(Vince Varallo) This is the second part of a series of articles that use the free version of Crystal Reports to create ASP.NET web sites using the AdventureWorks sample database. The first part examined the creation of an invoice application. This article will build a quarterly sales report using th
Tag: Development
First Steps in Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2
(Ged Mead) As a Developer, Visual Studio is my comfort zone but I thought the time had come to see what the experience of creating a Silverlight 2 project in Expression Blend would be like. Having spent the past six months working almost exclusively on Windows Presentation Foundation, I was particul
How to mask the Password text in Textboxes (in VB.NET / C#)
(Shasur) It is simple to mask the characters entered in a textbox by setting the PasswordChar Property.
Encrypting the Web.Config File
(Peter Vogel) I love keeping information in my Web.config file’s appSettings section; it lets me change the behavior of a Web site just by changing values in a text file. I especially like keeping connection strings in the connectionStrings element (it lets me ensure that I keep the number of connec
First look at debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010
(Tess Ferrandez) I know that for a lot of you this is a bit far into the future, but I thought it would be nice to run through a few of my lab scenarios to show off some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010.
Silverlight 2 Web Service Part I – The Beginning
(Jonas Fagerberg) We are now going to have a look at how you can build and call a Web Service. We will display the returned data in a TextBlock when the user clicks a button. We will use a Silverlight-enabled WCF Service as the Web Service.
Binding in ASP.NET MVC
(Steve Smith) At my ASP.NET MVC + SOLID Principles talk in Cleveland last night, I had a couple of questions about binding in ASP.NET MVC. For instance: ¡Can you still do something like in your form? ¡How does the controller that receives a POST get back the Model that w
Url Rebasing in ASP.NET 2.0
(Suresh Kumar Goudampally) In ASP.NET 2.0 masterpages are introduced to develop the websites with standardized or consistent design across all pages.
Copying An Item Between ListViews
(Ged Mead) I’ve always found ListViews quite fascinating. Slightly confusing sometimes, but fascinating nevertheless.
Setting null value in an optional non-identifying relationship using ComboxBox
(John Charles Olamendy) The most common relationship in any data model is the one-to-many non-identifying relationship. Non-identifying relationship implies weak dependency relationship between parent and child entities. There are two kinds of non-identifying relationships, including optional and ma
