If the page has a ScriptPlaceholder control (which should be a singleton, like the ScriptManager), output all script within that control ģ. If the page has a server form, output the script in the same way as v1/2/3.5 Ģ. I think the following would make sense, at least for web-forms pages:ġ. This problem is not limited to MVC - I have hundreds of web-forms pages which don't have a server form, either because I don't need a form at all, or because I'm using my own custom client form control.
#ASP.NET FILE MANAGER CONTROL CODE#
You can't use script combining or zipping, and you can't use app-relative paths (~/scripts/1.js) unless you opt for the in-line code block (src=""), which can cause other problems. You can include the scripts manually, but you might end up with dozens of references to the same script file scattered throughout the page. If you don't have a server form on your page, you won't get an error, but you won't get your scripts either.
I still think that the biggest problem with ScriptManager and Page.ClientScript is that they rely on a server form. For 4.0, the goal is for this to work with ScriptResource AND WebResource making your scripts quite tidy. Just enable CDN (Content Delivery Network) and all your ASP.NET Ajax scripts will come from a CDN that you can configure in global.asax once: That will probably look something like this. NET 4.0 we're trying to make this more formal and possibly get the page down to a single script that's hostable on a CDN. NET 3.5, I'm able to greatly reduce the number of scripts and take control using a few simple techniques. I'll save that combined script away and host it at statically. I've wrapped the scripts in a CompositeScript control and I get a single GZipped automatically combined script. Now, if I want to combine those 3 scripts into one, I can do this: Just do a view-source on your resulting HTML and take control of the ones you want. When a control needs one, it'll ask for it.
You only want these on an as-needed basis. There's a few like MicrosoftAjaxTimer.js, MicrosoftAjax.js, MicrosoftAjaxWebForms.js in, and DetailsView.js, Focus.js, GridView.js, Menu.js, SmartNav.js, TreeView.js, WebForms.js, WebParts.js and WebUIValidation.js in. The name="" attribute has to line up with the name of the resource the script is stored in. We're looking also at a CDN (Content Distribution Network) option to get that static script hosted elsewhere as well. NET 4.0 using the ScriptManager to suppress both ScriptResource and WebResource will allow you to get your pages down to a single script. It'll be nice to be able to use ScriptReference as the ScriptManager is smarter and gzip compresses as well. WebResource.axd is for non-Ajax scripts that use the APIs. NEW IN 4.0: In 3.5 you also can't use the ScriptManager to suppress or set the path of WebResource.axd, but in 4.0 you will be able to by using ScriptReference. I'm talking to the team and we'll see if we can't get that fixed in 4.0. So far the Validators are the main culprits. NOTE: There're a few controls that don't use the ScriptManager, so they can't have their JavaScript suppressed. However, I might want to put them in static files and manage them myself. Overriding ScriptResource and Hosting Static JavaScript Files They are managed by the ScriptManager tag/control in my source above. And this will cause some Web- and ScriptResources to be added to the generated HTML of my page, something like this:īasically, ScriptResource.axd?d=blob&t=timestamp.these are JavaScript files that you don't need to deploy as they live inside the assemblies.