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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


In this chapter we had a look at how Ext.NET and Ext JS provide layout capabilities. While Ext.NET provides many layouts we saw a few in detail here:

  • Border layout

  • Accordion layout

  • Fit layout

  • HBox layout

  • VBox layout

The Border layout demonstrated both the power of that particular layout but also the flexibility in Ext.NET in terms of how to define and use it. We saw that we can also nest Border layouts, and when we looked at the Accordion layout we also saw that a combination of layouts is easily possible. The Fit layout demonstrated how you can get something to fit the container and stretch with it whenever the container is resized. With HBox and VBox layouts we saw powerful options to configure items in numerous ways horizontally and vertically. In addition, we saw they could be combined to help center a component which is quite a popular thing to do.

We also looked at the Viewport as another example of a container which is frequently used in conjunction with a layout to create an application...