22nd April 2008

ASPAlliance Times

The industry newsletter for Active Software Professionals

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TECHbash 2008 "Don't Miss It!"

Since its inception in 2005, TECHbash has evolved into the premier technology conference in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO’s and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. This one day event brings together a broad spectrum of Technology Professionals to network, knowledge share and discuss existing technology solutions to business challenges, as well as preview prerelease products on the bleeding edge.

This year, we expanded to three tracks offering more presentations and providing you with more content choices representing a greater breadth of Industry insight. We will open the event with a keynote presentation from the unstoppable juggernaut, Joe Stagner, Program Manager for Microsoft’s Web Tools and Platform Division.Attendees will have the opportunity to:

• Enhance technical knowledge with comprehensive and relevant educational content
• Build experience on current and soon-to-be released technologies and products
• Engage with sponsors, presenters, and other technology professionals
• Learn how to get involved with .NET Valley, Northeastern Pennsylvania’s Technology User Group
• Leave with software and other swag

For more information and to register for the event, visit the TECHbash website at techbash.com

Featured Article

In this article, Brian explores the client-side programming aspect of the ASP.NET AJAX Framework. He will look at setting up client-side components that represent server-side counterparts, and an introductory leading into developing control extenders with the help of relevant code sample. Brian initially provides an overview of Application Namespaces and then examines the various helper methods. Towards the end of the article he also discusses ASP.NET Client Framework Development and Web Services. The article is well supported by relevant code snippets with detailed analysis.

Editor's Comments

During this transition time between .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.5 we are seeing plenty of people adopting LINQ. It is a very powerful tool, and it has been seeing plenty of adopters lately. If you have not tried LINQ yet, I suggest you give it a shot. Grab LINQPad and start using it to write LINQ. If you really want to learn LINQ I recommend you take the LINQPad Challenge which basically asks you to use LINQPad instead of SQL Server Management Studio for a week. Give it a shot. Perhaps you’ll find you like LINQ as much as so many others do.

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New Articles on ASPAlliance.com

Insufficient VM LAN connectivity in the development of SharePoint solutions may cause developers to lose valuable time and peak development capabilities. This article provides reasons and steps to configure the most valuable VM LAN connectivity practices with the help of relevant steps and screen shots.

In this video Mohammad Azam demonstrates how to compress HttpResponse using ASP.NET MVC Framework. He uses Fiddler to demonstrate the changes made by the compression. [7:00]

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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.

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.

Determine if a user's Session is still active.

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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.

Crystal Reports 2008 was released in October 2007. This article (written in Jan 08) explains the ins and outs of the CR2008 versions, integration with VS versions, side-by-side compatibility, upgrading reports and general features of interest to Visual Studio Developers.

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.

SQL Server Reporting Services Recent Articles

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.

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