25th August 2009

ASPAlliance Times

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Featured Article

With the web development technology maturing, more and more people are expecting RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). After many years of silence, in a world dominated by Flash, Microsoft was unwilling give up, quickly developing the so-called "Flash killer" technology -- Silverlight. In this four part article series, I will show you a basic RIA image management system using Silverlight 3, in which we will explore the typical routines and necessary skills in creating Silverlight-based applications.

http://aspalliance.com/1876_Building_a_Silverlight_3_based_RIA_Image_Management_System__1

Editor's Comments

Xianzhong Zhu has written an article which ASP Alliance published today. He is wrote it as part of a series called "Building a Silverlight 3 based RIA Image Management System", and the first article of the series was published today. Keep watching for the next part of this series where you’ll see how Xianzhong Zhu categorizes the data in the system.

Microsoft released Silverlight 3 early last month. Now that the shrink wrap has been removed it is time to start learning how to use this new tool. Take it apart see how it works. Learn from other people. It’s time to start writing more Silverlight applications.

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Sometimes you need to create reports quickly. You might not always have time to format fancy reports containing graphs. Or maybe you have to create reports that do not need graphs. Reusing one ASP.NET web page you can display many reports.

In this article the author presents a comprehensive solution to build a GridView with template fields generated at run time with in-place Insert, Delete and Edit operations with a full description of an effective implementation and usage of ITemplate interface.

In this article we will look into the __doPostBack function of JavaScript. Read the article to find some insights about the function.

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In this fourth part of the series, Vince Varallo examines the creation of an employee report and demonstrates the usage of Crystal Reports object model to change the grouping fields and manipulate the properties of the group at runtime to show or hide sections, reset the page number, or insert a page break using Visual Studio 2008. He provides a step-by-step analysis of each procedure with the help of relevant screen shots and source code.

In this third part of the series, Varallo shows how to rebuild the Invoice created in Part 1 using disconnected datasets instead of connecting directly to the database. This gives the user the flexibility to manipulate the data and implement rules in a c# business class rather than in the report. He provides a detailed overview of each concept in a step-by-step manner supported with screen shots and source code.

We have come across a situation where we have to generate the report from more then 2 queries using crystal reports. All queries are different -- 2 transaction tables with relevant joins from dimension tables. So to make the report we have to create 2 different connections from the universe and it eventually gave performance problems when dealing with a large sets of records. In this case, we have to link each query with the others on the basis of common dimensions. While fetching a report with a large amount of data, it takes a lot of time to complete.

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In this second part of the series, Eric shows the reader how to create a burndown chart using Reporting Services, Visual Studio 2008, and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 for an agile project. After giving a short introduction and the requirements, he examines the creation of burndown reports with the help of relevant SQL statements and screen shots.

In this first part of the series, Eric shows the reader how to create two reports using Reporting Services, Visual Studio 2008, and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 for an agile project. After giving a short introduction and the requirements, he examines the creation of scenario story report with the help of relevant SQL and screen shots.

This article examines the steps the author took to make the local reports work using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services in ASP.NET.

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