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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

Grouping


The GridPanel also comes with a feature to allow grouping the data by a column, as shown in the following screenshot:

Notice the menu now provides two extra options—to enable grouping at all (Show in Groups) and whether to group by the current column whose menu is being shown.

Tip

Also notice how the formatting for the column value is preserved in the grouping header as well. That is because, if you recall earlier, the Renderer function we used for that column updated the value itself. So when the Grouping header is shown, that formatted value is used.

To set this up we simply add another "Feature" to the GridPanel as follows:

<Features>
    <ext:GridFilters Local="true">
        <!-- Filter options go here -->
    </ext:GridFilters>
    <ext:Grouping />
</Features>

The preceding example shows the bare minimum configuration needed; just the Grouping feature. Note, as a client-side feature on the GridPanel, it is independent of the underlying Store...