How to implement WebParts in ASP.NET using a data-driven sample web application
Microsoft’s .NET 2.0 framework has brought along several obvious and advantageous new features and controls to developers. Some of the new advances however are not quite as obvious or widely used. Perhaps due to their complexity the adoption rate of these new controls will come over time.
Read MoreA beginner’s look at how to take advantage of Themes and Skin files in ASP.NET 2.0 projects and how to combine them with classic CSS stylesheets.
Microsoft’s release of the ASP.NET 2.0 framework has brought about a wealth of new features and capabilities. Trying to view web application development from all different perspectives of a development team is not easy, and one of the key goals of web form development within Visual Studio has been to ease the process of creating the user interface and underlying logic for developers.
Read MoreHow to populate the ASP.NET Menu control programmatically with data from an SQL database
Welcome to the second and final part of this two part series regarding how to build a database driven navigation menu in ASP.NET 2.0. During this second tutorial we will continue developing upon the sample application we created during part 1 and implement the code required for population and then explore some of the other advanced features of the ASP.NET Menu control.
Read MoreThe .NET 2.0 framework has brought several new and exciting features to ASP.NET developers. Many of the common tasks, controls, and development patterns that had to be custom written previously are now an incorporated part of the .NET framework itself.
Read MoreWelcome to the second and final part of Working with Large GridView Resultsets in ASP.NET 2.0. In this second part of the series we will expand upon the sample application we created during part 1 and implement the remaining functionality.
Read MoreA common problem that has been around way back since the original DataGrid component was released in ASP.NET 1.0 was the performance issues related to large amounts of data, and the post-back mechanism used to perform actions.
Even with the vast improvements provided by the GridView control in ASP.NET 2.0 you may notice that your pages can still suffer from performance loss when your GridView controls present large amounts of data to your users. Especially if the presentation is formatted with additional HTML such as icons, images, CSS styling etc…
Read MoreWe’ll then see how we can use the data returned from the web service to bind to an ObjectDataSource control, and then in turn bind a GridView control to that ObjectDataSource, all without writing any code on the aspx web form.
The purpose of the tutorial is to see how you can leverage a web services layer in your application looking at the bigger picture. If you’re a systems architect and you plan to include web services in your design then you may want to consider the web services layer as the front end to your business components and instead of binding to your business components directly you can bind directly to your web services output values.
Note: Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Web Developer is required for this tutorial. Additionally, access to any SQL server version/instance which has the sample Northwind database is required. Both VB and C# code samples will be provided
Welcome to the second and final part of the Using the Ajax AutoComplete Control in ASP.NET 2.0. During this second tutorial we will build upon the sample application we created during part 1 and complete a functional AutoComplete textbox which is able to suggest Employee names from a database when the user types in a series of characters.
Check also DMXzone's own Ajax AutoComplete Dreamweaver extension to get field auto completion right out of the box!
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Check also DMXzone's own Ajax AutoComplete Dreamweaver extension to get field auto completion right out of the box!
When working with a complex component suchas the new GridView control provided in ASP.NET 2.0, it’s important to have agood understanding of all the features and functions available to you as adeveloper so that you can provide an efficient experience to your end users.
Read MoreWith some of the new data connectivity options available in Visual Studio 2005 it can be difficult sometimes deciding which method or route to take when designing your interface controls and which connection method they should use with your database.
Read MoreWelcome to Basic Ajax GridView in ASP.NET 2.0 part 2, the second and final installation of this two part series regarding implementing basic Ajax features into an ASP.NET 2.0 application. During this second part of the series we will build upon the foundation we created during part 1 and add more Ajax enabled features to our sample application.
The goal of any Ajax application is to give your end users a richer user interface to work with, simplifying their daily tasks and workload. Microsoft’s Ajax implementation now has two sets of tools that work in conjunction with Visual Studio 2005. The first tools are the basic Ajax extension controls which are responsible for Ajax enabling your application, and the second set of tools is a complete library of new Ajax enabled controls available in the Ajax Control Toolkit, both of which are free to download and use in your applications.
In Basic Ajax GridView in ASP.NET 2.0 part 1 we created a simple application that displayed Calendar events in a GridView control. During this second part we will accomplish two main goals, allowing the user to add new records using a DetailsView control, and implement one of the controls in the Ajax Control Toolkit for selecting a date using the Ajax Calendar control without causing postbacks.
Note: Visual Studio 2005 and a version of SQL Server (preferably SQL 2005 Express) is required for this tutorial. Since no custom code will be written both VB and C# developers are welcome.
Need to create all kind of great web site navigation menus? Cascading Drop down Menus, Mega Menus, Popup or Context Menus. Menus that have great display animations, are CSS based and fully cross browser compatible, which makes them search engine friendly?