Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - Monday, August 07, 2006

On my second day of vacation I bent my ankle playing stepmania so I can't use my right feet for at least 14 days :(

So I'm spending most of the time in the computer (as usual) but without internet access.

I hope to be able to do something unusual at the end of the month...

I'm going on vacation until the end of august.

I'll be here and here most of the time.

Unfortunately I don't have internet access available but I'll be checking my email from time to time.

Of course I take a computer with me so I'll be learning something new this holidays (maybe Atlas or SSIS).

If you can understand portuguese I recommend you to take a look at Luis Abreu's webcasts about Atlas.

Have a nice month

The last post completed what I wanted to explain about data source controls.

As a summary, here is a full list of the posts about data source controls of the last months:

I explained the generalities of data source controls here:
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (1/4)
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (2/4)
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (3/4)
* Data Source Controls - Under the hood (4/4)

The theory about designers is here:
* Introduction to designers
* ASP.NET designers. The ControlDesigner class
* ASP.NET designers. The DataSourceDesigner class
* DataSourceDesigners... Non visual controls?

A custom data source control sample with full design time support:
* A custom DataSourceControl sample
* Creating a custom DataSourceDesigner

I hope you find them useful.

In previous posts I created a custom data source and explained the theory of the DataSourceDesigner class. Now I implement a designer with full design time support for the custom data source control.

I have made a list of a few frequently asked questions about the ObjectDataSource.

Being able to dynamically call an arbitrary method on an object or the ability to get/set any arbitrary property by name at run time is very important when it comes to do some generic stuff. In .NET Framework 1.x the only way to do that was using reflection and that means to do it slow.

Fortunately, the .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a new class that let us to quickly call an arbitrary method without the overhead of a reflection call.

A review of this book that is targeted for a Java audience but the main content can be useful to .net developers too.

In this post I talk about the upcoming release of .NET Framework 3.0, some hints about what I'm doing right now, how design time support is going for the ExtendedObjectDataSource package and a nice tip: how to debug design time stuff (the easy way ;)

Studying all the inner details of the data binding infrastructure and the data source controls pays off. I have created the first DataSourceControl with user interface I'm aware of, the PagerDataSource.

Some MSIL low level tools that could be useful, especially Deblector.

There is a free Http Module that performs XHTML validation for each ASPX pages that is served. I comment my experiences with it and some things like a big TreeView bug in ASP.NET 2.0.

Right now you can access to this blog just typing http://www.manuelabadia.com. However, in a few days that redirection will point to another page. So if you use http://www.manuelabadia.com to access to this blog, please use http://www.manuelabadia.com/blog.

I explored the different options to add URL rewriting support to an existing ASP.NET website. The options covered are IIS modules, HTTP modules and HTTP handlers and Virtual Path Providers.

In ASP.NET 2.0 it's easy to apply a Style object to an HtmlControl.

Some tips that you may find useful when working with design time stuff

Finally the VS.NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch events came to my city.

My review of the book

This post is in spanish only as is about a local band.

Aquí os comento mi experiencia en el concierto de Loquillo del día 29 de abril de 2006.

Además de la lista de canciones pongo algunas fotos y videos del evento.

Even for a simple project, you need to avoid retrieving all table records in a query for performance reasons so you have to do custom paging.

If you have searched for examples of custom paging using TableAdapters you’ll probably find out that custom paging is implemented using stored procedures.

In this post I show how you can add custom paging to your TableAdapter without using stored procedures and with very little code.

I have finished a project that started as an enhancement of a “nearly finished” PHP web site.

I ended up using ASP.NET (and Atlas) instead of PHP to speed up development and to avoid primitive web development model.