15th January 2008

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This article provides some tips to improve the performance of your ASP.NET applications by using multiple recordsets, paged data access, and Cache API. The author further examines Per-request, Page output, and Kernel caching mechanisms along with a description of connection pooling and GZip compression.

http://aspalliance.com/1533_ASPNET_Performance_Tips

Editor's Comments

Today I'd like to point out a few interesting recordings currently available for your listening and/or viewing pleasure on the Internet. First I'll mention that yesterday, Scott Hanselman released episode 96 of his popular podcast, Hanselminutes. While at CodeMash, Scott recorded this episode with Dustin Campbell. In the recording Scott and Dustin discuss F#, which is a current obsession of Dustin's. It is a very interesting podcast for anyone who finds languages to be interesting. It introduces the language well, and it will give you a nice understanding of F#. So if you’re interested in learning what F# is, you should listen to this podcast.

On a more embarrassing note I'll mention that there is a recording of me on the internet as well. Ok, so it is really more of a recording of my losing a programming competition against Sara, a "spokesmodel" hired by DevExpress. She was able to beat plenty of programmers, Steven Smith and I are included in that bunch of developers who could not win against her.

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In this article Suresh examines the concept of Common Type System (CTS) and the purpose behind it. He also discusses the aspects of value and reference types. The article ends with a short explanation of Common Language Specification and some of the common points relevant to CTS.

In this article, Muhammad examines how to accomplish JavaScript Serialization using ICallback and JSON. He begins with a basic introduction to ICallback, ICallbackEventHandler interface, and JSON. He then delves deep into the implementation of both server and client side ICallback with the help of associated source code.

This article explains SQL Server 2005 notification services with ASP.NET 2.0 and demonstrates how to set up and test it using code samples. Sudeep initially provides a brief overview of the services and then examines various configuration aspects. He also deeply covers some of the common issues that prevent queries from working with SQL Server 2005 query notifications. At the end of the article you will learn the concept of polling based Invalidation techniques with the help of source code.

In this video Mohammad Azam will introduce the ASP.NET MVC Framework. He explains why we would use MVC instead of current Forms technology. This introduction shows how to do some simple interaction using this new framework. [14:36]

In this article an effort has been made to facilitate for developers, users, and practitioners an alternative option of developing and using a simple AJAX Enabled database search engine. The following pages provide a general understanding of the AJAX Enabled Multi Keyword database search engine, its usage, and the compatibility of its operation.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to use the Dynamic Website Project in Visual Studio 2008. [8:18]

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This article examines how to upload files to a web server using ASP.NET 2.0 with a different approach. With a click of a hyperlink you can show the "Choose File" dialog box and immediately once the user clicks the OK button from the File Choose dialog box, a file can be uploaded to the server.

This article examines how to upload a file to a remote web server using ASP.NET 2.0 and AJAX. The author also discusses how to display a "Please wait ..." message while the upload is happening.

AJAX is the latest buzzword in the web development industry. But what is it, and how can you use it? Ramaprasad Potturi and Sanjay Patnaik explain the technology and provide a real-world example of a web page that presents a country and state pair of drop-down lists, where the state drop-down list is populated dynamically on the client side, removing the need for the page to post back to the server.

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In this review, Eric starts with a basic introduction and layout of Brian's Crystal Reports book. He then provides chapter wise detailed opinion of the contents and also some of his recommendations.

In this article, you will learn how to write a Windows Forms viewer for reports created in the Crystal Reports end-user program (eg. Crystal Reports XI). The viewer allows users to view the existing reports with fresh data as well as input parameter variables at run time. The utility can be written with Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008.

In this article Eric shows how to use the new Crystal Viewer to help distribute reports.

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This article examines the steps the author took to make the local reports work using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services in ASP.NET.

This video tutorial shows how to generate Microsoft Word formatted reports from SQL Server Reporting Services, using SoftArtisans' Officewriter. Using this combination, reports can be editing directly in MS Word, and such things as address books, mailing labels, invoices, or any other MS Word document can be produced. [12:13]

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