ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit - CascadingDropDown

marcochila — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:18:00 GMT

Hello everybody! I spent the last few hours to find out more about CascadingDropDown (CDD) and I really didn't like what it really is.

The main question.

The requirements to make your CDD to work are just:

NEED to use a web service (arghhhhhhhh);
Write the method inside your ASPX page (code behind is a bad choice hun?)
Need to learn how to pass values to and from the CascadingDropDownNameValue collection.

That's for me is a really bad thing. The one thing that CDD really does that's very nice is the automatic behavior handling of the parent's and children's DropDownLists. If there is no item selected on the parent DropDown, the children are automatic disabled and when you select a new one the children goes thru a two state os exibition, telling you to wait and when the requisition is over, tell toy to pick your choice.

I really didn't like it, as I said in the beginning and I intend to use the "normal" approach:

Yes, you may think that I'm a really bad guy, but in my case CDD doesn't help me on anything. I hope that someone else can find it usefull.

See you!@!

Chilá!@!

Chilá na NET... Ah e no .NET também... : AJAX Control Tookit

ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit - CascadingDropDown