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ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 24 May 06 5:16 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d If you look at the previous thread ( http://www.slxdeveloper.com/forum.aspx?forumid=4001&postid=758 ), both Ryan and Timmus talked about how good asp.net is and how potentially it can be much better that using the current SLX Web development tools.
Well I’m very much of the same opinion and I think anything that can be done in asp.net like new sections and main views should be, it’s just much richer and when you know what you are doing much faster to develop.
I'm currently working on a new Main View in asp.net but need to create a number of components which I have in my standard/customised SLX web client.
One of these is the Multi-Select Picklist, I'm looking to call a component that recreates the functionality found in the Lan Client and want to know if anyone knows of any components that are similar or would be a good starting point.
Many Thanks
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Duncan
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 25 May 06 1:13 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Are you just looking for an ASP.NET equivalent? ListBox (with SelectionMode=Multiple), CheckListBox, DataList, Repeater, etc...take your pick. They'd all be able to provide similar functionality to a multiselect picklist. |
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 25 May 06 3:25 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d No I’m not looking for an asp.net equivalent; I've always found the listbox control in the web pretty awful and not very user friendly.
I'm really after a custom control similar to this one ( http://easylistbox.com/demoMultiDropDown.aspx ) which would be perfect except the control is not royalty free and therefore you would need to purchase a new licence for each customer site, which wouldn't be practical.
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 25 May 06 6:13 PM
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melatonin pregnancy safety melatonin pregnancy test dev.wizie.com fiogf49gjkf0d That looks awesome. Very nice. I'm really more of a "roll my own" kind of guy when it comes to controls. So I'd probably just go that route myself. Those sort of controls really aren't a difficult thing - but nicely packaged controls are always great  |
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 26 May 06 3:00 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Thanks Ryan. I'm trying to avoid building my own control at this point, so I can concentrate on building applications. Although I'm fairly sure at some point I will want to do this as it will give me more control.
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Duncan
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 17 Jul 06 1:47 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Ryan, in the end I took your advice and developed my own component which now work exactly the same as the picklist in the client/server without using any pop-up window.
It looks at the picklist options to determine whether it should be multi-select or a single select list and displays in the correct sort order.
It works in the same way as the AJAX component, with no hit on the database until the user selects the list, although it’s not strictly AJAX.
It also deals with related picklist like industry and sub-industry which has always been a problem in web.
And the big advantage as I've developed it, I know the code inside out. 
Once I'm completely happy with it and if anyone's interested in it I may write it up as an article for the web section.
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 24 Jul 06 5:28 PM
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fiogf49gjkf0d That sounds awesome Duncan. I'd love to see it submitted to the site (or at least a writeup/walkthrough of how it's used and built etc) once you're confortable with it. |
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Re: ASP.NET Multi-Select Picklist Component
Posted: 25 Jul 06 2:44 AM
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fiogf49gjkf0d Thanks Ryan, still need to a bit more testing then it should be ready.
Hopefully it will help people that are starting to use asp.net within the web environment and need a SalesLogix picklist control.
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Duncan
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