Entries for the 'ASP.NET' Category

I had a customer that wanted a Business Intelligence SharePoint web-part to track their facebook fans over time, to measure the effectiveness of their Facebook marketing push. Little did I suspect that I would be a casualty in the wars over database scalability. I was excited because I'd heard great things about the active Facebook developer community, and found that the Facebook Query ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

DMC has recently developed a set of versatile, powerful, time-saving, and customizable web parts to utilize in our SharePoint dashboard solutions.  These tools provide a huge array of ways to visualize data and KPI's critical to a company's operation in a way that is simple and easy to interpret.   Here are some of the major benefits of this new web part architecture:   ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

Last Thursday, October 1st, Ben Zeinz and I attended the afternoon session of an MSDN event entitled "Real World Azure".  It introduced Windows Azure ahead of its upcoming release.  The morning session was geared towards IT personnel while the afternoon was for developers like us.  The session was led by Dave Bost, developer evangelist at Microsoft, who also hosts The Thirsty Develo... [Read the rest of this blog...]

We used  MS SQL Server Reporting Service (SSRS) on multiple projects as web-reports engine. I liked it a lot because it allows to design quite complicated reports at no time. But sometimes I wish I could edit data viewed in the report (like edit row comment, etc). Although it's not possible to edit report data using standard SSRS features, but there is a way around it.

When developing a SharePoint solution, there are many choices of development environments to get the job done, but they are not all equal. Once you’ve figured out the purpose of the page, how many web-parts are required for that purpose, and what the inputs for each web-part are, only then can you consider which development environment is appropriate according. Imagine the following options as a ... [Read the rest of this blog...]

DMC has added a cool new code syntax highlighter to our blog!

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It’s a common problem: “I have an ASP .Net data entry form and all of my users are mad at me because they closed their browser and they lost their unsaved data!” If I had a dollar for every time I had to re-enter my shipping address because I used my back button when the site creator didn’t want me to… well I’d have enough dollars to make the mistake a few more times, probably buying robot p... [Read the rest of this blog...]

When creating data entry forms in ASP .NET, the JavaScript onbeforeonload event can add a huge improvement to the end user experience. This nifty little event is fired before a page is unloaded (duh) and will keep users from navigating off of a page (and even from closing their browser) when they have unsaved changes on a data entry form. The onbeforeunload event behaves a bit oddly for an e... [Read the rest of this blog...]