http://aspalliance.com/ Recent articles on AspAlliance.com. In this article, Sergey examines the capabilities of Silverlight to create an advanced view of a tool tip. After a short introduction, he shows ways to create the tool tip with standard representations and examines the customization capabilities of the tool tip view. Finally, he shows how to create animations for the tool tip. http://aspalliance.com/1862_Advanced_View_of_a_ToolTip_in_Silverlight_3 Sergey Zwezdin Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT In this sixth part of the series, Vince examines the creation of a sales forecast crystal report based on the AdventureWorks database in a series of steps. He initially provides a brief outline of creating a new solution in Visual Studio 2008 and database connectivity and then demonstrates the usage of parameter fields and formula fields in addition to building an ASP.NET web page to execute and preview the report with the help of exammple screenshots and code snippets. http://aspalliance.com/1892_Building_Reports_Using_ASPNET_and_Crystal_Reports__Part_6__Build_a_Sales_Forecast_Report_Using_Parameter_Fields Vince Varallo Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT When we have to pass multiple rows of data to SQL Server, the developers either have to send one row at a time or come up with other workarounds to meet requirements like using XML to pass data, which is complex and tedious to use. There is a SQLBulkCopy object available in .NET to send multiple rows of data to SQL Server at once, but this still cannot be passed to a stored procedure. SQL Server 2008 provides a new feature called "Table-Valued Parameters". This provides us the ability to easily pass a table to a stored procedure from T-SQL code or from an application as a parameter. http://aspalliance.com/1891_Pass_Tables_to_Stored_Procedure__Table_Valued_Parameter Aamod Thakur Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Sergey Zwezdin examines the capabilities of Windows 7 for developers. In particular, he provides a detailed step-by-step overview of developing with the Windows 7 Taskbar by demonstrating how to implement a progress bar, thumb buttons, and window preview. http://aspalliance.com/1870_Developing_with_the_Taskbar_in_Windows_7 Sergey Zwezdin Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT In this second part of the series, Eric examines the usage of caching in Crystal Reports. He makes use of Visual Studio Team System testing to compare performance between cached and non-cached pages. After providing a short introduction and outlining the system requirements, he examines the test strategy in detail and provides a comprehensive coverage of both the NonCached and Cached loads with a detailed analysis of the results with the help of screen shots and source codes. http://aspalliance.com/1893_Load_Testing_Crystal_Reports_with_High_Shareability_Caching Eric Landes Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT This article provides a detailed overview of .NET Rich Internet Applications (RIA) services. After a brief introduction, Sergey analyzes the concept with the help of an ADO.NET Entity Framework application along with relevant source code and screen shots. http://aspalliance.com/1868_NET_RIA_Services_Overview Sergey Zwezdin Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT This web user control comprises the ASP.NET AJAX HoverMenuExtender, JavaScript, StyleSheet, and CheckBoxListExCtrl. The final product works with or without a MasterPage and you can drag and drop more than one instance of the control on to the page. http://aspalliance.com/1886_ASPNET_Multiple_Selection_DropDownList_with_AJAX_HoverMenuExtender Bryian Tan Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT ADO.NET 3.5 coupled with LINQ and Entity Framework provides many possibilities for developers. Read what Anand has to say about Anne's latest book on these advanced topics. Will this book help you learn the concepts easily? Does it include adequate coverage with real world code samples? Find it now by reading this review. http://aspalliance.com/1878_Review_Murachs_ADONET_35_LINQ_and_the_Entity_Framework_with_VB_2008 Anand Narayanaswamy Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Brendan reviews Packt Publishing's "ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly" book. He briefly describes the book while pointing out what the book has done well and where it could have done better. If you are looking for a book on ASP.NET MVC you should read this review of Maarten Balliauw's book. http://aspalliance.com/1871_Review_ASPNET_MVC_10_Quickly Brendan Enrick Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Scott examines the features of the web.config file that developers use in .NET Framework 4.0. He provides a brief summary of the config file which ships with the previous versions of .NET and then provides crisp coverage of the new file. http://aspalliance.com/1887_Clean_WebConfig_Files_VS_2010_and_NET_40_Series Scott Guthrie Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT