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re: Varying OutputCache by URL in Sitecore

denny — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:29:52 GMT

This is Denny from infotechguyz.com. I am the creator of this automated employee termination app. Since you run a very informative blog, will you be willing to write a review for this application on your blog?

www.infotechguyz.com/.../ZTermEmployeeTerminationApp.html

This application allows IT administrators to automate common tasks when an employee leaves the company. Usually, IT administrators use multiple consoles and perform variety of tasks to terminate user accounts. This tool allows IT administrator to automate:

Disable Active Directory account

Hide user from Exchange / Outlook Global address list

Forwards email to manager

Reset user's password

Enter notes in Active Directory

And more.

Thanks

Denny

re: HtmlEncodeFormatString errors in GridView BoundField after precompile

29er — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:08:54 GMT

i have found that HtmlEncodeFormatString property does not work at all. so i just use HtmlEncode and it still works fine in 3.5

re: Varying OutputCache by URL in Sitecore

Anon — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:58:44 GMT

context.Request.RawUrl

re: Varying OutputCache by URL in Sitecore

StevenYandell — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:59:29 GMT

Man that is awesome, you are a lifesaver!

re: Varying OutputCache by URL in Sitecore

KyleKelin — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:10:25 GMT

What is SiteCore?

re: HtmlEncodeFormatString errors in GridView BoundField after precompile

jonefer — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:11:44 GMT

You found an alternate way to fix it.

I found this at: weblogs.asp.net/.../429090.aspx

It explains that this is a design flaw by microsoft.

BoundField DataFormatString attribute not being applied.

Version: ASP.net 2.0 RTM

I wasted a few minutes figuring out this one.

You have a BoundField object in a GridView bound to a field of type DateTime with a DataFormatString attribute but the format string is not being applied.

<asp:BoundField DataField="DateOfBirth" DataFormatString="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" />

Instead, the field appears to be formatted using its ToString() method like so:

Output: 10/31/2005 7:00:54 PM

Cause

To prevent cross site scripting attacks, the field value is HtmlEncoded. The HtmlEncoding occurs before applying the DataFormatString making the format string have no effect.

Resolution

In this case (ie. when using a field of type DateTime), set HtmlEncode to false.

<asp:BoundField DataField="DateOfBirth" DataFormatString="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" HtmlEncode="false"/>

The Output renders as: 10/31/2005

This setting also applies to the HeaderText.

The following:

HeaderText="Employee<BR/>Name"

will not render a line break unless you set HtmlEncode to false.

I am not sure why the ASP.net team decided against HtmlEncoding the string after applying the DataFormatString.