I want to know if there is a free alternative to display Visio diagram (.vds file) in webforms asp.net C#?
Thanks in advance.
To my knowledge, the only way to go is using ActiveX, but if you decide to go down that path, do know that it's supported only by Internet Explorer, and since that one is going to the grave rather quickly I'd say you'll give yourself some headache quite quickly.
There's no pure HTML5/ASP.NET WebForms solutions for this as per today.
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My question seems confusing but I'll let you explain it more clearly. Me and my team we're currently developing a complex report that comprises of words, tables and charts. As of now we generate this report by using a word document template and filling it up with the model we have. As for chart this is where it becomes complicated, we have two application that we're using in business one is a windows/wpf application and a web application. Both application uses the same engine we have for generating chart (ComponentOne) but the engine itself is only compatible for windows application. We use the assembly we generate from windows/wpf application on our web application for us to generate a report.
Our report generator on website will only have filter and parameters on what kind of report they want to generate and on a press of button. What do you think will be the best to tackle this issue so that we can drop using the assembly we have. We don't like to drop using template for this as these greatly help us on maintaining the report when changes is required the only thing that we think right now on how can we generate a chart on memory and convert it into an image so that we can dump it on our template.
It's not confusing, it's just not clear at all. If I get it right you just have a reporting tools ComponentOne that make reports on software side and it's not adapated for web side.
You somewhat tried to tackle it by using software dll in your website and it doesn't work as well as you expected/wanted. And you keep trying as of now.
Your question is basicly "How can I use a dll designed for software into a website?"
And the answer is simple. It's case by case when not outright impossible.
I invite you to look for another solution than using a software designed dll on a website. Even your idea of putting it inside an image is somewhat bad (lose of all controllers / defeat of the purpose of an interactive report.)
I'm pretty sure that ComponentOne would have think of such a problem as web reports and maybe even a solution to link web reports to soft reports. With a little search, I found a C1WebReport and even found some forums talking about C1Report to C1WebReport. Does it answer your problem?
I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction as far as developing a super simple plugin for MS Project (both 2007, which uses the old style ribbon, and 2010 which uses the new ribbon).
What I need to implement:
create an executable that installs a new button, with a specific icon, in some per-determined section of the ribbon
when the user presses the button MS project needs to save a file in a specific format and location and then call a batch file.
that's it - pretty basic, right? Turns out, I know nothing about this space - so apologies in advance for how trivial this may be. Note: I'm not tied to a specific language - whatever is simpler / faster will do.
BTW, does anyone sell components like this one? I don't necessarily need to code this if there's decent stuff out there for sale.
thank you!
You could try here: http://www.add-in-express.com/support/addin-c-sharp.php#project
This was also answered here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsto/thread/280e11ec-9bbc-4d13-bda1-3e053c8d55c7
I am building a custom Content Management System for my client, using C#2008, ASP.Net technology. I am looking for advice regarding the architecture (application layout, database layout etc) of such a system.
Anyone here have any experience design / developing such a system? Any websites that I can get more information from?
Any open source CMS out there?
Thanks in advance.
Any open source CMS out there?
Check out Umbraco, its very good, not suitable for everything (depends on your sites content really) but you get so much for free that it would be silly to not give it a look over, its not a small bedroom hack up job.
Regarding creating your own CMS, I'd probably try to steer you away from it, its not for the faint of heart unless your content demands are very niche. Even then its better to build on top of something else if at all possible.
ASP.net MVC would be worth a look too if you are going down that code your own route, would save you some headaches.
DotNetNuke is a good open source CMS is specifically for ASP.NET development. Definitely worth a look.
I've written a blog post about content modeling and data stores for content management systems. I think it could be useful: Blog post: Get more out of your content: content modeling and data stores
What is the best way to let other parties use your website as their own content using their own style ?
We have build a small website for a customer, asp.net, .net framework 3.0. Now the customer wants other parties to be aple to use our website in their own websites while maintaining the styling of the costumers website.
I have done nothing like this before and don't even know what to google, so any help is appriciated.
I know you can do this with sharepoint, but to use sharepoint for such a small site seems like a lot of overkill
it sounds that portlets is a good name for what they want. but googling portlets draws me in the world of java and doesn't give me a lot of info on what the other parties would have to do to make it work.
a simple Iframe would probably take me a long way, but how can you get the styling done within an Iframe
webparts also sound interesting , but they seem more for in project sharing then letting people use them in their own site.
It is a small website and the logic and backend communication is pretty good contained, so a complete rework of the frond-end is not a big problem.
Once again, any help is appreciated !
Omar Al Zabir has a book on how to build a Portal in ASP.NET- here is a link to his Website.
You might want to look at his Dropthings portal.
Yes, portlets are pretty much Java-only, despite any talk of standards.
If you can encapsulate your pages in web parts or user controls, that would make it easy to style them, and even to parameterize them: a web part can be configured.
You can use Kalitte Dynamic Dashboards for creating professional dashboards and portlets.
More information can be found at www.dynamicdashboards.net
I know i can use AJAX and SILVERLIGHT with my ASP.NET web page. But what do you think about using flash with asp.net? Can this be done? How can this be done? Would you recommend me using flash at all with ASP.NET? I will NOT be using WEB SERVICES, just a plain ASP.NET website.
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: What about performance issues???
I have used Flash in ASP.NET websites plenty.
Software should always boil down to the best tool for the job, if Flash is the way you need to go for your RIA, then so be it.
Remember, ASP.NET is nothing "new/different" ultimately, it is just a fancy HTML generator.
Therefore, to use flash, you simply use the plain old HTML OBJECT and EMBED tags to place the Flash on the page.
The benefit of using things like ASP.NET (or any other framework) is that you can encapsulate the EMBED logic to use things like swfObject.
flash is client side, what you use server side has very little impact on it.
Given Flash's high market penetration (98%+), I think Flash is a great way to go regardless of the underlying platform.
But, as with everything, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to deliver a rich user interface via Flash, you should consider using Flex.
There are several tools to help integrate a Flash/Flex application with ASP.NET. One of these that I recommend is WebORB.
It certainly can be done! We've done entire flash-based websites in the past that rely on data generated by a CMS and read from flash via XML. There are of course lots of gotchas (loading html text, multilingual characters), but once you've done it a few times you'll get the hang of it.
Flex is probably a better option.