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SharePoint Applied - Stsadm Is Your Friend
I am a self confessed command line junkie. Sure I see value in GUIs, and GUIs are great to get accustomed to a tool, but once I start crawling, I like to walk, run, and then fly. And when I fly, a GUI’s sluggishness in getting tasks done becomes seriously annoying.
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Implementing Drag and Drop in Your Windows Application
Wei‑Meng Lee explains how to implement drag-and-drop in Windows Forms by detailing the key events (MouseDown/Move, GiveFeedback, QueryContinueDrag, DragEnter/Over/Leave/Drop), showing practical examples for text, images, files and custom objects, handling different data formats (Bitmap, RTF, FileDrop, etc.), managing move vs. copy semantics and pitfalls, and providing a workaround (user-control wrapper) for ActiveX controls like Windows Media Player so developers can add robust drag-and-drop support to their applications.
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The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tips for Building Dashboards with Microsoft BI Tools
Scorecards, test results, report cards, summaries-nearly everyone wants to skip past the details and see the bottom line. Whether it is “pass or fail”, “go or no go”, managers evaluate professional efforts based on performance. Microsoft’s Business Intelligence tools provide developers and power users with the tools and methodologies to produce scorecards and other summaries that graphically represent performance. This article will create a Web-based Dashboard using several Microsoft products, including the newest product in the BI stack, PerformancePoint Server.
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WPF Meets the iPhone
The iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. How can you deliver a similar experience with your .NET applications?This article demonstrates how you can implement these features in your .NET applications in a step-by-step format as you recreate the iPhone interface using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) technology with both Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend.
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Design and Use of Moveable and Resizable Graphics, Part 1
Windows are moveable and resizable; graphics and controls inside applications are not. This article explains the design of moveable/resizable graphics and using this technique in your Windows Forms applications.
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Heard on .NET Rocks! Pablo Castro on Astoria
Mar/April 2008 .NET Rocks by Carl Franklin
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Ask the Doc Detective
In "Ask the Doc Detective," Doc Detective addresses common questions about Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and its extensive documentation, offering practical solutions and clarifications. The article highlights features like multi-targeting for .NET Framework versions, explains the availability of Help content for new technologies, and provides deployment tips for Office customizations via SharePoint. Doc Detective also shares troubleshooting advice, such as correcting default assembly information values, and promotes new learning resources like Video How Tos, aiming to make navigating and utilizing Visual Studio documentation more accessible and effective for developers.
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Harnessing the Sun
In "Harnessing the Sun," Ken Getz shares his experience installing a solar panel system to reduce high electricity costs, highlighting the unexpected complexity and cost of design and installation, as well as the benefits of grid-tied solar without batteries. He then draws a parallel to software configuration challenges, explaining the common pitfalls when working with the System.Configuration namespace in .NET, emphasizing the need to explicitly reference the correct assembly. Through both topics, Getz conveys that seemingly straightforward configurations often involve hidden complexities that require careful attention.
