need some suggesions

[dorandoran]

PAY PERIOD NAVIGATION
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I need to have 2 combo boxes (cboFrom and cboTo). these two boxes need to fill with fromdate and todate from a table "tblPayPeriods".

sample pic is attached.

1. I would like default data to be this month and year.
2. I would like put 2 buttons (btnPreviousPeriod and btnNextPeriod). When user clicks on this I would like repopulate the textboxes with respetive from and to date.

I am kinda lost as to what approach I should take. and How will I do it?

I found this article, is this too much coding. I need as little coding as possible because I am going to have lots of coding for this page.
http://www.syncfusion.com/FAQ/aspnet/web_c8c.aspx

[dorandoran]

I decided to have one drop down box and my store proc looks like below.
select cast(convert(varchar,MSG.fromdate,101) + ' - ' + convert(varchar,MSG.todate,101) as char(50)) PayPeriod
from dbo.MESSAGES MSG
where (year(fromdate)=@pYear)

I can populate the drop down list with this store procedure. but I dont know how to add the logic to display current pay period (for example, every month we have 2 pay period, 1/1/2009 to 1/15/2009 and 1/16/2009 to 1/31/2009). the drop down list already contains all 2009 pay period (24 records). I like to display 4/16/2009 to 4/30/2009 by default cause thats the month we are in. hope it's making sense.

I also need to program previous and next pay period button? Need some direction please..

[dorandoran]

This works.
protected void btnNextPeriod_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int intCurrentItem = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex;
ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex = intCurrentItem + 1;

}
protected void btnPreviouPeriod_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int intCurrentItem = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex;
ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex = intCurrentItem - 1;

}

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I would like to fill 2 labels when the selected index change. The fileds are fromdate and todate to lblfrom and lblto.

[dorandoran]

This forum is SUPER slow. I wasnt asking for code snippet. Just wanted some suggesion. I finally got it work. Here is the working code.

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //btnPreviouPeriod.Text = "Previous" + "\r" + "Period  ";
        //btnNextPeriod.Text = " Next " + "\r" + "Period";
 
         fillPeriod();       
 
    }
 
    void fillPeriod()
    {
        ddlPayPeriod.DataTextField = "payperiod" ;
        ddlPayPeriod.DataValueField = "payperiod";
        clsTimeCardReports tcr = new clsTimeCardReports();        
        ddlPayPeriod.DataSource = tcr.GetPayPeriods();
        ddlPayPeriod.DataBind();
        string fromValue = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedValue.ToString();
        lblDataFrom.Text = fromValue.Substring(0, 10);
        string toValue = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedValue.ToString();
        lblDataTo.Text = toValue.Substring(13 , 10);
    }
    protected void btnNextPeriod_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        int intCurrentItem = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex;
        ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex = intCurrentItem + 1;
        string fromValue = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedValue.ToString();
        lblDataFrom.Text = fromValue.Substring(0, 10);
        string toValue = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedValue.ToString();
        lblDataTo.Text = toValue.Substring(13, 10);
 
 
    }
    protected void btnPreviouPeriod_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        int intCurrentItem = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex;
        ddlPayPeriod.SelectedIndex = intCurrentItem - 1;
        string fromValue = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedValue.ToString();
        lblDataFrom.Text = fromValue.Substring(0, 10);
        string toValue = ddlPayPeriod.SelectedValue.ToString();
        lblDataTo.Text = toValue.Substring(13, 10);
 
 
    }