Web Notes

Almost in each modern website project one of the feature is suggesting user possible items to select when he start typing one of them. Such functionality is done by using control named autocomplete . Under the hood  it consists of at least three elements: UI control which allow user to type some text - mainly this in HTML input of text type Server-side function which serves data to be auto-completed Client-side logic (written in JavaScript) which , by using AJAX, send request to the server asynchronously and then process the results. When we think about creating autocomplete control in ASP.NET MVC 4 we definitely should take a look at  jQueryUI framework. One of the feature of this framework is autocomplete control which enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, leveraging searching and filtering. That sounds very good and is excellently what we are looking for. ...

Sometimes it`s easier to reaload only part of the website witout reloading whole page. Thanks to AJAX technology such aproach is possible and easy to code. Let`s begin. Firstly we need to configure our environment so we must have a Visual Studio with MVC 3  Razor isntalled on it. Razor can be obtained from here . After installation process completed , the second step is to set up a new WebStie project (Picture 1.) Picture 1. After you confirm Your project type choise, next window starts. On it You should select the second web project type (with Forms autentication method)  and than choose RAZOR form dropdown (Picture 2.). Picture 2. Now You new web solution contains several folders and files by default. Their description is not a point of this article so allow myself to continue. Next step is to create a simple model for our PartialView. As an example I  created a simple _UserModel.cs in Models folder. The source code for this model is:  public cl...