Hi

ASP.NET Server Controls

Advantages:

1. ASP .NET Server Controls can detect the target browser's capabilities and render themselves accordingly. No issues for compatibility issues of Browsers i.e page that might be used by both HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0 browsers code is written in the Server Controls.

2. Newer set of controls that can be used in the same manner as any HTML control like Calender controls. Without any need of Activex Control without bringing up issues of Browser compatibility).

3. Processing would be done at the server side. In built functionality to check for few values(with Validation controls) so no need to choose between scripting language which would be incompatible with few browsers.

Hi,

News of November is here. Microsoft has released the latest version of Visual Studio 2008 and Dot net framework 3.5. If you want to use the free Visual Studio 2008 Express editions (which are much smaller and totally free), you can download them here. 

Although I have mentioned it before, here is a quick recap of the new features of Visual Studio 2008

Multi targeting support (supports framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5)

Asp.Net Ajax Support.

JavaScript  intelligence

JavaScript Debugging

VS 2008 new Web designer.

Very good support for CSS

Language Improvement and LINQ.

Data Access improvement with LINQ to SQL.

Hi,

One of the features that I use very regularly in Visual studio 2008 is the Open folder in Windows Explorer. Many a times we want to do something with the actual without the use of Visual Studio.

A common scenario is to change the connection string in the Web.config screen locally without checking in the Web.config file. What I do is go to the physical path and change the property of the file and make it editable.Now I open the file in a Notepad and update the connectionstring. This is many a times required to check for issues with different kind of data.

For cases like these I really like the feature of the visual studio on how easily I can open the working folder. All I need to do is click on the file (or project) right click (to get the context menu) and click on “Open folders in Window Explorer” to open the respective folder.

Thanks
Vikram

Hi,

Many a times we want to check if all the characters in a string are in capital letter or not? Doing this in Dot net is very simple. But what if this kind of checking neds to be done in SQL server. We all know SQL is not the best language to do these kind of checking.

Last Day I had to some similar kind of work. I created a small function to check if all the character in a string(username etc..) are in capital letter or not. Here is the function.