Master-Detail Views with the ASP.NET Ajax Library

摘要

In the past few columns, I explored a number of data-related features of the upcoming ASP.NET Ajax Library beta, which is now part of the CodePlex Foundation (CodePlex.org). The journey began last September with a look at some of the new features in Web Forms (msdn.microsoft.com/maggzine/ se431529) and continued with some other stops in the territory of ASP.NET AJAX. In particular, I touched on client-side templates and data binding (msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ ee309508), conditional rendering (msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ee335716) and live binding (msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/ee819084).rnWhen you think of data-driven Web pages, most of the time what you really have in mind is a master-detail view of some cross-related data. Master-detail views are ideal for rendering one-to-many relationships, and such relationships are so common in the real world that a Web platform that doesn't provide an effective set of tools for that functionality is inadequate.