http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660Bad news - on a new project it was decided against Monorail since no one is an 'expert' on it - and some of the work might be done 'remotely'. There is a real fear imo about going outside of webforms, although we are using NHibernate. I was wondering still, how bad is it to go with the MR Webform approach? Not much is discussed on this approach, although I think it might represent a mid-way point for those leary of making the 'big leap'? Your thoughts? http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment6http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment6Tue, 15 May 2007 12:07:35 GMTSteve, Yes, for the simple scenario, it is easier to use the update panel, and I can build a component that would do the same fairly easily. The issue is that it is rarely this simple. You often need to correlate actions between several user interactions, and that gets to be fairly complex very soon. The reason that there isn't such a component is that it is not very useful when you move beyond those simple scenarios, and it is better not to abstract things too much. http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment5http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment5Sat, 12 May 2007 13:16:03 GMTI know this won't be taken so well, but I'll say it anyway :) Around the 45 minute mark you're showing the Ajax section in Monorail. There is a quite a bit of plumbing going on in my opinion to pull this all off. Obviously you have experience with the library, you know the parameters, the steps involved, etc... After seeing you type in the 'Scriptmanager' in about 30 seconds, I was thinking, that is quite impressive actually when you compare to all the steps for Monorail. ie. what if there was a ViewComponent - similiar to your SmartGrid, where you tell it what controller.action to invoke to fill that div ? It would make the asynchronous call, the controller would execute and return the string back to the div. That way the controller is still in control. The view is only saying 'here is what view to load into this div' Just a thought http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment4http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment4Sat, 12 May 2007 11:52:15 GMTI'd like your MR template :) I still have just RC2 install from website as current, which is quite old. I wish Castle would update the install soon to handle NH1.2 as well as new features and bug fixes. http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment3http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment3Sat, 12 May 2007 02:53:15 GMTthanks, fixed. http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment2http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment2Fri, 11 May 2007 09:06:35 GMTThere is an error in the link "MonoRail web cast". ;o) http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment1http://ayende.com/2383/monorail-and-update-panel#comment1Fri, 11 May 2007 08:32:08 GMT