to exisiting
currentItem.Children.Add(newItem);
}
}
currentItem = null;
}
}
//Find a current Item to add the node to
//currentItem = LookupItemByLDAPHierarchical(strLDAPHierarchical);
}
reader.Close();
reader.Dispose();
DBCon.Close();
DBCon.Dispose();
}
return currentItem;
}
With my current solution, I get a treeview, with sub nodes of sub nodes, but they are wrong/lots of duplication etc. I have spent literally days trying to fix my probably overcomplicated attempt above - but have come to the conclusion I'm probably going about it the wrong way.
Any help greatly appreciated!

Just having a peruse ;) through your code. Think I can see why you have lots of duplications. Looks like your first SQL query get's all parent/child records. Then the second query will go and get some of those records again, if that makes sense.
One approach would be to only get the top level items in your first query. Possibly by getting SQL to count the number of commas.
SELECT UserGroups.UserGroupID, UserGroups.Name, UserGroups.LDAPPath,
LENGTH(LDAPPath) - LENGTH(REPLACE(LDAPPath, ',', '')) as CommaCount
FROM UserGroups
WHERE UserGroups.TypeID=1
AND CommaCount = 2
Since you asked for different approach id say it's not very efficient to repeatedly query the database in a loop. When I'm building a tree of parent child objects I'd normally get all parent/child records in one query. Build a flat dictionary of all the objects. Then loop through it and make the parent/child associations.
The dictionary can also be useful to lookup your objects later on either directly by key or to loop through without having to make a recursive function that crawls the tree.
So I'd suggest that you break it down into 2 blocks of code.
First block: Using your existing query that get's all of the items, create a flat Dictionary with everything in.
They key of each item should probably be the result from GetLDAPHierarchical().
Second block: Next loop through the dictionary and create the hierarchy. Add anything with no parent directly to the UserOUCollection
foreach(AssignmentData d in myDictionary.Values)
{
String parentKey = GetParentLDAPKey(d.AssignmentLDAPHierarchical);
if (myDictionary.ContainsKey(parentKey))
{
myDictionary(parentKey).children.Add(d);
}
else
{
UserOUCollection.Add(d);
}
}
GetParentLDAPKey() will need to produce the same key as it's parent by removing the first part of the LDAP Path.
Hope that points you in the right direction.
H
(SMASH)

Thanks so much to hman, who pointed me in a much more logical direction. I used LDAPPath as my dictionary key.
Dictionary<String, AssignmentData> OUDictionary = new Dictionary<String, AssignmentData>();
//Read from DB
cmd = new SqlCommand("SELECT UserGroups.UserGroupID, UserGroups.Name, UserGroups.LDAPPath FROM UserGroups WHERE UserGroups.TypeID=1", DBCon);
reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
while (reader.Read())
{
AssignmentData newItem = new AssignmentData()
{
AssignmentID = Convert.ToInt32(reader[0]),
AssignmentName = reader[1].ToString(),
AssignmentImage = ouIcon,
AssignmentLDAPPath = reader[2].ToString(),
AssignmentCNPath = GetCNFromLDAPPath(reader[2].ToString()),
AssignmentTooltip = GetADSLocationTooltip(reader[2].ToString()),
AssignmentType = AssignmentTypes.UserOU,
};
UserOUDictionary.Add(reader[2].ToString(), newItem);
}
reader.Close();
reader.Dispose();
//Now Read OU List into TreeView Collection
foreach (AssignmentData d in UserOUDictionary.Values)
{
String parentKey = GetParentLDAPPath(d.AssignmentLDAPPath);
if (UserOUDictionary.ContainsKey(parentKey))
{
AssignmentData parentItem = UserOUDictionary[parentKey];
if (parentItem.Children == null) { parentItem.Children = new ObservableCollection<AssignmentData> { d }; } //add first child
else { parentItem.Children.Add(d); } //add more children to exisiting
}
else
{
UserOUCollection.Add(d); //add to root of control
}
}
private String GetParentLDAPKey(String strLDAPPath)
{
String retParentKey = strLDAPPath;
if (strLDAPPath.Contains(","))
{
retParentKey = retParentKey.Replace("LDAP://", "");
retParentKey = retParentKey.Remove(0, retParentKey.IndexOf(",") + 1);
retParentKey = "LDAP://" + retParentKey;
}
return retParentKey;
}

Accessing C# Dictionary and return value

I have a dictionary:
Dictionary<ICD_Map2, string> maps = new Dictionary<ICD_Map2, string>();
I add to the dictionary via button click:
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
maps.Clear();
// Load mapping file.
var reader = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead(#"Call_Details_Map.csv"));
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
var line = reader.ReadLine();
var values = line.Split(',');
maps.Add(new ICD_Map2(values[0].Replace("\"",""), values[1].Replace("\"","")), values[2].Replace("\"",""));
}
}
I want to use LINQ and map my keys to the "string" in maps.
How do I do it?
var File001 = from line in File.ReadLines(ICD_process)
let l = line.Split(',')
where l[0] != "\"Statement Date\""
select new
{
CallType = maps.ToLookup(p => l[5], p => l[3]),
Calls = l[11] == "\"\"" ? "0" : (maps.ToLookup(p => l[5], p => l[3]) == "Mobile Data" || maps.ToLookup(p => l[5], p => l[3]) == "Mobile SMS") ? "0" : l[11].Replace("\"","").ToString())
};
I am getting error in Calls variable in File001 Linq method

