Installing AJAX on Windows Server / AJAX Toolkit

installing AJAX within IIS / Windows Server and AJAX Toolkit for Visual Studio

AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript & XML) is a technology that aims to make the web truly interactive. With Ajax, you can avoid a full postback that causes the entire page to refresh. Instead you can change specific areas of the page, and develop an application that mimics very closely the functionality and the responsiveness of a traditional Windows application.

Thursday, October 10, 2013/Author: Chad Nash/Number of views (72695)/Comments (-)/ Article rating: 3.5

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SQL Server Reporting Services - From query to report!

Who Needs SQL Server’s Reporting Services?

If you’ve mastered SQL Server, you’re a database administrator for SQL Server, you’re writing data-driven applications, or you’re just tired of writing SQL statements to retrieve the data your users need and dump them to an Excel worksheet, it’s time to explore a total reporting solution that will enable you to deliver the necessary reports to the right people. SQL Server Reporting Services is such a solution; it’s a flexible, powerful, scalable business intelligence tool. Sure, Reporting Services is also a reporting tool, but this description doesn’t make justice to the product. SQL Server Reporting Services is a system for designing, deploying, managing and delivering reports based on SQL databases.

Thursday, October 10, 2013/Author: Chad Nash/Number of views (94375)/Comments (-)/ Article rating: 3.8

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Quick Guide to ADO.NET Entity Framework

A Quick Guide to Using Entity Framework (ADO.NET)

If you’ve spent some years developing applications you are almost absolutely certain to be familiar with SQL. It is powerful but it is certainly not convenient to have to learn a completely different syntax and programming language to work with your data.

Thursday, October 10, 2013/Author: Chad Nash/Number of views (9777)/Comments (-)/ Article rating: No rating

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Backup & Restore Databases using MSDE

SQL Server Desktop Engine (which is also known as MSDE 2000) is a database engine designed to run in the background, supporting Microsoft applications without the need for a full-blown SQL Server installation. Unfortunately, MSDE does not have a user interface of its own, relying on manipulation of the databases to the applications that use it. While MSDE works well, there are administration tasks that need to be performed that are seldom part of an application that uses the engine, and the most important of these tasks is backing up the databases themselves.

Thursday, October 10, 2013/Author: Chad Nash/Number of views (22536)/Comments (-)/ Article rating: 3.3

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