Tuesday, November 5, 2013

asp.net - Could not load type

Today while I was converting a Web Application to a WebSite in Visual Studio 2012 I came across this error.I created a new website and starting adding the pages from the web application.Once I was done adding the pages, I did a build on the website and I encountered the "Could not load type ' '" error in my website.

After searching for an answer I found this error can occur for various reasons, in my case though it was because of the CodeBehind attribute of the aspx pages.When you add a aspx page to a web application the CodeBehind attribute is set.

<%@ Page Title="About Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="About.aspx.cs" Inherits="About" %>

If you import this page into a website you will come across Could not load type About error.The fix was to change the attribute to CodeFile in the website aspx page

<%@ Page Title="About Page" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="About.aspx.cs" Inherits="About" %>

See here for CodeFile vs CodeBehind
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73022/codefile-vs-codebehind





















Friday, November 1, 2013

c# - List strings in order of occurrence in a given string

In the project that I am working on right now I had to figure out a way to list a given set of strings in another string based on the order in which the list of strings would occur.

For example: I have a few raw html page content extracted from the web and I have a list of words.The task is to build a grid display that would list those words in order of occurrence in the content of a page. 

Below is the sample code using a console to achieve it.If there is a better way to do this, I am interested to know.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace StringOrder

{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                //Set of random words to search for in Content
                string[] saArrayofStrings = { "abc", "def", "mno", "xyz", "jkl" };
                //Content
                string sString = "xyz The history of the United States as covered in American schools and universities typically begins with either Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the Americas or with the prehistory of the Native peoples, with the latter approach having become increasingly common in recent decades.[1]jkl Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years and developed complex cultures before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had early settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and Gulf Coast.abc By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast, east of the Appalachian Mountains.mno The colonies were prosperous and growing rapidly, and had developed their own autonomous political and legal systems. However, with the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, Great Britain altered its relationships with the colonies by imposing tighter administrative controls and greater financial obligations on the colonists [2]. Tensions grew, eventually leading to armed conflict beginning in April 1775. def On July 4, 1776, the colonies declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.";
                SortedList<int, string> OrderList = new SortedList<int, string>();
                foreach (String s in saArrayofStrings)
                {
                    if (sString.Contains(s))
                        OrderList.Add(sString.IndexOf(s), s);
                }
                Console.WriteLine("The order of occurrence of the given list of words in the content is below");
                foreach (KeyValuePair<int, string> pair in OrderList)
                    Console.WriteLine(pair.Value + " occurs at the following position:" + pair.Key.ToString());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

Output: