Technical Information
GrandView technical information. Content focuses on GrandView architecture and development.
Dealing with limited bandwidth or high latency scenarios can be challenging for web developers and frustrating for users. Over the years we've been able to utilize many different techniques and technologies to minimize the effects of a poor internet connection...
We have been hard at work on an update for Invoicing within GrandView. As part of this effort, we needed to find an effective and versatile grid control capable of meeting all of our specific needs. We choose the grid control made by DHTMLX...
Keeping data consistent across multiple offices is absolutely vital to any business, but it is made much more difficult when your offices are on opposite sides of the world...
Introduced in ASP.NET 2.0, Master Pages provides an object-oriented approach to web page design. However, when using master pages, there are some considerations that need to be made when applying reference paths to images.
After a summer hiatus, the GrandView Blog is returning at full strength this fall.
Over the past few months, we have been upgrading parts of GrandView to use the most up-to-date third-party controls to offer...
Recently, the GrandView Team came to the end of a long and storied journey--we retired the final few ASP pages from our application...
The .NET Framework 2.0 contains a vast set of features that GrandView developers take advantage of daily. While it provides everything we need to make GrandView a rich suite of project management tools...
Introduced in ASP.NET 2.0m Master Pages provides a template-based approach to web page design that makes more sense than static templates.
AJAX was a term coined in 2005 to refer to a method of programming web pages that had been in use for many years. It involves a combination of several browser technologies (most notably JavaScript and XmlHttpRequest) to allow asynchronous calls from a web page back to the server.
Internet Explorer 8 is coming soon and is set to be standards-compliant "out-of-the-box." How will the release of IE8 impact the way you view GrandView? When will IE8 be available? If it's automatically installed via Windows Update, will GrandView suddenly look wacky for no reason?
File compression is an important tool in any software. It allows minimizing space used in e-mails or on flash drives, bundling related files, speeding communication, and saving on bandwidth. GrandView makes use of file compression for all of these reasons.
Security has always been a priority for GrandView. Rovisys uses GrandView to store all of the information necessary to run our company--and so do our users--so it's imperative that we have as secure a system as possible.
GrandView, through its long history, has benefited greatly by the use of frameworks and libraries. From the days when it used the Microsoft Access Runtime, through the days of VB6 and ASP, to today with its use of the .NET Framework--GrandView has leveraged frameworks for rapid development, maximum flexibility, and great performance.
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