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I would like to learn ASP.NET and just wanted some input as to which book to read.
I've found books from WROX useful (the covers are lame though):
Beginning ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer)
Professional ASP.NET 3.5: In C# and VB (Programmer to Programmer)
O'Rielly books aren't bad either:
ASP.NET in a Nutshell, Second Edition
Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition
Just a quick selection of a few good ones I can suggest for easy intro's and good writting style.
Andrew Troelson gives a nice front to back on the full 3.5 framework . Its not ASP.NET specific or too deef of a dive on anything, but can be a nice general lookup for lots of things you run into. It also gives a decent backstory of the framework and language.
If your diving into ASP.NET for the first time, you may as well do it right. The Ultra-Fast ASP.NET book gives a step by step as many others, but focuses on some of the performance side and options to consider for different site types and common pitfalls.
enjoy.
If you are a newcomer to programming in general and want to learn asp.net mvc. Get this book:
ASP.NET MVC Cookbook. Its for beginners and a good book to start. If you are experienced programmer - Steven Sandersons book is the best choice. So I would recommend get ASP.NET MVC 2.0 cookbook to start and Steve Sandersons book to get deeper and become a real master.
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I would like to know whether there any drawing tools available to map a given use case solution in terms of EIPs. There is a stencil available for MS Visio and a SVG alternative for OpenOffice. The shapes in the stencil is good but does not seem like the best graphics for a presentation. Any alternatives available for drawing EIPs? Thanks in advance.
diagrams.net has a set of EIP stencils built-in. I'm not sure if it addresses the issues in the question, but the tool is free. (I'm a developer on the project).
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Btw you could automate that. Check this:
http://camel.apache.org/visualisation.html
Use camel:dot maven goal
I've created an OmniGraffle EIP stencil years ago for the book Spring Integration in Action. I pushed it to Graffletopia, but I cannot find it there quickly. Let me know if you are interested in the OmniGraffle stencil and I'll search a bit more.
What is wrong with the stencils? Those are simply the shapes presented in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns. Looking at a presentation from the author of the book, I don't think the shapes look bad in presentation: http://www.eaipatterns.com/docs/jaoo_hohpeg_enterpriseintegrationpatterns.pdf.
I am not aware of any tools to draw EIP scenarios other than say Visio, Open Office Draw or similar tools. There are some IDEs to create routes (Fuse IDE and Talend Open Studio for instance), but these are really just to create runnable EIP implementations, not for presentation.
Late to the party, but Lucidchart (online cloud-based diagram tool) has an Enterprise Integration Pattern stencil, too.
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I was given the task to create statistical reports and integrate them to an asp.net application (Webforms) connected to a MySQL DB.
I was looking at this question. However, the accepted answer is about SQL Reporting Services (I am using MySQL), and the most voted answer lists different tools (Crystal, ActiveReports, XtraReports Telerik, Versareports) but suggests they are all evolving and it was in 2009.
So, what options do I have at the present? Which one would you recommend me? Why?
If you want the quick and dirty, easy to use, and fairly flexible option, then ActiveReports still gets my vote. The most extensive is Crystal, but you have to really need the extra bang to warrant it's use, at least IMO. Telerik fits in between (if you are really familiar with their other UI controls, it is not a bad option, however, as the learning curve is greatly shortened).
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I've been interested in Visual Programming Languages (VPL) for a while. However I've hardly seen any environments that can be used for practical projects such as Windows apps or web services.
I've heard of the following:
LabVIEW - electronics and instrumentation
Microsoft VPL - robotics
Game Maker - games
Google App Inventor - Android apps
Tersus - web apps
Are there any other VPL environments that generate executable programs and can be used for practical applications?
Probably a bit too late for this answer, but I'm interested in the same thing and for anyone else might read this and find it useful.
Here is a new one just for creating windows applications, it's called Korduene, however beware it is alpha just now.
You may have a look at the WPF based TUM.CMS.VPLControl
I don't know if it is practical enough for you but you can have a look at Thyrd, which was recently featured in the last Emerging Languages conference:
http://thyrd.org/
It is not just yet another visual stuff, there is really something there
Yahoo Pipes has a somehow limited scope, but I suppose it is one of the more popular examples of visual programming tools that are really used in practice.
DRAKON Editor
http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/
It generates code for compilation or interpretetion, not actual executable.
It it supports visual programming in several programming languages, including Java, Processing.org, D, C#, C/C++ (with Qt support), Python, Tcl, Javascript, Lua and Erlang.
Why to use DRAKON than other diagramming systems?
No line intersections. You will never find in DRAKON diagram two or
more lines intersecting each other! Not seen in other diagramming
systems!
Silhouette structure. It allows to break one diagram in to several
logical parts. Not seen in other diagramming systems!
No slanting or curved lines. Only straight lines with right angles.
Icons are placed only on vertical lines.
Branching is done in a simple, visible and consistent way.
Each diagram has one entry and one exit.
More about DRAKON here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
i recomend Outsystems for .net/java , it´s a great app Outsystems
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Anyone who's tried to study mathematics using online resources will have come across these Java applets that demonstrate a particular mathematical idea. Examples:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/java/Mobius.html
http://www.mathcs.org/java/programs/FFT/index.html
I love the idea of this interactive approach because I believe it is very helpful in conveying mathematical principles.
I'd like to create a system for visually designing and publishing these 'mathlets' such that they can be created by teachers with little programming experience.
So in order to create this app, i'll need a GUI and a 'math engine'. I'll probably be working with .NET because thats what I know best and i'd like to start experimenting with F#. Silverlight appeals to me as a presentation framework for this project (im not worried about interoperability right now).
So my questions are:
does anything like this exist already in full form?
are there any GUI frameworks for displaying mathematical objects such as graphs & equations?
are there decent open source libraries that exposes a mathematical framework (Math.NET looks good, just wondering if there is anything else out there)
is there any existing work on taking mathematical models/demos built with maple/matlab/octave/mathematica etc and publishing them to the web?
You might want to look at Wolfram demonstrations, and at the mathematica web player. This lets you take a Mathematica file and run it from a browser, and the demonstrations site already has thousands of demonstrations.
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Can anybody recommend a Bar Code web server control for formats 39 and 128 formats?
UPDATE: I posted this after being given a choice of 3 controls we'd never heard of. I was hoping to get a recommendation from somebody who is using something that is popular, stable and a commercial product. It looks like we will just go with one of the choices our manager sent. If you are reading this after the fact, and have a good recommendation, please add it for others needing one in the future. thx
There is a series of articles on CodeProject articles that do just that:
Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 1 - Code 39
Drawing Barcodes in Windows Part 5 - Code 128
Another one:
Barcode Image Generation Library
Another way, using barcode Fonts, but simple to use in ASP.Net
Barcodes in ASP.NET applications
Actually, implementing you own barcode drawing routines is not too hard if you stick with simple 1D barcodes.
The best book ever on the subject is The Bar Code Book. It's one of these absolute reference books that you just want to keep and read out of pure nerdy pleasure.
There is also an open source ASP.NET barcode generation framework on www.codeplex.com:
http://www.codeplex.com/BarcodeRender
I did have a problem with the Interleaved 2 of 5 symbology, but I believe it was added rather recently. Perhaps the other symbologies are more stable.
Guys... don't go too far. There are Windows Fonts (TrueType fonts / TTF) that can easily be used to draw bar codes. the Graphics object is your friend.
You definitely should check out these two options:
1) www.idautomation.com
2) barbeque open source library (Java) to generate barcodes.
Both are excellent!