ASP.NET MVC Tip #37 - Create an Auto-Complete Text Field

In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can create an auto-complete text field in an MVC view by taking advantage of the Ajax Control Toolkit. He explains how you can create a custom Ajax Helper that renders the necessary JavaScript. In the previous tip, I demonstrated how you can take advantage of the client file only version of the Microsoft AJAX Control Toolkit to create a popup calendar that you can use as a date picker. See: http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/08/22/asp-net-mvc-tip-36-create-a-popup-calendar-helper.aspx In this tip, I tackle another one of the behaviors in the toolkit. In this tip, I demonstrate how you can use the AutoComplete behavior to add auto-complete functionality to a text field (see Figure...(read more)

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