Dino Esposito explores the various aspects of the AJAX API you can leverage in ASP.NET MVC applications.

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Peter has been experiencing culture shock as he adapts to working with JavaScript, starting with the discovery that JavaScript isn't an object-oriented language.

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Peter revisits the problem of dealing with multiple updates to the same data, but this time he looks at a solution that involves the ObjectDataSource.

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This Part 1 of the two part article shows how you may use the new MS Chart control in an ASP.NET web application.

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In our last article we left off with Operators. Since then a strange time fluctuation has occurred, and that is exactly where we pick up. So keep reading to learn about exotic things like conditionals, expressions, and more.
- As I recall, by some fluke, you had ended up with more muscles than me (*cough* steroids *cough*) and I put a call into my buddy at the Steroid Usage is a No No Board. To determine if you were a liar, they would have to ask you a series of Boolean questions: True or False -- did you do steroids? Ye...

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In our last article, we finished our discussion of Java operators, and started to take a look at statements. In this article, we'll continue explaining Java statements. Statements aren't exactly complicated once you grasp the concept. Indeed, many statements have counterparts -- of a sort -- in real life.
- As a bratty kid, do you remember you parents ever saying, ?Don't make me repeat myself!? Their faces would be all red and sweaty and their eyes would spin in circles. Usually they would be pointing one enormous finger at you and you could tell by the look on their faces that they were dead serious ...

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Nowadays millions of computer programmers want to become multi-lingual; for that reason they try to acquire understanding of multiple programming languages. Experienced coders know that it is possible to get the hang of a new language in a fairly short amount of time. Being able to compare the syntax of different languages makes learning new ones easier.
- Throughout this two-part series well endeavor into comparing the syntax of two of the most popular programming languages while heavily pointing out the similarities and differences. Needless to say, I wont claim that one is better than the other. The main focus should be on learning both up to an in...

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This is the second half of the two-part series on the syntactic comparison of Java and C/C++. Before we begin, Id like to encourage you to read its first part if by any chance youve missed it. It is called ?Syntactic Comparison of Java and C/C++? and its published right here. You shouldnt miss it because grasping the basics is crucial.
- In the first part I showed you the main differences as far as data types, classes, and some additional important details on the semantics of those two languages. Now were going to discuss more thoroughly the topics of classes, command line arguments, unconditional transfers of control (goto, labels...

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Well it's been a while since we discussed Java and I graced these pages with its complicated beauty (for an example of complicated beauty, take a peek at Hillary Swank, who is pretty in a well...complicated sort of way). In this new series of articles, we will be discussing Classes.
- We touched on Classes and Objects in my article on Java and Object-Oriented Programming, which you can find here: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Java/Java-and-ObjectOriented-Programming/2/ Objects and Classes: What Are They? An object is made up of states and behaviors and is usually used as a model ...

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In this discussion, I will be focusing on the Spring Framework. The first section will be about the whys and wherefores of the Spring Framework. In the second and third sections, I will explain how to use the Spring Framework to implement business logic. In the fourth and fifth sections, I will develop an application that uses the Spring Framework.
- In an enterprise application, business logic forms the basis of transforming the persisted data. That is the reason why the business logic layer is considered the most important layer of any enterprise application. Typically, the Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) component that was used to implement bus...

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IoC or Inversion of Control is one of the core features of Spring. It helps in simplifying the implementation of business logic. To use the Spring Framework to its full potential, understanding the IoC container of the framework is essential. Hence, in this discussion, the focus will be on the IoC ? the concept as well as the container provided by Spring Framework.
- The first section will focus on the concepts of IoC, including its relationship with Dependency Injection. The focus of the second and third sections will be on the steps necessary to use IoC services provided by the Spring Framework. In the last section, an application will be developed that is ba...

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Have you ever wondered how to generate PDF documents in .NET? Thankfully, there's a port of the iText library for .NET, called iTextSharp. Moreover, since C# and Java share a number of similarities, iText code in Java can be easily converted into C# in order to work with iTextSharp. In this article, we'll take a look at the iTextSharp library, using it for PDF generation and manipulation in .NET.
- The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most popular ways to exchange documents because it allows for a consistent look across multiple platforms and configurations. When a PDF document is created, everything is fixed, including the page size, the font size, the margins, and so forth. The ...

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The iTextSharp library makes it very easy to create a PDF document with text. The text can be styled in various ways, aligned in various ways, indented and spaced in various ways, etc. When the PDF document must be printed out, the document's readability can be improved by breaking the text into columns. The iTextSharp library provides support for columns, and in this article, we're going to take a look at them.
- Creating simple columns of text Creating a simple column of text is more complex than creating a paragraph you can't just pass a line of text to a constructor and then simply add the result to the document. There are more steps involved in the process. One of the first steps is to create a referenc...

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Often, text alone can communicate a message, but sometimes graphics are needed. Even when they aren't, text alone can be a bit dull to read. In this article, we'll take a look at incorporating graphics into a PDF document with iTextSharp.
- Adding Images The first thing we'll take a look at is adding existing images into a PDF document. The library supports various images types, each represented by its own class and derived from the Image class, which is abstract. We can import an image using the GetInstance static method of the Imag...

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Initializing your objects is an important part of coding in Java, if you care at all about managing your memory. You will also find that properly initialized objects lead to fewer problems with bugs. This article will explain what objects are in Java, why you should initialize them, and how to accomplish this task.
- Please be aware that this tutorial assumes that you have a basic knowledge of Java terminology to begin with, and that you can already write some basic code. There is some information available for the Java novice, but if you are new to Java, and find that you are having problems following this tuto...

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