ValidationExpersion is not a valid attribute of element 'RegularExpressionValidator' - asp.net

I have this problem: when I'm trying to insert a valid value into Email textbox, I get that this value that was inserted, is invalid. This is how i wrote part of the code in the aspx file:
ValidationExpersion="\w+([-+.']\w+)*#\ w +([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*"
This is the message that refer to above code:
Attribute 'ValidationExpersion' is not a valid attribute of element 'RegularExpressionValidator'.
I will be grateful for your help!

Most likely you have a typo in the code (as you do in the question.) The attribute is ValidationExpression so make sure it matches exactly.
EDIT:
Just to make things a little more clear here is the code you pasted and the correct version:
ValidationExpersion="\w+([-+.']\w+)*#\ w +([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*"
ValidationExpression="\w+([-+.']\w+)*#\ w +([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*"
You spelled ValidationExpression wrong. When programming you have to be accurate with spelling, especially when using built in attributes like ValidationExpression. If you are off by even one letter then the "compiler" will think it's something else.

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How do I validate a zip code in visual basic?

I am supposed to use the regularExpressionValidator to verify a ZIP code for a basic webpage I'm making. If the Zip code is valid, the submit button's click event procedure should display the message "Your ZIP code is" followed by the ZIP code and a period.
I don't know how to do an "if" statement to check to see if the zip is valid or not
**Why does the value = 0 when I enter 60611-3456
...don't know how to do an "if" statement...
You were assigned to use a RegularExpressionValidator, and this sounds like homework. If so, it also sounds like the purpose of the assignment is to make this happen without writing any if statements at all.
The validator controls have a feature where a postback event will not occur if validation fails. You use a correct regular expression with a correctly configured validator control, and the code that shows the "Your zip code is..." message will never run. Configuring the validator control is the point of the assignment; you need to do that part on your own. But finding an acceptable regular expression is a distraction from the real learning, and so I don't mind just giving that to you:
^\d{5}(-\d{4})?$
The issue is that your regular expression indicates the four digits must exist if you have the dash. Generally that would be okay but since you're using an input mask the dash always exists, even when it's only five digits. Try the following expression.
ValidationExpression="\d{5}-?(\d{4})?$"
Hope it helps.

URL with multiple parameters, incorrect syntax error

I am integrating with a system that creates part of a URL and I supply part of the URL.
I supply this:
http://myServer/gis/default.aspx?MAP_NAME=myMap
The system supplies this:
?type=mrolls&rolls='123','456'
(the "rolls" change depending on what the user chooses in the system)
so, my URL ends up looking like this:
http://myServer/gis/default.aspx?MAP_NAME=myMap?type=mrolls&rolls='123','456'
I need to get the rolls but when I try this in VB.Net:
Dim URL_ROLL As String = Request.QueryString("rolls")
I get an incorrect syntax error.
I think it's a combination of the 2nd question mark and the single quotes.
When the system is only passing one roll, it works, I can get the rolls from the URL
which looks like this:
http://myServer/gis/default.aspx?MAP_NAME=myMap?type=roll&roll=123
I asked them to change the format of the system's URL but they can't change it without affecting the rest of their users.
Can anyone give me some ideas on how to get the rolls from the URL with single quotes?
OK, I believe I've fixed my problem.
I used a regular expression to remove anything in the querystring that wasn't a number or a comma.
Thanks again for taking time to make your comments, it made me look at the problem from a different angle.

pass data from parent to popup

Apologies if this seems like a duplicate post...
Thomas Warner kindly answeres an earlier post suggesting I use:
Popup.aspx?Data1=Piece_of_data&Data2=Piece_of_data
Just want to ask, if my code is Popup.aspx?Data1=textbox1.text&Data2=textbox2.text
whats the proper way to reference whats in the textboxes?
The way is is above, all that appears in the popup is the actual text 'textbox1.text'
rather than what is actualy in that control.
thanks again
Using asp.net you can litterally write the value straight into the string like:
Popup.aspx?Data1=<%=textbox1.Text%>&Data2=<%=textbox1.Text%>
A more ideal way of doing this would be to build up the URL string in your codebehind so as not to clutter up your HTML and C# code.
That way you could do something like:
String popupUrl = String.Format("Popup.aspx?Data1={0}&Data2={1}",
textbox1.Text,textbox2.Text);
This will also allow you to do any sanitization checks on the values from the textboxes before you start passing those values around.

