Question

I run the code and it will not store the values it stops immediately at the loadingfromscreen. What its supposed to do is a multi-page application form that will reinput the values to the texbox’s on the back button from the next form.

The ASP.net code is too long to post, but basically its just texbox’s and dropboxes. If needed i can post it, but the main issue im 90% sure is the C# code.

UPDATE: When i say stop it continues the code but will not run the dictionary method…i have put a arrow where the method stops in DICTIONARY ONLY

C#:

public partial class employment_driversapplication_personalinfo : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Dictionary<string, string> DriversApplicationData = (Dictionary<string, string>) Session["DriversApp"];

    try
    { 



            if (Page.IsPostBack)
            {
                LoadMemoryFromScreen(DriversApplicationData);
            }
            else
            {
                LoadScreenFromMemory(DriversApplicationData);
            }
              }

    catch //(Exception ex)
    {
       // throw new Exception("Exception occured in employment_driversapplication_personalinfo.aspx - Page_Load" + ex.Message);
    }
    finally
    {


    }
} 

private void LoadMemoryFromScreen(Dictionary<string, string> DicDriversApp)
    {

    DicDriversApp["position"] = position.Text; <---Stops here (won't even store this)
    DicDriversApp["fname"] = fname.Text;
    DicDriversApp["middleinitial"] = middleinitial.Text;
    DicDriversApp["lname"] = lname.Text;
    DicDriversApp["birthday"] = birthday.Text;
    DicDriversApp["proofofage"] = proofofage.SelectedValue;
    DicDriversApp["address"] = address.Text;
    DicDriversApp["city"] = city.Text;
    DicDriversApp["state"] = state.Text;
    DicDriversApp["email"] = email.Text;
    DicDriversApp["phone"] = phone.Text;
    DicDriversApp["altphone"] = altphone.Text;
    DicDriversApp["citizen"] = citizen.SelectedValue;
    DicDriversApp["whoreferred"] = whoreferred.Text;
    DicDriversApp["famfriend"] = famfriend.Text;
    DicDriversApp["relationship"] = relationship.Text;
    DicDriversApp["rateofpayexpected"] = rateofpayexpected.Text;
    DicDriversApp["rateofpaytype"] = RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue;
    DicDriversApp["employedNow"] = employednow.SelectedValue;
    DicDriversApp["curremployment"] = curremployment.Text;
    DicDriversApp["pastAddress"] = pastaddress.SelectedValue;
    DicDriversApp["previousAddress"] = previousaddress.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousCity"] = previouscity.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousZip"] = previouszip.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousState"] = previousstate.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousDuration"] = previousduration.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousAddress1"] = previousaddress1.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousCity1"] = previouscity1.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousZip1"] = previouszip1.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousState1"] = previousstate1.Text;
    DicDriversApp["previousDuration1"] = previousduration1.Text;

    Session["DriversApp"] = DicDriversApp;
    }

private void LoadScreenFromMemory(Dictionary<string, string> DicDriversApp)
{
    position.Text = DicDriversApp["position"];
    fname.Text = DicDriversApp["fname"] ;
    middleinitial.Text = DicDriversApp["middleinitial"];
    lname.Text = DicDriversApp["lname"];
    birthday.Text = DicDriversApp["birthday"];
    proofofage.SelectedValue = DicDriversApp["proofofage"];
    address.Text = DicDriversApp["address"];
    city.Text = DicDriversApp["city"];
    state.Text = DicDriversApp["state"];
    email.Text = DicDriversApp["email"];
    phone.Text = DicDriversApp["phone"];
    altphone.Text = DicDriversApp["altphone"];
    citizen.SelectedValue = DicDriversApp["citizen"];
    whoreferred.Text = DicDriversApp["whoreferred"];
    famfriend.Text = DicDriversApp["famfriend"];
    relationship.Text = DicDriversApp["relationship"];
    rateofpayexpected.Text = DicDriversApp["rateofpayexpected"];
    RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue = DicDriversApp["rateofpaytype"];
    employednow.SelectedValue = DicDriversApp["employedNow"];
    curremployment.Text = DicDriversApp["curremployment"];
    pastaddress.SelectedValue = DicDriversApp["pastAddress"];
    previousaddress.Text = DicDriversApp["previousAddress"];
    previouscity.Text = DicDriversApp["previousCity"];
    previouszip.Text = DicDriversApp["previousZip"];
    previousstate.Text = DicDriversApp["previousState"];
    previousduration.Text = DicDriversApp["previousDuration"];
    previousaddress1.Text = DicDriversApp["previousAddress1"];
    previouscity1.Text = DicDriversApp["previousCity1"];
    previouszip1.Text = DicDriversApp["previousZip1"];
    previousstate1.Text = DicDriversApp["previousState1"];
    previousduration1.Text = DicDriversApp["previousDuration1"];

}

Answer 1

try something like this:

 private void LoadMemoryFromScreen()
    {    
     Dictionary<string, string> driver = new Dictionary<string, string>();
     driver.Add("position", position.Text);
     driver.Add("othervalue",value.Text); ///etc..
     Session["dict"] = driver;
    }

then, later on if you want to access the values in your dictionary, use something like this:

var dict = (Dictionary<string, string>)Session["dict"];

problem with this is that you’re going to have to use dict.GetElementAt(index) in order to retrieve values, and i don’t think that’s a very good approach.

This will work, but i kinda dont understand why you are using a dictionary to do this. I assume you are only loading data from 1 person on your page? Then you might as well just make a class with all the properties in it, and then you can just pass that around instead of using this dictionary/session hack.

public class DriversApplicationData
{
public string position {get;set;}
public string firstname {get;set;}
//etc
}

then, you can just do something like

DriversApplicationData data = new DriversApplicationData();
data.position = position.Text;
data.firstname = fname.Text;

this is gonna be alot easier to maintain and to retrieve/insert values.