Mischa Kroon

A while back a colleague of mine used to send out emails every once in a while called candy of the week.

This little piece of candy usually was a pretty picture or website which lightened up everyone's day.

I was thinking about moving this concept to my blog and to go with a developer theme. To make things interesting for my Developer readers.

Which I’m going to assume most of you are.

My first post will be some double candy:

Candy nr 1:

ExtJS is a JavaScript library and UI framework to make setting up AJAX forms with validation and a whole lot more a breeze compared to the other offerings out there. There is a wide array of samples and demo’s available on the website so you can see how little effort is actually required to make forms and other UI components work together.

This framework + JavaScript library has just released version 3.0, which adds charting support, data binding support and Ext Direct a remoting / data streaming effort.

A slight warning should be placed here, ExtJS is a dual licensed project:

GPL + payed except for Ext Core which is licensed under and MIT license.

Candy nr 2:

The Coolite Toolkit is a set of AJAX enabled .Net Controls which use ExtJS to perform it’s magic. As can be seen from the examples these controls make it very easy to integrate ASP.NET with ExtJS in a way that is very clean and takes away most of the JavaScript and puts it into nicely wrapped controls.