ASP.NET - Negative numbers in Parenthesis

My application is currently displaying negative numbers as -1. The users have changed the requirements (just for a change!) and now we will have to display the numbers as (1).
Can I enable that for the whole application say changing the web.config or even the app's CultureInfo ? Is there any side effect of doing that since we have lots of pages that contain number validators ?
Thanks !
For currency it is really easy:
String.Format("{0:C}", value)
This will use the culture info for the system.
For normal numbers being data bound, use Mark Glorie's sample.
MSDN Article
I'd use String formatting. Making a change to the application's configuration to satisfy a UI requirement is heavy-handed. SteveX wrote a great blog post about String formatting. It's also compatible with markup (aspx) instead of only relevant in code.
From his post:
String.Format(”{0:$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00);Zero}”, value);
This will output “$1,240.00″ if passed 1243.50. It will output the
same format but in parentheses if the number is negative, and will
output the string “Zero” if the number is zero.
Which isn't exactly what you want, but it's close.
Check this..
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/91fwbcsb.aspx
Converts the string representation of a number in a specified style to its Decimal equivalent.
I've got the following page bookmarked for doing string formatting: http://idunno.org/archive/2004/14/01/122.aspx
About halfway down, it gives the answer:
String.Format("{0:£#,##0.00;(£#,##0.00);Nothing}", value);
To answer your other question, I wouldn't modify the app.config to make it global, for reasons given in the other answers.
String.Format(”{0:f;(f);0”, -1);
This works.
DataFormatString="{0:c0}"
Nagative amounts in paranthesis
Thousand separater - comma
$ symbol in front
You could always write your own custom ToString() method as an extension method, but like you mention, using CultureInfo is probably better. Take a look here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.numberformatinfo.numbernegativepattern.aspx
Are you displaying your data in Gridview/Datagrids? If so then formatting can be applied per bound-column, something like:
<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{##;(##)}"/>
This only works with integers however...

How to extract element id attribute values from HTML

I am trying to work out the overhead of the ASP.NET auto-naming of server controls. I have a page which contains 7,000 lines of HTML rendered from hundreds of nested ASP.NET controls, many of which have id / name attributes that are hundreds of characters in length.
What I would ideally like is something that would extract every HTML attribute value that begins with "ctl00" into a list. The regex Find function in Notepad++ would be perfect, if only I knew what the regex should be?
As an example, if the HTML is:
<input name="ctl00$Header$Search$Keywords" type="text" maxlength="50" class="search" />
I would like the output to be something like:
name="ctl00$Header$Search$Keywords"
A more advanced search might include the element name as well (e.g. control type):
input|name="ctl00$Header$Search$Keywords"
In order to cope with both Id and Name attributes I will simply rerun the search looking for Id instead of Name (i.e. I don't need something that will search for both at the same time).
The final output will be an excel report that lists the number of server controls on the page, and the length of the name of each, possibly sorted by control type.
Quick and dirty:
Search for
\w+\s*=\s*"ctl00[^"]*"
This will match any text that looks like an attribute, e.g. name="ctl00test" or attr = "ctl00longer text". It will not check whether this really occurs within an HTML tag - that's a little more difficult to do and perhaps unnecessary? It will also not check for escaped quotes within the tag's name. As usual with regexes, the complexity required depends on what exactly you want to match and what your input looks like...
"7000"? "Hundreds"? Dear god.
Since you're just looking at source in a text editor, try this... /(id|name)="ct[^"]*"/
Answering my own question, the easiest way to do this is to use BeautifulSoup, the 'dirty HTML' Python parser whose tagline is:
"You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what HTML is supposed to look like. Neither does this parser."
It works, and it's available from here - http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup
I suggest xpath, as in this question

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