Universal Date Format For windows application in c#.NET

Date Format plays a major role in windows application development in c#.
Because by default, Its set to our Regional Settings's Date Format (Control Panel).If you change Regional Settings's Date Format then your windows application's Format will automatically gets changed.

If you design an application for single System means There is no problem.But If it's Multi User(LAN) & accessed from different system means problem will occur.because each system may have different date formats.

and By Default It set to US format mm/dd/yyyy.But in INDIA we need date in dd/mm/yyyy.so we have to change culture information of our application.Like Below

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("fr-FR");

Here,
FR refers FRANCE.
for INDIA we can set it as hi-IN(hindi),ta-IN(tamil) for each language.

Just add This Line in Main Form Loading Event.Then in entire Application All Date Conversion methods will have format as dd/mm/yyyy only.

If you want to set different culture info means you can add this line where you need to set a culture at run time.

And also if you retrieve date from a File or some where else as String then after that if you convert it into Date means,It will converted into dd/mm/yyyy format Only.

So we can set DATE FORMAT for entire windows application with the help of above culture settings.

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Execute Another Process or File using c#

Execute another Process or Open a File using its Application is very simple in C#.
There is Separate Name space "System.Diagnostics" is available
There is class named as Process will execute all kind process.

If you want to execute a Exe or open File then a single line can do this
i.e
Process.Start(filepath);

Ex1:
Process.Start("c:\\windows\\notepad.exe");
This statement will open a NotePad Application

Ex2:
Process.Start("c:\\a.doc");

It will Open a.doc File in Word Application.This is applicable to All kind Executable Files.


If you want to give some command line Arguments means use

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\\windows\\notepad.exe"; //exe path
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "c:\\a.txt"; //filepath
p.Start();

And also we have more No of options in Process class.
Start Time,End Time,Priority,Memory size,Availability etc.you can start,stop a Process.

If you want to run a process in background
then use following statement.

p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;


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Access a Form's Control from another Form

We Can access a Form's Control such as TextBox,ComboBox,datagridview etc. From another Form by passing current Form Object into another Form via an Overloaded constructor.

Ex:
In form 1

Form2 f1 = new Form2(this);
f1.ShowDialog();


then In Form2

Form1 form1;

public Form2(Form1 f)
{
InitializeComponent();
this.form1 = f;

}

we can easily access form1's TextBox like

form1.textBox1.Text="Hi,This is Form2";

Note : Modifiers property of Form1's TextBox1 should be declared as Public.

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Passing Information between Windows Forms

We can Pass Information from One Form to another Form
via an Overloaded Constructor.

In form1,we have to pass value in constructor on Object Creation.

Ex:

Form2 f2 = new Form2(UserName);
f2.ShowDialog();

Then in Form2,we have to assign Passed value in a Local variable or control.

Here UserName refers a String Variable which contains User Name entered in form1.

Ex:
String uname;

public Form2(String username)
{
InitializeComponent();
textBox1.Text =username ;
uname=username;
}

Now textBox1 & variable uname contains value Entered in Form1

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JAVA Simple Printing

PrintJob class is used for printing in JAVA.

you have to format the things which you need to take printout.

you can draw rectangle,line any graphics object and also string.

you can set Font & Color for that

EX:

PrintJob job = getToolkit().getPrintJob(fr,"PRINT",null);
Graphics g=job.getGraphics();
g.drawRect(50,30,525,775);
g.setFont(new Font("TimesRoman",Font.BOLD,16));
g.drawString("Welcome to JAVA",220,50);
g.drawLine(50,80,50,500);
g.dispose();
job.end();


Here

fr refers frame object.

g.drawRect(xposition,yposition,width,height);

g.drawString("String to print",Xposition,yposition);

g.drawLine(StartX,StartY,EndX,Endy);


output:

This will draw a rectangle... It will be the complete border for A4 sheet.

after that draw "Welcome to JAVA in TimesRoman font with bold.

And draw Line

then it End the print job

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JAVA Message,Input and Confirm Dialog Box

In java JOptionPane class is used to show Message and also used to get Input from user

Message Box

There are different type of Message Box are available Normal,Error and Warning message box

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("your Message","Title");

Error Message

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("your Message","Title",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

Warning Message

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog("your Message","Title",JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE);


Input Box

In order to get a value from user. we can use showInputDialog() Method.
we have to Pass current frame object to that msg

String value=JOptionPane.showInputDialog(fr,"Plz enter Value ");

Input Box with Default value

String value=JOptionPane.showInputDialog(fr,"Plz enter Value ","Default value");


Confirm Dialog

This can be used with following options
Yes No
Retry Ignore Cancel
OK Cancel

Ex for YES NO confirm Dialog

int result=JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(fr,"Do you Want to Save it","Save",JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION);


Note :
here,
result contains 0 or 1..
o refers YES and 1 refers NO
fr -> frame object
"Do you Want to Save it", -> Question
"Save", ->Header
JOptionPane.YES_NO_OPTION -> Option



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JAVA Table with Combobox control

In java swing we can add Controls in table.

Here we are going to add Combobox in a table control.

Before going to create a table instance, we have to create table headers and data with empty strings like below

final String[] colheads={"S.No","Item ID","Qty",Rate","Amount" };
final Object[][] data={
{1,"","","",""},
{2,"","","",""},
{3,"","","",""},
{4,"","","",""},
{5,"","","",""},
};
Now we create a table and add scroll panes to it...

JTable table=new JTable(data,colheads);
int v=ScrollPaneConstants.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED;
int h=ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED;
JScrollPane jsp=new JScrollPane(table,v,h);

Note: add this table into panel to show...

Then to add combo box in the run time, we add code in focus gained event of table like below..

public void focusGained(FocusEvent e)
{
TableColumn tc=table.getColumnModel().getColumn(1);
JComboBox dw=new JComboBox();

dw.addItem("Select");
dw.addItem("IN1");
dw.addItem("IN2");
dw.addItem("IN3");
dw.addItem("IN4");

tc.setCellEditor(new DefaultCellEditor(dw));
}

Note: we have to add focus listener to table and after that add code for it..in the focus gained method we have to add above code..


In the output,It will show a table.. when you access table you can able select item values at column 2...


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In this article, I discussed about How to use XML as a database for your Application.
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