ÿþ <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>ASPAlliance Times - - 8th July 2008 </title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- .headingLink { text-decoration: none; font: bold 0.7em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #CC0000; } .headingFeatureLink { text-decoration: none; font: bold 0.8em Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #CC0000; } --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#cc0000" vlink="#cc0000" text="#333333"> <!-- shell --> <table width="560" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td align="center" style="font-family: Arial;"> <font size="1">Having trouble reading this e-mail? 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In his article he is going back to basics and explaining how the Common Type System works. Specifically he explains the differences between the two categories of type it supports: value and reference. He covers null values and the Nullable type as well as briefly mentioning boxing and unboxing.</p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" style="background-color: #FFFFFF"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.7em; font-family: Arial"> <a href="http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/" style="color: #CC0000; text-decoration: none;"> Steve's Blog </a> </div> </td> </tr> <!-- End Editor's Comments --> <!-- Begin New Articles Section --> <tr> <td align="left"> <div style="font-size: 1em; color: White; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 10px;"> New Articles on ASPAlliance.com</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" style="background-color: #FFFFFF"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.7em; font-family: Arial"> <a href="http://aspalliance.com/recentarticles.aspx" style="color:#CC0000; text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.7.em; font-family: Arial"> View All Recent Articles »</a></div> </td> </tr> <!-- Repeat for each article --> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE"> <a href="http://aspalliance.com/1669" class="headingLink"> Creating Multi-Language Custom Control </a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.7em; color: black; font-family:Tahoma; font-weight: bold">By Abdulla Hussein AbdelHaq , 2nd July 2008 </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE; padding-left: 25px;"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Arial"> Suppose that we are dealing with a multi-language website: English, French, Chinese, etc. and in some forms we need to enter a username in three languages, each language in a separate textbox. Abdulla's custom control allows developers to add these three textboxs inside a custom multilang control that will reform these textboxes inside a sliding div that displays one textbox at a time for the selected language. This custom control includes two icons for each language: one in "on" case, and one for "off" case, so the end user can click in the language image that he wants to enter and the proper textbox will appear in the sliding animation using JavaScript code. He provides a comprehensive explanation of each step involved in developing the control with source codes and screenshots in addition to some of the tips and tricks for advanced functionality. </div> </td> </tr> <!-- End Repeat for each article --> <!-- Repeat for each article --> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE"> <a href="http://aspalliance.com/1667" class="headingLink"> CodeSnip: Redirecting an HTTP Request to HTTPS in IIS 7.0 </a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.7em; color: black; font-family:Tahoma; font-weight: bold">By Sudeep G , 4th July 2008 </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE; padding-left: 25px;"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Arial"> IIS 7 has a new User Interface and a new configuration system. In this article Sudeep provides step-by-step information on how to configure HTTP to HTTPS redirection which is a common requirement for Microsoft Exchange. </div> </td> </tr> <!-- End Repeat for each article --> <!-- Repeat for each article --> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE"> <a href="http://aspalliance.com/1681" class="headingLink"> Video: Handing Schema Mapping When Using SqlBulkCopy </a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.7em; color: black; font-family:Tahoma; font-weight: bold">By Mohammad Azam , 7th July 2008 </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE; padding-left: 25px;"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Arial"> In this video, Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to handle schema mapping when using the SqlBulkCopy class to insert bulk data. His demonstration uses non-matching source and destination tables, and he uses mappings to allow the copying. He shows how to statically define mappings as well as how to write code which determines mappings at run-time. [6:12] </div> </td> </tr> <!-- End Repeat for each article --> <!-- Repeat for each article --> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE"> <a href="http://aspalliance.com/1682" class="headingLink"> What to Know About Value Types and Reference Types in C# </a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.7em; color: black; font-family:Tahoma; font-weight: bold">By Brendan Enrick , 7th July 2008 </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE; padding-left: 25px;"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Arial"> Value types and reference types are important concepts in C#. In this article, Brendan describes these concepts in an easy way. This beginners' tutorial is written to help people unfamiliar with these concepts to gain a basic understanding of them. </div> </td> </tr> <!-- End Repeat for each article --> <!-- End New Articles Section --> <!-- Begin Middle Advertisement --> <tr> <td align="right" style="background-color: #CCCCCC"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.7em; font-family: Arial"> Sponsor Advertisement</div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.9em; font-family: Arial; font-weight:bold"> Warning: Use of CodeSmith may cause unforeseen productivity </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" style="background-color: #EEEEEE; padding-left: 25px;"> <div style="color: black; font-size: 0.8em; font-family: Arial"> <p> July 2008 -- Business managers rioted outside the offices of CodeSmith Tools in Dallas, TX today complaining of developers 'going home early' and 'getting projects done too soon'. 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You might not always have time to format fancy reports containing graphs. Or maybe you have to create reports that do not need graphs. 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