Make Your ASP.NET Mobile Forms Timer-Refresh and Autoredirect : Peter Bromberg

Saturday, April 18 2009

You can't use javascript in Mobile Forms, and they won't render the META Refresh tag either. Here's a way to create a Mobile Form that will refresh and autoredirect based on a timer, that extends the Mobile Form class as a control. In my travels with an ASP.NET Mobile Device application, I ran into a need to display a status panel as the result of a repeated method call on a timed basis from the page. Under normal ASP.NET page scenarios this is easy: you can either use Javascript (such as with an Anthem.net timer control) or you can create a META Refresh tag inside your Page's HEAD tag, set the...

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor Container - Part IV : Simone Busoli

Wednesday, April 15 2009

In this article I introduce the missing core features I didn't tackle before. They require a little more knowledge of Windsor, which I hope I've been able to hand down so far. In case you didn't read the previous parts I highly suggest doing so. The sample application I used to illustrate the framework has been developed step by step since the beginning. In this article I introduce the missing core features I didn't tackle before. They require a little more knowledge of Windsor, which I hope I've been able to hand down so far. As usual, any feedback, questions and votes are very welcome, but now...

Developing Gadgets For The Windows Vista Sidebar : Scott Allen

Monday, March 30 2009

Windows Vista introduced the Sidebar – an anchored panel on the Windows desktop that can host mini-applications known as gadgets. These gadgets are fun to develop and can deliver real value to a user's desktop. Windows Vista ships with gadgets that can track stock prices, display news feeds, and deliver weather forecasts. The gadgets users will find most appealing, however, are those gadgets that deliver the specialized information they need to complete their everyday tasks. These gadgets might not come with the broad appeal of a weather gadget, but will be gadgets that talk to corporate web services...

.NET CodeToHTML : Paschal L

Sunday, March 29 2009

This article shows you how to convert source code to HTML. The aim of this article is to share with you something I found was really challenging for me to build. I had to include some code in different articles (including this one) and I wanted to get the code colorized and properly formatted. I was amazed by the lack of information on HTML syntax coloring in VB.NET. If you are a PERL programmer then you are lucky as you have the Code2HTML library. My PERL skills being very poor, I decided to write something for the .NET platform. This example can be used with .NET 2.0 and above.......

Save Changes on Close of Browser or when exiting the page. : Abishek R Srikaanth.

Wednesday, March 25 2009

This article describes on how you can implement the functionality of saving changes on close of the browser or navigating away from the current web application. It also discusses on various ways that the user can exit the page how data be saved on those events. Many have been trying to implement the functionality of Saving the data on close of the browser. I was also one of you trying to find a way on how to implement the same. I had been to many forums and discussion boards, but couldn't find a way on how to implement this. I finally landed up at a particular piece of javascript code (attached...

Introduction to DotNetNuke® Module Development : Michael Washington

Sunday, March 22 2009

DotNetNuke is a program that runs on Microsoft ASP.NET. It is also a framework, meaning, it is a program that is designed to be extended. One of the ways you extend the framework is to create modules. These modules are installed inside a DotNetNuke installation and when they run in that DotNetNuke installation they extend the framework to create a DotNetNuke website also called a portal...

HTTP compression in .NET Framework 2.0 : Paulo Morgado

Tuesday, March 17 2009

This article describes the implementation of utility classes that will allow HTTP requests informing the server (or any appliance in the network between the client and the server) what types of compression it can handle and uncompress the response from the server (if any) without changing the client application. HTTP compression is very useful when the cost of the connection is high....

Easily turn a ListView into a nicely printed report, complete with print preview : Phillip Piper

Tuesday, March 10 2009

The ListViewPrinter class takes an existing ListView and effortlessly turns it into a pretty report. Your shiny new application is finished to perfection — and it's a week ahead of schedule. After your demonstration to The Management, the CEO says, "It's great. I love it. But I want to have all that information as a report. And I want to be able to fiddle with the columns in the report, move them around and resize them, any way I want. It has to be sortable, and groupable, just like we can see on the screen there. And of course, we have to be able to print preview it before we print it. And can...

Custom Paging for TableAdapters without using SPs : Manuel Abadia

Sunday, February 22 2009

TableAdapters are a quick way to create a DAL writing very little code or none at all. However, there isn’t an easy way to modify the generated code. You can extend the generated class adding methods but it would be cool if you could modify the generated methods, for example, how the insertions are performed. As this is not possible you have to live with the code that is generated. Anyway, for small projects with very little business logic and data intensive projects, TableAdapters are very helpful. Even for a simple project, you need to avoid retrieving all table records in a query for performance...

Speed Up with Project Templates Using Visual Studio 2005 - Part 3 : Ameet Phadnis

Tuesday, February 17 2009

In this third part of the article Ameet explains how you can use the IWizard interface and customize the templates and Starter Kits. In my previous article entitled "Speed Up with Project Templates Using Visual Studio 2005 - Part 2," I dealt with how you can create Project Templates with the export template wizard. In that article I did mention the IWizard interface and how it could be used to perform some preliminary steps for your project. The IWizard interface implementation can achieve various tasks such as registering the SQL database for ASPNET_Memberships or even setting up a few settings...