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Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:56:59 GMT

The SmartGridComponent is going to move to the Castle Contrib, to a project that would aggregate all the common components. I just need to dedicate some time to actually finish this... How are you going to handle the sorting?

hammett commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:34:12 GMT

We could at least list them on http://using.castleproject.org

Tim Haines commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:52:34 GMT

Hi Ayende, Interesting to see your work on this. The SmartGridComponent seems like it would be valuable to a lot of people that use Monorail. I've not yet grokked monorail enough to know if there's a place for contributed components? I'd like to use this, and extend it so clicking the column headers sorts the columns, add filters etc. Having the component source live in a source repository for your demo app doesn't seem like a good place for a lot of people to reuse and improve it though. What are your thoughts on this? Cheers, Tim.

Adam B commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:09:20 GMT

Ah yes, thanks, this worked: #set ($cols = ["Code", "Company", "Website", "Description", "PrimaryKey"]) #blockcomponent(SmartGridComponent with "source=$results" "columns=$cols") #PrimaryKeyHeader #end #PrimaryKey $HtmlHelper.LinkTo('Edit', 'account', 'edit', $item) $HtmlHelper.LinkTo('Delete', 'account', 'delete', $item) #end #end

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:38:14 GMT

@Adam, Yes, it is, just add them to the last column definition, and it would work

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:48:35 GMT

The ItemDataBound event is the reason that I am calling this PITA. You have to workaround the control model to get what you want.

Simone Busoli commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:39:54 GMT

Didn't have time yet to check out your screencast, but I still don't get the point. Furthermore looks to me like your performing logic tasks in the view, what about using the ItemDataBound event of the ASP.NET web controls?

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:32:00 GMT

Simone, The idea here is not the formatting. The idea is the ease of using presentation logic. If I want to display in red based on a certain condition: <% section customerName: if Controller.IsCustomerInDebt(item): output "${value}" end end %> Add several more condition, and a more complex UI requirements, and using web controls became a real PITA. I did a screen cast on this subject, which you can watch here: http://www.ayende.com/hibernating-rhinos.aspx I hope it would make it clearer

Simone Busoli commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:42:37 GMT

Looks to me like nothing you can't do with a Repeater as well, while a lot more like you're just trying to emulate what web controls do.

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:30:54 GMT

@Simone, Please check out this post: http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/04/08/Building-View-Components-For-MonoRail.aspx Those are the capabilities that I am referring to, not just the basic of it. Sorting and paging in the UI layer are a bad practice, mostly because it performs horribly the moment you put evena moderate amount of data into the system

Simone Busoli commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:19:54 GMT

Here's the code for a GrediView with the same UI.And you get sorting paging and a lot more for free:

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:49:30 GMT

@Simone, Why, yes I did. Feel free to try to generate the same client UI for the grid view, I would be interested in seeing it. The kind of things that I presenting here are nearly impossible to handle cleanly with those controls.

Simone Busoli commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:44:53 GMT

Ever heard of Repeater, DataList and GridView?

Adam B commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:15:32 GMT

I am using your smart grid component now exactly as you have described here albeit with NVelocity. It's really nice to use. I was wondering, is it possible to add extra columns that are not bound to the source, such as an edit and delete column? Perhaps passing in an id for the $item value so to use $HtmlHelper.LinkTo('Edit', 'customers', 'edit', $item). I haven't been able to figure it out.

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:12:25 GMT

@Jose, http://rhino-tools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rhino-tools/trunk/SampleApplications/Exesto/Rhino.Components/

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:38:27 GMT

Definitely teasing, I have got a secret agenda that I want to carry on for a while

Brendan Rice commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:32:34 GMT

Nice work Ayende. Are you teasing us or are you going to show us the source? I found this great link the other day, I just had to share: http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/index.php?css=20#r20

Jose commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:44:38 GMT

Nice code to a nice result. Where can I find the SmartGridComponent?

Richard LOPES commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:46:34 GMT

Hi, I like this kind of code ! Looks like Rails. In fact, Rails made me also build my components thinking convention over configuration. Simple ideas like that make our developer's lives easier ! I often think: Why should things be complicated ? And what is a good programmer if not a lazy one ? Thanks.

Ayende Rahien commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:22:45 GMT

It is not supported at the moment, but yes, that is trivially possible

Anders commented on Having Fun with SmartGridComponent

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:36:27 GMT

Is it possible to do something like @customerCompany.Name?