Technical

One of the most common layout elements, when working with Bootstrap is the table rendering. The term tables is used in different contexts to refer to the Bootstrap grid layout system, a standard HTML table, or a grid-view component or widget. In this blog, we will look at the standard ways of styling a table in Bootstrap, as well as using a responsive grid view component, nested in a Bootstrap element.

Over the past months Bootstrap has gained enormous popularity. There is little surprise in this, given that it saves a lot of headache, when one aims to deliver a visually appealing, responsive site, which works on all browsers.

One of the valuable things that HTML5 conveys to developers is technology for doing rich visualizations directly in the browser. For years, web developers had to do one of the below mentioned scenarios if they want to present a visually rich element (for example a chart):

a. Conduct a round-trip to the server
The server fetches the needed image data and channels the results back to the browser. Works everywhere, but the results are usually static. Any changes to the image require more trips to the server.

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web APIs on top of the .NET Framework. In this blog post we will show how to create a web service that returns a list of products and how to consume it and display the returned objects with the ShieldUI Grid widget.
The complete code for this example can be downloaded from here.

If you are writing a custom control, you will most likely encounter the following problem – converting a property type at design time. The only way to achieve that is to use a custom type converter, as described here. In most cases the standard documentation will cover the basics. However there is a specific case in which the approach from the documentation will not work and you need to alter the String to Object custom converter logic.

In this blog post entry, we will review in greater detail the ShieldUI JavaScript DataSource component - a versatile data component that aims to simplify data retrieval and manipulation.
It provides out-of-the-box binding to various data sources: