Exciting news!
In one of my previous posts I talked about a DataTableSerialiser that I made available for download here through my blog. In that blog post I described a way to get a standard DataTable across to populate an AJAX data grid in an ASP.NET page. Today Im going to make available the grid that was developed for use in conjunction with the DataTableSerialiser.
This is a data grid that supports dynamic row adding/deleting while letting the user edit the data in each row inline. The best way to understand it is to see it in action. I will work on providing more samples but for now please have a look at the link here. Its important to mention that this grid wasn’t built by me from the ground up; it was pieced and tweaked from many many little pieces of components that I came across while looking for a solution to my requirement and then further developed and customised when I realised that a “ready-made” solution was not available.
Most books and articles I read at a time were all giving me reasons to use Visual Studio’s SvcUtil.exe to generate proxies to prebuilt WCF services. The projects were buildable and even runnable but the efforts you had go through in updaing source controlled services and proxies were astonishing. In a solution with many services and proxies we have been battling problems every day. On top of these issues there have also been problems of unclosed proxies which manifest themselves as timeout exceptions on new connection attempts.
. It is simply to educate a WCF beginner on some options that they have in implementing their own services.