DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with WebForms

ASP.net MVC Vs ASP.net Web Form

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:05 GMT

Software Architects have been involving lot of debates about the approaches and architectures. Some of the examples are ORM Vs Store Procedures, REST Vs SOAP, etc. There is a debate happening inside the Microsoft community about ASP.net web form Vs ASP.net MVC. Many people thinking that ASP.net MVC will be replace webforms at least eventually and others are thinking that ASP.net MVC will not be replace webforms. Will ASP.net MVC replace webforms?. ASP.net MVC is an alternative approach to webforms rather than a replacement. It will not replace webforms and webforms will not replace ASP.NET MVC. The fact is that ASP.NET MVC and webforms will co-exist and that ASP.NET MVC is not a replacement for webforms. If you prefer ASP.net MVC use it and you feel webform is more comfortable, you can use it. . Both approaches are just choices and different approaches and choices are good things. Different choices are available for other platforms especially in the Java platform.

jQuery Goodness and ASP.NET AJAX - Take II

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:38:21 GMT

So clearly I am obsessing about getting jQuery features into my WebForm applications. I would seriously love to see the following added ...

How to easily insert row in GridView with SqlDataSource?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:33:30 GMT

Asp.Net 2.0 GridView control is very powerful control. Developers at Microsoft really did a great job when designing it. Its like Swiss Army knife for selecting, editing, sorting, paging and displaying data. Combined with various DataSource controls (ObjectDataSource, SqlDataSource) it helps you execute most of your Read, Update and Delete operations without writing a single line of code. Off course, nothing is perfect. For example, creating new data is is one common task that is not so simple to accomplish with GridView. Let see how we can easily insert new rows of data using GridView and SqlDataSource...

How to do Cross Page Postbacks in Asp.Net 2.0 - Tutorial with examples

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:31:51 GMT

Back in the days of ASP.NET 1.x there was no easy way to make post-backs to pages different than the current page (so called Cross Page Postbacks). From Asp.Net 2.0 this is solved with built-in features that allow us to easily send information from one page to another. Lets see how...

What's Ailing ASP.NET Web Forms

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:31:03 GMT

Rick Strahl summarises the disadvantages of the current ASP.NET WebForms model, and how the new ASP.NET MVC framework might address some of these issues.

Dynamically adding controls to ASPX pages (web forms) and assigning ev

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:00:13 GMT

Although I've seen a lot of articles describing how to dynamically add controls to a Web Form, few mention even a little hint to how you can make event handlers actually WORK with dynamically-added controls. This article may seem (and probably is) a beginner-level one, but I think it's essential to cover this issue.

MVC in WebForms:The impossible fight to get rid of views centric world

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:16:01 GMT

Ayende talks about three common approaches for implementing the MVC pattern while still trying to use WebForms (and all of the controls that come with it), and how they each fail in one aspect or another.