(William R. Vaughn) When using the ReportViewer control in Visual Studio (2005 or 2008), you have ample opportunities to craft logic-driven SQL to build the rowset passed to the report or even munge the data values returned. Often, all you need to do is generate a string that’s based on input parame
Tag: Development
Sorting Algorithms In VB
(Richard Newcombe) All too often in an application, there’s a need to sort a list of items. In this article, I will cover some of the more common sorting algorithms and give a few tips on choosing the right one for the job. I will cover the classic “Bubble sort” and “Insertion sort,” right through t
.NET Debugging Demos Lab 2: Crash – Review
(Tess Fernandez) I realize that you probably haven’t all had a chance to look at the Crash lab yet, considering I just published it on Friday but here is the review for it. I have to say that considering the amount of downloads for the buggy bits site I am a bit surprised with the lack of questions
How Do I: Multiple File Uploads in ASP.NET
(Joe Stagner) In this video I will demonstrate uploading a dynamically determined number of files to your ASP.NET application.
Unity Dependency Injection Container and ASP.NET MVC Framework
(David Hayden) I couldn’t resist trying one thing with Unity this morning before doing real work 🙂 I wanted to try Unity with the ASP.NET MVC Framework for dependency injection into Controllers using a custom IControllerFactory.
ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update
(Scott Guthrie) This past December we released the first preview of a new ASP.NET MVC Framework as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Release. I also wrote a number of blog posts that provide more detail on what the ASP.NET MVC framework is and how you can optionally use it:
ASP.NET basics: Working with the TextBox control
(Tony Patton) Developers often overlook basic programming options in favor of new or cool ways to deliver results. This is true for many of the standard ASP.NET features. A good example is the TextBox Web control, which offers plenty of options for building applications. This week, I take a closer l
.NET Tip: Return File Contents as a String
(Jay Miller) The applications I’ve been working on lately send a lot of email notifications out as the status of the application and monitored devices change. There are a handful of different email messages that could be sent. I wanted a means to store the bodies of these emails in a manner that wou
Remoting and common classes
(Richard Mitchell) I’ve been playing a bit lately with .NET Remoting and I must say that so far I’m deeply un-impressed. The documentation seems to be sparse at best and downright misleading at worst. So I thought I’d put a few of my discoveries here so that people can learn from my mistakes.
Hang caused by GC – XML Deadlock
(Tess Fernandez) In December I blogged about a little tool that i wrote to analyze hangs in dumps, and i showed the following output, but didnt really get into the details of why the process was stuck in here…
