Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 - Efficiently Paging Through Large Amounts of Data
As we discussed in the preceding tutorial, paging can be implemented in one of two ways:
- Default Paging – can be implemented by simply checking the Enable Paging option in the data Web control’’s smart tag? however, whenever viewing a page of data, the ObjectDataSource retrieves all of the records, even though only a subset of them are displayed in the page
- Custom Paging – improves the performance of default paging by retrieving only those records from the database that need to be displayed for the particular page of data requested by the user? however, custom paging involves a bit more effort to implement than default paging
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User Interfaces in C#: Windows Forms and Custom Controls: Custom Controls
Custom controls are a key theme in .NET development. They can help your programming style by improving encapsulation, simplifying a programming model, and making user interface more “pluggable” (i.e., making it easier to swap out one control and replace it with a completely different one without rewriting your form code). Of course, custom controls can have other benefits, including the ability to transform a generic window into a state-of-the-art modern interface.
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.NET Tutorial for Beginners
Welcome friends to the exciting journey of Microsoft .NET. If you are looking for information about what .NET is all about, what it can do for you or how it can help you and your customers, you have come to the right place. This section is intended to tell you about these and many more things. After covering this section you will be ready to delve into details of .NET.
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Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Guide VBScript
This document shows how to do the following:
.Work with the Adobe® InDesign® scripting environment.
.Use advanced scripting features.
.Perform basic document tasks like setting up master spreads, printing, and exporting.
.Work with text and type in an InDesign document, including finding and changing text.
.Create dialog boxes and other user-interface items.
.Customize and add menus and create menu actions.
.Respond to user-interface events.
.Work with XML, from creating XML elements and importing XML to adding XML elements to a layout.
.Apply XML rules, a new scripting feature that makes working with XML in InDesign faster and easier.
We assume you already read Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Tutorial and know how to create, install, and run scripts.
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VBScript Tutorial
- VBScript is a script version of visual basic supported by Internet Explore 3.0 and above. VB Script code is interpreted as an script by the browser.
- VBScript uses Visual Basic terms, for example, declaring a variable, writing sub, or function in VB Script is similar to Visual Basic.
- But Visual Basic is programming language for applications; while VB Script is a small script version coded with HTML or ASP documents.
- With VB Script, you can make your web site dynamic and interactive.
- VBScript is particularly valuable when used with Microsoft Web servers to create Active Server Pages (ASP) - a technology that
allows a server-side script to create dynamic content that is sent to the client’s browser.
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