One of the string method in MS Ajax library is String.format. It works well in a statement like this:
alert(String.format("Format me now, first is {0}, second is {1}, third is {2}", "first", "second", "third"));
However, if you want to put the last three parameters in an array as such:
var values = new array();
values[0] = "first";
values[1] = "second";
values[2] = "third";
Then you run the statement again:
alert(String.format("Format me now, first is {0}, second is {1}, third is {2}", values));
You will found the alerted string is "Format me now, first is first, second, third, second is , third is "
Totally not what it should be.
So instead, we have to go back the old-timer javascript and do a replacement as such
if (values.length > 0) {
url = "Format me now, first is {0}, second is {1}, third is {2}",
for (var i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
var exp = new RegExp('\\{' + (i) + '\\}', 'gm');
url = url.replace(exp, values
);
}
Guess we all make mistakes.
var values = new array();
values[0] = "first";
values[1] = "second";
values[2] = "third";
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Using jQuery with ASP .NET
In September 2008 Scott Guthrie, the head of the ASP.NET team, announced in a blog post that Visual Studio would be shipping with the jQuery library. He writes:
“jQuery is a lightweight open source JavaScript library (only 15kb in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the web. A big part of the appeal of jQuery is that it allows you to elegantly (and efficiently) find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code … There is a huge ecosystem and community built up around JQuery. The jQuery library also works well on the same page with ASP.NET AJAX and the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.”
With that, JQuery is officially embraced by ASP.NET.
