Introduction:
Last month Matt Berseth posted very good post about how to build Master-Detail with the GridView, DetailsView and ModalPopup Controls. Today I'm going to clone his post and build the same feature using jQuery with jQuery Plugins; one for popup windows jqModal& and the other is for Color Animation. You can view a demo of this sample here [View Demo].

Prerequisites:
Because I'm using some design tips and styles posted in Matt's posts, I recommend to return to his original posts regarding styling and UI enhancement. I used the styles and design shown on his post Building a VS2008 Styled Grid with the GridView Control.

In my sample I'm using UpdatePanel, and used a client side technique to update the UpdatePanel. To read and review more about this technique please read Dave's post Easily refresh an UpdatePanel, using JavaScript.

It is important also to review documentation of jqModalas I'm not going to explain its APIs.

Implementation:
To make a long story short, I just modified Matt's sample and replaced ModalPopup control of AJAX Control Toolkit with jqModal. Also Matt used to indicate the updated row by setting a style sheet class to the updated row for certain period of time then remove it to make it look as before. I did the same, but I used some kind of animation provided by Color Animationplugin for jQuery.

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Introduction:
Last month I posted about Building a grouping Grid with GridView and JQuery. And I got feedbacks about how to do the same thing using AJAX (on demand retrieving of detail data). In fact I was thinking of that too, and I had couple of ideas in mind. One of them it to use nested update panels, or use AJAX Data Controls with page method/web service method calls along with ASP.NET AJAX. You can view the [demo here].

I didn't like the nested update panel idea, although it is the easiest I think. And was started to think about the second idea but I was about to check another way other than ASP.NET AJAX as long as I'm using jQuery. So I was thinking of using jQuery AJAX. That was just after reading Dave Ward's post Using jQuery to consume ASP.NET JSON Web Services.

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Last year on October, Matt Berseth wrote few posts about improving styles of GridView, these posts are the following:

• Improving the Presentation of an Extra-Wide GridView
• GridViewControlExtender - Row MouseOver and Click Styles
• GridViewControlExtender II - Header Cell MouseOver Styles and a Few More Live Examples

Last month, I posted a revised version of his work using Script#. And in this post I'm going to show that same features can be applied using jQuery. And I was really amazed by the simplicty and less of code that I had to write to get the same feature on hand.

I've implemented this using jQuery plugins. So I had to author a plugin and I can call it very simple one as the idea was already done and I had it on my head. I'm not going to explore how jQuery plugins can be authored, but you can return to the following links:

• Plugins/Authoring.
• jQuery Plugin Development Pattern, and this is the best tutorial you can follow to learn more.

You can view demos here [demo 1] & [demo 2]. I will start from the end, on how to use the plugin. Actually it is very simple, all you need to do is to add this JavaScript line to your code when the page, or as a startup script. I did that using onLoad event of the ASP.NET AJAX Application as I have ScriptManager installed on the page:

$(selector).gridviewex(options);

For example:

<script type="text/javascript">
function pageLoad(s,e)
{
    $('#gvProducts').gridviewex({hasPageRow:true,dataRowClass:'row',altDataRowClass:'altrow',
                                rowHoverClass:'rowhover', rowSelectClass:'rowselect',
                                cellHoverClass:'cellhover',cellSelectClass:'cellselect',
                                columnHoverClass:'columnhover'});
}
</script>

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One of the handy features that one might with to put on GridView is the Select All checkbox which is similar to the one on Hotmail and Yahoo. You click the checkbox on the header and all items (checkboxes underneath) get checked. [View Demo]

I've seen several implementation for this feature long time ago. Myself wrote one. And all solutions were using some good amount of JavaScript. Today I was thinking, why not revisit the idea again, but this time using all mighty JQuery.

And as expected, the amount of code used to implement this simple feature is really small. I'm going to explore the JQuery code expecting you already know ASP.NET and how to use GridView along with SqlDataSource.

My GirdView looks exactly like this one:

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Continuing exploring JQuery! I decided to implement a feature to display some kind of details related to a row displayed on GridView. For example when displaying employees details on GridView some information might not fit in the GridView because it will make it huge and wide. These infomration can be diplayed as Tooltip. Or when you want to display a picture and some kind of formated text to be diplayed as tooltip when mouse hover on the image.

My sample here will show how to implement such feature using JQuery. Again, I'm using same data and designed presented in my previous posts:

1. Building a grouping Grid with GridView and ASP.NET AJAX toolkit CollapsiblePanel.
2. Building a grouping Grid with GridView and JQuery.

I'll display customer orders as tooltip. of course so much data to be diplayed as tooltip, but this is just demonstration [View Demo].

