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Discover how easy it can be to build browser-friendly HTML from your datasources with WebGrid. Maintaining a datasource is plug and play with WebGrid. Set a few properties and WebGrid will generate a browser friendly data form, and handle all database interaction for insert, update, and datasource delete using safe parameterized queries generated by the grid. A user friendly system message is generated if user input is not valid.

After spending a lot of time focusing on Client-Side Web 2.0 Performance Problems it is time to focus on specific Server-Side Performance Problems. Last week I worked with a client that runs a custom application on Microsoft CRM 4.0 and experienced performance problems in their test environment. Individual web requests to query or update data took several minutes, with some of them eventually timing out. We analyzed some of these long running and failing transactions and in this article I present my analysis and hope it will be beneficial for other MS CRM Developers.

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Somebody was asking in the Sybase newsgroups “should I make the commitment to PB.NET?” and wanted non-marketing types to respond. I started to respond in the forums, but the eventual length of the response and its applicability to many other people resulted in my responding here. What PowerBuilder has always been good at – its differentiating factor – is allowing developers to rapidly build Windows client applications that are open with respect to the data source they work with. You can use other tools to do Windows client applications (e.g., C#, C++, etc.), but the primary advantage that PowerBuilder offers is that it accelerates the development effort. My gut feeling is that I can be an order of magnitude more productive using PowerBuilder to develop a Windows client than any other tool.

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The end of the year is upon us, 2010 is about to be in the books. When closing out a year I like to take a look back at the articles I wrote over the year and see which ones resonated the most with readers. Which ones generated the most reader emails? Which ones were read the most? Such a retrospective analysis highlights what content was of most interest to developers in the trenches, and this data is used to guide article topics in the new year.

I ended last year with a "Best Of" article - see 2009's Most Popular Articles - and decided to continue this tradition. Such "Best Of" articles give both regular and new readers a chance to discover (or rediscover) the most favored content from the year. So here it is - a list and synopsis of the 2010's most popular articles on 4GuysFromRolla.com.

SQL Server Reporting Services versions 2000 and 2005 (SSRS) has many powerful features. SSRS has a well-designed data access engine, a great set of layout tools, and an excellent expression system for creating complex formulas. While the expression system is quite powerful it is not suitable for all applications. This is where SSRS shines. SSRS gives developers the ability to add custom code to their report layouts. This article demonstrates adding custom code to SQL Server Reporting Services reports.

Google has provided a very reach Google Maps API to use it in our own application. But we need some short of javascript knowledge in order to use it. I don't know about others, but for me it was a little difficult to use javascript along with google apis in ASP.Net pages, specifically if you want to use server side functions to draw google map dynamically. For example, in my case I wanted to pull latitude longitude information from a SQL Server database and then use them to insert pushpins on google map. If you are familiar with Ajax framework, you know the answer. You will have to call asp.net server side function from javascript and use retrieved data to draw a google map. How simple is that? :). Atleast not for me. So I have decided to write a user control which can take care of javascript part and allows me to concentrate on serverside functions.

After my previous post on Integrate Microsoft Dynamics Axapta with Temperature Conversion C# Application, this is Part II. This article will demonstrate that after sending the data from Axapta to Temperature conversion application how we can post back the converted temperature to Axapta.

Online Article: Top-Ten Annotations and Remarks about the Wonderful and Powerful New Set of Features in ASP.NET 2.0

You'll still write a good deal of code in ASP.NET 2.0.Don't completely trust those who say that ASP.NET 2.0 cuts 70% of the amount of code you're called to write. You'll end up writing more or less the same quantity of code, but you'll write code of different quality. You'll have more components and less boilerplate code to tie together pages and controls. Features like the provider model, data source controls, and master pages make coding easier and equally effective. But since there's no magic behind, you have to learn the implications of each feature you employ. In the end, ASP.NET 2.0 comes with code behind, not magic behind.

In this article we start with a look at the T-SQL commands for performing asymmetric encryption and decryption. Next, we discuss using digital signatures as a means for ensuring the integrity of the encrypted data. This article concludes with an ASP.NET 2.0 website example that ties together the lessons learned throughout this article series. Specifically, the database used by this ASP.NET application stores customer information with the customer's credit card information encrypted. An ASP.NET page provides a means to view the sensitive information in plaintext as well as a means to add new customers to the database with the credit card information properly encrypted.

This article is devoted to consideration of practice with recommendations on how to use these options for protection not only against reverse engineering and deobfuscation, but also for protection of algorithms and data contained in .Net assemblies. Spices.Obfuscator is a tool for protecting different kinds of assemblies from managed C++ assemblies , ASP.Net, Windows.Forms and Compact.Framework assemblies. The Spices.Obfuscator tools can be customized by means of ObfuscationOptions which can be seen in Spices.Project for each project assembly. Open the assembly in Spices.Net, go to section Properties, open the property AssemblyList, and then open sub-properties to get the setting options of Obfuscator of each assembly.