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Come hear about how to see ExtJS integrated with ASP.NET for awesome Membership and Profile Management!  I will speaking at the Microsoft Office at a meeting of Bay.Net Users Group.

http://www.baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=378&mid=49

ASP.NET: Membership with Profile and High Performance ExtJS JavaScript Interface

When: 

Wednesday, 5/20/2009 at 6:30 PM

Where: 

Microsoft Office, 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco

Event Description

In this session, we will demonstrate building a super rich JavaScript interface to the standard ASP.NET Membership and Profile services. That is, built into ASP.NET are wonderful providers that allow you to validate and store user credentials typically to a database. It also lets you store other information such as pictures, first and last names, as well as anything else you may want to store. In this session we will build a highly performing, 100% JavaScript UI to maintain hundreds of thousands of users. As part of this solution, techniques for using REST based services to access this information will be presented. Once you see this, it will be hard to ever use web forms again.

(Using Membership ObjectDataSource From MSDN Article)

I’m doing a project where I have lots of DropDownList’s on a page and want a simple way to set the initial values based on some known value.  The DropDownLists are retrieved using ObjectDataSource but I don’t want the first value displayed.  I wrestled some with how to do this using page_load or page_prerender but didn’t come up with good solutions.  I did finally
decide that programming the databound event of the dropdownlist was probably the best way to go.

The solution is pasted below.  The MembershipUtilities.MembershipODS c# code can be downloaded from MSDN or on my web site at the following location. 

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