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Web Application Project Model with VS 2005

It is well worth the effort to make the conversion from the Web Site Project model. All those files in the bin directory for a VS 2005 Web Site Project can be a little disconcerting for programmers coming from the ASP.NET 1.x development platform.

2007 Seanco To Do List Part 2

Develop WCF Application, develop Windows Workflow Foundation Application, use Amazon S3 storage in a new application, advanced Javascript and C# 3.0 training, explore wireless/mobile software market, explore long tail application market.

2007 Seanco To Do List

Build ASP.NET AJAX Web Site, build Vista/Framework 3.0 application using WPF/E, train every week, blog every week.

Web Store Dashboard

The Web Store Dashboard is now available. Here is where you will find it.

Seanco Technology ASP.NET 2.0 Site Launch

The new ASP.NET 2.0 release version of the Seanco Dashboards Web Site is available here.

Bookstore Dashboard

The Bookstore Dashboard features the most popular programming books and the latest tech news. Here is where you will find it.

Manager Dashboard

The Manager Dashboard provides a quick and simple point of access to important company data. It can be found here.

Photographer Dashboard

A sample of a Photographer Dashboard can be found here. This dashboard includes links to the tools of the trade and samples of the photographer's work.

Investor Dashboard

The Investor Dashboard provides market data, financial news, and other money management and wealth building tools and utilities. You can find a sample here.

AJAX and Dashboards

A dashboard is a good example of an application that can benefit from the use of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming methods. Sections of a dashboard display can be updated independently with new information without requiring a full screen refresh and server postback.

Data Visualization

Treemaps, time series charts, and scattergrams are some of the tools that can be used to enhance the data visualization capabilities of an executive or business intelligence dashboard. These data visualization tools should be designed to foster pattern recognition and to help with data analysis and corporate decision support.

Dashboard Applications: Passenger Information

We are all familiar with mainframe based airport flight information systems where you have to go through two dozen small CRT display terminals to find your flight. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to look at one large screen and see your flight along with baggage, rental car, weather, and local traffic information? In addition to airports, a passenger information dashboard can be used in train, bus, and subway stations.

Dashboard Applications: Employee Communications

Large screen plasma and LCD displays are a natural fit for employee communication dashboards that can be situated in common areas such as cafeterias, entranceways, and the employee lounge. Company news, community events, and human resources information are typical content areas for this type of dashboard application.

Dashboard Applications: Networked Digital Signage

The growing market in large size plasma and LCD displays presents a great opportunity for digital signage dashboard applications. Locally targeted ads and dynamic customer service and product information can be combined to produce an effective marketing tool. Malls, retail outlets, hotels, restaurants, banks, theaters, fitness centers, and sports facilities are among the many business types that could profit from a large screen digital signage dashboard application.

More Dashboard Characteristics

A dashboard should be "always on" so that the user can see the most recent information that is available. If the dashboard application times out or encounters an error, a facility should be provided so that the dashboard can reset or reinitialize itself and continue processing.

Dashboard Characteristics

Asynchronicity is an important requirement for a dashboard application. If the data in one section of the dashboard is being updated, we don't want the entire
dashboard screen to pause, flicker, or re-display itself. Navigation elements should be minimal or non-existent in a typical dashboard application. Data aggregation and summarization, performance measurement, pattern tracking, and graphical display indicators are other common characteristics of dashboard applications.

What Is A Dashboard?

A dashboard is a tool that helps us achieve a personal or business objective by consolidating the most important goal related information on a single computer screen.

Computerworld Features Shakespeare Web Service

An article titled "Fun With Web Services!" in Computerworld features the Shakespeare Web Service from Seanco Technology. Read...