(Timothy Khouri) ASP.NET has a strong set of web controls that provide common functionality for web developers. But there are times when you need to build something custom for your specific web project. Or you may want to author some controls that you think everyone can use. This article will show h
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Writing a Viewer Utility for Crystal Reports
(Julia Lerman) Crystal Reports users have the ability to save reports they created as *.rpt files, just as we do when we build them inside of Visual Studio. The Crystal Reports Developer API allows you to instantiate a ReportDocument and then call its Load method to pull in a saved rpt file. Therefo
A Declaration about Constraints
(Donnie ‘Dean’ Reynolds) Database constraints can confuse some people and it’s pretty easy to find people who will tell you you’ve done them wrong. I’d like to talk about one kind of constraint in a couple of different ways.
Using ICALLBACKEventHandler in ASP.NET
(Ashish Sarda) ASP.NET 2.0 introduced an interface named ICallbackEventHandler (System.Web.UI.ICallbackEventHandler) to allow asynchronous communication with the server. Unlike Postback, in Callback only user defined information is sent to the server. Instead of using Postback to post the page, ICal
Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.3 – Presentation Catalog Captions
(Venkatakrishnan J) There was one question today in the forums here with regard to the procedure for setting up Presentation Catalog Captions. Even though it is pretty much straight forward, i thought i would blog about it here since there have been some confusion with regard to the folders where Ca
Simulating Monolog Conversations with SQL Server 2005 Service Broker
(Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) SQL Server 2005 comes with a new service that is very useful for creating robust Enterprise applications: the Service Broker. Service Broker is useful to implement guaranteed and in-order delivery of messages between two services. This is modeled as a dialog between two ser
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition – Part 8 – XCopy Deployment
(Marcin Policht) In the previous installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we have documented its installation and initial configuration process, as well as described some of its basic features. Based on the information we have presented so far, you might be tempted to
Asymmetric Sets on Columns in Reporting Services
(Chris Webb) Now I don’t know if I’ve blogged about this before – apologies if I have, but I can’t find any trace of it on Google and since this is a fairly common performance-related problem it deserves to be mentioned. It’s not rocket science MDX either but sometimes I think I focus too much on fu
Images in the Database, New SQL Server Show Posted
New SelectViews Show Posted The Weekly SQL Server show about all sorts of different things from how-to to commentary has been updated. This weeks show: Replication Troubleshooting, Managing SQL Server as a Part-Time DBA, Web 2.0 Book(s) Reviewed, Noise and News in the DB world. Also, the 60-Second SQL Server Tip of the Day, Upcoming Events and Information About the […]
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