indows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0, introduced with Windows Vista, gives your computer fast search capabilities, helping you find your documents, e-mail, music, photos, videos, and other items quickly. Microsoft implemented
ogging is a vital capability for enterprise-class applications! For example, consider some of the motivations for examining the logs generated by Internet Information Services (IIS): Usability: Which pages are the
ow often have you been cajoled into troubleshooting a performance issue on an older version of Windows, brought up Task Manager and been bewildered by the list of processes running?
indows Activation Service (WAS), introduced with Windows Vista, is the new process activation mechanism that ships with IIS 7.0. WAS builds on the existing IIS 6.0 process and hosting models,
or IT professionals dealing with multiple, complex applications and systems, monitoring has always had a magical appeal: You flip on the monitoring software, put your feet up on the desk,
eally Simple Syndication (RSS) is a set of XML schema that define how providers can publish information destined for consumers. In its most common form, RSS holds the text and
indows SideShow is a new feature in Windows Vista that supports secondary display(s) on your PC. While the “buzz” about this feature primarily discusses notebook computers, Vista supports SideShow secondary
hen I heard about the two new navigable interfaces, NavigableSet and NavigableMap, that were going to be released with the collections framework in Java SE 6, I wondered how I
QL Server Reporting Services versions 2000 and 2005 (SSRS) has many powerful features. SSRS has a well-designed data access engine, a great set of layout tools, and an excellent expression
ne of the features released with the 2.0 version of .NET was support for FTP. In .NET 2.0, you can now programmatically access FTP servers using the FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse
y default, an ASP.NET web form posts back to itself whenever a postback operation occurs. That behavior wasn’t terribly common in web pages before ASP.NET appeared, and isn’t always what
To supress JavaScript error messages, simply place this snippet in the Head section of your Web page: <SCRIPT language=”JavaScript”>function dontshowerrormessages() {return true;}window.onerror=dontshowerrormessages; An even better method is to use the
If you use _tspawnl when spawning a new process, all the handles from the creating process are inherited by the created process. This can have undesirable side effects?especially if it’s
When you use an XML data provider as a data source in SSRS, the query text generally consists of mainly of SOAPAction or MethodName tags. This also allows you to
This tip show you how to build absolute/relative URIs by using the java.net.URI methods. Building an absolute URI: try{ URI uri_absolute=new URI(“http://www.java.sun.com/”); URI uri_relative=new URI(“index.html”); URI uri_absolute_result=uri_absolute.resolve(uri_relative); System.out.println(uri_absolute_result); }catch(URISyntaxException e)
Working with dates is one of the most common—and most error-prone—parts of writing SQL. Every database engine ships its own set of SQL date functions for getting the current time,
oon after I joined a startup online service company I realized that for the first time in my career there was no project manager keeping track of the team’s progress
few months ago, I was teaching a class on JDBC. After a particularly tedious JDBC lab, I alluded to the existence of many Java persistence frameworks to help Java developers
One of the common controls that you will usually use in Windows Forms programming is the DataGridView control. The DataGridView control is a new control in Windows Forms 2.0 and
Sometimes you need to process an XSL-FO document that is the result of an XSLT transformation. Actually, the XSL-FO document doesn’t exist, it is just a stream of SAX events.
One simple way of trimming a string is to make use of a powerful regular expression?as opposed to iterating and removing the space characters one by one. To see how
The CacheDuration attribute of a WebMethod does not work as intended in the .NET Framework 1.1. Methods that use HTTP GET fail if the .NET Framework is v1.1. That’s because,
lthough software and architectural reuse has been a constant drumbeat in the technical press for many years, it’s still common to see code and designs that violate many principles of
oncurrency is a well-known technique for improving the performance of many J2EE applications. For example, Web 2.0 mashup applications must aggregate data from multiple sources. Performing the aggregation in a
hinking about developing multiplayer interactive games, multimedia messengers, content-sharing applications, audio/video conferencing applications, or maybe the next cool Web 2.0 application on a smartphone? You might want to consider developing
For the past year or so, I’ve been involved in documenting frameworks that help developers write better code, and create applications that are more efficient and easier to test, debug,
any moons ago, I presented C++’s basic time and date facilities. At that time, however, I didn’t demonstrate how to format and customize the date and time. Such customizations may
QL Server may be the domain of Microsoft, but that doesn’t mean the database engine doesn’t know how to play nice with Java. In fact, SQL Server is used in
n this follow-up to my January/February 2005 article, “The Baker’s Dozen: 13 Productivity Tips for Crystal Reports and .NET,” I’ll offer some changes to the original article and some new
he things that we tend to do poorly on software projects are also things that we tend to do often. These things also tend to be small enough to slide