Creating a Google Suggest Style Filter with the AutoComplete Control
I spent some time playing around with the AutoComplete control to see if we could use it to provide smarter filtering capabilities for our data tables. The general idea was that I would allow the user to select a filter column from a drop down list. Then as they key in characters into the adjacent textbox I would use the AjaxControlToolkit's AutoComplete extender to suggest some values to filter by. You can see this in the screen shot below. I selected 'City' in the drop down and then typed 'be' into the textbox and like magic the 3 cities in my data set that have start with 'be' appear. Live Demo (IE6, IE7 and FF) | Download (.Net 3.5 and Toolkit 3.5.11119.0) If you are interested in how I created this sample, the details are below. The AjaxControlToolkit's AutoCompleteExtender If are familiar with Google Suggest, the concept behind the AutoComplete control...