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 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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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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Microsoft today released the latest version of its Visual Studio, Visual Studio Express and Visual Web Developer products. Its called Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). We at Chalaki have evaluated this product and very happy with the new enhancements. I am listing all the new features available for a web developer in this
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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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Data caching is storing of data in web-server’s (IIS) memory for quick access by requesting browsers. Any information that is expensive to get (in terms of performance) is saved in the data cache. For example, commonly SELECTED database values that do not change often can be stored in data cache. This way instead of making repeated calls to SELECT
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One of the easiest ways to cache ASP.NET pages is using OutputCache page directive. ASP.NET output caching reduces the time needed to execute ASP code by simply saving the output of the ASP in the HTML format inside IIS memory and returning the saved or cached HTML in the future request to the same page. So the
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