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Forcing HTML Data to Render Properly

If the data in your database looks like “SomeValue or other HTML, you have to do something to prevent the browser from showing the tags, when you want just to

Microsoft to Add AJAX Capabilities to ASP.NET

ver the past few months, there’s been an increasing amount of buzz about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) programming. It’s about time. AJAX is the new term for a technology

Port Your Java MIDlets to a Palm Device

alm OS-based handhelds and smartphones are powerful, pervasive computing devices that have changed the lives of many users through the applications they house. As a Java developer, why not tap

Windows Forms Secrets

o call Visual Studio .NET “pretty cool” is getting a little cliche. You know it. I know it. We’ve created Web applications in minutes, figured out the power behind the

Master Simple Math Concepts to Electrify Your ActionScript

any Flash creators?even experienced ActionScript coders?are unnecessarily frightened by math. Some find the subject so intimidating they will avoid even simple scripting projects if there is any “serious” math involved.

New Flash: How to Integrate Flash with Office 2003

ntegrating Flash or any other XML-supporting application with Office 2003’s XML capabilities is easy. In fact, when I was noodling around trying to come up with demonstration apps, I was

Java Turns 10: The Developer Retrospective

ay 2005 marked 10 years since Sun first introduced Java technology to the world. In the decade to follow, the language begat a platform, which begat a community, which begat

What’s New in Visual Basic 2005?

f you have been a hardcore VB6 programmer and you’ve hesitated about switching to Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic 2005 will change your mind and you’ll want to take the

Building .NET Projects with the Correct References

Building projects with VS.NET 2003 (devenv.exe), you run into some hassles with the ReferencePath property. You can see this property in the project user file: .vbproj.user and .csproj.user. The problem

Managing the Form Flow in J2ME

To manage form flow, the first thing you need to do is create a singleton class with static methods. Next, you implement a stackable system in which to store any

Uploading Larger Files

To upload larger files, you have to configure the web.config httpRuntime tag’s maxRequestLength property. Related Posts OpenStack Launches Project NavigatorMicrosoft Azure App Service: An Integrated Cloud and Mobile Service PlatformHow

AJAX: A Fresh Look at Web Development

ouldn’t it be nice if you could turn your plain old Web pages into something more exciting? Isn’t it time to inject some life into your decade-old Web technologies? If

Building .NET Applications with NAnt

key tool in any software development arsenal is a structured build process. NAnt is a tool for building Visual Studio .NET applications that you can incorporate into your development process

Identify the Owner of a User Table

If your database is maintained by more than one user and some of those users have rights to create tables, it can be difficult to identify the owner of a

Apply a Gradient to Any Control that Has an hDC

This class allows you to apply a gradient to any control that has an hDC?forms, Pictureboxes, etc. Simply load the class and tell it the start color, direction of gradient,

Using Pixels in WinForms .NET

Though .NET no longer supports twips, one twip is still 1/1440 inch. You can use the dpiX and dpiY properties of the Graphics class to obtain the horizontal or vertical

Obtaining Wireless News with J2ME and PHP

he Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) is targeted at cell phones, smart cards, pagers, and other consumer devices. J2ME technology consists of a virtual machine and a set of