Visual Web Developer – SleePy Code

So I needed to add a search box to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customer Portal. So into Visual Web Developer 2010 Express I went. I opened the Customer Portal project and then expanded Pages and eService in the tree.

Opening up ViewCases.aspx I located the following

<asp:GridView

1	<asp:GridView

I added this before that:

        <asp:Label ID="Label2" Font-Bold="true" runat="server">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Search: </asp:Label>
        <asp:TextBox ID="CaseSearch" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

1 2	<asp:Label ID="Label2" Font-Bold="true" runat="server">      Search: </asp:Label> <asp:TextBox ID="CaseSearch" AutoPostBack="true" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

I then opened the code for the file (right clicked and showed code) and located the following:

if (casesByCustomer.Count() == 0)

1	if (casesByCustomer.Count() == 0)

and added before that:

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CaseSearch.Text))
            {
                casesByCustomer = casesByStatus.Where(c => c.Title.ToLower().Contains(CaseSearch.Text.ToLower().ToString()));
            }

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(CaseSearch.Text))

{

casesByCustomer = casesByStatus.Where(c => c.Title.ToLower().Contains(CaseSearch.Text.ToLower().ToString()));

}

Saved the files, built the code and tested. Everything worked just fine, except for an error that occurred because the view I had, used follow up by and some of those cases didn’t have them. If a search returned only results with no follow up by set, it would give an error. But I just swapped out the follow up by for modified on.

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Tag: Visual Web Developer

Adding search to Dynamics CRM Customer Portal