We learned a great deal about the Partial Views in my post Fundamentals of MVC Partial Views. In this post I’ll show you how to create a partial view in a Visual Studio MVC 3 project and how to load the partial view inside a regular view using the following two methods: Server side using Html.Partial() helper
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ASP.NET GridViews are very handy to display data from a database table, view or a select statement that may contain joined tables. By default the gridview provides the fields in the boundfield format. The boundfields are fileds that have fixed GUI type and an associated datafield. <asp:BoundField DataField=”state” HeaderText=”State” SortExpression=”state” /> Convert a asp:BoundField to a
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ASP.NET MVC Partial Views are similar to web user controls available in ASP.NET WebForms. They are reusable components that can be plugged into regular MVC views. A header or footer or a stock ticker is a good example of a partial view as it can be programmed into a Partial view and be used across
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MSAGL (Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout) is a .NET library and tools created by Microsoft Research for creating hierarchical graphs, viewing them and saving them to bitmaps. MSAGL is built on the principle of the Sugiyama scheme. MSAGL can be used to create layered or hierarchical graph layouts. These layered graphs can be used to represent
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It is becoming extremely important now a days to use simple URLs without showing the .aspx extention and also hiding the Query String parameters such as page.aspx?name1=value1&name2=value2. SEO experts swear that simple canonical urls such as mysite.com/CountryName/CityName/CompanyName/ are much better in terms of search engine friendliness than mysite.com/getlisting.aspx?Country=CountryName&City=CityName&Company=CompanyName We can clearly see that the former URL is much better even for
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You already know, from my previous blog Using ADO.NET SqlCeCommand and SqlCeDataReader to select data from SQL Server Compact how to SELECT data for ReadOnly using SqlCeDataReader Object. You can’t update the data using SqlCeDataReader object. Instead you will need to use SqlCeDataAdapter and SqlCeDataSet objects if you have to make any changes and save the data
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In this post, I will show you how to use some of the classes in System.Data.SqlServerCe Namespace to access a SQL Server CE database from a ASP.NET 4.0 web forms application. The DLL that contains System.Data.SqlServerCe Namespace and all classes in that namespace is System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll. The System.Data.SqlServerCe namespace is the managed data provider for SQLServer CE. This namespace is a collection
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SQL Server Compact Edition is an embedded database that enables all functionality of SQL Server yet it is a simple and single file based. That means you don’t have to install the SQL Server. Simply copy the database file with .sdf extension and easily distribute it where ever you want to. Very useful in development environments
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What are ASP.NET Web User Controls? Web User Controls are re-usable controls that you can create and use across multiple ASPX pages. When you need functionality in a control that is not provided by the built-in ASP.NET Web server controls such as <asp:TextArea>, you can create your own controls. User controls are containers into which you can
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I have a web application that has five ASPX pages. All have similar look and feel with same header, menu and footer. In order to simplify my coding I created two include files header.aspx and footer.aspx and included them at the right place in all my five ASPX pages. So my pages look like Page1.aspx
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