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Creating a multi-level object using the dynamic features of C# 4.0

Describes how to use SSIS object model for importing data to SQL server 2005

In .NET Web applications you can find that in many places custom classes and collections are better choices than the DataSet or DataTable. The custom classes or the custom class collections, which are truly object oriented, allow developers to employ all object-oriented programming techniques.

Unfortunately, .NET Framework and Visual Studio 2005 don’t provide good support of the custom class. As a result, developers often encounter the following three barriers around using the custom class.

DataSet and DataTable are Microsoft’s solutions to these problems. Microsoft provides lots of built-in support of DataSet and DataTable in their development tools and in the .NET Framework library. But the DataSet and DataTable are far from object-oriented. Besides, they have lots of overhead.

ADO.NET vNext is a leap forward in database programming, using mapping files to isolate your applications from relational database schema changes, and letting you choose whether to deal with data directly as objects or as tabular data.

Db4o is the open source object database that enables Java and .NET developers to slash development time and costs and achieve unprecedented levels of performance. The unique design of db4o's native object database engine makes it the ideal choice to be embedded in equipment and devices, in packaged software running on mobile or desktop platforms, or in real-time control systems - in short: in all Java and .NET environments, where no DBA is present.

ADO.NET in the next release of Visual Studio code-named "Orcas" features the new Entity Framework. It allows developers to focus on data through an object model instead of through a logical/relational data model. The Entity Framework helps abstract the logical data schema into a conceptual model and allows for multiple ways to interact with the conceptual model through Object Services and a new data provider called EntityClient. This month’s column discusses what the Entity Framework is, how it fits into an application, and how it can be designed and programmed against.

This is an assembly used to print reports in text mode. This results in a FAST and LIGHT WEIGHTED printing solution for your .NET application. It support all major printer control command sets (HP-PCL, EPSON-ESC, IBM-Proprinter). Most printer are normally compatible with one of these. The component supports the use of font styles (bold, italic ...), lines and rectangles, fonts, mapping of character sets.... RTextPrinter provides an easy to use api for printing text mode reports. It will handle the communication with the printer and all printer configuration commands in a transparent manner for you.

I'm currently in the process of developing an object relation mapper for use with Microsoft SQL server. During this process I've been faced with a number of challenges related to the fact that I will be working with objects rather than datatables. If you've ever tried binding a datagrid to a list of objects, I'm sure you have come across the problem where you wanted to display properties that is not part of the object type itself.

This is normally referred to as nested property binding. Many people create special view objects when this becomes a necessity. I wanted a smoother solution and I wanted it design time. The component I've created derives from Bindingsource and is called ObjectBindingSource. As the name implies the components is designed to be working with objects and not datasets/datatables..

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"Web application development has come a long way in a fairly short period of time." A quote like that surely won't send anyone into shock anytime soon because it's accepted as fact. From basic, static HTML pages to totally data-driven and data-centric Web applications, the demands on a Web developer are much more complex and demanding than they were just a few years ago. The advent of social networking sites like MySpace, which is written in ASP.NET 2.0, interactive mapping sites, and sites streaming full motion video has required the Web developer to adapt and change with the times. One of the best tools to use to build these types of Web applications is Microsoft's ASP.NET 2.0. In this article I am going to delve into some of the more interesting features of ASP.NET 2.0 and show you how you can begin using ASP.NET 2.0 on your next Web project.