n .NET 2.0, Microsoft has exposed the methods of the IXmlSerializable interface, giving you far more control over the way your objects get serialized to XML than in previous versions.
Suppose you are creating a dynamic page in ASP. Most of the page elements are dynamic and you need a few of the headers to have the first letter of
If you are familiar with the remove_if() algorithm, you’re used to applying remove_if() followed by erase(). For example, suppose you’re given a predicate to determine whether a number is even:
On AIX, and UNIX in general, DB2 instance creation fails with vague errors: Update DBM cfg SYSADM_GROUP errcode = 8DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be initialized. Explanation:
Use the following code to extract JAR and ZIP Entries with JarURLConnection: import java.net.*;import java.io.*;import java.awt.*;import java.util.*;import java.util.jar.*;class read extends Frame{URL url=null;JarURLConnection URLcon=null;JarFile jar=null;TextArea TA=new TextArea(15,35);public read(String titlu){ super(titlu);}void init(){
You can use Microsoft’s ILMerge tool to merge .NET assemblies?even those written in different .NET languages?into a single assembly for easier distribution, something that’s not possible using Visual Studio alone.
n today’s world, if you cannot communicate securely using technology you may as well not communicate at all. There are countless ways that information can be taken and misused by
November 7, 2005?Starting today in San Francisco, where Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicks off the party, and moving across the country throughout this month and December, Microsoft is sponsoring a
wo years ago, the Swiss business software maker Abacus Research AG decided to port its complete product line from Borland’s Delphi to Java/Swing. The Abacus Delphi development team faced the
igh-volume database traffic is a frequent cause of performance problems in Web applications. Hibernate is a high-performance, object/relational persistence and query service, but it won’t solve all your performance issues
he .NET framework provides a nice way to insert XML documentation tags inside C# source code. These tags can then be extracted to an XML file, and using NDoc, transformed
hen ASP.NET was released in 2002, it gave Web developers a whole new design paradigm to work with; one that varied greatly from the classic Active Server Pages (ASP) that
The semantics of ==, with regards to string comparison in Java and C#, are totally different from each other. Suppose you have two strings?s1 and s2?and the following statment: //
There is a simple way to convert a string, which is in the correct GUID format, into a GUID. Simply do the following: GUID GUID = (SqlGUID.Parse(s)).Value; Related Posts Ron
here’s a strong chance that you’ve used a speech-based application at least once?to access your bank information, check the status of an airline flight, or get the latest weather?because the
ere’s an interesting coincidence: The “UML Conference,” where I delivered the keynote speech a few days ago, changed its name to “MoDELS & UML.” Similarly, the “UML & Design World”
eople hate to wait. In fact, when it comes to a computer, they hate to wait more than about 200 milliseconds. This can be a problem when your Web-based application
SP.NET 2.0 comes with several new security controls located under the Login tab in the Toolbox (see Figure 1) that greatly simplify the life of a Web developer. Using the
ny database engine, whether it is IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server, depends on stored metadata for the normal operation of a database instance. In DB2 UDB, this
hile Qualcomm BREW has had support for location-based services (LBS) applications since its inception, only recently have CDMA carriers begun to roll out the back-end support these applications need. Consequently,
xperienced PL/SQL programmers and Oracle developers will learn to master Oracle’s procedural extension to industry-standard SQL. “Expert Oracle PL/SQL” should help you become expert at developing robust, high-performance enterprise applications
he eXtreme .NET Team eXreme Eddie?Eddie has been programming for more than 20 years. He has done everything from mainframe work through embedded systems. Eddie was an early adopter of
his month, I will show you a couple of simple ways to add runtime filter effects, such as drop shadow or blur, to your Movie Clips for a more dynamic
reating a non-clustered index that contains all the columns used in a SQL query, a technique called index covering, is a quick and easy solution to many query performance problems.
ike many companies, my company uses an object cache to store frequently accessed data in memory so the server doesn’t have to access the back-end database every time it handles
f you have used Visual Studio 2005, chances are you’ve noticed the new Smart Tag feature. Basically, a Smart Tag is a panel that is displayed next to a control,
Here is a pattern you will see quite often when structuring your code in loop constructs: 01 enum command { start, stop, wait, quit };02 command instructions;03 int counter =
The following code will close a popup window after the user selects to download the file, or if he/she cancels the download. Between the tags of the document is popped
In some cases, the results of the use of the DateTimePicker control can be confused?implicitly initialized. This tip describes what you can do to avoid confusion. At run time, the
To determine all your user tables, plus their columns, datatypes, and length, type: SELECT DISTINCT SO.Name AS “TableName”, SC.ColID, SC.Name AS “ColumnName”, ST.Name AS “DataType”, SC.Length AS “Length”, SC.Status AS