Question

I have a textbox which stores phone number.

<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="phone" MaxLength="10" Columns="10" Width="90px" />
                        <asp:MaskedEditExtender ID="phone_MaskedEditExtender" runat="server" CultureAMPMPlaceholder=""
                            CultureCurrencySymbolPlaceholder="" CultureDateFormat="" CultureDatePlaceholder=""
                            CultureDecimalPlaceholder="" CultureThousandsPlaceholder="" CultureTimePlaceholder=""
                            Enabled="True" TargetControlID="phone" Mask="(999)-999-9999" ClearMaskOnLostFocus="False">
                        </asp:MaskedEditExtender>

The question is when I insert phone number 9999999999, the number in the database becomes
(999)-9999.
What I want is 9999999999.
The other code is:

 <asp:SqlDataSource ID="InsertExtraInfo" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:MembershipDB %>"
                    InsertCommand="CreateAdditionalAccountInfo" InsertCommandType="StoredProcedure">
                    <InsertParameters>
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="FirstName" Type="String" ControlID="FirstName" PropertyName="Text" />
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="LastName" Type="String" ControlID="LastName" PropertyName="Text" />
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="Degree" Type="String" ControlID="Degree" PropertyName="Text" />
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="Organization" Type="String" ControlID="Organization"
                            PropertyName="Text" />
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="Phone" Type="String" ControlID="Phone" PropertyName="Text" />
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="Ext" Type="String" ControlID="Ext" PropertyName="Text" />
                        <asp:ControlParameter Name="last4SSN" Type="String" ControlID="TextSSN" PropertyName="Text" />
                    </InsertParameters>
                </asp:SqlDataSource>

The stored Procedure query is

INSERT INTO [User_ExtraInfo] ([UserId], [FirstName], [LastName], [Degree], [Organization], [Phone], [Ext], [last4SSN],[Trained]) VALUES (@UserId, @FirstName, @LastName, @Degree, @Organization, @Phone, @Ext

Thanks.

Answer 1

Change the proc to this:

INSERT INTO [User_ExtraInfo] ([UserId], [FirstName], [LastName], [Degree], [Organization], [Phone], [Ext], [last4SSN],[Trained]) VALUES (@UserId
, @FirstName
, @LastName
, @Degree
, @Organization
, REPLACE(REPLACE( REPLACE(@Phone,'(',''),')','') ,'-','')  , @Ext )

The reason I suggest this approach is because you are using a SQLDatasource object and I don’t think it’s possible to instruct the insert parameter -at least not declaratively from the markup- to ignore the mask. Your best bet is probably just to modify the proc.

UPDATE – programmatic approach:

1. Add a handler for OnInserting to the SqlDataSource:

   <asp:SqlDataSource ID="InsertExtraInfo" runat="server" OnInserting="On_Inserting"
   

2. Handle the event on code and do the replacement there:

   protected void On_Inserting(Object sender, SqlDataSourceCommandEventArgs e) {
    e.Command.Parameters["@Phone"].Value=phone.Text.Replace("..."); // etc
   }
   

Note: not tested but it’s the idea.