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[Michael Dunbar]

Hello,

I'm currently just playing around with the Telerik MVC extensions as we are planning on using the MVC3 Beta Release candidate, released yesterday, on a new project. So far, so good. One quick question though. Can you load views or partial views as content of the window? This may not be appropriate use and am happy to hear alternative approaches if so, as I am an MVC newby coming from ASP.NET forms.

I am basically thinking of using the window to load a form wizard. The wizard will probably be built using a series of views. Here is my very basic test project code that renders a window in a partial view, but can I load a view or another partial view into this? Should I indeed do this? Sorry to be so vague and thanks in advance.

@using Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI

@(
    Html.Telerik().Window()
        .Name("Window")
        .Title("Telerik Window for ASP.NET MVC")
        .Draggable(true)
        .Resizable(resizing => resizing
            .Enabled(true)
            .MinHeight(250)
            .MinWidth(500)
            )
        .Modal(true)
        .Buttons(b => b.Maximize().Close())
        .Content(() =>
        {
            // content? can you load a view?
        })
        .Width(800)
        .Height(600)
        .ClientEvents(events => events
            .OnLoad("onWindowLoad")
        )

)

<script type="text/javascript">
    function onWindowLoad(e) {
        var window = $(this).data('tWindow');
        window.center().open();
    }
</script>

[Michael Dunbar]

I have just found the .LoadContentFrom property, but although I can load an external web page I haven't yet figured how to load a view. I tried:

.LoadContentFrom("http://www.google.co.uk") // works
.LoadContentFrom("Index", "HomeController") // not found but does exist as a view

[Atanas Korchev]

Hello Michael Dunbar,

 This example shows how to load a partial view. If you need to load a whole page - check this example.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team

[Damian]

I’m getting an 'undefined' error trying to open a Window via a button click. 
I believe I have followed the Telerik guidance on how to do this, however, it does not work.  It seems like the javascript does not find the window object and that is what is throwing the error.

Please the screen shots below and the sample code included with this document.

[Nate]

Damian, have you figured out how to load a view into the window? Not a partial view but a viewpage.

[Nate]

Michael, have you gotten a viewpage to load into a window? I get the same 404 error.

.LoadContentFrom("Index", "HomeController") // not found but does exist as a view