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Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

Last post 07-24-2008, 1:13 AM by rotep. 7 replies.


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07-22-2008, 6:34 AM 10327

rotep
Joined on 07-01-2008
Posts 98

Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

I have another issue, my other issue concerning esDataSource isn't resolved, this is just another issue.

I have two NEW projects. One is a website, second a class library (.NET 3.5) containing ES files.

In project 1 (the website .NET 3.5):

Added references to EntitySpaces, specified Loader in Global.asax / web.config
Added esDatasource to Tabs
Added esDataSource to page -> selected /bin/EC.DLL from class library project for entities
Selected my EntityCollection for the datasource and specified columns
Added Gridview to page and selected Datasource
Specified esSelect event of datasource
When I build and run I get the following error: "Specified cast is not valid"

Here's the error and code:

[InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.]
   EntitySpaces.Web.esDataSourceView.FetchTotalRowCount(esDataSourceSelectEventArgs e) +682
   EntitySpaces.Web.esDataSourceView.Select(DataSourceSelectArguments arguments, DataSourceViewSelectCallback callback) +393
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataBoundControl.PerformSelect() +149
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.DataBind() +70
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView.DataBind() +4
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataBoundControl.EnsureDataBound() +82
   System.Web.UI.WebControls.CompositeDataBoundControl.CreateChildControls() +69
   System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() +87
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +50
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +170
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +170
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2041

Code:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="InspectionList._Default" %>

<%@ Register assembly="EntitySpaces.Web" namespace="EntitySpaces.Web" tagprefix="cc1" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <cc1:esDataSource ID="esDataSource1" runat="server" AutoPaging="True" 
            AutoSorting="True" />
        <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" 
            DataKeyNames="PnmAutoKey" DataSourceID="esDataSource1" AllowPaging="True" 
            AllowSorting="True" PageSize="30">
            <Columns>
                <asp:BoundField DataField="PnmAutoKey" HeaderText="PnmAutoKey" ReadOnly="True" 
                    SortExpression="PnmAutoKey" />
                <!--- REST OF THE COLUMNS ARE HERE --->
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Code:

Partial Public Class _Default
    Inherits System.Web.UI.Page

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load

    End Sub



    Protected Sub esDataSource1_esSelect(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EntitySpaces.Web.esDataSourceSelectEventArgs) Handles esDataSource1.esSelect
        Dim coll As New EC.BLL.PartsMasterCollection
        coll.LoadAll()
        e.Collection = coll
    End Sub
End Class

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07-22-2008, 6:47 AM 10329 in reply to 10327

Mike.Griffin
Joined on 01-14-2007
Indianapolis
Posts 2,869

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

Try this:

Code:

    Protected Sub esDataSource1_esSelect(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EntitySpaces.Web.esDataSourceSelectEventArgs) Handles esDataSource1.esSelect
        Dim coll As New EC.BLL.PartsMasterCollection
        e.Collection = coll
    End Sub

When you have either AutoPaging or AutoSorting set to true the esDataSource will load the data for you, you must not load the collection.

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07-23-2008, 1:34 AM 10344 in reply to 10329

rotep
Joined on 07-01-2008
Posts 98

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

This doesn't work Mike... I've tried on my other project using only one class... Same error: Specified cast is not valid.

/Solution_1
/Solution_1/InspectionList/ << this is the web project
/Solution_1/InspectionList_BLL/ << this is the class library with my generated class

This is the Oracle table which is used:

Code:

  CREATE TABLE "INTRANETUSER"."INTRANET_APU_INSPECTION" 
   (	"SI_NUMBER" NVARCHAR2(10), 
	"PNM_MAIN" NUMBER(8,0), 
	"PNM_AUTO_KEY" NUMBER(8,0), 
	"PN" NVARCHAR2(100), 
	"DESCRIPTION" NVARCHAR2(250), 
	"INSPECTION_TYPE" CHAR(2 CHAR), 
	"INSPECTION_NOTES" NVARCHAR2(2000), 
	"TIME" CHAR(8 CHAR), 
	"SERIAL" VARCHAR2(100 BYTE), 
	"QTY" NUMBER DEFAULT 1, 
	"SB_TYPE" VARCHAR2(25 BYTE)
   ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
  STORAGE(INITIAL 81920 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
  PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
  TABLESPACE "TBS_INTRANETUSER" ;

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07-23-2008, 1:39 AM 10345 in reply to 10344

rotep
Joined on 07-01-2008
Posts 98

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

I just tried selecting only one column (tried all) in the esDataSource. This doesn't work either.

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07-23-2008, 7:05 AM 10348 in reply to 10345

David.Parsons
Joined on 01-14-2007
Posts 1,419

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

The esDataSource TotalRowCount is an int, but Oracle and MySQL will return a long for CountAll. Until we get a fix in, you cannot rely on esDataSource automatically calculating the TotalRowCount, but must set it as described in the original Blog post. Here is a modified version of the posted Page_Load which will convert, rather than cast TotalRowCount.

Code:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!this.Page.IsPostBack)
    {
        Employees emp = new Employees();
        emp.Query.es.CountAll = true;
        emp.Query.es.CountAllAlias = "Count"
        if (emp.Query.Load())
        {
            esDataSrc.TotalRowCount = Convert.ToInt32(emp.GetColumn("Count"));
        } 

        gridView.Sort(EmployeesMetadata.PropertyNames.LastName, SortDirection.Ascending);
    }
}

David Neal Parsons
www.entityspaces.net

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07-23-2008, 1:10 PM 10354 in reply to 10348

rotep
Joined on 07-01-2008
Posts 98

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

I will try as soon as i get back at work. Thanks

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07-23-2008, 7:19 PM 10360 in reply to 10354

Mike.Griffin
Joined on 01-14-2007
Indianapolis
Posts 2,869

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

We are changing the esDataSource to do a Convert.ToInt32() rather than an (int) cast which should fix this. It will be included in our 1st ES2008 maintenance release.

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07-24-2008, 1:13 AM 10363 in reply to 10360

rotep
Joined on 07-01-2008
Posts 98

Re: Gridview with esDatasource - Specified cast is not valid

Thx David, works like a charm.

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