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studio NetSouls rejigs the web identity of Peerless Group of Hotels, India

The Peerless Group of Hotels is a family of Hotels and Resorts spread across Kolkata, Durgapur, Port Blair (Andaman) & Mukutmonipur - The four destinations of enchanting hospitality and cheerful service.

Visit: www.peerlesshotels.com

This project was done for our client HVS Web Strategies

First off, the code-behind model has changed. In the @Page directive, accessing your code behind is accomplish via the CodeFile attribute instead of the Code behind or Src attribute. Also much of the used to DataGrid properties have changed, as seen below:

The CurrentPageIndex which gets or sets the index of the currently displayed page is now simply PageIndex. Setting up paging and sorting in the Gridview has changed from the OnPageIndexChanged and OnSortCommand methods to OnPageIndexChanging and OnSorting, respectively. The primary key field for the items displayed in the GridView has also changed from DataKeyField to DataKeyNames property.

Setting up row colors on the grid is no more SelectedItemStyle or ItemStyle but rather SelectedRowStyle and RowStyle. I guess this makes more sense since it is a row, anyway. The TemplateColumn class that displays custom content in a data-bound control is now TemplateField, and its partner the BoundColumn which represents a field that is displayed as text in a data-bound control is now called BoundField.

Next, in our code-behind, .NET 2.0 utilizes a new language feature known as a Partial. A Partial class is just that, a partial, incomplete definition of the class or structure. So all that is included in the partial class in only the code needed, such as event handlers and the like. .NET infers the control instances and it derives the events bound from the .aspx file during compilation. Notice in the code behind I didn’t have to declare the GridView or the OutputMsg controls there, as I did in the DataGrid version, neither did I need to include most of the Imports statements that were there before!

Another change in the framework went to the RegisterClientScriptBlock method, this now obsolete method needs to be ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock (Type type, string key, string script) or in our code ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock (Me.GetType(),”clientScript”, jsScript.ToString()).

As for implementing custom paging, this also has changed its class wording from DataGridPageChangedEventArgs to GridViewPageEventArgs.

In Short the main diffrence betbeen GridView and DataGrid is:
Sorting: In DataGrid code requires to handle the SortCommand event and rebind grid required. In case of GridView no additional code required.
Paging: In DataGrid requires code to handle the PageIndexChanged event and rebind grid required. In case of GridView no additional code required. It also supports customized appearance.
Data binding: Like GridView DataGrid cannot bind with new datasource control in ASP.NET 2.0. Updating data:  DataGrid requires extensive code to update operation on data. GridView  requires little code. Code like exceptions handling for database part.
Events: GridView supports events fired before and after database updates. In DataGrid less events supported as compared to GridView.

Below is a table of the most common client side events in JavaScript. The Table is divided into three columns – the first lists the name of the event. The second contains a short description of the event, and the third lists all page objects, which support the given event.

A lot of times in development scenarios you come to a situation where you want to do a postback on a webpage when a user hits the enter button.

If you are using RadAjaxManager on that page, then to submit the page for postback or invoke a button click event handler, use the following code:

   1: function PerformPostBack(e)

   2: {

   3:     evt = e || window.event;

   4:     var Key = evt.which || evt.keyCode;

   5:     if ( Key == 13 ) 

   6:     {

   7:         AjaxNS.ARWO(new WebForm_PostBackOptions("<%=btnButton.UniqueID%>", "", true, "", "", false, true), "<%=UpdateControl.ClientID%>", event);

   8:         return false;

   9:     }

  10: }

In the web page where the textbox is set onKeyPress=”return PerformPostBack(event)”