icrosoft has gone to great lengths to help you make your software applications more appealing to users. You can create rich user experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation, smooth web applications with ASP.NET AJAX, data friendly applications with LINQ, and much more. But when it comes to appeal, nothing beats an
To gain focus on a form in an MDI Windows Application quickly, use the Form.Activate method. This method moves the form to the front of the application and gives it focus. If you use this method on an inactive application minimized to the taskbar, it causes the application to flash
Wrapping the result of an XQuery query into an XML document is very useful if you’re working with atomic values. The following Java program uses the net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator and net.sf.saxon.query.QueryResult classes to do this: /*The resulted document : C:Data_Localxmldocswrap.xml*///Javaimport java.io.File;import java.io.OutputStream;import java.io.FileOutputStream;import java.util.Properties;import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;//Saxonimport net.sf.saxon.om.SequenceIterator;import net.sf.saxon.query.QueryResult;import net.sf.saxon.om.DocumentInfo;import net.sf.saxon.Configuration;import net.sf.saxon.query.DynamicQueryContext;import net.sf.saxon.query.StaticQueryContext;import
This is an improvement to the tip “Encrypt a String Easily.” I found that the szEncryptDecrypt function in this tip did not handle unicode strings properly, but otherwise worked well. The changes in the following version should work for any string by explicitly converting each character to ASCII and back.