I was revising a page where a user selects an item from a grid and does a very intensive processing. User can select a number of items from the grid, since it uses a checkbox column and since it performs a very intensive processing i decided to switch it to a single select grid using radiobutton. Another issue was it was kind of difficult what to present in the UI if an error occurred in one of the items, do i halt the processing of all the other items, do i rollback the previously processed items, etc. In other words, keeping things simple.
As I was revising it to a radiobutton, I discovered that there was an issue on the gridcolumn as radiobutton not performing a singleselect and you have to do your own scripting to handle that. I remembered my teammates discussing an issue before with radiobutton and this was it, he could not restrict the user to select just a single item. I bumped into a set of free controls of metabuilders (www.metabuilders.com) and decided to use RowSelectorColumn instead since it is free.
I really wanted to develop ASP.NET controls like this and before I can do that, I really have to buy this MS Press Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and Components. DataBlitz Megamall has a copy but it is still on P3,000, in amazon.com, it is currently at P2,000. Maybe I should talk to manager to lower the price, hahaha.
Posted
Dec 22 2005, 12:56 PM
by
jokiz