ou know what drives me nuts (among so many other things)? What’s making me crazy this week is the requirement?in so many areas of programming?that you must serialize data into
his is the last in a series of three articles that explore the built-in support for standard design patterns in ASP.NET, and ways in which you can implement common patterns
SP.NET provides a couple of page-level state persistence mechanisms in ViewState and the new ControlState. While both mechanisms work, they both have some limitations in that they are not deterministic
use the ListView control a lot. Not to display large or small icon views, which are attractive but information-sparse. Instead, I tend to use it to display a detail view
As the most popular programming language in the world, VB 2005 offers a rich array of programming options that even experienced VB programmers will find challenging. Well-known Visual Basic expert
pplication architects design distributed applications based largely on their computing resources and network infrastructure. The goal is to ensure that users have ready access to computing resources, and that those
icrosoft offers two queuing frameworks to its ‘brand’ of developers: MSMQ and SQL Service Broker. These two frameworks offer many of the same features, but differ in some important areas
he dependency injection pattern, also knows as Inversion of Control, is one of the most popular design paradigms today. It facilitates the design and implementation of loosely coupled, reusable, and
xtensions are tricky objects. They behave similarly to C++ classes except they’re ruthlessly complicated to implement. They give Brew developers, usually limited to C code, a chance to stretch their
n my previous article, “ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure” I wrote about the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part framework, making the case for the emergence of Web Part or widget-like solutions,
This tip is just a small application that creates an extension element for the Xalan processor. The name of the new element is <today> and it can be used to
or the past several years, XPath has been steadily gaining popularity as an effective tool when developing XML applications. XPath was originally viewed as an adjunct element for the W3C’s
efore I can really describe what SharePoint and Workflow are together it’s important to understand what is meant when I talk about workflow. Its most basic components are a stimulus—an
A month ago, I discussed the strfmt() function. A timely announcement from Microsoft has inspired me to write a column about a related topic, namely accessing the system’s Daylight Saving
n the last few years, SMS (Short Message Service) has made a big impact on the way we communicate (or at least the youngsters). Instead of communicating over the phone
hen it comes to analysis and reporting, managers love Excel. Just give them the raw data and they have a field day. For enterprise-level reporting, however, you want everybody to
lmost all applications need to integrate some sort of data, often from multiple data sources such as SQL Server or Oracle database tables. In .NET languages, you would traditionally perform
any web applications exchange data as XML, but that data is usually stored in and queried from relational databases, CRM, ERP, proprietary repositories, and a hodgepodge of other systems. Unfortunately,
ou very rarely hear “quality of life” and “developer” in the same sentence. This is mostly because developers lack tools (not skills) that easily and concisely allow them to identify
f you’re like me you’re always looking for ways to increase productivity. This search can involve lots of different technologies. One limitation on technology usage is its applicability to the
he MSDN documentation includes a lot of material on persisting application settings in a Windows application (see Application Settings for Windows Forms ). But like much documentation, it’s primarily a
econd Life (SL) is an extremely popular, massively-multiplayer online game (MMOG) produced by Linden Labs. Many consider Second Life to be much more than a game. If you’re unfamiliar with
When you want to use the FOP-to-AWT Viewer from a Java application, you can use the ExampleAWTViewer.java. This application is available in the fop-0.20.5examplesembeddingjavaembedding directory. Using this class, you don’t
One common problem in Web service development occurs when the URL for a Web service changes. It would be ideal if you could configure this through a config file instead
Microsoft has several different versions of SQL and occasionally an install fails or an upgrade fails and normal uninstallation is impossible. MS recommends that you use regedit to delete all
Because browsers other than IE don’t create global variables for every part of the page/DOM, you need to qualify references to the form and its elements in non-IE browsers. You
he Java Persistence API is a new addition to the Java specification that updates Java’s method of performing object/relational mapping. In my first article on JPA, I explained the basics
s you saw in the first article in this series, ASP.NET automatically implements the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern when you use the built-in “code-behind” approach. However other patterns, usually referred to
Often, XML documents specify XSL stylesheets in an xml-stylesheet processing instruction. One easy way to load this stylesheet into a Java application is to use the TransformerFactory.getAssociatedStylesheet method. Though this
Making a textbox display its characters in a particular case (upper, lower, or title) is very easy with the help of the CharacterCasing property, which uses the values of the