Big Iron shops have two options to run their Windows applications on System z: emulation via z/Vos or full-blown porting via Mono.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 09/08/2009
The final installment in Peter's series on how to use the GridView without a DataSource explores how developers can perform inserts.
Peter adds the code to support doing updates and deletes with an unbound GridView.
On Friday, Microsoft made the new R2 version of its Windows Server 2008 server operating system available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
If you want to let your users edit repeated rows of data, you can use the GridView -- even if your data isn't in a table. You need to do pick the right design for your data but you can enable all of the functionality of the GridView for data held in memory.
Sorting in the GridView is simple to implement, as long as you want simple sorting. For more complex sorts you have to take control of the Sorting event.
Peter returns to .NET RIA Services to look at the client side of creating an application.
The ASP.NET-related portions of .NET RIA Services aren't ready for primetime yet, but now's a good time to start kicking the tires.
Telerik’s Premium Collection for .NET, released last week, updates all seven of its product lines including the data access tool and Web UI testing framework that mark the company’s new strategy to diversify beyond UI components for the Microsoft platform.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/16/2009
Your users may want to get their data in a specific order -- and not get it all at once. You can control both with the ObjectDataSource (and a little code).
The newest version of Microsoft's answer to Flash is now out. Dan gives a quick rundown of what's different, from the improved graphics and networking support to new controls and styles.
Not content with providing a solution for displaying information from the Content page on its MasterPage, Peter returns to the topic to solve the problem from another direction.
Visual Studio Magazine gives a rundown of AVIcode's Intercept uX, Mykonos' 1.0 AJAX security framework, and Borland's TeamDefine.
- By Michael Desmond
- 07/01/2009
Learn how to store and retrieve binary large objects in the cloud with Azure's RESTful Storage API.
- By Roger Jennings
- 07/01/2009
Validator controls make handling errors and reporting them in the UI easy, but what you may not know is how easy it is to create your own Validator.
If you've consumed an ASP.NET ASMX Web service before, then you'll feel right at home consuming a WCF service.
In his ongoing campaign to convince ASP.NET developers that User Controls are a simple way to start implementing customizable pages, Peter shows how to improve the integration between User Controls and ASP.NET's WebPart framework.
If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about.
If you want to use Entity Framework in ASP.NET, you're going to need to handle concurrency problems. Here are some suggestions from a Microsoft "architect evangelist."
Peter revisits the problem of dealing with multiple updates to the same data, but this time he looks at a solution that involves the ObjectDataSource.