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Technical Information

GrandView technical information. Content focuses on GrandView architecture and development.
Maximizing Bandwidth Efficiency

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...

posted @ Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:00 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information ]

DHTMLX Grid Control

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...

posted @ Friday, June 11, 2010 10:37 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Features Coming Soon... ]

SQL Server Replication to the Rescue!

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...

posted @ Friday, January 22, 2010 2:48 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Business Solutions ]

Master Pages, Part 2

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.

posted @ Wednesday, December 30, 2009 10:45 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information ]

The GrandView Blog Is BACK!

After a summer hiatus, the GrandView Blog is returning at full strength this fall.

posted @ Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:50 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product News Product Support Product Features Project Management Coming Soon... Business Solutions ]

Exciting New Controls, Part 1

Over the past few months, we have been upgrading parts of GrandView to use the most up-to-date third-party controls to offer...

posted @ Friday, June 26, 2009 11:13 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product News Product Features Coming Soon... ]

So Long, Classic ASP!

Recently, the GrandView Team came to the end of a long and storied journey--we retired the final few ASP pages from our application...

posted @ Friday, February 27, 2009 10:11 AM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information ]

.NET Framework 3.x Features

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...

posted @ Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:23 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information ]

Master Pages, Part 1

Introduced in ASP.NET 2.0m Master Pages provides a template-based approach to web page design that makes more sense than static templates.

posted @ Friday, October 24, 2008 3:21 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information ]

GrandView and AJAX

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.

posted @ Friday, August 29, 2008 2:19 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product Features ]

Will Internet Explorer 8 Impact GrandView?

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?

posted @ Monday, July 21, 2008 3:59 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product Support ]

File Compression in GrandView

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.

posted @ Friday, April 11, 2008 1:20 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product Features ]

GrandView Security

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.

posted @ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:15 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product News Product Support ]

GrandView Architecture

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.

posted @ Monday, November 12, 2007 12:37 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information ]

Introduction to the GrandView Product Blog

Our GrandView product blog consists of product information, technical information, product news, support information, product features, project management tips, and what's coming soon.

posted @ Friday, November 09, 2007 2:00 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Technical Information Product Information Product News Product Support Product Features Project Management Coming Soon... ]

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