Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable For Your Web Server

As you might find out the hard way, the .NET redistributable does not include the files required for the Reporting Services ReportViewer control. This is an issue for web servers when deploying ASP.NET applications that use this control. You can download the redistributable files below: Visual Studio 2005 Visual Studio 2008

ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and the DataSource Control

I built a page that uses the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and within it I placed a GridView control that connects to a DataSet (that uses TableAdapers to a SQL Server 2005 database back end) using a DataSource control. I do not use paging in the GridView so that the user can print all of the … Continue reading ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel and the DataSource Control

ASP.NET Codeplex Site

This project gives you access to the code for upcoming releases that the Microsoft ASP.NET team is working on. The project gives you a look at the design and lets you have a voice in it. http://codeplex.com/aspnet

ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a preview of new features being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A9C6BC06-B894-4B11-8300-35BD2F8FC908&displaylang=en

SQL Server CE and Typed Datasets

I found out the hard way in the last two days that an SQL Server CE database does not work properly when creating a typed Dataset with a ASP.NET 3.5 application. Sure, you can create one in the IDE, but the code-on-the-fly will not be generated therefor you can't use it in your code. Actually … Continue reading SQL Server CE and Typed Datasets

Installing VS 2008 Crystal Reports Runtime on a Server

I needed to update a program and when I brought it up in VS 2008, it changed the version of Crystal Reports to 10.5.3700. This presented a challenge to get the required Crystal files onto the production server. Of course using the VS web publish feature does not do this even though I wish it … Continue reading Installing VS 2008 Crystal Reports Runtime on a Server

Adding Blank Selection To A DropDownList Control – Part 2

When data binding to a DropDownList control in ASP.NET, there are in many cases when you want the first selection of the control to be blank or say something like "<please select value>". In part one of this tip (back in 2003), I wrote that you could just add an empty row to the DataSet. … Continue reading Adding Blank Selection To A DropDownList Control – Part 2

Gmail Like UpdateProgress

Below is some code to create a Gmail like UpdateProgress control. Displays a red box with white text in the upper right side of the browser.<div style="font-weight: bold; left: 90%; color: white; font-family: Arial; position: absolute;   top: 2px; background-color: red; border-top-width: thin; border-left-width: thin;   border-left-color: black; border-bottom-width: thin; border-bottom-color: black;   border-top-color: black; border-right-width: thin; border-right-color: black;">   <asp:UpdateProgress ID="UpdateProgress1" … Continue reading Gmail Like UpdateProgress

SQLServerDataMining.com

This site has been designed by the SQL Server Data Mining team to provide the SQL Server community with access to and information about our exciting data mining features. http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/

Wayback Machine

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