ASP.NET
ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0 are covered here. A great improvement from ASP, and a natural fit with SQL Server of course.
Let's say you have a very large DropDownList with lots of values and text. We need to maintain ViewState in this DropDownList so that we can retrieve the selected value on a post back. Of course, this means that now the ViewState contains the data for every single value in the list, both values and text included. Even though the page itself may be fairly simple and lightweight, the result of having this simple DropDownList on the page is that the page size is quite large and the amount of data passed back and forth on a postback is very...
In ASP.NET, we often would like to output "grouped" data on our web pages, like this:
Customer Product Sales
-------- ---------- -----
ABC Foundation
Product 1 $200
Product 2 $437
Product 3 $523
The XLZ Company
Product 1 $240
Product 2 $892
Product 3 $395
The easiest way to do this is with nested Repeater controls; one for the outer group (Customers, this case), and within that Repeater's ItemTemplate we'd have another Repeater control for the details (Products).
To use nested repeaters, you would return two separate result sets from SQL:
A "Customers" result set,...
On a particular real estate website, we have a "Property Summary" section that contains each property's name, the address, a phone number (if it exists), and a contact email address (if it exists).
The information is data bound to properties in the page's code-behind, and the ASP.NET code basically looks like this:
<div>
<%# Property Name%>
<%# AddressLine1 %>
<%# AddressLine2 %>
<%# AddressLine3 %>
<%# CityStateZIP %>
<%# Phone %>
<%# Email %>
</div>
Because lots of these elements are optional, all of these properties have all been written to work like this in the code-behind:
Protected Readonly Property AddressLine1 as String
Get
If...
A question I see very often in the SQLTeam forums is how to return data in a summarized form by concatenating a list of values into a single CSV column. This can be done fairly easily in T-SQL, but as the formatting and concatenation requirements becomes more elaborate, be sure to ask yourself: Am I forcing presentation code into the database layer? read more...
There's a great series of posts over at Scott Guthrie's Blog covering LINQ, a new feature in the upcoming version of Visual Studio ("Orcas"). Check it out; I have not had a chance to play around with it yet, but it certainly looks very interesting. The articles are very well done and explain the concept very clearly with lots of examples.
It's great to be able to put settings in the Web.Config file for my ASP.NET projects. The problem for me, though, is that when I use System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings(name)
to return a setting that doesn't exist in the file ...
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By default, the ViewState for ASP.NET DataGrids can be quite large, as it normally stores enough information to recreate the grid completely after a postback. Often, I have found that I need the grid to display a list of items with only paging, sorting, and some buttons that let you delete or edit (via another page) individual items.
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