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Ext.NET Web Application Development

By : Anup K Shah
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Ext.NET Web Application Development

By: Anup K Shah

Overview of this book

To build a rich internet application, you need to integrate a powerful client side JavaScript framework with a server side framework. Ext.NET achieves this by integrating Sencha's Ext JS framework with the power of ASP.NET. The result ñ a sophisticated framework offering a vast array of controls, layout, and powerful AJAX and server bindings, which can be used to build rich, highly usable web applications. "Ext.NET Web Application Development" shows you how to build rich applications using Ext.NET. Examples guide you through Ext.NET's various components using both ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC examples. You will also see how Ext.NET handles data binding and server integration. You will also learn how to create reusable components and put them together in great looking applications. This book guides you through the various Ext.NET components and capabilities to enable you to create highly usable Ext.NET components and web applications. You will learn about various UI components and numerous layout options through examples. You will see how the AJAX architecture enables you to create powerful data-oriented applications easily. This book will also teach you how to create reusable custom components to suit your needs. "Ext.NET Web Application Development" shows you how to create rich and usable applications using Ext.NET through numerous examples.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Ext.NET Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
8
Trees and Tabs with Ext.NET
Index

Events in Ext.NET


Ext.NET supports a number of different event mechanisms. For example, there are client-side events, AJAX events, and general publish/subscribe event patterns that are available. Different controls in Ext.NET support different types of events. Buttons, LinkButtons, and similar controls will support a click event when the control is clicked. Other specialized controls will have more events. For example, most container controls have events related to when items are added or removed from a container, and so on. We will continue using the Button control to demonstrate how you can subscribe to and handle events.

Listeners – client-side events

Ext JS provides a vast event-handling framework for its components, which Ext.NET exposes quite elegantly. Ext JS lets you subscribe to an event through the use of listeners. So, here is an example of a simple click handler for a button:

<ext:Button runat="server" Text="Click Me!">
  <Listeners>
    <Click Handler="alert(...