Adventures in Software Development … by David Young
I just published my first Ruby on Rails (RoR) application onto my development server – my MacBook Pro. Learning RoR should prove to be interesting, as the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern is automatically used when setting up the application. This first app is no more than the equivalent of the “Hello, World” app in some other language.
RoR version: Ruby 1.9.3p194 running Rails 3.2.7
A question posed by @Ramsharma1234 on Twitter this morning asked how to implement Factory Patterns in ASP.NET.
(definition of Factory Pattern)
Below is what would be considered a very basic form of Factory Pattern. This method will essentially instantiate a generic Object, which is the parent of all types of Objects, and later be treated as if it were the type of child object that is used as a parameter in calling the method. On a Web site where I needed to build Web controls dynamically, based on values from a database query, I created a method called “AddControl” that would add a generic Object to a Placeholder on my Web form:
Private Sub AddControl(ByVal oControl As Object)
Placeholder1.Controls.Add(oControl)
End Sub
To call this method, I would instantiate a Web control such as a Button and add it to the Placeholder with the method:
Dim btnPrint As New Button
btnPrint.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:window.print();")
btnPrint.Visible = False
AddControl(btnPrint)
Any type of Web control (TextBox, Label, Literal, etc.) could be instantiated and then added using this method. For instance, if the table value for a particular field indicated the creation of a TextBox, this would be how that could be accomplished:
Dim oControl As New Object
'...
oControl = New TextBox
With oControl
.ID = strFieldName & "_mltxt"
.TextMode = TextBoxMode.MultiLine
.MaxLength = 2000
.Style("overflow") = "hidden"
.Height = 300
.Width = 500
.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None
.Enabled = True
.ReadOnly = True
End With
AddControl(oControl)