Remote Bind The Kendo DropDownlist Using AngularJS And ASP.NET Web API

Introduction:

AngularJS has become one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks today which supports building applications with ease. Now the Kendo UI also provides a support to AngularJS. This article explains to you how to integrate the Kendo UI with AngularJS with simple examples.

This is what we are going to see here,

Get Started:

Creating ASP.NET WEB API Project

Create a simple Web API project as in the following figures:

Creating a Model Class

Right click on the model folder and add a new class, in my case I named it ColorList.cs:

Code in ColorList.cs:

{
public ColorList(int Value, string Text)
{
this.Value = Value;
this.Text = Text;
}
public int Value { get; set; }
public string Text { get; set; }
}

Creating a Controller

Right click on the Controller folder and add a new WEB API 2- Empty controller as in the following figure 3, in my case I named it ColorController.cs:

Code in ColorController.cs

[RoutePrefix("api/kendo_ang")]
public class ColorController : ApiController
{
[HttpGet]
[Route("GetColor")]
public HttpResponseMessage GetColorList()
{
try {
List < ColorList > color= new List<ColorList>();
color.Add(new ColorList(1, "Red"));
color.Add(new ColorList(2, "Green"));
color.Add(new ColorList(3, "Blue"));
return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, color, Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, ex.Message, Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter);
}
}
}

The above employee controller action GetColorList will return a list of colors.

API Test

Test the API using the POSTMAN/Fiddler as in the following figure 4:

API End Point: /api/kendo_ang/GetColor

Type : GET

The API is working fine, now it's ready to consume.

Using Kendo dropdownlist with Angular JS

Creating a HTML page

Create a new HTML page in the project.

Design:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Kendo with Angular JS</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/styles/kendo.common.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/styles/kendo.rtl.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/styles/kendo.default.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/styles/kendo.mobile.all.min.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/js/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/js/jszip.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2016.1.406/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="example" ng-app="KendoDemos">
<div class="demo-section k-content" ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<h4 style="padding-top: 2em;">Kendo With Angular JS</h4>
<select kendo-drop-down-list
k-data-text-field="'Text'"
k-data-value-field="'Value'"
k-data-source="colorDataSource"
style="width: 100%"></select>
</div>
</div>
<script>
angular.module("KendoDemos", [ "kendo.directives" ])
.controller("MyCtrl", function($scope){
$scope.colorDataSource = {
type: "json",
transport: {
read: {
url: "/api/kendo_ang/GetColor",
}
}
};
})
</script>
</body>
</html>

Please make sure that you have added angular.min.js file in the project to integrate the AngularJS with Kendo UI.

Properties:

kendo-drop-down-list - used to define the kendo dropdownlist.
k-data-text-field- used to define the text field in dropdown.
k-data-value-field- used to define the value field in dropdown.
k-data-source - used to define the dataSource for the kendo dropdownlist

Result in Browser:

Conclusion:

We have seen how to integrate the Kendo UI with Angular JS, which is really useful to build an application with ease.

References:

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Vignesh Mani10y ago
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Mohammed Ibrahim10y ago
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Bhavik Patel10y ago
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- Gowtham K10y ago
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- Gowtham K10y ago
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- Gowtham K10y ago
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