23rd September 2008

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Featured Article

The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced many new feature that make JavaScript usage with ASP.NET pages easy. The ClientScriptManager class in the framework has many new useful methods that help developers use these features very effectively. In this first part of the series, Satheesh discusses some of the common scenarios to use the frequently used overload methods of the ClientScriptManager class. He starts with an overview of the ClientScriptManager class and then examines the RegisterClientScriptBlock, RegisterStartupScript, and RegisterOnSubmitStatement methods with the help of relevant source code, screenshots and usage instructions.

http://aspalliance.com/1701_Using_JavaScript_Effectively_in_ASPNET_20__Part_1

Editor's Comments

Last Friday ASP Alliance published an article from one of our newer authors, David Penton. In his article, Thread Safety through Self-Loading Collections, he discusses some safety precautions to take when working with collections in multi-threaded applications. This is the second article he has written with ASP Alliance. We’re looking forward to reading more articles from our current and new authors at ASP Alliance, and we hope you are looking forward to them as well.

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In this article, Hima provides a detailed overview of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 including its physical, logical, and administrative architectures. Hima begins the article by examining the building blocks of MOSS 2007- the various types of architecture in detail. Towards the end of the article, she provides a brief explanation of SharePoint Central and Shared Services Administration along with a few reference links for additional learning.

In this article, David Penton demonstrates how to easily load collections in a thread safe manner. He classifies it as a self-loading collection. He starts by analyzing basic collection usage and then applies the Singleton Pattern to it with the help of relevant C# source code. Penton wraps up the article by giving some tips along with some additional information and the associated source files in downloadable format.

In this series of articles, Nidal explains how Microsoft has done a great job in the world of business intelligence using Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). The author deeply examines the concept of OLAP Services and Unified Dimensional Model. He also points out where SSAS fits in SQL Server and also the requirements to work with it in a step-by-step manner.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to use styles in a WPF application. He starts by using some inline settings and then shows how to use some static resource styles in the same XAML to set the styles of the controls in his WPF application. He then shows how to extract the XAML into the App.xaml file, so that is can better be applied to an entire application. [6:39]

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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.

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