I have been working on my project where I can and I have decided on a JavaScript Library for the project. The winner was jquery, due to a recent decision by Microsoft ‘jquery will be the official script library for asp projects and as such there is a patch to add intellisense for jquery, this obviously helps development of custom JavaScript widgets.
I have been doing research and found the following sites helpful:
I have prototyped the methods for the web-service, No other code is yet implemented, I will use these prototypes to build custom ajax calls using the jquery methods and not the built in script manager. Hopefully then after creating the data objects in JavaScript I will be able to test these methods and see the resulting post data they generate and in the web services test if the ajax calls product expected input and output using magic data.
What to do next?
- Code the Data objects in javascript.
- Code custom ajax calls.
- Test input and output for these calls.
- Design template for the site.
- Mock-up the interfaces for adding, removing and updating.
- Look at UI tools offered by jquery UI.