(Colin Spence) As clients ask for more complex dashboards that integrate data from their accounting systems, you’ll find that Performance Point Server (PPS) can help you answer the call. It’s quite hard to find useful information on “what” PerformancePoint is, and what it allows you to do, so this s
Tag: Development
Unit Testing with Service Stubs or Mock Types
(Paul Kimmel) The simple fact of life is that ideas overlap and sometimes are attributed to multiple sources. For instance, I grew learning that Marconi invented radio. Turns out that Tesla invented the radio and now holds the patent posthumously.
Extending DataPager: Creating a google analytics data pager
(Luis Ramirez) The DataPager is one of the new webcontrols deployed with ASP.NET 3.5. The DataPager webcontrol allows you to add paging support for databound controls that implements the IPageableItemContainer interface. For example, you can use the DataPager webcontrol to give paging support to the
Creating Bar Chart Using .NET Graphics API
(AzamSharp) Some time back an article was published on the GridViewGuy which demonstrated how to draw graphs/charts using the WebChart control. You can view the article here. In this article we are going to use the .NET graphics API to create a bar graph.
.NET Internals and Code Injection
(Daniel Pistelli) This article is the obvious culmination of the previous effort of writing the Rebel.NET application and the first of a two series of articles about the .NET Framework internals and the protections available for .NET assemblies. The next article will be about .NET native compiling.
Explicitly binding data to ListView web control
(Ivan Goloskokovic) As we all know usage of Eval and Bind methods can be expensive. Controls that are using this method with Data-Binding Expression are GridView, DetailsView, FormView, Repeater and ListView. These are actually Data-Bound controls which can be bind to a Data Source controls such as
Utilizing your .NET Projects Automated Acceptance Tests on Crystal Reports – Part 1
(Eric Landes) As agile development methods become more accepted in the development world, I have wondered the best way to incorporate agile methods on the reporting side of projects. Face it, reporting is often the forgotten step-child of most projects.
Database Triggers, Encapsulation and Composition
(Kenneth Downs) When Object Oriented Programming burst into the mainstream, encapsulation rapidly came to be accepted as a basic tenet of sound programming. Modern database servers provide a wonderful way to tightly couple code and data, a way that is secure, non-subvertible, flexible and powerful.
ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX and WebServices
(balamurali balaji) This article explains the use of webservices in ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX environment and it tells how to call web service methods from a client-side javascript. It also outlines the new System.Web.Script namespace and explores the ways of defining the client-call to a web service method.
.NET Tip: Following Table Relationships with LINQ
(Jay Miller) LINQ has very robust support for taking advantage of the relationships that are defined in your database. If you like, you can continue to use the same type of SQL syntax that you are used to to join tables based on keys. I much prefer, however, to take advantage of LINQ’s from clause t
