26th August 2008

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In this first part of the two part series, Steven covers the differences between Site and Application pages in SharePoint 2007, why each may be used in various circumstances, and prepares for the construction of a menu located application page. After a brief introduction he examines the concept of Site Pages and Application Pages separately in detail with supported screenshots.

http://aspalliance.com/1720_SharePoint_Application_and_Site_Pages__Part_1_of_2

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Earlier this week, Bertrand Le Roy announced the release of the AJAX Control Toolkit for .NET 3.5 SP1. The AJAX Control Toolkit is a free collection of controls and control extenders that provide richer AJAX and DHTML functionality. The project is a collaboration between Microsoft and the developer community, and is hosted at CodePlex. You can download the latest version or view the controls in their live gallery via the links below. Enjoy!

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Web applications differ from conventional websites in that web applications can create a dynamic response. Many websites deliver only static pages. A web application can interact with databases and business logic engines to customize a response. Struts is a free open-source framework for creating Java web applications. In this article, Amarnath examines the concept of Java Structs in detail with the help of relevant code listings. He initially provides a brief coverage of the MVC architecture and then discusses the advantages and configuration steps involved with the development of Structs. He concludes the article with the sequence of steps which will happen in the background when a client requests a Structs 2.0 application.

In this article, Eric shows us how to give the same report a different style for your different customers with minimal involvement from the developer. After providing a brief overview and requirements specification, he outlines the formatting options with the help of source code and screenshots. Toward the end of the article, Eric demonstrates how to set different styles for your application and also provides the relevant project which you can download and work on.

In this article Nidal examines the usage of a SQL Server 2008 feature named Merge statement. It is a new TSQL Statement that allows you to perform join of tables and then apply one of three different operations on the result set. He demonstrates the concepts with the help of step-by-step explanations accompanied by relevant SQL statements.

If the generic list is not an option perhaps because of the framework version being used, the ArrayList should be used instead. In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to return an ArrayList from a Web Service.[4:34]

In this article, Abdulla examines the creation of a custom Ajax WebPart from scratch and the deployment of it into SharePoint Server 3.0. He illustrates how to add a script manager tag inside SharePoint page dynamically and how you can deal with the UpdatePanel and UpdateProgress controls programmatically. Finally, he shows how to add the newly created Ajax WebPart into SharePoint Page. Abdulla examines the relevant steps with the help of the source code and related screenshots, and he also provides the complete Visual Studio project files.

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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.

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The Accordion control is a flexible way to group data output to the screen. This article demonstrates the usage of the control to data bind information in ASP.NET. Brian clearly examines each step in detail with the help of database structure diagram, relevant explanation, and plenty of source code.

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In this article, Eric shows us how to give the same report a different style for your different customers with minimal involvement from the developer. After providing a brief overview and requirements specification, he outlines the formatting options with the help of source code and screenshots. Toward the end of the article, Eric demonstrates how to set different styles for your application and also provides the relevant project which you can download and work on.

This article demonstrates the creation of sub-reports using Crystal Reports. After providing a short overview of the database design, the author delves deeper into the report building process in a series of steps with associated screenshots. Towards the end of the article, he shows us how to display the report on a web page.

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