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Autocomplete Extender

Autocomplete Extender is offer for suggestion list when user type into textbox a popup display the word that begin with prefix type into textbox

How to use Autocomplete extender


1. Add ToolScriptManager

<asp:ToolkitScriptManager ID="ToolkitScriptManager1" runat="server">

</asp:ToolkitScriptManager>




First understand the properties of Autocomplete extender

AutoComplete Properties

TargetControlID :-The TextBox control where the user types content to be automatically completed

ServiceMethod :-The path to the web service that the extender will pull the word\sentence completions from.

ServicePath:-The path to the web service that the extender will pull the word\sentence completions from.

ContextKey:-User/page specific context provided to an optional overload of the web method described by ServiceMethod/ServicePath.

UseContextKey:-Whether or not the ContextKey property should be used. This will be automatically enabled if the ContextKey property is ever set (on either the client or the server).

MinimumPrefixLength:-Minimum number of characters that must be entered before getting suggestions from the web service.

CompletionInterval:-Time in milliseconds when the timer will kick in to get suggestions using the web service.

EnableCaching:-Whether client side caching is enabled.

CompletionSetCount:-Number of suggestions to be retrieved from the web service.

CompletionListCssClass:Css Class that will be used to style the completion list flyout.

CompletionListItemCssClass:-Css Class that will be used to style an item in the AutoComplete list flyout.

CompletionListHighlightedItemCssClass:-Css Class that will be used to style a highlighted item in the AutoComplete list flyout.

DelimiterCharacters:-Specifies one or more character(s) used to separate words.

FirstRowSelected:-Determines if the first option in the AutoComplete list will be selected by default.

ShowOnlyCurrentWordInCompletionListItem:-If true and DelimiterCharacters are specified, then the AutoComplete list items display suggestions for the current word to be completed and do not display the rest of the tokens.

Animations:-Generic animations for the AutoComplete extender.

2. Add Autocomplete extender to you page

<asp:AutoCompleteExtender ID="AutoCompleteExtender1" runat="server"

                    CompletionInterval="50" MinimumPrefixLength="1"

                    ServiceMethod="GetCompletionList" ServicePath="wsCountry.asmx"

                    TargetControlID="txtcountry" CompletionListItemCssClass="autoc">

</asp:AutoCompleteExtender>

3.Now add this line to at top of your page


<%@ Register assembly="AjaxControlToolkit" namespace="AjaxControlToolkit" tagprefix="asp"%>


4.Add webservice to your project then write the below code to it

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Services;

using System.Web.Services.Protocols;

using System.Xml.Linq;

/// <summary>

/// Summary description for AutoComplete

/// </summary>

[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]

[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]

// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.

// [System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]

[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService()]

public class country : System.Web.Services.WebService

{

    [WebMethod]

    public string[] GetCompletionList(string prefixText, int count)

    {

        //"Select EmpName from Emp where EmpName like '" + prefixText + "%'"

        string[] list =

{ "Afghanistan",

"Argentina",

"Armenia",

"Aruba",

"Australia",

"Austria",

"Azerbaijan",

"Bahamas",

"Czech Republic",

"Democratic Republic of Congo",

"Dominican Republic",

"East Timor",

"Ecuador",

"Egypt",

"El Salvador",

"French Guyana",

"French Polynesia",

"French Southern Territories",

"Gabon",

};

        Array.Sort(list, new CaseInsensitiveComparer());

        int index = Array.BinarySearch(list, prefixText, new CaseInsensitiveComparer());

        if (index < 0)

        {

            index = ~index;

        }

        int matchingCount;

        for (matchingCount = 0; matchingCount < count && index + matchingCount < list.Length; matchingCount++)

        {

            if (!list[index + matchingCount].StartsWith(prefixText, StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase))

            {

                break;

            }

        }

        String[] returnCities = new string[matchingCount];

        if (matchingCount > 0)

        {

            Array.Copy(list, index, returnCities, 0, matchingCount);

        }

        return returnCities;

    }

}

5. Now run your program and enjoy