Events/objects what to use?

[motte]

Hi all,

I've been working my way through asp.net with and without vs.net and have come up with what i can be regarded as, well, I don't know, but here it is:

How do I know what events to use for something and what objects/classes are used with those events?

An example.
Calendar control.
There is an ondayrender event. Making a call to a sub, how am I supposed to know I should use the DayRenderEventArgs? How am I to even know that it exists? How am I to know about the tablecell class?

I've been seeing this everywhere. This is the most recent. Is this just part of a huge learning curve? I feel there is so much out there and seem a bit overwhelmed when I look at it. I know I can not be an expert in everything, though I'd like to be.

Someone please let me know if this is a normal reaction. Is there anything out there that has a list of all these events, classes, properties of classes etc...Other than the sdk documentation.

Mike

 

[crystalized]

I agree the learning curve is a steep one. You always seem to have to find out about 5 other things in order to get one thing to work. At first (not that long ago) I would go by an example found in the help and then abandon it because it was not complete and so I could not figure out what I needed to do to make it work. After using the help for a while I am finding myself better at identifying the right file to look at for certain information. But it is a process.

As to references we have one ASP.Net Programmers Reference by Charles C. Caison that is a listing of classes and members etc. It seems pretty good.

Well good luck with it, don't give up it gets better pretty fast even when you know there is still a lot more to be learned.

Crystal
crystalized_s@yahoo.com

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

-Oscar Wilde

 

[jfrost10]

Hey Mike,

Yeah, don't fret man. There's a tonne of stuff to learn with .NET, and i don't think anyone's expected to become a pro overnight.

When I first started with .NET back in November, I had to mimic a form from Access in a web form. I had no clue how, and was convinced that it couldn't be done. 4 months and alot of time spent playing with the controls, I can do it with the datagrid and some custom templates. So don't worry about always feeling like you have to learn something, its not a bad thing.

Thats kinda one kewl thing with .NET: we're all in the same boat really.


Jack

 

[motte]

Hey Crystal and Jack! Thanks for the votes of confidence, and knowing that I am not alone in this struggle. I'll take a look into the book Crystal recommended. Thanks for your responses.

Mike

 

[kubu]

VS.NET's Object Browser may prove to be helpful, too. You can drill down through the namespaces (or use the search feature) and locate the event, method, property, enums, etc. associated with a particular class.

Just yesterday I was banging my head against my PC trying to figure out how to handle a click event on a node in Infragistics' UltraWebTree control. Neither the documentation nor the sample file provided any clue as how to handle tree events, except in a codebehind module (which is not what I wanted to do). In desparation, I rifled around in the Object Browser, and I finally found the event (NodeClicked) and the method that handles the event (onNodeClicked). This gave me the signature I needed for capturing the event and, viola! I was back in business!

Until now, I've never coded in ASP, and I'm learning everything about Web development at once -- plus trying to learn the new .NET environment. At times, I can almost feel my brain sweat...

Mark