6.8. Adding History Support

Adding history support is just a matter of calling the equivalent client-side APIs on the Sys.Application client class instead of the ScriptManager. Listing 6-7 (AlbumSearchClientHistory.aspx) shows the necessary changes.

Example 6-7. AlbumSearchClientHistory.aspx
<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/
    TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Phish Album Search</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var Albums = [
        { title: "A Live One", date: "1995/06/27" },
        { title: "Hampton Comes Alive", date: "1999/11/23" },
        { title: "Live In Vegas", date: "2002/11/12" },
        { title: "Vida Blue", date: "2002/06/25" },
        { title: "The Illustrated Band (Vida Blue)", date: "2003/10/14" }
    ];

    function onSearch() {
        var term = $get('txtSearch').value.toLowerCase();
        var title = 'Phish Album Search - "' + term + '"';
        Sys.Application.addHistoryPoint({ term: term }, title);
    }

    function executeSearch() {
        var term = $get('txtSearch').value.toLowerCase();
        var results = [];
        for (var i = 0; i < Albums.length; i++) {
            var album = Albums[i];
            if (album.title.toLowerCase().indexOf(term) !== −1) {
                results.push(album);
            }
        }
        printResults(results);
        var title = 'Phish Album Search - "' + term + '"';
        document.title = title;
    }

    function printResults(results) {
        var list = $get('albumList');
        list.innerHTML = "";

        var sb = new Sys.StringBuilder();
for (var i = 0; ...

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