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Learning Kendo UI Web Development

By : John Adams
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Learning Kendo UI Web Development

By: John Adams

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<p>Creating useful and attractive web sites for today’s audiences requires more JavaScript programming than ever before. JavaScript, however, isn’t easy and staying up to date with recent trends makes it even harder. You need a way to integrate the latest technology into your web site without having to start from the beginning.</p> <p>"Learning Kendo UI Web Development" shows you how to add the latest web features to your site without doing all of the work yourself. The experts at Telerik have created a fully supported code library that lets you focus on what makes your sites special while letting them focus on how that translates into cutting edge JavaScript code.</p> <p>This book will take you on a survey through Kendo UI for the web from the basic widgets that wrap input fields to the full page scaffolding widgets for setting up your site.</p> <p>Kendo UI for the web is a rich framework of JavaScript widgets and tools that will add immediate value to your web sites. Learn the full spectrum of what Kendo UI has to offer in specialized widgets that gather input from users by displaying calendars, sliders, or date pickers all the way up to widgets that structure your web pages through data-driven models in accordions, tabs, list views, and tree views.</p> <p>"Learning Kendo UI Web Development" is the perfect companion for navigating the broad features offered by Telerik in JavaScript web development.</p>

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Learning Kendo UI Web Development
John Adams
May, 2013 | 288 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Kendo UI Web Development
Learning Kendo UI Web Development
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Interacting with Data: DataSource, Templates, TabStrip, and Grid
Interacting with Data: DataSource, Templates, TabStrip, and Grid
Setting up the sample project
KendoUI syntax styles
Kendo UI MVC – basics
Managing data
Page layout
Summary
2
The AutoComplete Widget and its Usage
The AutoComplete Widget and its Usage
AutoComplete widget – basics
Binding AutoComplete to Remote Data
Using AutoComplete with MVC through Models
Using AutoComplete with MVC through Ajax
Sending data to the server
Using Templates to Customize AutoComplete
Configuring all of the AutoComplete properties
Hooking into AutoComplete widget events
Using the API AutoComplete methods
Summary
3
Using and Customizing Calendar
Using and Customizing Calendar
Calendar widget – basics
Configuring the Calendar widget
Calendar Widget using MVC
Methods available on the Calendar widget
Events fired by the Calendar widget
Summary
4
The Kendo MVVM Framework
The Kendo MVVM Framework
Understanding MVVM – basics
Data-bind properties for Kendo MVVM
Declarative widgets through Data-Role MVVM attributes
Summary
5
HTML Editor and Custom Tools
HTML Editor and Custom Tools
Understanding the HTML Editor
Adding and removing buttons from the toolbar
Adding the Styles tool
Customizing HTML Editor tools
Using the HTML Editor API
Summary
6
Menu and ListView
Menu and ListView
Learning the Menu widget basics
The Kendo UI ListView
Summary
7
Implementing PanelBar and TabStrip
Implementing PanelBar and TabStrip
PanelBar basics
Introducing the TabStrip widget
Summary
8
Slider Essentials
Slider Essentials
Introducing Slider and RangeSlider
Basic implementation using MVC extension methods
Using tooltips and pop-up texts
Customizing the user interface of the slider widgets
Learning API methods
Hooking into events
Summary
9
Implementing the Splitter and TreeView Widgets
Implementing the Splitter and TreeView Widgets
The Splitter widget
TreeView
Summary
10
The Upload and Window Widgets
The Upload and Window Widgets
Uploading files
The Kendo UI Window widget
Summary
11
Web API Examples
Web API Examples
Getting familiar with the ASP.NET Web API
Getting familiar with Entity Framework Code First
Getting familiar with OData
Using DataSourceRequest with Kendo Grid
Driving the ListView with Web API
Summary
Index
Index

Getting familiar with Entity Framework Code First

Most applications use a database to store information. Most databases, however, store information in a way that does not exactly match up with server-side object oriented programming. This is a very common problem and has given rise to the field of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) systems. Many of these exist, but Microsoft has created one specific to the .NET framework known as the Entity Framework (EF). It is basically a framework designed to more easily write code that stores information in a database but still behaves like an object oriented system. If you have downloaded the sample content for this chapter, go ahead and open the Chapter 11 solution now to follow along. Otherwise, create a new ASP.NET MVC 4 project and choose the Web API template when asked.

The particulars of the Entity Framework are numerous and there is not enough space here to explore them. We will go through a basic example of how to utilize the Entity Framework Code...

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