convert vs 2012 forms app to your widgets

[PresMember]

I created a simple VS 2012 forms app with VB code behind. I’m using some simple modification of the master page and adding basic content pages in anticipation of moving the app to JQuery Mobile. I use simple asp.net treeview objects and other standard asp.net objects. I want to know the cleanest way to restart the AJAX app for mobile using VB code behind and all your widgets. Can you give me a good starting process assuming I’m using VS 2012 and VB?

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Pres,

For using jQWidgets with .NET, please look at the ASP .NET Integration help topic on our Documentation page: http://www.jqwidgets.com/jquery-widgets-documentation/

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[PresMember]

Thanks for the link! As I look at the topics I get confused {to some degree} because I’m NOT a C# programmer, I used VB code behinds. I’m weak at javascript. My application uses objects written in VB to connect to a SQL Server DB … so the example ajax code confuses me! Now that I have whined extensively!!! I’m trying to use the jqwidgets Treeview function so I need to add the correct *.js files and *.css files to my master page and perhaps the content pages??? and find a way to manage the jqwidgets tree using my VB code behind classes. I apologize for the whining but I don’t want you wasting YOUR time trying to explain using things I don’t really understand. I hope you got to this point AND can think of a way to point me in the right direction! Thanks in advance!

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Pres,

Even in you use VB .NET, not C# .NET, the topics will help you to understand how to reference the JavaScript and CSS files in your project. If you are not familiar with jQuery and want to use jqxTree, it would be good to start with: jquerybasics.htm and jquery-tree-getting-started.htm.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com/

[PresMember]

Peter, thanks for your patience. However, I can’t get the simple Jquery example you suggest to work in my VS 2012 web Forms app. I’m trying to modify the MS example for web forms app using their master page and content page format. I cannot figure out how to insert the sample Jquery code and script references in the various and locations. I have tried to just go back and create a plain HTML5 project but I very quickly run into trouble adding my working VB.net classes that work very well with my SQL Server DB. I really like the idea of master and content pages and I think that approach will fit very well as I try to migrate the app to full mobile implementation. When I look at Jquery and Jquery Mobile your objects seem much richer and I want to go completely mobile using your objects IF I can use my VB.Net SQL Server classes. This application works right now with a poorly formed ASP.Net treeview now BUT it seems to be unfixable with no way to move forward! I would gladly throw every thing away except my vb.net Sql Server classes. Is there any path to your environment for a VS 2012 “citizen developer”?

[Peter StoevKeymaster]

Hi Pres,

The reason I suggested you in my first post to look at the ASP .NET Integration help topics is that in any of the help topics is explained how to create the project, where to add the JavaScript and CSS references required by the widgets and where to add the script and initialize the widgets. Please, look at some of them.

Best Regards,
Peter Stoev

jQWidgets Team
http://www.jqwidgets.com

[PresMember]

Thanks again. I got the basic demo working in a new web site and that process pointed me to some of my errors in the existing site. I went to Bind jqxGrid to SQL Database using ASP.NET and am starting to understand the process of converting the SQL DB to XML / JSON data and passing it to the front end objects. Are there any examples of connecting to the DB using VB.Net rather than C#?

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