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Showing posts with label AJAX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AJAX. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

AutoCompleteExtender Control in the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit

The AutoCompleteExtender Control in the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit is an awesome way to offer suggestions to users in your ASP.NET Web Applications. It is also very easy to use. Create an ASP.NET AJAX Website and toss a TextBox and the AutoCompleteExtender Control on the page. Fill out the details of the control to specify the appropriate ServicePath and ServiceMethod of the web service that the AutoCompleteExtender Control will call. In this case I have a web service, called MyAutocompleteService, with a web method, called GetSuggestions. The control will start offering me suggestions once the first character is typed into the TextBox and ask for up <asp:TextBox ID="txtCountry" runat="server"></asp:TextBox> <ajaxToolkit:AutoCompleteExtender runat="server" ID="autoComplete1" TargetControlID="txtCountry" ServicePath="AutoComplete.asmx" ServiceMethod="GetCountriesList" MinimumPrefixLength="1" EnableCaching="true" /> The GetSuggestions WebMethod on the WebService echos back what was typed in an just appends up to 12 characters ( A- L ) to the text typed in. Note the addition of the [ScriptService] Attribute to use the WebService with AJAX. [WebMethod] public string[] GetCountriesList(string prefixText) { DataSet dtst = new DataSet(); SqlConnection sqlCon = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ConnectionString"]); string strSql = "SELECT CountryName FROM Tbl_Countries WHERE CountryName LIKE '"+ prefixText+"%' "; SqlCommand sqlComd = new SqlCommand(strSql,sqlCon); sqlCon.Open(); SqlDataAdapter sqlAdpt = new SqlDataAdapter(); sqlAdpt.SelectCommand = sqlComd; sqlAdpt.Fill(dtst); string[] cntName = new string[dtst.Tables[0].Rows.Count]; int i = 0; try { foreach (DataRow rdr in dtst.Tables[0].Rows) { cntName.SetValue(rdr["CountryName"].ToString(), i); i++; } } catch { } finally { sqlCon.Close(); } return cntName; }

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