SignalR with Ext.NET

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Anup Shah

I’ve just written a post on the Ext.NET blog site looking at how you can use SignalR with Ext.NET

Ext JS TabPanel plugin for draggable tabs

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Anup Shah

Ext JS 4 comes with a plugin for TabPanels to allow reordering tabs using drag and drop. There isn’t an equivalent for Ext JS 3, however.

I came across a useful extension of the Ext JS 3.x TabPanel to re-order tabs via drag and drop. It is implemented as a subclass of Ext.TabPanel, as Ext.ux.panel.DDTabPanel and a version of it includes a useful reorder event that is fired once a tab is dragged to a new position in the TabPanel.

I refactored it from a subclass of Ext.TabPanel to a plugin so the original functionality is unchanged. See a demo and get the code. Continue reading →

Jonathan Snook’s jQuery Background Animation as a Plugin

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Anup Shah

Jonathan Snook recently posted a really neat background animation technique using jQuery. This was something I was looking for and it seemed like a good candidate for a jQuery plugin.

So, following on from my recent post about turning jQuery code into richer, unit testable plugin code, I thought I’d describe the quick process of doing so here. (It’s worth reading Snook’s post first though!) Continue reading →