Category Archives: jQuery

Building a demo chat app in MVC3, backbone.js and a little SignalR for fun…

Posted on by rick schott

I have been doing a lot of reading lately on backbone.js. One of the key features I wanted to explore was it’s concept of Models and how it keeps the server side in sync with RESTful JSON endpoints. What is backbone.js? Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich [...]

Postback UpatePanel on close of jQuery dialog

Posted on by rick schott

Put a hidden asp:button within the UpdatePanel or outside and set it as an AsyncPostBackTrigger. Call the js function from ItemDataBound if needed, passing in the ClientID of the hidden asp:button. The js function will call the click event on the button passed in once the “OK” or whatever you set buttonTxt to, button is [...]