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Use Alpha Gradient Masks in Flash 8, At Last!

n last month’s article, I gave you an overview of some of Flash 8’s most exciting features. This month, I’ll show you how easy it is to achieve a long-desired

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Send Email in C# Code

In order to send email in C# code, do the following: // create mail message objectMailMessage mail = new MailMessage();mail.From = “”; // put the from address heremail.To = “”;

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Improve Performance by Reducing Column Size

During design time, you generally allocate some space to the columns by default. When it comes to tweaking performance, you may try to go back to the design and reduce

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Using a Function Call as an Lvalue

An Lvalue is an expression that can appear on the left-hand side of an equals sign. Likewise, an Rvalue expression appears on the right-hand side of the equals sign. Therefore

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Using Java to Handle Custom WSDL Data Types

he onslaught of Web services messaging and XML-based data transfer has led to a need to express these message exchanges in some structured way. The Web services Description Language (WSDL)

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View the Bytecode Contained in a Java Class

If you look in the bin directory of a regular Java2 SDK installation, you’ll find a ‘javap’ application (javap.exe), which you can use as a disassembler by adding the -c

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Find Mouse Coordinates with Javascript

Using window.event.clientX and window.event.clientY gives you the X and Y coordinates of the mouse position: Related Posts Jenkins 2.0 Alpha Build ReleasedNSI Probe Unravels Corruption ScandalWorking with an SQL Output

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XMI: Using C# to Capture UML Models

n my last article, I introduced XMI, an incredibly useful XML standard for interchanging models. Because XMI uses XML and XML is just text, using a schema or standard, it

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Platform Proliferation Powers PDC 2005

icrosoft opened the PDC this year to a sold-out crowd eager to see the Redmond giant’s future plans. And they weren’t disappointed. Not only is Microsoft showing off future systems,

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Get Familiar with J2SE 5.0 Collections

he collections API has always been one of the most important aspects of the Java Development Kit (JDK). Nearly every Java program makes use of collection classes such as HashMap,

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Classloader Diffculties with JBoss

When you deploy two Web applications as Web archives (WARs) into JBoss’ deploy folder, you expect them to run independently of each other. But this does not happen. WebApp1.war +

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Initializing a TextBox

There are two ways to initialize a TextBox whose TextMode is “password” with a default password: Related Posts Mother’s e-reader accessory startup soars in salesETELM???s New Solution Tackles Proprietary Technology

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Arrays as Pointers in C++

In C++, arrays and pointers are inextricably linked. The elements of an array are stored in consecutive memory addresses on the computer and the name of the array is equivalent

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Dynamic <div> Tags

Use JavaScript to make a tag dynamically and then adds code to handle the onmouseclick event to it.”: /*The following code generates a div in javascript dynamically and add events

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Using XML in Java Gets Easier with DOM4J

f you have worked with XML in Java applications during the past few years, you know the pain of parsing and extracting XML data inside the application. The process required

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Achieving IIF Functionality in T-SQL

The syntax for the IIF command in T-SQL is: select case when then when then ….else endfrom In the following example, the bit data type will store either 0 or

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Locating the Fonts Available to Your Java Apps

One way to find which fonts are available to your Java programs is to call the getFontList method of the java.awt.Toolkit class. It returns an array of font names. Although