Hi there

This one is just a metter of design consideration.

I'm developping an intranet, that will work on a vpn with quite a few users, that are used to work with a software, also developped by us, in win32 interface.

The intranet of course is in ASP.NET and design the user interface is been one of the biggest problems, in order to maintain the flexibility and user friendly interface that the users are used to in win32 apps.

I've come across an issue, that surelly some of you may be familiar with.

Imagine this scenario:

I have a file, for instance a client file, and I have some information that comes from other tables. What I used to do on win32 (vb6) was to populate a combobox with the records that the user could select. The advantage was that the combobox could have multiple columns.

In ASP.NET the dropdownlist controls does not support multiple columns. Also, I have about 5 or 6 diferent related tables, and populating all of those dropdownlist could cause a significant overhead loading and posting back a page like this.

I have 2 choices. One is to create a usercontrol that is created in runtime and shows up with a datagrid and perhaps even a search mechanism... the other is to show a popup window.

I would like to hear from you, your own experience and how you addressed this issue.

Thanks in advance,

Best Regards

Joao Cardoso