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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

Summary


We can extend and organize our Ext.NET-based components in various ways, as follows:

  • Using a control builder approach to wrap common code

  • Extending Ext.NET controls

  • Using plugins

The first approach, while quick, may not be flexible enough. The other two, however, are immensely powerful and although we might wonder which one we should use, in reality both extending and creating plugins are needed in complex applications.

All options are likely to require JavaScript, but the extending and plugin approaches encourage better JavaScript code and organization by following Ext JS conventions. As stated before, getting the most out of Ext.NET involves embracing and learning Ext JS rather than shying away from it, and Ext.NET's approach to extending controls and using plugins helps you with that very much.

We also spent some time specifically looking at ways in which you can extend Ext.NET components based on scenarios, such as whether you will have custom JavaScript/CSS, custom Listeners/DirectEvents...