(Tony Patton) The introduction of a new version of a platform is always accompanied by lots of press and often excitement over much-anticipated features. Developers love to build applications with new technology, but there is often pain when moving existing, proven applications from older versions t
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Building Style Sheets Using Visual Studio 2005
(Jacob J. Sanford) With Visual Studio, you have the ability to create and edit cascading style sheets (CSS). You can use Visual Studio to create a CSS for your web pages, or you can simply add a CSS to a web application you are building. (video)
Creating CSS Friendly Websites with ASP.NET 2.0
(Scott Mitchell) One of the features of ASP.NET 1.0 was its adaptive rendering capabilities that allowed for the markup rendered by an ASP.NET web page to be appropriate for the visiting browser. In short, when an ASP.NET page is visited its Web controls are rendered into markup that is sent down to
Object Relational Mapping in ASP.NET 2.0
(Stephen Rylander) The task was simple and sounded like a decent technical challenge and an interesting opportunity. Build an ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005 transactional website that the financial industry can use to list special events and webinars so traders and investors can find it all in on
Exporting Crystal Reports in ASP.NET
(Farhan Ali) It is relatively easy to retrieve data from a database and display it using any of the bound controls. This is especially so in ASP. NET 2.0 where the amount of code you need to write has been drastically reduced. However, to present the data in a formal, board-room friendly format and
Aggregation, Summarization and Abstraction Demystified
(Steve Hoberman) This article presents short explanations of the terms aggregation, summarization and abstraction.
Tips to improve the performance of ASP.Net Application
(Dinesh Tawar) This article features tips to improve the performance of ASP.Net application.
JavaScript: Alert.Show(‘message’) From ASP.NET Code-behind
(Mads Kristensen) In highly interactive websites and intranet sites, you probably want to let the users know what’s going on when they delete, save, export etc. on the site.
What ADO.NET Teaches Us about Custom Objects
(Paul Kimmel) I have met very few developers or development teams who prefer ADO.NET objects to custom objects. Similarly, many are writing their own custom data access layers. This should convey a loud and clear message to Microsoft and other software vendors: ADO.NET is great, but developers prefe
Generics in VB.Net 2.0
(Saurabh) In my last article “Limitations of ArrayLists in VB.Net”, I focused on issues of type safety and reusability when using ArrayLists.