Using AJAX for a search results box

[Guest]

Hi

Following Eliyau's suggestion, I've decided to use AJAX for my search
thingy. SO, I've got a textbox for the search criteria and a Repeater control
to display the results.

At the moment, I'm using the textbox with a button. When the button is
clicked, we create the SQL and then I've overridden the OnPreRender event to
get the results and DataBind with the Repeater.

I think I've got my setup stuff sorted for AJAX, but how do I get it to
rebind the Repeater with a new set of results? Can I just call the code thats
called by OnPreRender? Do I have to do something else?

Ant help/articles appreciated - cheers!



Dan

 

[Lucas Tam]

At the moment, I'm using the textbox with a button. When the button is
clicked, we create the SQL and then I've overridden the OnPreRender
event to get the results and DataBind with the Repeater.

I think I've got my setup stuff sorted for AJAX, but how do I get it
to rebind the Repeater with a new set of results? Can I just call the
code thats called by OnPreRender? Do I have to do something else?

Ant help/articles appreciated - cheers!

Are you using .NET 1.1?

I'm using Thycotics Javascript Remoting... that seems to work well.

Otherwise you can try Dart's Live Controls.

 

[Guest]

Do you have a link for Thycotics? Tried a search, its a Googlewhack!

 

[Lucas Tam]

Do you have a link for Thycotics? Tried a search, its a Googlewhack!

Here you go:

http://www.thycotic.com/
http://www.thycotic.com/dotnet_remotescripting.html
http://www.thycotic.com/dotnet_remotescripting_client.html

 

[Bruce Barker]

with AJAX you use client dhtml rather than server controls. .net 1.0/1.1
does not have any AJAX support. your client code (javascript) should use an
iframe or XMLHTTP to make a web request to a .net page written to respond
with the info desired, either xml, javascript variables or actual html are
the most common. once you have the response, use client script to render the
table.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)