Building a WaitScreen web server control for ASP.NET

Building a WaitScreen control for ASP.NET

How to get rewarded for incompetence

How to get rewarded for incompetence
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Steve studied the business issues and recruited key personnel from the AP department to help identify information requirements and develop a rough design of the solution.
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Bob took a different approach. Focused on fast results, he set part of his group to building a core AR database, while a second set of programmers created basic input screens and sample outputs. In no time, Bob had something to show the boss, who was suitably impressed.
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Paging through lots of data with MS SQL Server 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0

This link explains how MS SQL Server 2005 supports paging in GridView (web control in ASP.NET 2.0) through "ROW_NUMBER() OVER (...)" function:

Paging through lots of data efficiently with ASP.NET 2.0

This is another article on the "SQL Pager" topic:
Returning Ranked Results with Microsoft SQL Server 2005
You can find here some nice stuff about Ranking SELECT's resultset.

A well dressed engineer has no credibility

A well dressed engineer has no credibility
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Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls

Developing Custom ASP.NET Server Controls
This section describes how to develop ASP.NET server controls. It contains a walkthrough that provides an overview of authoring a custom server control and it provides code examples that illustrate different control authoring tasks such as rendering, defining properties, managing state, and creating composite controls.