Thursday, September 8, 2011

Jquery and ASP.NET- Set and Get Value of Server control

Yesterday one of my reader asked me one question that How can I set or get values from Jquery of server side element for example. So I decided to write blog post for this. This blog post is for all this people who are learning Jquery and don’t know how to set or get value for a server like ASP.NET Textbox. I know most of people know about it as Jquery is very popular browser JavaScript framework. I believe jquery as framework because it’s a single file which has lots of functionality.

For this I am going to take one simple example asp.net page which contain two textboxes txtName and txtCopyName and button called copyname. On click of that button it will get the value from txtName textbox and set value of another box. So following is HTML for this.

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Index.aspx.cs" Inherits="Experiment.Index" %>

<!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/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>
       
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
            <asp:TextBox ID="txtName" runat="server" />
            <Br />
            <asp:TextBox ID="txtCopyName" runat="server"/>
            <Br />
            <asp:button ID="btnCopyName" runat="server" Text="Copy"  OnClientClick="javascript:CopyName();return false;"/>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

As you can see in following code there are two textbox and one button which will call JavaScript function called to CopyName to copy text from one textbox from another textbox.Now we are going to use the Jquery for this. So first we need to include Jquery script file to accomplish the task. So I am going link that jquery.js file in my header section like following.

<head >
    <title></title>
    <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.6.2.js"></script>  
</head>

Here I have used the ASP.NET Jquery CDN. If you want know more about Jquery CDN you can visit this link.

http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/cdn.ashx

Now it’s time to write query code. Here I have used val function to set and get value for the element. Following is the code for CopyName function.

function CopyName() {
    var name = $("#<%=txtName.ClientID%>").val(); //get value
    $("#<%=txtCopyName.ClientID%>").val(name); //set value
    return false;
}

Here I have used val function of jquery to set and get value. As you can see in the above code, In first statement I have get value in name variable and in another statement it was set to txtCopy textbox. Some people might argue why you have used that ClientID but it’s a good practice to have that because when you use multiple user controls your id and client id will be different. From this I have came to know that there are lots of people still there who does not basic Jquery things so in future I am going to post more post on jquery basics.That’s it. Hope you like it.Stay tuned for more.. Happy programming and Namaste!!

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Sunday, September 4, 2011

ReCaptcha in ASP.NET MVC3

As a web developer we know what is captcha is. It’s way to confirm users as they are human.Following is captcha definition per WikiPedia.
A CAPTCHA (play /ˈkæpə/) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are assumed to be unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. Thus, it is sometimes described as a reverse Turing test, because it is administered by a machine and targeted to a human, in contrast to the standard Turing test that is typically administered by a human and targeted to a machine. A common type of CAPTCHA requires the user to type letters or digits from a distorted image that appears on the screen.
You can find more details about that on following link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA.

Google ReCaptcha Service:

Google provide Recaptcha service free of charge to confirm users whether they are human or computer. We can directly use the recaptcha service with there api. You have to create a private key for that and that key will validate domains against it. Even we can create the global key for all the keys. You can find more information about it from below link.

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

ReCaptcha Web helpers in ASP.NET MVC 3:

As per I have also written in my previous post. ASP.NET Web helpers from Microsoft comes inbuilt with tools update. If you not installed it then you have to download NuGet package for it. You can refer my previous post for this.

Now we have all things ready its time to write ReCaptcha code in ASP.NET MVC. First we have create key for recaptcha service. I have created it via following link. It’s very easy.

https://www.google.com/recaptcha

Now let’s start coding. Recaptcha web helper renders a captcha control in your web form so you can validate this. Following is code which will render captcha control.
@ReCaptcha.GetHtml(theme: "red")
It's take four argument
  1. Theme- theme specify the color and look for ReCaptcha control. You can have to put theme name over there
  2. Language- You need to specify the captcha challenge language
  3. TabIndex- Tab Index for this control
  4. PublicKey- A unique public key which we have created for our domain.

Following is a code how to use above code in real time. I have updated standard logon control template for ASP.NET MVC.
@model CodeSimplifiedTest.Models.LogOnModel

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Log On";
    ReCaptcha.PublicKey=@"6LedqMcSAAAAAJgiIjKlyzzV2czbGOPvij1tc39A";
}

<h2>Log On</h2>
<p>
    Please enter your user name and password. @Html.ActionLink("Register", "Register") if you don't have an account.
</p>

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
@Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Login was unsuccessful. Please correct the errors and try again.")

@using (Html.BeginForm()) {
    <div>
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Account Information</legend>

            <div class="editor-label">
                @Html.LabelFor(m => m.UserName)
            </div>
            <div class="editor-field">
                @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.UserName)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.UserName)
            </div>

            <div class="editor-label">
                @Html.LabelFor(m => m.Password)
            </div>
            <div class="editor-field">
                @Html.PasswordFor(m => m.Password)
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.Password)
            </div>

            <div class="editor-label">
                @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.RememberMe)
                @Html.LabelFor(m => m.RememberMe)
            </div>

            <p>
               @ReCaptcha.GetHtml(theme: "red")
            </p>
           
        </fieldset>
    </div>
}

As you can see in above code for recaptcha public key and Recaptcha.GetHtml part. Now its time to captcha validation in server side code in controller. As I have used standard logon template for this.I have modified Logon Action Result in Account controller like following.

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult LogOn(LogOnModel model, string returnUrl)
{
    if(!ReCaptcha.Validate(privateKey:"6LedqMcSAAAAAJgiIjKlyzzV2czbGOPvij1tc39A"))
    {
        return Content("Failed");
    }
  
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        if (Membership.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password))
        {
            FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);
            if (Url.IsLocalUrl(returnUrl) && returnUrl.Length > 1 && returnUrl.StartsWith("/")
                && !returnUrl.StartsWith("//") && !returnUrl.StartsWith("/\\"))
            {
                return Redirect(returnUrl);
            }
            else
            {
                return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
        }
    }

    // If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
    return View(model);
}

Here I have validated the captcha control with public key and if validation failed then it will sent failed message. Now it’s time to run that in browser and let’s see output.

RecapthaControlOuput

That’s it. Its easy to integrate. Hope you like it..Stay tuned for more.. Till then Happy Programing..Namaste!!

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

www.dotnetjalps.com new domain for personal blog

After more then 4 years of blogging I have decided to migration my personal blog to its own domain http://www.dotnetjalps.com. There are few reasons why I have migrated my blog to new domain.
  1. Custom domain is your own identity. So you can create your brand.
  2. Now all page ranks and All SEO belongs to my custom domain instead of blogger platform.
  3. SEO will be more easy then standard custom domain.
  4. I want to reach more people and its easy with your custom domain
  5. People will share bookmarks with my custom domain. So If I migrated my blog to another plate all things will remain same.
  6. PageRank was increasing with subdomains very slowly. While with custom it will increase faster.
  7. In lots of companies I have seen block blog word with custom domain its will removed. So more people can reach at my blog when they need me.
Here is a great link which inspired me a lot for migrating my blog to http://jalpesh.blogspot.com to http://www.dotnetjalps.com.

Note: I have not change my feeds address for personal blog. So RSS feeds will remain same at- http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/DotNetJalps.

On this opportunity once again I would like thanks my reader and my supporters for making me whatever I am. Without you guys it would not have been possible. You are the real hero for me. So please keep reading my blogs and send me suggestions to make better and better.

One another great news is that DZone people send me a certificate for my DZone MVB. So I would like to take this opportunity to  share with you guys.

DZoneCertificate

That’s it. Please comment your views about my blog. Stay tuned for more..Till then Happy Programming.. Namaste!!!

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