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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009 Web Development ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA) The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces Using the Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5 with the CDN Microsoft AJAX Library Preview 6 & Data Binding Web Design User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes The Ultimate...( read more ) Read More...

Just a decade and a half ago, the process of building a simple Windows-based application could have been described as a nightmare. The introduction of Visual Basic changed it so developers could for the first time implement Windows applications in an intuitive, graphical environment by dragging controls onto a form. The web revolution is here and now. Web had become very quickly the platform of choice for all kind of applications. The demand for web applications is ever growing and cloud computing...( read more ) Read More...

Due to Visual WebGui cloud application platform, developers can now deploy their applications to Windows Azure with the click of a button with no re-writes or new programming skills needed. “(now we can) quickly achieve what, a year ago, would have taken more people, more money, and a lot more time. It’s going to open up applications of sorts we’ve never seen before.” The ease of using Visual WebGui was a key benefit. Noted Naylor, “There was no learning curve with Visual WebGui. To a Windows developer...( read more ) Read More...

Hi everyone, First of all,this is my first article so if you have any suggestions or comments on my article please post it. Introduction: Many of us created a group options using "select" like this : <SELECT id="myselect"> <OPTGROUP LABEL="COUNTRY"> <OPTION LABEL="country1"> country1 </OPTION> <OPTION LABEL="country1">country1</OPTION> </OPTGROUP> <OPTGROUP LABEL="STATE"> <OPTION LABEL="STATE1"> STATE1 </OPTION> <OPTION LABEL="STATE2">STATE2</OPTION> </OPTGROUP> </SELECT> as you can see it's pretty easy to do it using select tag,you can refer to this W3C site for more information...

I was asked the other day how to process a long running task asynchronously using ASP.Net MVC along with JQuery to update a progress bar on the view via Ajax. There are many ways of accomplishing this type of multithreading, in this blog I’m going to document one of the simplest and easiest to implement (this solution is really for small apps). Firstly, create a class that will manage the long running task – as this is a contrived example without the use of a database, the class is going to have static dictionary property that will store the unique key and status of each long running task. – the dictionary is used to allow for multiple users firing off individual long running tasks. using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Threading; namespace...

November 12 *Free* ASP.NET 4.0 Hosting (beta 2) Sandbox now available! You have been asking for it, and it is finally available; a .NET 4.0 beta hosting sandbox! Signup is easy, just go to the DiscountASP.NET labs page and follow the link. The number of accounts on the .NET 4.0 beta server are strictly limited, so if you are interested you should sign up today. This is a public beta , so you do not have to be a current DiscountASP.NET customer to take advantage of the offer. We are including MS SQL2008...( read more ) Read More...

e-grou is an online document management and workflow collaboration service that was developed using Visual WebGui after the company gave a good effort to build that web application with ASP.NET but found that it was too time consuming and that performance also was an issue in certain cases. “...With Visual WebGui we ported our previous web client in just a couple of months with additional functionality, better performance, and looking much better from the graphical point of view... Choosing VWG reduced...( read more ) Read More...

The Concept I created “ Ugly Outfitters ” to showcase the interaction between Infragistics Drag & Drop , jQuery and Microsoft Ajax Preview 6 . Why Ugly Outfitters? Well, I decided that rather than just dragging around some bland icons on the screen why not attempt to inject a little bit of humor into the process. Like I said... attempt ;) If you want to jump right in take a look at this short video demonstrating the application with a quick overview of the code: Note: Also available are higher quality versions of the video. What follows is an excerpt of the discussion of what’s found in Ugly Outfitters. The best way to get acquainted with the details is always to download the code and review it’s design. The Approach The page is constructed...

Visual WebGui version 6.3.12 was released today as a further stabilization on the way to 6.4. The new release includes enhancements to the Control Wrapper such as improved support for 3rd party controls and a more stable overall operation after a few issues were resolved. Visual WebGui provides Develop, Run, Manage & Migrate benefits for Ajax empowered Web / Cloud applications Free download Visual WebGui 6.3.12 Development Tools >...( read more ) Read More...

In the first code challenge of its kind, Visual WebGui is offering a $10,000 and giving away prizes valued at thousands of dollars in their call to developers to be the first to submit a Webmail application written by another framework with fewer lines of code. Visual WebGui web/cloud platform's productivity is featured via the "Project Webmail", which is an Outlook-like web application with desktop responsiveness & performance & functionalities that was developed by a single developer in...( read more ) Read More...