I want to use a plug-in like ASP.NET grid view which is easy.It should be easy to use with web method in web service. Also there must be facility to edit with popup window,deleting rows, paging and search. Can anyone help me out this?
Take a look at this page with 15 examples, don't know if they all are for free. Like Simplybj wrote you can use DataTables (I'm using it in ASP with AJAX calls), and for me (my project) it's quite enought
Perhaps datatables is a good solution, although I've never used it with ASP.NET. It is flexible and CDN hosted (on the MS AJAX CDN).
Take a look at jqgrid. It can be easly used with HttpHandler or WebMethods (take a look here or here)
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Assuming I'm stuck with asp.net web forms (I'd love to use MVC partial views), are there any good alternatives to asp.net AJAX 4.0 client-side templates?
In other words, is there some way to specify some html, with placeholders for data properties, to which I could then bind a JSON result. Are there any good jQuery plugins to do this?
I ask because based on the results I'm seeing from Google, this library doesn't seem to be widely used—most search results are from 2008-2010. This question seems to confirm that suspicion.
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I despise answering my own question, but this link (jQuery Templates) seems to me to be the best bet. If anyone else has any input, please post.
Definitely consider jQuery Templates. We use them quite extensively in WebForms with ScriptServices as a data provider. There is a very small learning curve.
Also check out KnockoutJS, which integrates seamlessly.
Adam, coincidentally, I am using JQuery to retrieve some server side data calling Web Services via Ajax and binding the result on the client side. On my particular case, I am only showing data in a tabular manner, so I am using the jquery datatables plugin (which is fantastic, in my opinion; the API is well documented and easy to extend if you need to).
If you need to show data differently, I think you'll need to write quite a good amount of boilerplate javascript code.
EDIT: I just saw your link reagarding Jquery Templates and looks really cool. I didn't know it existed :) Thanks!
Recently, I was working with PHP.
In PHP we have a powerful template engine like Smarty.
Do we have something like Smarty in ASP.NET ?
Quick google search :
Try one of these :)
http://csharp-source.net/open-source/template-engines
Well, you could argue that all ASP.NET webform pages are similar to templates, as they don't need to (and usually don't) have any application logic within the .aspx pages (it all goes in the codebehind). However, you might find that ASP.NET MVC is even more like what you are familiar with. ASP.NET MVC supports a number of view engines, too.
Have you tried Dotliquid?
It's old but still working great with webforms. You can even have User Controls loaded dynamically that use Dotliquid templates to present data from a database or a webapi, giving you the possibility to change the presentation layer by only editing html mixed with Liquid Language (not fully covered).
Check it out at http://dotliquidmarkup.org/try-online
Liquid Documentation at https://shopify.github.io/liquid/
We are planning to extend an existing ASP.NET application (a real huge one) to have a slicker UI. One of the requiremnents is to have a way to execute server side code without a postback (As an example, say a user clicks on a link or hovers on a link, a popup comes up which executes server side code or makes calls to the database)
We plan to add more functionality that closely aligns with the behavior of a yahoo or a google customized page.
Is UpdatePanels a way to go or should a lot of it be implemented using JavaScript? One of the main requirements is to keep the pages as light as possible and to have good performance. We don't plan on using any 3rd party components.
What technologies are suggested that will help us add UI heavy features in the future?
Edit: Thanks everyone. It appears that the approach to take is to use a JS library such as JQuery and AJAX (from initial research the PageMethod/WebMethod way of doing it)?
Any more suggestions?
I think that UpdatePanels are actually pretty clunky. (Actually, I think ASP.NET is pretty clunky now that I've moved to ASP.NET MVC). If the page is going to be highly interactive, I'd suggest using some sort of javascript framework, like jQuery, Dojo, MooTools, etc. that will allow you to do AJAX easily as well as manage the user experience client-side. MS is distributing jQuery with Visual Studio and has promised to support it, so you might want to consider that when making your decision.
Stephen Walter did a great talk about the next version of ASP.NET Ajax 4.0. It's not an immediate solution but it's interesting to see where Microsoft is going with their Ajax framework.
There's a lot more to ASP.NET AJAX than the UpdatePanel, and a fair amount of it can be done without heavy JavaScript work. UpdatePanel is quite inefficient in terms of the amount of data send over the wire. As with everything, only optimise when you need - but bear in mind that the UpdatePanel is one of the first places to look for your slowdowns.
Just to give you a different answer than everybody else: why not try silverlight?
I want to make my website look spiffy. Should I use jQuery, or what is better suited to be paired with ASP.net?
jQuery works very well with .NET.
I would highly recommend jQuery UI.
http://jqueryui.com/
JQuery compliments .NET quite nicely. Here is a good blog article that should get you started.
I've can say this with confidence - you can use jQuery with .NET with no issues. I do this all the time.
Absolutely. I don't know that it will necessarily make it spiffy as you asked, but it'll certainly ease your programming work.
AJAX will help with the "spiffiness".
You want really spiffy? Look at Silverlight!
Yes, you can definitely use JQuery for ASP.NET apps. Check out an introductory article on how to get started - Getting Started with JQuery
jQuery works as well with ASP.NET as with any other server platform, because it's just a set of client-side scripts. When you consider its daily usage (such as assigning Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat to jQuery calendar) the final code won't look as short and elegant as advertised. The server controls of ASP.NET AJAX have their own bonuses. In short: if you use ASP.NET and not going to change the platform try standard ASP.NET AJAX facility (possibly with AJAX Control Toolkit). Otherwise starting with jQuery can be much better investment.
Is there a built-in control that is close to an application bar at the bottom of Facebook, or is such a function only available through the use of JavaScript/AJAX?
Remember that ASP.NET is server-side, so it controls all processing that takes place before the web page even reaches the user. For functionality like what you're talking about, you need browser-side voodoo like Javascript. So...
Javascript is practically required.
The only other feasible alternative would be Flash.
XML would not be necessary (or even necessarily desirable).
Don't fall into the trap of calling all asynchronous, Javascript-driven behavior "AJAX", because much of it isn't.
I just built something like this in ASP.NET. I recently posted a blog on how to do it. Check out how to build a Facebook Application Bar in ASP.NET.
I used two controls from ComponentOne to help out, the C1Menu control and the C1ToolTip control
I imagine you mean this:
Screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/kqFPArcmYQ
Video: http://screencast.com/t/X6IczIIv
If that's the case, no, it cannot be done with ASP.NET alone. You are correct in assuming it would require javascript, and possibly some AJAX to make those asynchronous calls.
You should look into javascript libraries, such as jQuery & jQuery UI, or MooTools, etc. Those give you a breadth of tools and plugins to create wonderful/dynamic UIs.
http://jquery.com/
(jQuery UI Demos)
http://mootools.net/
(MooTools Demos)
Check out the demos on their pages, to see if those will fit your idea. You can definitely build the core of the menu in ASP.Net, and then use a javascript library to get the dynamic feel that you're looking for.
Hope that helps a little bit.