(Rob Conery) As many of you may know, I’ve been goofing around with Code Generation again with SubSonic’s new MVC Addin. One of the things I really wanted to try and flex is Visual Studio 2008’s code generation bits – T4. Not many people know it even exists, and to me it’s one of the Great Hidden Se

(Gil Fink) In this post I’m going to explain what is the control state and how to use it as a part of the ASP.NET client side state management.

(Tony Patton) Directing a user to another page or resource is a common aspect of a Web application. The user may initiate the transfer to another page any number of ways, including clicking a button or link or selecting a value in a drop-down list. ASP.NET provides a few ways to move to different pa

(Scott Lysle) This article describes the use of filter expressions in junction with an SQL Data Source. Filter expressions may be applied to the data returned from the use of an SQL Data Source to limit what is displayed; the filter expression itself is quite similar in nature to a ‘where’ clause bu

(Lisa Loftis) Operational BI (embedding BI into the operations of the organization), event-based marketing (triggering customer communications from behavior pattern changes) and contact optimization (ensuring timely, relevant communications) are a few of the powerful applications. However, along wit

(Suprotim Agarwal) In the past we have often used the combination of the GridView and DetailsView to display Master-Detail data. Similarly, developers have used pop-ups to depict similar scenarios where a user clicks on a master row and the details are displayed in a pop-up window. I was recently ex

(Muhammad Mosa) Earlier this year Matt Berseth posted about Building a Grouping Grid with the ASP.NET 3.5 LinqDataSource and ListView Controls. Then I followed his post with 2 other posts discussing same idea but with different implementation: –Building a grouping Grid with GridView and ASP.NET

(Y Kasan) One of my recent projects included simple, and I believe, commonly done tasks. We were implementing a project utilizing the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional edition, with C# 3.0, and the task was to compare two snapshots taken from the same table within a particular time interval. The

(Kenneth Downs) This week we will review the practical arguments in favor of normalization. The major concern as always on this blog is to examine database decisions in light of how they affect the overall application. The major argument for normalization is very simple: you end up coding less, codi

(Neil Knobbe) vbCity Leader (and Microsoft MVP) Ged Mead showed how to create a FlowDocument in his article published on devCity.com.