Using ASP.NET AJAX CascadingDropDown with Visual Basic and a Database

Feb 15, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• AJAX
• ASP.NET
• MS SQL
• VB
• Web Services
• Windows

This morning, I had the chance to play around with another ASP.NET AJAX control:  the CascadingDropDown control.  Like the name implies, it's a nifty little AJAX-enabled control that dynamically enables and populates a DropDownList based on the value selected in a previous list.  Kinda like the coding version of those old skool "Choose Your Own Adventure" books.

You've seen this kind of thing in action plenty of times, I'm sure.  Remember the last time you filled out a registration form that had you pick a country, then ...

Pulling Data from Active Directory with the ASP.NET AJAX AutoComplete Extender

Feb 05, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Active Directory
• AJAX
• ASP.NET
• VB
• Web Services
• Windows

From time to time, I get the chance to take off the "database guy" hat I usually wear around the office and pretend I'm a developer.  A good deal of that coding involves some sort of web-based tool or another so, being a Microsoft shop, I figured it was time for me to get up to speed on their implementation of AJAX.  For the last couple of weeks, I've been playing around with the AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET (http://www.asp.net/ajax/) and today had the chance to put one of those controls (the Auto...

Fun With GetSchemaTable

Moving Data From MS SQL 2005 Express Edition to MySQL

Aug 07, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• MS SQL
• MySQL
• VB

Couple of weeks ago, I was doing some work on a personal Nerdly project on one of my laptops. That particular machine has a copy of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition already installed, and I often use that for my development needs. Has a good number of the same features that the full-blown SQL Server 2005 editions carry, but it's free to use, distribute, etc. Hard to beat that.

Anyway, using Microsoft's SQL is all well and good for most of my work projects, but this personal project is going to live on my webhost's boxes, and my cheap webhosting account doesn't include MS SQL datab...