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Calling Web Services in Client Script using ASP.NET AJAX

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 25 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 7744

Web Services play an important role in data transport and communication between the client the server. Web services reside on the server and wait to be called by any client and most of the time these clients are written in server side technologies such as ASP.NET, PHP or JSP etc. ASP.NET AJAX provides web developers ability to call web services from the client side language such as JavaScript asynchronously to improve the user experience and to avoid full page refresh and postback. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can call an ASP.NET web service with the help of ASP.NET AJAX.

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Using ASP.NET AJAX ModelPopupExtender from Server Side

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 08 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 13921

In my first tutorial on ASP.NET AJAJX ModelPopupExtender control I have shown you how you can display model dialog boxes in ASP.NET with client side JavaScript behavior. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can use ModelPopupExtender control with server side post backs so that when user performs any action in the dialog box such as button click you can execute code in code behind file on the server.

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Using ASP.NET AJAX ModelPopupExtender from Client Side

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 08 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 11214

Model dialog boxes are very common these days not only in Windows applications but also in web applications. They allow web developers to open new popup windows on the same page without creating a new web page. These popup windows typically ask user some input and temporarily disable the page unless the user dismisses the dialog box. ASP.NET developers can use ModelPopupExtender control available in ASP.NET AJAX controls toolkit to implement model dialog behavior in their web applications. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can use ModelPopupExtender control with client side behavior so that when user performs any action in the dialog box such as button click there is no post back to the server.

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Using ASP.NET AJAX HoverMenu Control with GridView

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 04 Sep 2009 - Views Count: 20281

ASP.NET AJAX Controls Toolkit provides many useful controls to ASP.NET developers to build modern rich internet applications. One such control is HoverMenu control that enables you to attach popup menu with any ASP.NET control. It can be used as a simple tooltip which can be attached with a TextBox and showing users what they are suppose to enter in the textbox or like many modern ecommerce shopping applications, it can be used to display larger image of the product when user move mouse on the product thumbnail image. In this tutorial, I will show you how to achieve this functionality using HoverMenu and GridView controls.

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Using ASP.NET AJAX Accordion Control

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 10 Aug 2009 - Views Count: 13432

ASP.NET AJAX Controls Toolkit contains many useful controls which you can use to provide rich user interface for your website. One such control is Accordion control that allows you to provide outlook style user interface by showing one of the multiple panes. It can be used to create expandable/collapsible navigation bars or to display page contents which user can expand and collapse to view one pane at a time. In this tutorial I will show you how you can implement Accordion control in your ASP.NET websites.

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Display GridView Row Details using ASP.NET AJAX Popup Control

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 16 Jul 2009 - Views Count: 55968

When you display records using ASP.NET GridView control it displays all the columns on the page and often you want to display only few columns in GridView due to the available space on the page. You can easily achieve this functionality by adding your own columns declaratively in the GridView control. But if you want to display other columns in a popup window for each row in the GridView control you need to use AJAX Popup Control with the GridView. In this tutorial I will show you how you can display GridView row details using ASP.NET AJAX Popup control extender.

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ASP.NET AJAX TextBox Watermark Control

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 30 Jun 2009 - Views Count: 15742

ASP.NET AJAX TextBox Watermark Extender control can be attached to an ASP.NET TextBox control to make it work as watermark TextBox. If TextBox is empty, it will display a message to the user with a custom CSS style. It user will type something in the TextBox that initial message will disappear. The main purpose of TextBox is to provide extra information to the user about the data required in the TextBox. In this tutorial I will show you how you can use ASP.NET AJAX TextBox Watermark Control in your ASP.NET Projects.

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Using ASP.NET AJAX Popup Control Extender

Posted by Waqas Anwar on 27 Jun 2009 - Views Count: 49593

ASP.NET AJAX Popup Control can be attached to any ASP.NET control to display additional contents in a popup window. The popup window can display either static contents just like tool tips or can be made more interactive with the help of AJAX UpdatePanel control. It can also have other ASP.NET controls inside which may or may not cause full or AJAX based asynchronous post backs using AJAX UpdatePanel. In this tutorial I will show you how you can use AJAX Popup Control Extender with server side ASP.NET controls.