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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

Container components


Container components allow you to add other components (and containers) to it. Container components can also be configured with a layout to help control how its items are presented, which will be covered in the next chapter, dedicated to layouts. In this chapter, we will look at some core examples, such as the Container, Toolbar, Panel, and Window. Tooltips are also containers, so we will have a quick look at that. Other chapters will cover the popular and powerful GridPanel, TreePanel, and TabPanel.

Container

A Container is the most basic of, well, Containers! It simply acts as a lightweight container without any fancy or sophisticated options compared to its various subclasses, such as Toolbar, Panel, Window, Tooltip, and more. The Container is often used in conjunction with a layout, which we will look at in the next chapter.

Toolbars and menus

The button examples showed a number of features of Ext.NET. Toolbars and menus are additional controls that may feature...