I am working with a historical PayPal system in vb.net. I am struggling to add individual item descriptions or names for the products that the user is paying for. It is using the NVPSetExpressCheckout and the data is meant to display on the PayPal website when the user is about to pay. Instead however I am getting constant issues which I assume must be due to syntax or just the way I am trying to do it.
Here is the current code which works:
Dim ppSet As New NvpSetExpressCheckout()
ppSet.Add(NvpSetExpressCheckout.Request._AMT, Decimal.Parse(litTotal.Text))
ppSet.Add(NvpSetExpressCheckout.Request.CURRENCYCODE, "GBP")
Dim basePath As String = Request.Url.AbsoluteUri.Replace(Request.Url.PathAndQuery, String.Empty) + Request.ApplicationPath
ppSet.Add(NvpSetExpressCheckout.Request._RETURNURL, basePath & "paypal.aspx")
ppSet.Add(NvpSetExpressCheckout.Request._CANCELURL, basePath & "cancel.aspx")
I have then tried to add the a description using many methods such as:
ppSet.Add(NvpSetExpressCheckout.Request.L_DESC0, "First Item")
I however am simply getting errors like these:
'L_DESC0' is not a member of 'Encore.PayPal.Nvp.NvpSetExpressCheckout.Request'.
This issue is driving me mad and I can not find a fix. All documentation including the XML says that this is the correct way. I did try to just use the DESC field which worked however all the items just got displayed as one paragraph instead of being on separate lines. Help extremely appreciated.
Found the solution. It was due to the L_AMTn request not being submitted which is basically the item amounts. Once this adds up to the total cost it submits perfectly.
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I am working on a form that I need to change the default value for a control during run time without having to go into design mode. I need to use a command button and either VBA or a Macro. What will happen is when the user needs to change a location they are working with for an audit, they click on the button and get a prompt to change the location by scanning a barcode and then refresh the form so that it will display the new location.
I know it can be done, I did it with another database about 8 years ago, I just can't remember how I did it.
This is what I am trying to do. I am trying to keep it as simple as possible, since if something goes wrong I may not be the one that needs to fix it.
Me.Form.frmEntry.txtLocation.DefaultValue = InputBox("Please Enter A New Location", "Location Change")
Me.Refresh
I have tried this and several variations of it, as well as 6 days of searching various websites and can't quite find the hint that I am looking for.
If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
DefaultValue is a text, so you need quotes - and the straight syntax:
Me!txtLocation.DefaultValue = """" & InputBox("Please Enter A New Location", "Location Change") & """"
I have posts that are assigned to two categories let's say cars and paints. I'm trying to only get posts that are in both, the following code http://example.com/category/cars+paints is supposed to work according to this article but it doesn't and I get a page saying The requested document was not found on this server. When I try http://exapmle.com/category/cars,paints it works but it gives me too many posts.
It seems that & is supposed to work as well, I tried http://exapmle.com/category/cars&paints and http://exapmle.com/category/?cat=cars&cat=paints but this doesn't either work, I don't know if I have the syntax wrong.
When I try http://exapmle.com/?cat=1&cat=2 using the category IDs it directs to a page like this http://exapmle.com/category/paints with the last parameter corresponding to the last number entered in the URL.
Does anyone know why it's not working and what I can do to get it to work, thanks in advance.
Changing the + to a space %20 seems to be working for me
Example:
http://example.com/category/cars%20paints
I built a site using the starter site template in Webmatrix that uses a log in. After a user logs in, it displays near the top "Hello, (email address)!"
Looking at the html code, I see
Hello, <a id="logname" class="email" href="~/Account/Manage" title="Manage">#WebSecurity.CurrentUserName</a>!
I'm just a beginner with asp.net but can work things out following logic, so what I have done is added a 'Name' field to the database where the email and password is stored and edited the registration page so users can enter their name as well, it writes to the database no problems.
Now I assumed it's just a matter of finding where #WebSecurity.CurrentUserName is referring to the user's email address and make it point to the Name field instead. However I've searched high and low and can not seem to find it anywhere.
So my next approach was to use code from a Bakery database tutorial that fetches data from a field and modify it to grab the name and display it where I want, the code I tried to use here:
#foreach(var row in db.Query(selectQueryString))
This appeared to work at first, It displayed "Hello, Ben!" but then if I made any more accounts it started to display them too, so after a while I was getting "Hello, Ben, Steve, Grace, etc..."
Even though I'm a beginner I do realize that this code isn't quite what I need, but something similar that takes that single Name field but only from the currently logged in user... I've googled and searched and seen many people wanting the same thing, except it's using PHP or VB or something that isn't Webmatrix.
If it's a quick answer I'd appreciate the code I need, or otherwise pointed in the right direction, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance..
OK ironically I find the solution moments after posting the question, so here goes..
This is the code needed to be put at the very top of the file _SiteLayout.chtml
#{
var authenticatedUser = "";
if (WebSecurity.IsAuthenticated) {
authenticatedUser = WebSecurity.CurrentUserName;
var db = Database.Open("StarterSite");
var UserData = db.QuerySingle("SELECT Name FROM UserProfile WHERE LOWER(Email) = LOWER(#0)", authenticatedUser);
authenticatedUser = UserData.Name;
}
}
StarterSite is the name of the database, and UserProfile is the name of the Table, and I labeled the name field Name (explained for the purpose of beginners like me who might be reading this)
Then in the html markup I changed #WebSecurity.CurrentUserName to #authenticatedUser so now it reads:
Hello, <a id="logname" class="email" href="~/Account/Manage" title="Manage">#authenticatedUser</a>!
resulting in the desired outcome of it now displaying the user's name instead of their email address.
