30th September 2008

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In this article, Debjani examines jQuery by providing a brief overview and description of its ability to develop rich and user friendly web applications with examples. She also examines the advantages of jQuery and the concept of Chainability with relevant source code.

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Editor's Comments

Recently, Scott Guthrie announced that jQuery, a very popular open source JavaScript library, will ship with Visual Studio and will have built-in Intellisense. jQuery is lightweight and enables a great deal of utility with minimal lines of code. Rick Strahl has been writing about and presenting about jQuery for at least the last year, and in fact was writing some new things about it when this announcement was made. Scott Hanselman also added some tutorials, and Bertrand Le Roy blogged about it as well. If you haven’t had a look at jQuery, now is probably a good time to at least read what others are saying and see if it’s something you might be able to use in your next ASP.NET application. This week’s featured article, published last Friday, is actually on Introducing jQuery. Check it out to learn more about this great web toolset.

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Moving reports in a sizable application from Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 to Crystal Reports 2008 is a time consuming and frustrating transition - mostly because of some missing key information. This article helps you to avoid this pain by providing guidance based on the lessons the author has learned from her development experience. After providing a brief history and comparison of different versions of Crystal Reports, she examines the development of applications using Crystal Reports under Windows Vista 64 bit and gives some tips to avoid potential problems along with a brief outline of Redistribution of Reports.

Building relational databases has evolved. However, building OLAP databases requires different skills. In this article, Nidal explains some building blocks of these kind of databases. He examines the concept behind Dimensions and Measures in detail with relevant screenshots.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to validate controls in Windows Presentation Foundation. He creates a couple of text boxes and requires the text be filled in. [6:33]

In this article, Debjani provides a brief introduction to what LDAP is and what its benefits are along with the knowledge of how it can be used in ColdFusion. She begins with a brief introduction to LDAP and the basic elements of an LDAP directory. She discusses the usage of LDAP in ColdFusion and also demonstrates the application of cfldap tag with the help of an example.

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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 Suresh examines the commonly used 13 .NET Framework tools, such as gacutil.exe, aspnet_regiis.exe, aspnet_compiler.exe, etc. with the help of detailed explanations. He provides the description of relevant commands and options in tabular format and also the usage examples for some of the tools followed by relevant analysis. After finishing the article you will know the purpose and utility of each of these tools in a nutshell.

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Moving reports in a sizable application from Crystal Reports for Visual Studio 2005 to Crystal Reports 2008 is a time consuming and frustrating transition - mostly because of some missing key information. This article helps you to avoid this pain by providing guidance based on the lessons the author has learned from her development experience. After providing a brief history and comparison of different versions of Crystal Reports, she examines the development of applications using Crystal Reports under Windows Vista 64 bit and gives some tips to avoid potential problems along with a brief outline of Redistribution of Reports.

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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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.