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Telerik Grid, and Gridview, and DNN 4 Module Template

Dec 28

Written by: jbonnie
Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:41:05 AM 

The DNN Module template for V4 is pretty sweet.
Shaun Walker's post, http://forums.asp.net/1114393/ShowPost.aspx has 3 sections so far, describing the Starter Kit for the whole site, the module template and some background on the new module/file layout for ASP.NET 2.0.

Creating DNN sites, and modules is getting nice and easy.

That is good, since the nw features of ASP.NET and SQL server 2005 will keep us busy!

I started playing with the Gridview component and was confused on how to bind it into DNN. It can bind to SQL Adapters or Objects. But what about the DNN DAL ? I found that I could just bind the datasource in the code behind the old fashioned way. But hooking it up to an object sure sounds interesting! Michael Washington has a sample, and a tutorial coming, http://adefwebserver.com/dotnetnuke/DotNetNuke/DNN4GuestBook/tabid/199/Default.aspx

I was a bit disappointed with the Gridview control, as it did not support paging out of the box, at least I did not know how to configure it...
Finally I decided to try the Telerik RAD Grid.
The telerik GRID was easy enough to add to a V 4.02 DNN build. It has some nice properties and paging does work out of the box.

But what about performance for my 16,000 row result set!! I need to read about data caching and only returning a reasonable number of records. It is interesting to see how this mixes with AJAX. To reduce post backs, the data still needs to get the quickly to be affective.

Yes , there are a few pieces of the puzzle that need to come together...

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Thanks for stopping by. My name is Jim Bonnie and I have been writing software for over 20 years. After building financial data systems for Reuters for nearly 18 years I have started doing contract work and am excited about technology and currently focus on Microsoft solutions. DotNetNuke has helped provide a good introduction to ASP.NET web application development, and I am now starting to branch out into other areas. Data Access techniques and SubSonic is something that I am looking into now. This has helped me get an invitation to speak at Las Vegas at DNN Open Force 07. it was a great time. And I am looking forward to OpenForce08, where I wil be presenting on TDD for DNN.

 

Reading the codebetter blogs and attending a nothing but .net training class with JP Boodhoo helped spark my interest in ALT.NET. I attended the first conference in Austin Texas, and it was amazing to see Scott Guthrie introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.

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