(Vince Varallo) Formula fields within Crystal Reports allow you to inject code blocks within a report when simple Select SQL statements can’t do the trick. You can declare variables, create if-then blocks, create arrays, execute loops, or call built in functions within Crystal Reports. This articl

(Paul Kimmel) Riddle: When is an object not an object? When it is a dynamic object. Well, not really. Dynamic objects are a mechanism for mapping class-like object behavior and binding at runtime. The short of it is that you have something you want to treat like an instance of a pre-defined class wi

(Malcolm Sheridan) One thing to keep in mind when using ASP.NET MVC is how to gracefully handle exceptions that are thrown when executing Ajax requests. Normally if an error is thrown on the server, without proper error handling, the client will never know about the error. Another thing I wanted to

(John Charles Olamendy) Sometimes when we have a big reports displaying heavy textual information, one technique to visualize data in a consistent way is to shade line in alternate colors. In this article, I will show how Crystal Reports enables this technique very easily.

(Scott Guthrie) I’ve already covered some of the code editor improvements in the VS 2010 release. In particular, I’ve blogged about the Code Intellisense Improvements, new Code Searching and Navigating Features, HTML, ASP.NET and JavaScript Snippet Support, and improved JavaScript Intellisense. To

(Ben Nadel) The other day, I ran into a very interesting behavior involving jQuery event binding and Javascript objects. While it is still an open question as to whether or not jQuery truly supports non-DOM-object event binding, it is a feature that appears to be actively included in the jQuery libr

(Nihit Kaul) This blog post will talk about some of the details of a lesser known feature in the the Entity Designer in VS 2010 which enhances user productivity by enabling discovery of the return type of stored procedures from within the Function Import dialog box. Further it allows the Return Type

(logicchild) In terms of querying data, this article will introduce LINQ, a powerful feature for querying data. It will show how to filter an array or collection using LINQ’s where clause, how to sort the query results using the orderby clause, and how to use the select clause to select specific pro

(roboblob) As feedback to my recent post on Modal Dialogs in MVVM and Silverlight 4 I have received comments that the solution is not easy to Unit Test so i decided to create small blog posts on this subject just to show how simple and clean it is to do this.

(Suprotim Agarwal) This article demonstrates how to click and retrieve data from a GridView cell. This article is a sample chapter from my EBook called 51 Tips, Tricks and Recipes with jQuery and ASP.NET Controls. The chapter has been modified a little to publish it as an article.