Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Is it easier to add AJAX or CSS Adapters?

I have a new web application. C#. .net 2.0. I can of course create it blank, but I want to use the VS template for either AJAX or the CSS Adapters. I want to use both, but am not sure how to add them later. Which would you suggest I start the application as AJAX or CSS Adapter? Which is easier to go back and add? Thank you.

CSS is a much much much easier technology, so start with the AJAX template.

Happy coding :)


CSS Adapters are easy to implement. However, they also seem to take over anything they are configured to transform. o, for example - if you use the gridview one - perhaps you do not want the adapter to apply the styles - I found no easy way to get rid of them and still retain them for the rest of the pages . But I also run a dynamically generated site so excluding certain pages / paths in a web.config was not an option...

Ajax is relatively more complex but not by much and you have alot more flexibility over where and how...In combination - and using them for the right design reasons both can equally be leveraged...Design with the Ajax template - the CSS adapters can just get dropped in later and a simple tweak to the web.config. Much harder to remember all the things in a Ajax web.config to copy over to a CSS Adapter template,...either or though it is not all that difficult...play around with them - I am sure you will find what works best for you...

Just my two cents worth...

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