15th September 2009

ASPAlliance Times

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Featured Article

In this article, Yi demonstrates how to create a modal popup login page in ASP.NET. By using Login controls, AJAX Extensions, and the AJAX Control Toolkit, you can easily accomplish this task without much coding. The demo project is based on Visual Web Developer Express 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. It also assumes you have installed the AJAX Control Toolkit.

http://aspalliance.com/1882_How_to_Create_an__ASPNET_Modal_Popup_Login

Editor's Comments

Last week I mentioned that Scott Guthrie had been posting an interesting series on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4, and he is still going strong with that series. In today's post Scott talks about the ability to have an ASP.NET application automatically start. This is potentially very useful for applications which require doing initialization work when the application starts.

The current solution is to either hack the site to start sooner using a script or to have the first visitor to the site wait for the process to complete. Either way this will likely be a valuable asset. If you're planning on keeping up with the latest development tools from Microsoft, I'd recommend reading through all of the posts in Scott's series on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.

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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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Kentico Software Plants a Tree for Every Bug

August 28, 2009 – Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, today announced it will plant a tree for every bug found in the latest version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The company also promises to fix all reported bugs within 7 days. It's a part of Kentico’s commitment to deliver a stable platform for managing web sites, on-line stores and social networks.

Clients can report bugs at trees.kentico.com where they can also see the current number of reported bugs. The trees will be planted by company employees at the end of this initiative in November 2009. Each tree will be devoted to the person who reported the bug first.

All information about the initiative is available at trees.kentico.com.