progress bar status

[CT]

Dear All,
Is there any to show progress status of all activities like database retrieval, navigation from one page to another page? I am looking for some source code to integrated in my .net application.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you
CT

 

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Dear All,
Is there any to show progress status of all activities like database retrieval, navigation from one page to another page? I am looking for some source code to integrated in my .net application.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you
CT

To display server-side activity progress on the web client witout
periodically refreshing the page, you need to use AJAX.

Here is a previous post I made in that newsgroup:

The simplest implementation of AJAX in .NET is using ASHX Custom
HttpHandlers. It's very simple: In your web site or web application
project, Add New Item / Generic handler.

Then, in the code behind, implement the methods (Studio 2005 gives you a
template).

From the client, use JavaScript and XmlHttpRequest to send the request
and read the response. There are many tutorial online.

Example for a simple asynchronous request:

var oHttp = null;
if ( window.XMLHttpRequest )
{
oHttp = new window.XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{
if ( window.ActiveXObject )
{
oHttp = new window.ActiveXObject( "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" );
}
else
{
throw "UNSUPPORTED PLATFORM";
}
}
if ( !oHttp )
{
throw "Cannot create XmlHttpRequest";
}

var strQuery = "?param1=value1&param2=value2";
oHttp.open( "GET",
"myHandler.ashx" + strQuery,
true ); // true = async, false = sync

oHttp.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if ( oHttp.readyState == 4 )
{
oHttp = null;
fnCallback( oHttp );
}
}

oHttp.send( null );

Code behind:

In ProcessRequest, use the "context" parameter to extract the
QueryString, and then you can process according to the parameters.

For the Response, if you want to send XML code back, make sure to set
context.Response.ContentType = "text/xml; charset=utf-8";

To save an XML document to the response, use
docResponse.Save(
new XmlTextWriter( context.Response.OutputStream,
context.Request.ContentEncoding ) );

In the JavaScript, the XML code will be available in oHttp.responseXML.
The response is also available in plain text in oHttp.responseText. Also
check the oHttp.status, which contains status like 200 (OK), 500 (Server
error), etc...

HTH,
Laurent

 

[Anthony Jones]

Hi,

database retrieval, navigation from one page to another page? I am looking
for some source code to integrated in my .net application.

To display server-side activity progress on the web client witout
periodically refreshing the page, you need to use AJAX.

Why? More specifically why is a asynchronous request needed?

A window.timeout to periodically kick off a request for progess info should
be sufficient there's no real need to make the request itself asynchronous
that I can see.

 

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Why? More specifically why is a asynchronous request needed?

A window.timeout to periodically kick off a request for progess info should
be sufficient there's no real need to make the request itself asynchronous
that I can see.

In theory you're right. In praxis, however, I recommend against
synchronous XmlHttpRequest calls. If you send a synchronous request, the
whole JavaScript engine is blocked until the response arrives on the
client. It means that no animation, no other requests, no other
background activity will run as long as the response doesn't arrive.
Since we're on the web, it may take some time.

HTH,
Laurent