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Tag: Development
A Quick Look at Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
(John Peterson) A couple weeks ago, I gave you guys a sneak peek at Windows Server 2008 Beta 3. Well, what good is a brand spanking new server platform without the development tools to properly utilize it? This week I spent some time with Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2.
Creating Custom Reports for DotNetNuke using Crystal Reports – Part 2
(Eric Landes) In Part 1 of this series, we went over an introduction to DotNetNuke (DNN). We also delved into table structure, then some basic SQL Statements. As mentioned in the first part, many people are using DotNetNuke (DNN) as their option as a CMS application. DNN has grown into one of the mo
Caching Data with a Web Service in Enterprise Library
(Alex Homer) Sometimes you find yourself thinking, “I wonder if I can make my application do this…?” The target of your thoughts might not immediately seem to be a useful, or even sensible, feature; but most developers tend to be attracted to unusual problems that offer a challenge.
Creating an ASP.NET 2.0 Polling User Control: Building the Polling User Control
(Scott Mitchell) Welcome to the second article in a three-part series on building a polling User Control. In the first installment, Design Decisions and the Data Model, we looked at the design decisions made prior to creating the control as well as the poll’s data model, which consisted of three tab
LINQ to SQL (Part 8 – Executing Custom SQL Expressions)
(Scott Guthrie) One of the questions a few people have asked me since doing these posts has been “what if I want total control over the SQL expressions used by LINQ to SQL – but I don’t want to use SPROCs to-do it?” Today’s blog post will cover that – and discuss how you can use custom SQL expressi
A Better Fixed GridView Header for ASP.NET
(Paul Kimmel) There are several articles on fixed headers. I even wrote one called “Implementing a Fixed GridView Header in ASP.NET.” What I discovered was that the technique described in that article and some others doesn’t work very well when controls are nested or pages become complex. What I was
ASP.NET Hang scenario: Kernel Debugging for Dummies
(Tess Fernandez) A local radio show has started giving out cookie points to their interviewees for personal development, and the other day my coworker decided to give me one for debugging a perf issue in kernel-mode… YAY!!!
Typed Dataset and its Usages
(Satheesh Babu) The word Dataset does not need an introduction because it is one of most commonly used objects in the .NET world. So proceeding with this assumption, a typed dataset is an object that derives from the Dataset class and additionall, it provides strongly typed access to its containing
GridView, DetailsView, and SqlDataSource Interaction Part 2
(Brian Mains) This article will show you how you can use the GridView, DetailsView, and SQLDataSource controls together to create features in a web site. This will be a multipart article talking about the various facets of using these three articles together. The article will make use of the Adventu
