Friday, May 13, 2011
We are pleased to announce Tech∙Ed on the Road, where we put together the best sessions from Tech∙Ed India 2011 and bring them to your city. These events are not only about content and sessions – they also provide an opportunity for you to interact with and have your questions answered by the very people who work on these technologies day-in and day-out, and who can help you plan the features and architecture to support your business goals.
The content for this 10-city series of events will be targeted towards Professional Developers, Project Managers, Architects, IT Administrators and Implementers, and IT Managers. Focus will be on technologies like Database and BI, Internet Explorer 9, SharePoint 2010, Web Platform, and Windows Azure.
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How to manage the controller's session state? Simply we can decorate the controller class with "SessionState" attribute. [SessionState()] attribute accepts SessionStateBehaviour enumeration. SessionStateBehaviour enumeration has the following constants.
- SessionStateBehavior.Default - ASP.NET default logic is used to determine the session state behavior for the request.
- SessionStateBehavior.Required - Full read-write session state behavior is enabled for the request.
- SessionStateBehavior.ReadOnly - Read only session state is enabled for the request.
- SessionStateBehavior.Disabled - Session state is not enabled for processing the request.
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Friday, March 18, 2011
ASP.NET MVC provides many built-in HTML Helpers. With help of HTML Helpers we can reduce the amount of typing of HTML tags for creating a HTML page.
For example we use Html.TextBox() helper method it generates html input textbox. Write the following code snippet in MVC View:
<%=Html.TextBox("txtName",20)%>
It generates the following html in output page:
<input id="txtName" name="txtName" type="text" value="20" />
List of built-in HTML Helpers provided by ASP.NET MVC.
- ActionLink() - Links to an action method.
- BeginForm() - Marks the start of a form and links to the action method that renders the form.
- CheckBox() - Renders a check box.
- DropDownList() - Renders a drop-down list.
- Hidden() - Embeds information in the form that is not rendered for the user to see.
- ListBox() - Renders a list box.
- Password() - Renders a text box for entering a password.
- RadioButton() - Renders a radio button.TextArea() - Renders a text area (multi-line text box).
- TextBox () - Renders a text box.
How to develop our own Custom HTML Helpers?
For developing custom HTML helpers the simplest way is to write an extension method for the HtmlHelper class. See the below code, it builds a custom Image HTML Helper for generating image tag.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
SIMPLEST WAY TO BUILD BUSINESS APPLICATIONS FOR THE DESKTOP, WEB AND CLOUD
Micrososft Visual Studio LightSwitch gives you a simpler and faster way to create professional-quality business applications for the desktop, the web, and the cloud. LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family. Visit this page often to learn more about this exciting product.
QUICKLY CREATE PROFESSIONAL-QUALITY BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
With LightSwitch, you can build custom applications that rival off-the-shelf solutions. Get a head start by using pre-configured screen templates that give your application a familiar look and feel. LightSwitch also provides prewritten code and other reusable components to handle routine application tasks, along with helpful step-by-step guidance. However, if you need to write custom code, you can use Visual Basic .NET or C#. You can deploy to the desktop, browser, or cloud (post-Beta) to share your application with others more easily without the cumbersome installation processes.
EASILY ACCESS EXISTING SYSTEMS AND DATA
Applications created with LightSwitch support exporting data to Microsoft Office Excel for fast and easy sharing and reporting. You can also attach your application to existing data sources, which makes it easy to collect, analyze, and reuse information from a variety of data sources including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Azure, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Access (post-Beta), and other third-party data sources.
BUILD FOR TODAY, PREPARE FOR TOMORROW
With LightSwitch you can create custom applications for the way you do business. Keep your technology and business options open, while building a practical yet scalable application that matches your current needs now and in the future. The pre-built templates and components in LightSwitch are fully extensible, so you can get the specific functionality your application demands. In addition, your application can grow to meet the increasing demands of popular applications using the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Hosting option.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
The new ribbon control is compatible with WPF 3.5sp1 and WPF 4. This is a 100% WPF implementation, not a wrapper around native code. That means you get all the great WPF styling capabilities for the new control. All screenshots below were taken from a .NET 4 Client Profile project.