With Ext.NET, developers have a lot of control over the submission of a <form> element or FormPanel, even if not using the standard ASP.NET <form runat="server">. The basic principle for manually submitting a form to the server is the Ext JS FormPanel getForm method, which returns the underlying form manager, the BasicForm associated with the FormPanel. It has a getValues method, which returns values as a dictionary of name/value pairs that can be submitted to the server using Ajax, for example:
<ext:Button runat="server" Text="Save">
<DirectEvents>
<Click OnEvent="SaveData"
Before="return #{FormPanel1}.isValid();">
<ExtraParams>
<ext:Parameter
Name="values"
Value="#{FormPanel1}.getForm().getValues()"
Mode="Raw"
Encode="true"
/>
</ExtraParams>
</Click>
</DirectEvents>
</ext:Button>In the preceding code...