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Eight Key Practices for ASP.NET Deployment

his article presents some best practices that you can follow to deploy ASP.NET applications in production mode. These practices help you avoid problems both during and after deployment. 1. Version

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Java ME User Interfaces: Do It with LWUIT!

ne of the hardest things about developing Java ME applications, especially for Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC)/Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) apps, has been trying to figure out how to

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Bringing Semantic Technology to the Enterprise

s seen at the recent 2008 Semantic Technology conference in San Jose, serious interest in corporate use of semantic technology continues to grow rapidly. Semantically-enabled applications are increasingly seen as

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Generating Reports and Statistics in PHP

tatistics and reports analyze the change over time of any kind of phenomena. For example, you could evaluate an employer’s performance by analyzing progress curves provided by reports; managers can

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Create a “Flea” Filter Using the RGBImageFilter Class

This tip demonstrates how to build a “flea” filter based on the RGBImageFilter class. The filtered picture will look like the image displayed on old TVs. import java.awt.image.*;import java.util.*;import java.awt.*;public

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Associate a File Extension to a Program

This tip is an addendum to the VB-2-the-Max tip CreateFileAssociation – Associate a file extension. The following code shows the complete original tip. The addendum is in bold. Without the

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Getting Started with the Windows Live Tools

he Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio enable developers to incorporate a set of Windows Live services into their web sites using Visual Studio and ASP.NET via a set

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Calculate the Last Day of the Month for Any Given Date

The following code calculates the last day of the month for any given date: Description: Calculates the last day of the month for any given date*/CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufn_GetLastDayOfMonth]( @inpuDate SMALLDATETIME)RETURNS

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How to Determine the Default Web Browser

Sometimes people assume that the default web browser is the program that is registered in the Windows registry to open files with an .html extension. However, it’s possible to set

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Obtain Class Methods Using Reflection

In this example, you will obtain all methods, all declared methods, and one specific method for the java.lang.reflect.Method class: import java.lang.reflect.*;public class getMethodsWithReflection { public static void main(String[] args){ Class

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The VS.NET IDE’s Command Window: A Tutorial

Most developers use Command Window as an interactive debug window, but there’s so much more that can be done with it. You can create aliases for commands that are used

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Developing Plugins for Windows Live Writer

indows Live Writer is a free desktop blog authoring tool from Microsoft that allows you to write an entry for your blog without having to be online and do it

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Getting Started with XForms in OpenOffice

ost developers have heard of XForms as an XML-based forms language meant to replace traditional HTML Forms. This is essentially correct; XForms was created as the next generation version of

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Change the Rules of C++ with Defaulted Functions

rogrammers have little control over the implicit declarations of the four canonical member functions. The compiler will not generate a default constructor for a class that has a user-declared copy-constructor.

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Implementing Enterprise Integration with Mule ESB

he sum of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is greater than its parts. While you can?often quite easily?implement your own adapters for enterprise services, a pre-packaged product that comes with

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Read an Image from a Database Using the getBinaryStream Method

This following code shows you how to extract an image (in this example, named foto_9738533.gif) from a database using the getBinaryStream method: try{ sql=”SELECT Foto FROM Table1 WHERE Nr_cont=9738533″; rs=st.executeQuery(sql);

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Using Data Wizards in .NET 2.0

When you use the data wizards in .NET 2.0, the connection string property is read only. However, the following code shows you how to change the connection string: ‘set a

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Creating Tables in the Default Tablespace

Developers typically create tables in the default tablespace. Most of them are not familiar with the actual tablespaces concept and are not aware that this is responsible for the issues

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Taming Trees: B-Trees

he previous article in this series on trees showed how to build a sorted binary tree. Inserting and locating items in a sorted tree is relatively quick and easy, so