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XSH: Interactively Manipulate and Analyze XML Data

ML is a flexible language for storing hierarchical data along with its associated metadata. Storing XML data enables you to manipulate and analyze it later. When writing applications, you probably

Configuration API Improvements in ASP.NET 2.0

icrosoft has greatly enhanced the management tasks for your .NET 2.0 applications by providing a set of configuration APIs that you can use to programmatically access, modify, and save the

MSMQ for .NET Developers (Part 1)

icrosoft .NET developers can use several tools to perform operations asynchronously; that is, beginning a process without waiting for the operation to complete. MSMQ has provided this facility to developers

Improve the Performance of WebDAV in VB.NET

You can improve the performance of WebDAV by setting the following two properties of your Requestobject to false (true is the default value for both of there properties): HttpWebRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue: When

Masking Password Data in Non-editable Cells

Suppose you want to store password values in a table, but you don’t want that password data to be displayed. While there are other ways to accomplish this, masking the

Eclipse: The Last IDE You’ll Ever Need?

urlingame, Calif.?The support that Eclipse has gained from tools vendors such as BEA and Borland indicates how established the integrated development environment (IDE) has become since IBM developed and then

Create and Drop Stored Procedures as a Group

Ever created a bunch of stored procedures for testing purposes and went to drop them but couldn’t remember all the names you created? A way to avoid this is to

Build Java Apps that Can Multitask

f you worked with thread programming in C or C++ or prior versions of Java, you know what a headache managing the threads in your code can be. In single-threaded

Add SQL Text Fields

Text fields need special treatment in SQL. Here’s how to add two text fields: CREATE TABLE Foo (a int, b text)–Table Foo has b as text data type.INSERT INTO Foo

Use Cookieless Sessions with Care

When a user visits a Web site for the first time, the site creates a unique ID, known as a Session ID. The Session ID is unique for that current

XUI: Finally, a Java GUI Framework You Can Love

here are many Java user interface toolkits. The most common, of course, are AWT and Swing, each of which has its advantages and drawbacks. Swing in particular, while it looks