(Peter Vogel) In an earlier column — “Create a Reporting Dashboard with WebPartZones (But Without WebParts)” — I described how you could create a reporting dashboard that allows users to select reports from a catalog on the page. To do this, I took advantage of the WebPart framework in ASP.NET but
Tag: Development
Comparing Differences Between WPF in Visual Studio and Silverlight 2
(Ged Mead) This will be something of a ‘Work in Progress’ blog item, as I plan to jot down differences between WPF and Silverlight as I find them, either in my own work or from other sources. It can be difficult to keep up to speed on what the precise differences are at any given time. The SDKs, Too
Monitoring the Long-Term Health of .NET Applications
(Victor Mushkatin) While watching application development practices evolve over the years, I have noticed a monumental shift in the way companies approach cost reductions throughout the application lifecycle. The bottom line is, of course, return on investment, or TCO. Whatever they call it, organiz
Using the Silverlight HeaderedContentControl
(Brian Mains) The Silverlight toolkit is an add-on to Silverlight meant to add additional Silverlight control functionality for developers. One of these controls is the the headered content control, a pretty simple control: it consists of a header area and a content area, which the header and conte
Using ASP.NET 3.5’s ListView and DataPager Controls: Inserting Data
(Scott Mitchell) The ListView control is similar to the GridView control in many ways: both display a set of records, both support built-in sorting, paging, editing, and deleting functionality with minimal effort. The ListView differs from the GridView in two key ways: –Rather than using fields
Input Validation in ASP.NET MVC
(Dino Esposito) In Data Entry and ASP.NET MVC I discussed how to arrange a data entry page using the ASP.NET MVC Framework. There’s a common sentiment around the community that the ASP.NET MVC Framework is not particularly suited to data entry. I was one of those sustaining this point of view. Well,
Using jQuery with ASP.NET Part 2: Making an AJAX Callback to ASP.NET
(Rick Strahl) This time around I’ll expand on these concepts and show you how you can use jQuery in combination with ASP.NET as an AJAX backend to retrieve data. I’ll also discuss how you can create ASP.NET controls and otherwise interact with jQuery content from ASP.NET pages in Web Forms.
Setting null value to an entity property through Textbox control
(John Charles Olamendy) In this article, I want to document a bug in Visual Studio. NET concerning to setting a null value to entity property’s through a Textbox control. There is a common scenario to have an entity type in your data model where some attributes are optional. When you develop a rich
Tip #82: Did you know… How to migrate Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project to Visual Studio 2008
(Deepak Verma) Following steps highlight how a Visual Studio 2005 Web application project can be migrated to Visual Studio 2008.
Create and Save Thumbnails of Web Pages
(Srinath M) You can use the .NET WebBrowser control to take thumbnails or full-size screenshots of loaded web pages, and then use the Bitmap class to save them locally.
