You can't always make all of your data retrieval decisions at design time -- sometimes you have to wait for the user to tell you what data to get. Peter shows you how to work with a DataSource to retrieve data dynamically at runtime.
Despite recent initiatives, the possibility of a machine-readable Web extolled by World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee still faces many obstacles, he admitted recently at a conference.
- By Joab Jackson
- 11/02/2009
The White House's recent deployment of the Drupal open source content management system for its Web site has created a stir among industry observers.
- By Joab Jackson
- 10/29/2009
The MultiView control allows you to swap sets of controls on and off the page. But the MultiView control also makes it easier for you to generate new page content and add it at run time.
Zend Technologies, creator and commercial maintainer of the PHP dynamic scripting language, Wednesday kicked off its ZendCon conference by releasing the first public beta of its Zend Server 5.0 Web-app server.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/21/2009
With its portfolio bulging with 3,000 disparate products based on 59 acquisitions, Oracle outlined some key updates on its efforts to make them work together at its annual OpenWorld conference.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/14/2009
Peter investigates three solutions for getting junk off your page when the user wants to print a copy.
This summer Microsoft quietly released the first key components of its .NET Reactive (Rx) Framework, which allows developers to write Language Integrated Query (LINQ) expressions against events.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/01/2009
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
FluidHtml is a new markup language that lets Web developers generate Flash on Web sites without running the browser plug-in.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/22/2009
In a move that raised some eyebrows, Adobe Systems said it will acquire Omniture Inc., a leading supplier of Web analytics technology, for $1.8 billion.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/16/2009
ASP.NET can simplify the difficult task of internationalizing your Web pages. Peter Vogel shows you how.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a test version of an extension that's designed to help speed up PHP-based Web applications running on Windows platforms.
A reader responds to our August interview with Scott Guthrie, corporate VP of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform group, about Silverlight 3.
- By Readers of Visual Studio Magazine
- 09/01/2009
Careful planning can help improve the manageability and quality of your next-generation Silverlight applications.
- By Kathleen Dollard
- 09/01/2009