Thursday, April 10, 2008 posted by geoffrey.mcgill | 5 Comments
Hot on the heels of the
BorderLayout Preview, is a preview for the new Coolite
ViewPort ASP.NET web control.
When added to your Page, the ViewPort control will automatically size itself to the size of the browser window content area (viewport). The ViewPort control must contain a Layout control (typically BorderLayout). Within each Region of the BorderLayout, you can add other containers controls such as Panel, TabPanel, TreePanel or GridPanel.
ViewPort with BorderLayout
Child controls within a BorderLayout Region (North, South, East, West or Center) can themselves contain a Layout. By simply combining various Layout and Panel controls, a developer, within minutes can create elegant and functional application layouts which work consistently across all modern web browsers.
Code samples for both markup (<ext:ViewPort />) and C# code-behind are provided.
The sample also demonstrates the included "Gray" Theme, which can easily be set with one property at the Page, Session, Application or web.config levels.
The ViewPort control will be available with the version 0.5 release of the Coolite Toolkit.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008 posted by geoffrey.mcgill | 3 Comments
The Layout controls for the version 0.5 release are coming together nicely. It's been a challenge, but I think we've found the sweet spot between clean markup, object model, Visual Studio designer support, Intellisense support and being true to the ExtJS framework.
The following examples provide code samples (markup + C#) and demonstrate the Layout controls within a Window control. The main Layout is controlled by a BorderLayout.
NOTE This build is not currently available for download. Everything you see will be included with the version 0.5 release.
Window with Simple Layout
Window with Complex Layout
All Layout controls, except FormLayout/FormPanel, are now working in both markup and code-behind. Design-time support for the Layout controls is still under development, but progressing quickly.
More v0.5 Notes and a few Breaking Changes1. The ViewPort control will be included with the v0.5 release.
2. The TagPrefix has changed from 'cool' to 'ext'.
Example// Old
<cool:window runat="server" id="Window1" />// New
<ext:window runat="server" id="Window1" />3. The Namespace (.dll) has changed to Coolite.Ext.Web from Coolite.Web.UI.
Example// Old
Window win = new Coolite.Web.UI.Window();// New
Window win = new Coolite.Ext.Web.Window();4. The Grid (GridPanel) control *might* not be included with the 0.5 release. Completion of the Layout controls is further ahead than the GridPanel, so we might make the decision to release v0.5 early without including the GridPanel.
Any
feedback is very much appreciated.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008 posted by geoffrey.mcgill | 0 Comments
I'll be in Las Vegas 4-Mar-2008 to 7-Mar-2008 to attend the Microsoft Mix08 conference. Should be good.
Let me know if you're going to be around.
geoff [at] coolite [dot] com
Thursday, February 7, 2008 posted by geoffrey.mcgill | 2 Comments
Coolite, Inc. is thrilled to announce our collaboration with
ExtJS, LLC. The deal has been in the works for a while, but it's now ready for prime time.
The first product to be released from the Coolite.Ext collaboration is
Coolite ToolkitCoolite Toolkit is an Ext official suite of ASP.NET Web Controls built on the Ext JavaScript Framework.
The suite of web controls were built with a focus on bringing full Visual Studio Design-Time support to the Ext JavaScript Framework. A marriage of server-side and client-side frameworks.
The first trial release of the Coolite Toolkit is now available for
download and ready to install.
Developers using Coolite Toolkit benefit from features including:
- Powerful integration of the Ext JavaScript Framework.
- Full Design-Time support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2005 & 2008.
- Drag-and-drop ease of use.
- Current support for Window, Panel and a many Form Controls including DatePicker, Calendar and HtmlEditor.
- New Controls being added weekly.
- Dual Licensed (LGPL 3.0 and Coolite Commercial License).
- Professional support options available shortly.
A good first step to joining and contributing to the Coolite Community is to visit the
Forums.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or comments and we will do our best to help out. Currently, technical support is only provided via the Coolite Community
Forums.
We welcome everyone to Coolite.
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posted by geoffrey.mcgill | 1 Comments
We've been tinkering on ideas for over 18 months, and we're happy to announce that Coolite.com is officially online and ready to go. We'd love to hear you what you think of the
website. It's Cool(ite)!
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