Chapter 8 -- Scripting Design-Time Controls

Chapter 8

The design-time controls (DTCs) included with Microsoft Visual InterDev 6 each contain properties, events, and methods that developers can use to work with the DTCs in an application. These features provide a way of working with the DTC to receive data (by using properties), to track what users do with the DTC (by using events), and to cause the DTC to take certain actions (by using methods).

When you use a DTC in a page, the DTC uses the Script Library to create an instance of a scripting object at run time. These underlying scripting objects implement the run-time behavior of the DTC. The interface and client-side actions of the DTC are usually implemented with a standard intrinsic HTML control, such as the Textbox or Button controls. Some DTCs, such as Recordset, are implemented with run-time features only, as there is no intrinsic HTML control for the client. This chapter deals with scripting DTCs in particular and does not explore using the database DTCs such as the Recordset. Those DTCs are covered in detail in Chapter 12, Chapter 13, and Chapter 14.