Client templates in MSDN Magazine

re: Client templates in MSDN Magazine

Jonas Follesø — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:37:25 GMT

Great article! I love the new Client Templates in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0.

I recently did a blog post about how you can use the client templates from Silverlight 2 to generate HTML on the client to support printing. The out-of-box printing experience in Silverlight 2 is really poor/useless, so people have to come up with workarounds.

One option is to use pop-ups and server side generation of HTML... But I tried to solve this using client templates to generate HTML, and then use CSS print style sheets to hide the Silverlight control and show the dynamically generated HTML.

Works great, as it's dead simple to serialize Silverlight 2 objects to JSON and invoke JavaScript functions :)

The post is up at jonas.follesoe.no/PrintingInSilverlight2UsingCSSAndASPNETAJAX4.aspx

Cheers,

Jonas

re: Client templates in MSDN Magazine

martillo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:49:19 GMT

PS - in the code download, line 96 in 2_UpdatePanel.aspx does not compile.

To get it to compile I changed it from:

from p in AdventureWorksContext.Products [...]

using ( var AdventureWorksContext = new AdventureWorksDataContext() )

{[...]}

re: Client templates in MSDN Magazine

Bertrand Le Roy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:33:45 GMT

@Mike: next version is going to be released this month.

@Andy: to make it very clear that everything we do in Microsoft Ajax is cross-browser. There are still people who believe that Microsoft Ajax only works on IE. This is not the case, we support Firefox, Safari, Opera and IE today.

@Martillo: thanks.

re: Client templates in MSDN Magazine

martillo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:32:48 GMT

Betrand, your article is exceptionally well-written and well-organized. Thank you!

re: Client templates in MSDN Magazine

Andy — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:17:42 GMT

Nice article , but why is the screendumps taken with firefox ? :)

re: Client templates in MSDN Magazine

Mike Carillon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:31:11 GMT

Great article! I'm looking forward to using this. When will the next version be out? Thanks.