Using the AutoComplete
Control
The one control I use most often from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit is the AutoComplete
control, which enables you to convert a standard ASP.NET TextBox control into something resembling a combo box. As you enter text into the TextBox
control, a list of matching options displays beneath the control (see Figure 39.5).
Figure 39.5. Using the AutoComplete
extender control.
The cool thing about the AutoComplete
control is that it retrieves the matching options from the web server, using an Ajax call, while you type. You can use the AutoComplete
control to efficiently search through a database of billions of items ...
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