Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
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.

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160922
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Toc

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

DataSource

It's quite a challenging experience for programmers to develop screens with a lot of JavaScript data manipulations such as filtering, sorting, paging, grouping, aggregating, and so on. Development becomes more complicated when remote and local data sources are involved.

Kendo's solution to this problem is the DataSource framework element, which makes developers' lives easy by abstracting all these complexities by providing commands to do common operations and becoming the single interface for all kinds of external and local data sources. It supports CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Destroy) as well as filtering, sorting, paging, grouping, and aggregation of data.

A simple DataSource object can be initialized as:

var kendoDS = new kendo.data.DataSource();

This code does nothing but initialize a DataSource object without any data. To make this object useful, we need to provide data to the object or tell the object where it can fetch the data from. Let&apos...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime