October 2009

Volume 24 Number 10

October 2009 Code Downloads

October 2009

Cutting Edge - Data Binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0

In this article, Dino reviews the pillars of real-world AJAX development as supported in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0. In doing so, he mostly focuses on client-side templates and data-binding but doesn't ignore other goodies, such as ADO.NET Data Services proxy classes and programming facilities.
VB version

Data Points - Data Validation with Silverlight 3 and the DataForm

In this month’s column, John Papa shows you how the DataForm control works and how it can be customized.  He presents in detail a sample application that uses several features to bind, navigate, edit and validate data using the DataForm.
VB version

Foudations - Routers in the Service Bus

This article describes aspects of using routers with the .NET service bus, especially their use in a message-based architecture.

SharePoint and Open XML - Generating Documents from SharePoint Using Open XML Content Controls

This article describes how to generate documents that contain data stored in SharePoint lists. The example demonstrates how OpenXML content controls can be defined to capture list data in a Word document and how LINQ to XML can be used to query the lists. The documents are generated from a SharePoint Web Part.