Studing for another MCP

This week you wont see any new developements to my codeplex project (at least done by me) .Thats because I am studing to take a new MCP exam .Next week after I take the test I will try to make something new...The good news is that a codeplex user has sent me a patch that will(he says) fix the master page issues of the controls ..the bad news is that I have to change all controls...and that requires time ...something I am not having lately.

Happy hollydays

Another year is ending and this time I have news.
I am leaving my current job and facing a new challenge in my life.
This will probably mean that I will be dedicating less time to my codeplex project..
so its the project dead? well that's up to you . Lots of people asked me to become developers and I have always accepted then , but none of then (except dimitry) gave any contribution.
So, if anyone wants to be a developer just contact me.
Happy Hollidays

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Whats next on the ExtJsExtenderControls

Here is a screencast I have done showing a new feature that will be on the next release of the ExtJsExtender controls.I just have to solve a designer bug that happens when I add columns to the grid code.
Hope to see this out soon...

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ExtJsExtenderControls in ajaxrain

If you don't know ajaxrain is a website that has a list of web 2.0 sites ,scripts that is community driven.I have just found out that the extender sample site is featured in it and that is giving the site a lot of visits.Thanks to whoever put the site there !!

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Whats in the next version

Like the project? Use the controls for anything?

There are many features and bug fixes coming on the next version of the ExtJsExtenderControls..so I will start writing about then before I forget.

1. New event for the grid SelectedRowIndexChanged -fired when a row is selected
2. Two new properties for the Grid -Title and GroupingField
3. New property for the TreePane -checkAllchilds --if true when a node is checked all his child nodes are also checked
4. TabPanel now renders correctly
5. Spinner extender will be removed
6. New control ToolbarExtender
7. New properties for the TabPanel(closable,tabscrolling).
   

Bug fixes:

1. CheckboxTree fires the onnodechecked event only once
2. TreePanel fires evetns only when needed
3. Grid and Tree work in masterpage
   

The BorderLayout control is alpha and will change in the next release.

Article at codeproject

I wrote an article at codeproject yesterday about the TreePane control of my codeplex project.
I choose the TreePane because I think its the most complete control of all.
Here is a link to the article.Share this.

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New version of ExtJs Extender

I have just released a new version of my codeplex project.
This version contains very important updates

1. The grid doesn't have any more bugs in the designer
2. The grid can be databound just like the asp.net GridView (only Dataset and DataTable for now)
3. New component ResizableExtender that is better than the one in the AjaxControlToolkit
   

Hope that helps.

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About ScriptControlbase

After some Google search and investigation I found this blog post
that puts some light under the undocumented ScriptControlBase class
of the Asp.net Aja controltoolkit.
I will be using this class for new controls on me codeplex project.

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Future for the codePlex project

Here are the future features for my codeplex project
1)A resizable extender - similar to the one on the ajax control toolkit , but with more properties
powered by the ExtJs Framework.(Very easy to implement).
2) Controls to encapsulate the BorderLayout (Hard to implement)
3)Update to ExtJs 1.1 (Easy..but it is a lot of work, replacing the js, css , images and
updating the Assemblyinfo file).
So what are you waiting to support this project?

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Hint ..improving permformance with asp.net ajax toolkit

 If you are using the asp.net ajax toolkit or anything like my codeplex project that depends on it you should look into your web.config for the configuration below and uncomment it

<scriptResourceHandler enableCompression="true" enableCaching="true" />

Believe in me..it makes a huge difference.

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What is new on the next version of the GridExtensions?

Before anyone complains... the drag and drop sample is not working.
Here are some new features that are in the source-code of my codeplex project.

1. Support for the TreePanel ( sample included in sample project)
   
2. New grid properties :WebServiceMethod and WebServicePath,PagingStyle
3. The grid haves drag and drop column reordering and a header context menu.
   

Yes... the grid now support calling a webservice method that returns a DataSet.
If you are dealing with paged data then your dataset must have two tables:
The first table contains the records to be showed and the second table contains one row and one column containing the total record count.
The sample project will include a sample for that.
The PagingStyle property allows you to choose between the numbered paging and the navbar paging.(If you choose the navbar then you will get the starting record instead of the starting page in your server-side.).

The only thing you will have to change in your code is the paging on the server-side that is now zero index based.

Component

If you like being on the cutting edge you should get the source of my control

at codeplex the source is using Ext 1.0 alpha3 rev 4 and has the first version of the TreePane control.Everything is working nice..the only thing missing to an official release is Grid Drag and drop row sorting.

The differences between yui-ext 0.33 and Ext 1.0 are wrapped inside the control , so no changes are needed in the samples ( unless you want to get some new features). Thats one of the advantages of using the control...

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Ext 1.0 is out(alpha)

Ext 1.0 alpha is out and now I have a lot of work to do.Here is my priority list

1)Update the samples at my website to use the new grid.

2)Update the codeplex project code to use the new grid.

3)Make samples for the TreePanel and put then at my website

4) Implement the treepanel in yui-ext controls and see if there is any other new control I can implement.

The update on my site is already in progress...but there are very complex samples and very few documentation.But as soon as I update my site, updating the control js code will be a breeze.

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