Charts are typically used to provide a static snapshot of data. The chart's underlying data might be based on various user inputs, but in the end the chart, once rendered,represents the end of the reporting workflow. However, other scenarios allow

Over the years I've worked on a number of projects where users could customize some aspect of the site. One such application surveyed a group of employees with and thenmade recommendations on how to best organize the employees into teams.

Whenever a browser makes an HTTP request to a web server, it sends along several HTTP headers. These HTTP Headers are used to provide the web server with informationto assist with handling the request. For instance, if the browser supports

is an increasingly popular way to encode documents, data, and electronic messages. There are a number of ways to programmaticallycreate, modify, and search XML files. Since its inception, the .NET Framework's has included classes for programmatically working with XML documents.

The Microsoft Chart controls make it easy to take data from a database or some other data store and present it as a chart. As discussed in , the Chart controls offer a myriad of ways to get data into

The provides a mechanism for efficiently importinglarge amounts of data into a Microsoft SQL Server database. Compared to importing data by executing one INSERT statement for each record to import, SqlBulkCopy is noticeably faster when importing thousands (or more) records.

Many of the web applications I help build can be classified as in-production line of business applications that receive frequent and ongoing feature enhancements. Typically, these applications have dozens if not hundreds of users who rely on the site each

Each series in a chart is composed of a set of data points, which are modeled via the DataPoint class. For most chart types, the two key attributes of a datapoint are its X and Y value. For example, in

Over the years I've worked on a number of projects that have shared a common requirement - the ability for users to quickly import large amounts of data into a back end SQL Server database. One such project was a

looked athow to use jQuery in an ASP.NET Web Forms application to build a collapsible filtering user interface. When the page is loaded into the user's browser the filtering interface is collapsed. Clicking the filtering interface's title toggles the interface

is a lightweight, cross-browser JavaScript library designed to ease JavaScript's most common tasks, including inspecting and manipulating theDocument Object Model (DOM) and making out of band HTTP requests to support AJAX functionality. In plain English, jQuery makes it easy to

The Microsoft Chart controls demos we have examined so far all use the Chart Web control to position the chart image on the web page and to configure a number of its stylisticsettings. For example, while the article showed several

The Microsoft Chart controls make it easy to take data - such as sales numbers, website traffic statistics, and so on - and turn it into a chart, which can be saved toan image file or displayed from a web

is a popular photo-sharing website. Like many "Web 2.0" and "social" websites, Flickr includes a programmatic interface throughwhich other programs and websites can view and manage photos, comments, groups, tags, and other Flickr assets. I recently started work on a

During my career as a consultant and web developer I've worked on a number of "software as a service" (SaaS) web applications. Such web applications are designed to be usedby multiple customers, where each customer is typically a company that

The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel provides a quick and easy way to implement a snappier, AJAX-based user interface in an ASP.NET WebForm. In a nutshell, Web controls within the UpdatePanel that would normally cause a full page postback trigger a partial

The .NET Framework is big. Really big. The System.Web assembly, which contains the guts of ASP.NET, is comprised of nearly 2,000 types, over 23,000 methods, and more than 12,500 properties. And that's not counting any of the functionality added to

The Microsoft Chart Controls provide ASP.NET developers with an API and a Web control for creating and displaying charts in a web page. Behind the scenes, the MicrosoftChart Controls take the data to be plotted and dynamically generates an image.

Exceptions are a construct in the .NET Framework that are (ideally) used to indicate an unexpected state in executing code. For example, when working with a databasethe underlying ADO.NET code that communicates with the database raises an exception if the

As discussed in , one of the cornerstones of LINQ is thestandard query operators, which are a set of extension methods on the IEnumerable interface added to the .NET Framework version 3.5. The standardquery operators can be applied to any