Forgotten AJAX Extenders

Project Description
Forgotten AJAX Extenders project was created to provide to the community with a set of ASP.NET AJAX Extenders that I wished were included in the AJAX Control Toolkit. Hopefully, if these controls are popular, they can be included in a future Control Toolkit release.

Controls Under Development

• Virtual Earth Panel Extender - This extender targets as ASP.NET Panel control. When this extender is applied, a Virtual Earth Map will be displayed inside the panel. At minimum, the user must set two properties, CenterLatitude and CenterLongitude. The map will be displayed at these coordinates and mark this location with push-pin. Additionaly, you can set the CenterTitle and CenterDescription properties to display a tooltip when the mouse moves over this location marked with a push-pin.

Controls Already released

• TextBox Character Count Extender - This extender should be applied to a SingleLine or Multi-Line ASP.NET TextBox controls. Using this control extender is very simple. Two properties should be set, MaximumLength and DisplayDIV. The extender control will then count the number of characters currently inside the textbox and it will display the number of characters remainng inside a <div> tag whose ID is the value that was set in the DisplayDIV property of the extender. Once the maximum characters is reached, the extender will not allow a user to type any more additional characters in the textbox.

• Printable Panel Extender - This extender targets as ASP.NET Panel control. To use this control set the PrintButtonID property to the ID of the Button control that should trigger the printing. All content within the Panel control will be sent to the printer. You can also set the StyleSheetFilePath property to indicate what stylesheet should be applied to the portion of the document that is contained within the panel.

Included in the source is a Sample website that will host the various extender controls. This should give you a nice overview on the capability of each control as they are added.

Thanks for checking out my project. You can visit my blog since this is where I will be posting any project updates. You may find other interesting post on various topics as well. Until next time...

Happy Programming!