I’ll be a host/moderator online between 6AM and 8AM today (thursday). I’ll be answering questions regarding visual studio 2008. Please feel free to join in on the chat! Here is the URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/chatrooms/vep3.aspx
If you are interested in the other products that are part of the launch, here are the other chat rooms.
There are three chat rooms within the Virtual Launch Experience:
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The Typical Way
When you first create an asp.net project a file is usually created in your root web directory called web.config. By default there are two (usually empty) sections in the file. One for appSettings, and one for connectionStrings. Below is a default project created with visual studio 2008 and a sample web.config file.
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So, you are a Repeater wizard like me and now you want more. Remember that in Repeater, the templates you can use are as follows:
With the new ListView, you have lots more choices as follows:
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Recently, I recieved the following question on my blog regarding a post I made about using the aggregate function Count. The question is as follows:\
does the LINQ implementation send a full query or just a count query? That can be a big waste, especially if this is called often?
One of the nice things about LINQ is you don’t have to guess. By simply turning the Log property to true of the DBContext, you can see what LINQ is actually sending to the database. below is some simple code that shows how to do this.
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