Wizard Control ASP.net Web applications often require some type of wizard-style interface that leads the user through a series of step-by-step forms. A wizard is thus used to retrieve information from the user via a series of discrete steps; each step in the wizard asks the user to enter some subset of information. Some examples of Web-based wizards are the typical user registration procedure for a site or the checkout procedure in a Web store. For instance, the Amazon.com checkout procedure (see Figure 4.7) is not called a wizard but has the features of one: discrete steps separate from the rest of the application/site, an indication of the current step, and a way to move to the next step. In regular Windows applications, wizards tend to be modal in that the user cannot do any other processing while the wizard is active: The user can only move forward, backward, finish, or possibly jump to some other step in the wizard. As well, Windows-based wizards are pipelines in that a wizard is a chain of processes in which there is only one entrance and where the output of each step in the process is the input to the next step. Implementing wizards in Web applications poses several problems. A Windows application can strictly control how a wizard is launched, and can easily ensure users start and exit the wizard in the appropriate way. This is much harder to implement in a Web environment. For instance, a user could bookmark an intermediate step in the wizard and try to return to it at some point in the future; a Web-based wizard must thus be able to maintain the pipeline nature of the wizard and ensure that the user only ever starts the wizard at the first step. - Study24x7
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Wizard Control ASP.net

Web applications often require some type of wizard-style interface that leads the user through a series of step-by-step forms. A wizard is thus used to retrieve information from the user via a series of discrete steps; each step in the wizard asks t...

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