Aug 01 2008 - 05:31:04 PM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
Most .NET web developers have built at least one custom control (or user control) in their time. But MVC is a completely different beast. There's no ViewState, Page Life-Cycle, no code behind (not the way you think of it). In this article, we'll see how to create 'custom controls' in ASP.NET MVC.
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Jul 22 2008 - 08:10:10 AM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 brought a bit of AJAX support, which is a natural fit for the MVC design pattern. This article will show how incredibly easy it is to create "lazy loading AJAX panels" with ASP.NET MVC.
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Jun 18 2008 - 09:32:09 PM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
MVC (the "model view control" pattern) isn't new, but it is new to ASP.NET. If you're like me, you may have been impressed by a demo, but you've probably thought "how does this work in the real world?" I hope to answer that question in this article.
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May 17 2008 - 08:00:06 PM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
- ADO.NET
For those of you who have already put your feet into the waters of .NET 3.5 SP1, you have probably seen some amazing things with ADO.NET Data Services coupled to the Entity Framework. But that coupling may lead to blindness. Allow me to explain.
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May 06 2008 - 09:29:30 PM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
- ADO.NET
ADO.NET Data Services (formerly "project Astoria") is a new mindset to developing data driven applications. Based on a RESTful architecture, this tool provides powerful services for querying and altering your data. This article will walk you through the steps of exposing your data as a service and consuming it with AJAX.
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Apr 28 2008 - 10:10:40 AM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
- Standards
- LINQ
Microsoft's Entity Framework is a new, powerful tool bringing data modeling, O/RM (object relational mapping) functionality and more. One expected feature of major ORMs is 'Lazy Loading'. Learn how the Entity Framework provides this functionality in a different way. This article will explain the design reasons behind why EF is different than what you would expect, as well as how to achieve the lazy-load functionality you're looking for.
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Apr 18 2008 - 11:21:04 PM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
- LINQ
The GridView control in ASP.NET 2.0 is lacking some major (yet common) functionality - sorting. This article will show you how to create a "self-sorting" GridView using LINQ expression trees.
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Apr 10 2008 - 08:55:44 PM
- Categories:
- Silverlight
Silverlight is a powerful, but very different tool than most .NET developers are used to. This article will teach all the basics of getting your Silverlight application to look and feel the way you want it.
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Apr 03 2008 - 04:46:38 AM
- Categories:
- WCF
Client/server programming isn't a new concept. In fact, it's been around so long that developers can quickly mention a set of problems that will need to be overcome: security, difficulty of implimentation, error handling and identity tracking. This article will show how WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) quickly solves all of that and more.
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Mar 26 2008 - 05:02:46 AM
- Categories:
- ASP.NET
Due to the disconnected nature of the web, developers have often wondered how to display certain metrics such as a real-time progress bar. This article will show you how to easily build a real progress bar that actually reports progress of a process running on the server using ASP.NET AJAX.
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