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Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API Confident of your web application skills but not yet au fait with mobile development? Well this book helps you use the Kendo UI for a painless introduction. Practical tasks and clear instructions make learning a breeze.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160922
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Mobile Application 3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API 4. Integration Using Framework Elements 5. Exploring Mobile Widgets 6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets 7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration Index

Templates

Templates are a simple and convenient way to build complex UI structures, typically with repeated blocks, which represent your view models. Kendo UI provides a powerful templating engine in the core framework, which is optimized for high performance. It has simplified syntax to make it easier to use with only the knowledge of JavaScript.

The templating syntax of Kendo UI (called hash templates) uses the # symbol to identify areas in a template where the data is to be inserted. They can be used in the following three ways:

  1. #= lastName #: This renders the value stored in the variable lastName.
  2. #: address #: This renders the value with its HTML encoding. This is useful to prevent rendering issues with user-input fields. For example, if the value of the address is provided as:
    <div> 123, streetname, state </div>

    Then the rendered HTML on the screen will show:

    <div> 123, streetname, state </div>
    
  3. #for(... ){# ... #}#: This executes JavaScript code in the template...
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