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There are so many ways to integrate an SSRS report into your page that the biggest problem you'll face is deciding which one to use. Peter runs through all the solutions he can think of, including those cases where you want to download the report as a file.
07/19/2016
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Here are three rules for defining ASP.NET MVC routes that you can actually understand.
07/15/2016
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By Bartlomiej Filipek
Debugging is a crucial part of the development process. In this new series of tried and true C++ tips, we look at the basics of debugging and step through some more advanced debuggings tips for C++ developers.
07/13/2016
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R has limited support for mathematical permutations, but it's there. Here's what R is capable of accomplishing.
07/12/2016
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If you adopt the Interface Segregation principle, then you can eliminate (or, at least, control) one of the most annoying problems in creating very useful objects. But following that principle through to its conclusion also inverts the traditional hierarchy of the development team.
07/11/2016
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It pays to be explicit and not use the emotional defaults of each language.
07/07/2016
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You can write some complicated code to ensure that you don't create any object until you absolutely need it. Or you can use the Lazy object...at least some of the time.
07/06/2016
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If you're looking for an easy way to save the user's current state, the simplest solution is use the Serialize and Deserialize method.
06/28/2016
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JSX+React provides a flexible way for you to structure your client-side code to two things you want: dynamically transform your page in response to your user's input, and to integrate with ASP.NET MVC action methods.
06/28/2016
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If you want a more permanent record of what's going on at a breakpoint then what you need is a tracepoint.
06/23/2016
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By Kate Gregory
Like magic, tuples make the impossible possible. Yep, we're talking here about one little corner in the Standard Template Library that will make it simple to return multiple values from a single function, without "out" parameters -- and it has other uses, too.
06/22/2016
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You usually don't care about Entity Framework's change tracking system. But here's a way to avoid it and improve your performance, at least when deleting entities.
06/21/2016
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Here's another way to make applications more scalable and more responsive to the user: store some application data on the user's computer.
06/20/2016
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It's not quite like C# or Python, but the R language's object-oriented programming capabilities are getting better with each iteration. Let's take a look at what .NET developers are able do now with OOP in R6.
06/16/2016
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Nothing and null are one and the same, except in the language of programming.
06/15/2016
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In any real-world business, updating data isn't simple and changing the rows in the table is just the start of a complex set of processes. Fortunately, you can break those updates down into a bunch of simple processes that can be easily extended.
06/13/2016
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You couldn't do it in earlier versions of Entity Framework but, in more recent versions, you can use lambda expressions to save yourself from some runtime errors.
06/10/2016
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By Kate Gregory
Null pointer exceptions can get downright annoying, so who needs that?
06/08/2016
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The CQRS pattern separates updates from queries, allowing you to create the best process for each of those activities. Effectively, CQRS codifies the standard practice for ASP.NET MVC developers: Here are some strategies for implementing that pattern and improving your application's performance.
06/06/2016
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Here's how to exploit Entity Framework's change tracking mechanism by eliminating some trips to the database.
06/03/2016
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You have a List holding objects of one type and you want to load those objects into another List of a related type. You don't need to write a For…Each loop to make the conversion.
06/01/2016
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If you ever need to work with all of the properties in some object, you can use GetType and GetProperties to retrieve the object's PropertyInfo objects. After that you can do what you want. Here's an extension method that sets all those properties to their defaults, for example.
05/27/2016
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Creating a form with TypeScript, React and JSX lets you generate the HTML for your form dynamically, at runtime, and on the user's computer. Here's how to integrate a data- driven form into ASP.NET MVC.
05/23/2016
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Organizing your code into folders is a good idea. Those folders don't have to be in your file system.
05/20/2016
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Developers will always look to customize everything, and keyboards aren't out of bounds. Here's how to customize the iOS keyboard that pops up in your mobile apps to address any shortcomings.
05/18/2016