It's not clear what you are trying to achieve, but here is my advice. Now you are working with spitted lines array like this l[0] != "\"Statement Date\"". I think only you know what data should be at index 9. It's not very readable, error-prone (typo in Statemnet Date, wrong index), and it's very hard to maintain. Instead this create an object, which will parse line for you and provide data via strongly typed properties with nice names.
public class ICDEntry
{
public static ICDEntry CreateFrom(string line)
{
string[] values = line.Split(',');
var entry = new ICDEntry();
// assign values to properties:
// if (values[0] == "\"Statement Date\"")
// entry.StatementDate = DateTime.Parse(values[1]);
// entry.IsSomething = values[11] == "\"\""
return entry;
}
public DateTime? StatementDate { get; private set; }
public string MobileSMS { get; private set; }
public bool IsSomething { get; private set; }
}
Now you can parse each line, and then work in strongly typed world making queries to your ICD entries:
var entries = File.ReadLines(ICD_process).Select(l => ICDEntry.CreateFrom(l));
var File001 = from e in entries
where e.StatementDate.HasValue
select new {
Calls = e.IsSomething ? "0" : e.MobileSMS; // use ICDEntry here
};

How to delete object from combobox?

I have a combobox with objects of Foo type, here is the Foo class:
public class Foo
{
public string name { get; set; }
public string path { get; set; }
}
The Foo.name is the displayed text in the combobox and Foo.path is the value of the selected option.
I want to delete an option from the combobox after some operation I made.
I've tried these ways:
1
comboBox2.Items.Remove(#comboBox2.Text);
2
comboBox2.Items.Remove(#comboBox2.SelectedValue.ToString());
3
Foo ToDelete = new Foo();
ToDelete.name = #comboBox2.Text;
ToDelete.path = #comboBox2.SelectedValue.ToString();
comboBox2.Items.Remove(ToDelete);
Nothing works for me. : / How to do this?
UPDATE
This is how I'm initializing my combobox:
string[] filePaths = Directory.GetFiles(sites.paths[comboBox1.SelectedIndex]);
List<Foo> combo2data = new List<Foo>();
foreach (string s in filePaths)
{
Foo fileInsert = new Foo();
fileInsert.path = s;
fileInsert.name = Path.GetFileName(s);
combo2data.Add(fileInsert);
}
comboBox2.DataSource = combo2data;
comboBox2.ValueMember = "path";
comboBox2.DisplayMember = "name";

comboBox2.Items.Remove(comboBox2.SelectedValue); will only remove from the combobox, not from the datasource bound to the combobox. You may remove it from the datasource and re-bind the datasource.

Use ComboBox.SelectedIndex property.
For example: let me have comboBox1 added to the form. In the delete button:
if (comboBox1.SelectedIndex >= 0)
comboBox1.Items.RemoveAt(comboBox1.SelectedIndex);

combox1.Remove(takes an object)
Object selectedItem = comboBox1.SelectedItem;
So you cna do it this way combox1.Remove(selectedItem);

Suppose you want to Remove Items by Index:
combo2data.RemoveAt(0); //Removing by Index from the dataSource which is a List
//Rebind
comboBox2.DataSource = null;
comboBox2.DataSource = combo2data;
comboBox2.ValueMember = "path";
comboBox2.DisplayMember = "name";
Suppose you want to Remove by seraching for a member value
Foo item = combo2data.Where(f => f.name.Equals("Tom")).FirstOrDefault();
if (item != null)
{
combo2data.Remove(item);
comboBox2.DataSource = null;
comboBox2.DataSource = combo2data;
comboBox2.ValueMember = "path";
comboBox2.DisplayMember = "name";
}

These 2 commands will remove an item from your data source.
list.Remove((Foo)comboBox1.SelectedItem);
or
list.Remove(list.Find(P=>P.name == comboBox1.SelectedText));

I think the secret is to first attribute null to the datasource and after rebind to a modified collection:
int idToRemove = 1;
var items = (cbx.DataSource as List<MyEntity>);
items.RemoveAll(v => v.Id == idToRemove);
rebindCombobox(cbx, items, "Name", "Id");
private void rebindCombobox(ComboBox cbx, IEnumerable<Object> items, String displayMember, String valueMember)
{
cbx.DataSource = null;
cbx.DisplayMember = displayMember;
cbx.ValueMember = valueMember;
cbx.DataSource = items;
}

Perhaps delete all items in the Combobox with
comboBox.Items.Clear();