Vikram Lakhotia Blog on Asp.Net, Dot Net, SQL, VIsual Studio, C# etc

Hi,

Some times when working with crystal report viewer you do not want to show the report to user in raw format but instead you want to pass on the report in PDF or other format without requiring user to do extra click. This can be done easily in Dot Net with the following code.

MyReport report = new MyReport();

DataSet ds = GetData();

report.SetDataSource(ds);

report.ExportToHttpResponse(ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat, Response, false, "ExportedReport");

If you want you

Hi,

Just received the ASIA MVP Certification Hero Award 2009. I did not knew that another award was coming. Was more than pleasantly surprised. Thanks to Microsoft, Microsoft MVP Team, Microsoft Learning Team.

Its amazing that You get awarded for Helping others with the knowledge of discounts available.

Again Thanks to Microsoft for the award.

Vikram

Hi,

another of the new features of Asp.net 4.0 is the enhancement(in terms of rendering) made in the Formview control. By default the Formview control would render table, tr and td tags for display of content. This can be of much trouble to many of the designer because they have little control over the rendered HTML.

With Asp.net 4.0 you can disable the rendering of these HTML elements. (Mind you in Asp.Net 4.0 by default these HTML content are rendered.) To do this all you need to do is set the RenderTable property to False.

<asp:FormView ID="FormView1" runat="server" RenderTable="false">

This enhancement can make it easier to style the content of the control with CSS, because no unexpected tags are rendered by the control.Vikram

Hi,

One of the small but new features in Asp.Net 4.0 is the addition of the Title, Metakeyword and Metadescription property in the page class itself. Now we can easily set the Title, Metakeyword and Metadescription (very important for sites looking for SEO.) from the page itself.

This makes adding these values based on some condition or from database very easy. To Add these value to the page now (Asp.Net 4.0) we can write following code.

this.Page.Title =