(S1mm0t) The Silverlight Toolkit provides developers and designers with a whole host of different controls that don’t come as standard. Among other things, it contains charting controls for creating bar charts, pie charts, and line graphs etc. I recently had a requirement for a stacked bar chart, wh
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jQuery in Microsoft.NET and Oracle AS
(John Charles Olamendy) jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library CSS3 compliant to efficiently traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform actions and add interaction to the Web pages. jQuery also includes support for Ajax technology. jQuery is designed to change the way you write JavaScript c
Hierarchical GridView With Clickable Rows
(Srikanth Reddy) In this article I am going to demonstrate on how to make a hierarchical GridView which enables the user to open up the hierarchy with the click on a row, which enables the user to close the currently opened hierarchy when the user clicks on another row or the same row. Unlike the hi
RichTextBox Cell in a DataGridView
(mrwisdom) You can use this DataGridViewRichTextBoxColumn to display and edit RTF content.
Providing Scalability for ASP.NET Applications
(Iqbal Khan) The popularity of ASP.NET, the Web application framework from Microsoft, continues to grow by leaps and bounds within the developer, enterprise, and IT ranks. There is one area of difficulty, however: scaling ASP.NET applications out of the box is simply not possible.
Dynamically Generating and Caching Images in ASP.NET with the GeneratedImage Control
(Scott Mitchell) CodePlex is Microsoft’s open source project community and provides a free hosting platform for open source projects created in .NET. Microsoft’s own ASP.NET team has its own CodePlex page – aspnet.CodePlex.com – where they give code previews for upcoming releases. There you’ll find
Custom paging in ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 using ObjectDataSource
(John Charles Olamendy) Paging is a common feature of business applications when reporting and searching specific business entity information. Using paging mechanisms, you can break all the data into smaller page of data and allow the user to step through the data one page at a time, thus improving
Creating a RequiredTextBox Web Server Control in ASP.NET
(AzamSharp) ASP.NET includes the TextBox control and the Validation controls which can be combined together to perform user input validation. The caveat is that the developer has to use two different controls to perform a simple validation. In this article we are going to create a custom TextBox con
Geographic Data with Crystal Reports
(Jeff McWherter) In the past few years the ability to report on geographical data has become a task that does not require an army of developers to accomplish. Before the mapping functionality in Crystal Reports and other services, such as Google maps and the new Geography data types in SQL Server 20
Displaying and Customizing Images from a Database
(Paul Kimmel) I still don’t quite understand why images aren’t treated like first class data types. Binding almost anything to a control and the data shows up; it’s “magically delicious”! Use the Web Image control and you have to use an URL. The obvious implication is that the image is stored on the
