4th March 2008

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In the third part of this series, Keyvan talks about the data model in his simple blogging engine. He shows some concepts related to the LINQ side of the data model to retrieve data for the blogging engine in controllers and pass them to views with the help of screenshots and source code.

http://aspalliance.com/1604_Building_a_Simple_Blog_Engine_with_ASPNET_MVC_and_LINQ__Part_3

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This week there will be a bunch of big announcements and new releases at MIX – watch the web site if you can't attend. http://visitmix.com/

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Creating reports can be a daunting task. Reports can demand a great deal of effort and time, especially if you have not worked with Crystal Reports much. In this article, Jeff provides six quick Crystal Reports Design Tips to assist in creating killer reports with style and speed. Among other tips, you will learn how to add WaterMarks to your reports. Each tip has been deeply examined with the help of relevant explanations and screenshots for better understanding.

In this code snippet, Deepankar examines how to select only specific records from a table commencing in a series (even series i.e. 2nd,4th,6th...records or odd series i.e. 1st,3rd,5th.... records and other simple series) in a single query. He provides a detailed analysis of the relevant SQL statements with the help of relevant screenshots.

In this article, Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) reviews "Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5" by Omar AL Zabir (O'REILLY Publishing). Das does a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the book and explains how this book will help you build an AJAX enabled Web 2.0 portal.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to use JavaScript inside the ASP.NET MVC Framework. He uses some simple data manipulation as an example to follow along with his explanation. [5:33]

In this article, Brian examines extension methods and how they can be used with .NET Framework applications. He begins with a short introduction and then provides a detailed explanation of the application of extension methods with the help of source code in C#.

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