An issue has been noticed on one of our old sites running 2.4 where when the user creates a link in the CMS content, selecting an existing page to link to, the link is not being converted to the actual URL on the front end and all links are coming through in the format of <a href="[sitetree_link_id=12]">
What would be causing this and how do I fix it?
The tag looks like it's being set incorrectly. It should be [sitetree_link id=12], not [sitetree_link_id=12].
We later added support to the parser for [sitetree_link,id=12] so that links didn't need to contain spaces, but I can't recall if that's in 2.4 or only 3.0+.
Can you confirm that your WYSIWYG insertion is putting in that errant _? If so, you might want to checkout the handleaction_insert function in tiny_mce_imporvements.js to confirm that it has a line like so:
case 'internal':
href = '[sitetree_link id=' + this.elements.internal.value + ']';
If the inserted links don't actually have the errant _ but they aren't being parsed, then try checking your sapphire/_config.php file for this:
ShortcodeParser::get('default')->register('sitetree_link', array('SiteTree', 'link_shortcode_handler'));
If your site makes changes to the ShortcodeParser at all you might have inadvertently turned off sitetree_link support.
If all of that looks in order, perhaps the ShortcodeParser isn't being called for some reason. In HTMLText::forTemplate(), put a debug statement (I like die("I got here!");) to confirm that HTMLText::forTemplate() is actually getting called. If it's not, you might need to manually call it in some pre-processing of your Content variable. Instead of this:
$content = $this->Content;
Do this:
$content = $this->obj('Content')->forTemplate();
I hope that one of those answers help. Either way, it would be great if you could post back, so we could isolate what caused this. It might help us make the API easier to use in SilverStripe 3.1.
Are there any open source/free frameworks available that take some of the pain out of building HTML e-mails in C#?
I maintain a number of standalone ASP.NET web forms whose main function is to send an e-mail. Most of these are in plain text format right now, because doing a nice HTML presentation is just too tedious.
I'd also be interested in other approaches to tackling this same problem.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm interested in taking plain text form input (name, address, phone number) and dropping it into an HTML e-mail template. That way the receipient would see a nicely formatted message instead of the primitive text output we're currently giving them.
EDIT 2: As I'm thinking more about this and about the answers the question has generated so far, I'm getting a clearer picture of what I'm looking for. Ideally I'd like a new class that would allow me to go:
HtmlMessage body = new HtmlMessage();
body.Header(imageLink);
body.Title("Some Text That Will Display as a Header");
body.Rows.Add("First Name", FirstName.Text);
The HtmlMessage class builds out a table, drops the images in place and adds new rows for each field that I add. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to write, so if there's nothing out there, maybe I'll go that route
Andrew Davey created Postal which lets you do templated emails using any of the ASP.NET MVC view engines. Here's a video where he talks about how to use it.
His examples:
public class HomeController : Controller {
public ActionResult Index() {
dynamic email = new Email("Example");
email.To = "webninja#example.com";
email.FunnyLink = DB.GetRandomLolcatLink();
email.Send();
return View();
}
}
And the template using Razor:
To: #ViewBag.To From: lolcats#website.com Subject: Important Message
Hello, You wanted important web links right? Check out this:
#ViewBag.FunnyLink
<3
The C# port of StringTemplate worked well for me. I highly recommend it. The template file can have a number of named tokens like this:
...
<b>
Your information to login is as follows:<br />
Username: $username$<br />
Password: $password$<br />
</b>
...
...and you can load this template and populate it like this:
notificationTemplate.SetAttribute("username", Username);
notificationTemplate.SetAttribute("password", Password);
At the end, you get the ToString() of the template and assign it to the MailMessage.Body property.
I recently implemented what you're describing using MarkDownSharp. It was pretty much painless.
It's the same framework (minus a few tweaks) that StackOverflow uses to take plain-text-formatted posts and make them look like nice HTML.
Another option would be to use something like TinyMCE to give your users a WYWIWYG HTML editor. This would give them more power over the look and feel of their emails, but it might just overcomplicate things.
Bear in mind that there are also some security issues with user-generated HTML. Regardless of which strategy you use, you need to make sure you sanitize the user's input so they can't include scary things like script tags in their input.
Edit
Sorry, I didn't realize you were looking for an email templating solution. The simplest solution I've come up with is to enable text "macros" in user-generated content emails. So, for example, the user could input:
Dear {RecipientFirstName},
Thank you for your interest in {ClientCompanyName}. The position you applied for has the following minimum requirements:
- B.S. or greater in Computer Science or related field
- ...
And then we'd do some simple parsing to break this down to:
Dear {0},
Thank you for your interest in {1}. The position you applied for has the following minimum requirements:
- B.S. or greater in Computer Science or related field
- ...
... and ...
0 = "RecipientFirstName"
1 = "ClientCompanyName"
...
We store these two components in our database, and whenever we're ready to create a new instance from this template, we evaluate the values of the given property names, and use a standard format string call to generate the actual content.
string.Format(s, macroCodes.Select(c => EvaluateMacroCode(c, obj)).ToArray());
Then I use MarkdownSharp, along with some HTML sanitizing methods, to produce a nicely-formatted HTML email message:
Dear John,
Thank you for your interest in Microsoft. The position you applied for has the following minimum requirements:
B.S. or greater in Computer Science or related field
...
I'd be curious to know if there's something better out there, but I haven't found anything yet.