Seamless inline text editing: The Control!
AJAX, ASP.NET, UI By Dave Ward on September 17th, 2007In my recent post, Seamless inline text editing with ASP.NET AJAX, I thought I had outlined the simplest possible way to implement the technique, but I was wrong. One of my readers, Mike Davis, took what I began and built it into the beginnings of a great ASP.NET server control.
The initial release is available here: Inline Edit Box .NET
With it, you can transparently implement the inline editable label functionality with only one line of code. He’s not finished refining it and adding new features yet, so he would like your input on where to go from here.
Download it, give it a try, and leave Mike some feedback in the comments on the download page today!

This is a technique that I really like. It’s excellently suited to intranet sites and administrative interfaces, where your users are typically familiar enough with the application to know which text they can click to edit. It’s actually very easy to implement, with a small amount of JavaScript.

When you have a name as common as mine, you run across the entire gamut of schemes to deal with username availability in membership systems. By availability, of course I mean denial and rejection. Out of all of the ways that I’ve had “Dave” rejected, inline AJAX verification is definitely the least annoying. Wanting to be less-annoying myself, I’ve added the same functionality to my ASP.NET AJAX sites. Let me show you how I did it.