Archive for December, 2008

ASP.NET 3.5 Reporting Services

‘ReportViewer’ Control is available on the toolbar of Visual Stuio 2008.
Below C# code demonstrates the usage from code-behind.

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ReportViewer1.ProcessingMode = Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ProcessingMode.Remote;
 
// your report server url here - looks like: http://localhost/ReportServer
ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl = new Uri( ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["pathReportServer"] );
 
 
// Add parameters if you have
List<reportparameter> paramList = new List<reportparameter>();
paramList.Add(new ReportParameter("Month", "01", false));
paramList.Add(new ReportParameter("Year", "2008", false));
 
 
// Your report path inside report [...]

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LINQPad

LINQPad is a free tool for quering database using LINQ queries just like we do in our old MS SQL Query Analyzer or MS SQL Management Studio.
Visit the homepage of LINQPad at http://www.linqpad.net/
Or download the tool directly from http://www.linqpad.net/LINQPad.exe

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Extreme beginner’s LINQ sample in VB.NET

I used Visual Studio 2008 with Visual Basic.NET for this sample.

Start New website (or web applicaiton) project

In the Server Explorer, add a data connection. (I added a SQL Server database ‘test’ with only one table ‘test’.

Right click on the solution in Solution Explorer and select Add Existing Item…

Add LINQ to SQL [...]

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Cropper Skype Plugin

I wrote a plugin for Cropper which can send screenshots to Skype contacts directly. I made this because I frequently talk with clients and always used MS Paint to crop the screenshots. All were time consuming. I checked search engines and did not find any useful skype plugin even as commercial. So I wrote this [...]

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What is new in .NET 4.0?

Here goes a good link: http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2008/10/05/what-is-new-in-net-4-0.aspx
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Happy X`Mas and New Year 2009

Who is this? Just changed logo of Kidoos site. Happy X`Mas and New Year 2009

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Book Review: Beginning XML with C# 2008: From Novice to Professional

My lastest book review posted at below locations:
http://kidoos.net/content/BookReviewXMLCSharp2008BipinJoshi.aspx

http://www.ninethsense.com/content/view/61/49/

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/book-reviews/XMLC_Sharp2008BipinJoshi.aspx

Well, I wrote this reivew 1-2 months back but suddently my home PC harddisk got currupted and I was not able to publish this. Now I got back atleast data on my harddisk and it is live
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Windows Live Translator Messenger Bot

You may be aware of Microsoft’s language translation service at http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/
Here is a cool feature which allows you to do translations from your messenger. Simply add tbot@hotmail.com as your buddy.
Initially you will be asked to set your source and target languages.You can get list of commands by typing "tbot ?".
Here is the list of available commands [...]

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Oxite - A blog engine with ASP.NET MVC

Oxite is an open source, standards compliant, and highly extensible content management platform that can run anything from blogs to big web sites.
This is a simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC, and is designed with two main goals:

To provide a sample of ‘core blog functionality’ in a reusable fashion. Blogs are simple and well [...]

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ELMAH integration to ASP.NET in simple steps

For this experiment, I have used a new web application on visual studio 2008.
1. Download latest version from http://elmah.googlecode.com/
2. Reference the Elmah.dll file from the downloaded files (Eg: \ELMAH-1.0-BETA3-bin\bin\net-3.5\Elmah.dll)
3. Add below code in your web.config file - under configuration node:

<br /><sectiongroup name="elmah">
 
<br /><section name="security" type="Elmah.SecuritySectionHandler, Elmah" requirepermission="false" [...]

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