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Nothing really new on this post, just another way to implement mater/detail representation with nested GridViews with assistance of JQuery. Previously I posted about building same feature using ASP.NET AJAX CollapsiblePanel Extender. that was another example of what Matt Berseth presented in his post about building a grouping grid using ASP.NET 3.5 ListView and Linq.

In this post I'll show how same feature can be implemented using JQuery. Very simple and straight forward.

Requirements:
It is required to download latest version of JQueryin order to be able to use this sample [View Demo].

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I admit, Matt Berseth is really inspiring me! Few days ago I pass through 2 of his great posts:

• Surrounding your Data Table and Dialog Controls with ComponentArt Styled Panels
• Building a Grouping Grid with the ASP.NET 3.5 LinqDataSource and ListView Controls

The first one is pure design tips one which I used for making good presentation of my demo here. The 2nd post is actually the idea.

Here I'll do the same idea Matt presented in his post, but I'll user ASP.NET 2.0 simple stuff plus ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit CollapsiblePanel control.It is required that you have ASP.NET AJAX Extensions installed to be able to run the sample code.

I'll not go through the presentation tips mentioned in Matt's post, I'll just show my technique to implement grouping idea with GridViews and CollapsiblePanel along with SqlDataSource which of course can be replaced with ObjectDataSource. I should mention that I'm using same style sheets provided in Matt's sample code along with images [View Demo]. More...

Introduction:
I was thinking of building ASP.NET AJAX Supported controls inorder to practice both ASP.NET AJAX extensions as well as Script# tool.

Actually I liked the work done by Matt Berseth regarding ASP.NET AJAX very much. So I decided to use his ideas, convert them with Script# and add extra view things. So 99% of this post credit returns to him, I will just show how to use Script# and work around few things [Demo].

Original Reference:
I picked a control Matt built as GridView Extender (Behavior).And he provided few posts about and here they are:

• Improving the Presentation of an Extra-Wide GridView
• GridViewControlExtender - Row MouseOver and Click Styles
• GridViewControlExtender II - Header Cell MouseOver Styles and a Few More Live Examples

Simply the idea is to improve the look and feel of the simple GridView with extra styles. For example when hover over a grid cell/row or when click on a row. The control was built as AJAX Extender also known as Behavior that can be applied on a GridView. More...

UPDATE:
Matt Berseth posted a detailed information about this tip on his post Bug Bash: Enabling/Disabling the ASP.NET AJAX Timer using the Control's Client Side API. Much clearer and explained in details. [May 08, 2008]
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from about 2 weeks I wrote an article about how you can use ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Timer control in a real world scenario side by side with RssToolKit.

The idea it to display RSS feed from deferent location in cycle using ASP.NET AJAX Timer. I also had an idea of pausing the Timer when the user move his mouse over the update-able area "Group Box that display feeds inside it". Of course this should be down from client side.

I searched the documentation for Client Side APIs related to the AJAX Timer control but I didn't find any. I had to hack inside AJAX Timer client library downloaded with ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, and I found what I want.

First I though that by setting client side enabled property using set_enabled(false) of the AJAX Timer I could get what I want; actually I was wrong, this will not pause the Timer.

Dig deeper, but not for too long, I found 2 methods _startTimer() and _stopTimer(), those were excatly what I was looking for.

bellow is a sample client code of how you can use these 2 methods:

   1: function startTimer() { var timer = $find("<%=ajaxTimer.ClientID%>"); timer._startTimer(); }

   2: function stopTimer() { var timer = $find("<%=ajaxTimer.ClientID%>"); timer._stopTimer(); } 

The above code assuming that you have an AJAX Timer control on the page named ajaxTimer. Call these method from your client side code, or add them as event handlers on your target elements.

I don't know why these are not documented, or we are not supposed to use them?! Actually I don't know. I thought that after using these methods the browser will cause a problem regarding client scripts, but both Opera and IE worked just fine without any problem. Also I didn't notice any slow down or hanging in both browsers.

Hope you find it useful.

Back to April 2007 I posted about building an ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox. It was an attempt to rewrite a ComboBox Control I made to fulfil certain issues I faced with 3rd Party Controls. One of those issue was performance as most of 3rd Party control are rendering heavy HTML because of extinsive features they put on their controls which I do not need. So This post is supposed to be an extensions to my old post as well as my article about building Simple ASP.NET ComboBox.

Attached to this post is the ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox. The archive is also containing 3 other very simple controls. The controls are developed using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. Client Side Controls are written using Script#. I've posted earlier about Script# and my experience with it, so feel free to have a look at that post.

Now back to ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox. The control is very simple, you can consider it as composite control of simple ListBox and TextBox, however it doesn't inherit from CompositeControl. It directly inherit from ListControl to support binding out of the box and many other features that do need any to be rewritten. More...