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Sending E-mail from SQL Server 200X

ending email from SQL Server can be a useful way to keep yourself or the system’s administrator informed of any errors and alerts, but depending on your version of SQL

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Parsing with Active Patterns in F#

ou may have come across the need to read textual input into a structured representation before. Consider interpreting your own domain-specific language (DSL), reading back marshaled data from the disk,

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Monitoring the Long-Term Health of .NET Applications

hile watching application development practices evolve over the years, I have noticed a monumental shift in the way companies approach cost reductions throughout the application lifecycle. The bottom line is,

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Agile and UCD: Building the Right Thing, the Right Way

gile software development has hit the mainstream! Since the Agile Manifesto was published, various software development methodologies that follow the manifesto’s values have steadily gained popularity. Many organizations are adopting

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How to Store Oracle 10g Log Files in XML

Logging is a top priority for any project. Current versions of most popular databases have excellent logging capabilities, but it’s not always easy to get the logged data in a

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Quickly Set a Form to a User’s Working Area Size and Location

Simply add these two lines of code to the Form’s Load event: this.Location = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Location;this.Size = Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea.Size; Related Posts Crisfield secures $36 million FEMA grantEasily Create Responsive Websites Using BootstrapTransforming

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How to Detect JFrame Resizing

There are a couple of ways to track JFrame resizing. This method uses a while(true) loop, setting Thread.sleep to wait for some specified period of time. However, you could just

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Create and Save Thumbnails of Web Pages

You can use the .NET WebBrowser control to take thumbnails or full-size screenshots of loaded web pages, and then use the Bitmap class to save them locally. For example, to

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Good Search Capabilities Often Trump Good Logic

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Good Search Capabilities Often Trump Good Logic

Recently, I learned a valuable lesson in modern programming efficiency: Problem-solving abilities often take a backseat to information retrieval and analysis. I was working on an application that saved images

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Integrating Perl with PHP in Windows

erl is a script programming language that has a syntax similar to C. It includes a number of popular Unix facilities such as SED, awk, and tr. Perl comes pre-installed

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Check out the 2008 Winners!

One of the categories in the 2008 contest was the “Technology Showcase”. Developers were invited to submit applications using Flash Lite, Java, Python, open source or other technologies supported by

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Hudson Continuous Integration Server

ohsuke Kawaguchi, a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, released Hudson in February of 2005. Since that time, Java developers have adopted Hudson as their continuous integration server in greater and

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Use a Validator to Validate a DOMSource

This code snippet creates a Validator that you can use to validate an XML document represented as a DOMSource. //create a DocumentBuilderFactory objectDBF=DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); //activating namespaces supportDBF.setNamespaceAware(true); //create a DocumentBuilder objectDB=DBF.newDocumentBuilder();

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Create a Popup Calendar in ASP.NET

This example assumes the main page from which users will pop up the calendar is named Calender.aspx. The following procedure shows how to create the popup calendar: In Calendar.aspx, add

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Getting Better Sound Capabilities in .NET 3.0

The .NET Framework includes a SoundPlayer class (in System.Media) that can play sound files. However, this class suffers from two crippling limitations: it can play only PCM-encoded WAV files, and

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Error Using JavaScript’s this Keyword

Even though this is a reserved word in JavaScript, the following code fails… with(parent){…this.window.event…} …because it can’t back out of parent. The workaround is to assign the window object to

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Ellison Hints at Oracle’s Java: JavaFX & Mobile Focus

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Create a Generic List at Run Time

You can create a list of a specific type at run time by passing the type to the MakeGenericType method, for example: Type t = Type.GetType(“System.Int32”);IList tList= (IList)Activator.CreateInstance( (typeof(List&lt&gt).MakeGenericType(t))); tList.GetType().FullName