Instead of using MeadCo ScriptX, which using ActiveX technology, is there a way to control client side printing without having to pop up the dialog box and hope the user keeps the correct settings to print checks? I do not want to have use MeadCo's Neptune, which did not test perfectly.
The reason for this functionality is that the checks need to be controlled as to only printing one and controlling printing of the same check should something go wrong with the print. I had thought about using JQuery and CSS to print the check to a table element that would be defined to print to the check to the correct boundaries.
For whatever reason of which the Fates may only know, we experienced a difference in pulling data manually as a list of objects than we did in pulling a list of objects from an entity framework. The current work around to get an empty value in the null datetime field was to do the following in the RadGridView's CellFormatting event. We are using RadControls for Winforms 2011 Q1.
Oddly enough, as mentioned above, pulling the data as a list of objects from an entity framework does not have to have this work around. We tried having DateTime? MyDateField in the field list of the object without the code below. It would display '01/01/0001' for each null value in the DateTime column of the grid.
So the measure below is in place. It is very quick and does not cause a lot of overhead. Still I would prefer a better solution if someone has fought this before.
private void radGridView1_CellFormatting(object sender, CellFormattingEventArgs e)
{
if (e.CellElement != null)
{
GridViewDataColumn dataColumn = e.CellElement.ColumnInfo as GridViewDataColumn;
if (dataColumn.Name == "MyDateField")
{
DateTime dtValue = (DateTime)e.CellElement.RowInfo.Cells[dataColumn.Name].Value;
if (dtValue == System.DateTime.MinValue)
{
e.CellElement.Text = "";
}
}
}
}