‘ve been trying to come up with any reason to criticize the participants in last Friday’s big news that made uncommon bedfellows out of archrivals Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. But I haven’t really come up with anything that sticks. Sun made a deal that’s good for Sun. Microsoft made a
C++ has an alternative for the if condition using the sign “?”. The syntax for this condition is : “condition”?”case true”:”case false”. For example, a function to return the maximum of two numbers looks like this: inline int max(int a, int b) {return a>b?a:b;} Another short expression allowed by C++
Save a round trip to the database when a keyed item is selected from any list type. This example uses a combobox, but any type of list control that accomodates databinding can work. Public Sub LoadComboBox() ‘A custom object – use your own db access method to get a table
arket trends are a dominant factor in the evolution of IDEs. 15 years ago, syntax highlighting and extensive online help were all the rage; in the late 1990s, it was variables’ value examination by a mouse movement and auto-completion of member functions and arguments. Nowadays, multilingualism seems to be the
ike most DevX readers, anticipating change is an important part of my job. As a software developer and system architect, it is particularly important that I make sure our middle-tier objects can survive changes in the database-access layer. Although no software design can offer limitless flexibility, the design concepts of