Technical Concepts

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This section contains a set of guidance topics that help Web developers understand and implement common technical concepts. The different types of guidance are:

  • Modularity Guidance. This guidance provides information about how to create Web client applications from discrete units of functionality.
  • Validation Guidance. This guidance provides information about how to perform validation in Web applications.
  • Search Guidance. This guidance provides information about how to implement searches that dynamically display the results when the user types the search criteria.
  • Autocomplete Guidance. This guidance provides information about how to add Autocomplete capabilities to a Web page. The guidance explains how to incorporate data that users enter into different controls on the Web page other than the Search Box control into the list of suggestions.
  • Views Testability Guidance. This guidance provides information about how to increase the testability surface of Web applications by using the Model-View-Presenter pattern.