(John Charles Olamendy) In this article, I will show how to use the Database Lookup functoid to map incoming XML node to a database table column whose result value is set to a target XML node. This is mainly used because the data that is stored in the database table is dynamic, and coding these valu
Tag: Development
Kimball University: Eight Guidelines for Low-Risk Enterprise Data Warehousing
(Doug Henschen) In today’s economic climate, business intelligence (BI) faces two powerful and conflicting pressures. On the one hand, business users want more focused insight from their BI tools into customer satisfaction and profitability. Conversely, these same users are under huge pressure to co
Mining the Registry for Structures
(Karl E. Peterson) Classic VB has always offered a couple of really crude wrappers for reading and writing to the Windows registry. They were hobbled from the beginning by being restricted to a single subkey under the CurrentUser (HKCU) hive. So most folks have found or written wrappers to read and
Tip # 53: Did you know… How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?
(Deepak Verma) Gridview control has the flexibility to be configured how it’s rendered using templates. Following steps show how the control’s edit template can be changed in the Visual Studio Designer.
Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts
(Amit Raz) A while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.
Crystal Reports Charting Fundamentals
(Jeff McWherter) Rendering data in a report can be a tricky task. There are many options, such as using a logical grouping to display similar data together, displaying the data in a cross tab, or even using a chart to represent the data as a visual rendition of your data. Visualizing data in a chart
Handling security for Flex and Silverlight in ASP.NET
(Al Pascual) Silverlight and Flex are plug ins that run on the browser, their security model is quite similar to the JavaScript model, the browser will make the requests to the server. For this storing credential information or any other sensitive information is not the recommended option as any use
ASP.NET, jQuery and Intellisense
(Scott Lysle) Microsoft has partnered with jQuery and because of that, Visual Studio will now include jQuery; if you have downloaded the latest version of ASP.NET MVC, you should find that jQuery was included although it is version 1.2.6 (the current version is 1.3.2).
ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
(Maarten Balliauw) Microsoft’s Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a .NET library (released on CodePlex) that enables greater re-use of application components. You can do this by dynamically composing your application based on a set of classes and methods that can be combined at runtime. Think
Lazy Loading jQuery Tabs with ASP.NET
(Mike) This article looks at efficient use of jQuery tabs when displaying data. Specifically, it covers how to lazy-load data, so that it is only accessed and displayed if the tab is clicked.
