ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

slawek.rosiek — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:03:03 GMT

how to do it without webservice - with using actions? I change service path to "/controller" and service method to "action" which return Json but when I write something to textbox the action isn't invoked

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

abc — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:05:56 GMT

why are you using web service.without using webservice,we cant create it

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

Pierre MARTIN — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:33:43 GMT

Thank you for that two posts (#36 and #37), they helped me so much !

However, I've just noticed an error in the AjaxExtensions.cs file. By adding the properties in the "Create" call a problem was introduced for calls without parameters (which is the Calendar case).

AjaxExtensions.cs > Line 80 :

return Create(helper, String.Empty, clientType, elementId);

must be replaced by

return Create(helper, clientType, String.Empty, elementId);

It solved my problem ... I hope it can be useful to someone else

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

carrot — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:43:54 GMT

Hello Stephen,

how can I return to the page additional info like ID of the record...

Thanks

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

brucesinner — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:16:50 GMT

hi stephen,

im trying to use your example as a base for doing with cascading dropdown list but i cant make it work.

there are anything in special to make that work with cascading dropdowns?

thanks!

Using the Ajax Control Toolkit in ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET AJAX Team Blogs — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:56:22 GMT

Stephen Walther has a pretty cool post on using the new file-only version of the Ajax Control Toolkit

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

Suvrajit Ray — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:15:51 GMT

Hi stephen thanks a lot for the valuable article.

I am a big fan of you.

At last thanks for the asp.net unleashed book written by u which help me a lat to build very good application in asp.net. I think this is the best book on asp.net

thanks and regards

suvrajit ray

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

brucesinner — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:49:40 GMT

hi stephen,

what if i use the server-side controls of AJAX Toolkit with MVC instead of creating everything by hand as you showed here. I know it goes against the MVC principles but what if I use ???

And I saw that you created a webservice that obtains data from the model layer, but where did you created that web service, I mean, in which layer ? The controllers layer ?

thanks

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

swalther — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:22:48 GMT

@Ted -- Great feedback! The AJAX Control Toolkit is an open source project. Because it is an open source project, and Microsoft accepts community contributions, Microsoft can't provide normal support (although, Microsoft does supply community support through the Forums).

There is a really interesting article on the subjects of the AJAX Control Toolkit, Open Source, and Support at:

download.microsoft.com/.../AJAX_Control_Case_Study.pdf

I'm not trying to dismiss your concerns here -- just realize that open source opens some difficult issues.

re: ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 – Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

Ted — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:26 GMT

Microsoft should produce a fully supported AJAX/Javascript library as part of its ASP.NET development tools. Our shop cannot incorporate tools like the one cited because it will likely not be supported or developed further after a year or two. We've been burned by this before by earlier developers that would introduce whatever custom code library/tool that they wanted. At the end of 7+ years of ASP, ASP.NET, VB6, VB.NET, .NET 1.x and 2.x we have tens of tools/libraries that a) no one knows anything about, b) are from unknown origin, c) are locked into legacy code (vb.net framework 1.x only), d) are buggy and have no forward developement or bug fixes.

We have source code for some of the problematic tools/libraries but not the budget/manpower to build and fix them (e.g., we have a 50,000 line application that links to a 200,000+ line library of spaghetti like open source vb.net code).