f you have ever wanted to experiment with robots but thought they were too expensive or complicated, think again. Earlier this year, Microsoft released a Community Technical Preview (CTP) of a new product named Microsoft Robotics Studio. The free software allows you to build applications that control robots using ASP.NET.
If you’re running SQL Server under the Local System account, it will not have rights to backup the database on a network share. You’ll need to change the SQL Server account to perform such a backup. Here’s the procedure: Stop the SQL service. Go to Start?>Run?>services.msc select MSSQLSERVER. Right click
VB.NET supports String.ToCharArray. You can use it to change a string into an array of characters so you can easily iterate through them: Dim intCounter As Integer Dim chrArray() As Char chrArray = strInput.ToCharArray ‘Iterate through the string. For intCounter = 0 To chrArray.Length – 1 MsgBo>:chrArray(intCounter)) NextEnd Sub
This tip shows you how to bulid an entity resolver to “change” a public indentifier into a system identifier. The idea is to override the resolveEntity method of the EntityResolver interface: public InputSource resolveEntity(String id_public,String id_system){ if (id_public.equals(“-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”)) return(new InputSource( “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”)); return null; }