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Add Virtualization to Your Development Toolbox

t’s time again to open up your developer’s toolbox and make room for the new must-have tool, virtual machines. As a software consultant, I find myself traveling from customer to

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Check java.policy at Build Time to Avoid Runtime Errors

he changes to Java’s security implementation have made it more robust and introduced more programmatic hooks for developers to add to Java’s default security mechanisms. Oddly, even with the introduction

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Migrate Your J2EE Apps from EJB to Hibernate

ccording to its Web site, Hibernate is a “powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java.” And they’re not just blowing smoke. Hibernate is a key player in

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What You Need to Know About Web Controls

ne of the key tenets of .NET is that it makes developers more productive. And this is basically true?it is easier to build applications, including Web applications. You can build

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Shortcut Keys for Creating Comments in VS 2005

Use Ctrl+E+C to comment selected text in web.config or the codebehind file. Use Ctrl+E+U to uncomment selected text in web.config or the codebehind file. Note: Neither key is case sensitive.

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Append the Items on a Dropdown Menu

This tip provides a way to append the items on a dropdown menu?even when the control is binded with the datasource. Assume that the dropdown menu will be showing a

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MSMQ for .NET Developers, Part 2

art 1 of this article included an example that demonstrated how to read messages from a queue asynchronously. That example worked by first calling BeginReceive on the queue object and

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Localizing ASP.NET 2.0 Applications

he recommended way to create cross-language Web sites is to localize using .NET’s support for culture codes. Here are some examples of culture codes: en-US: “en” represents the English language.

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Restrict Object Allocation to Specific Memory Types

C++ inherited from C its three memory storage types: automatic storage (also called stack memory), static storage for namespace-scope objects and local static objects, and the free-store(also called the heap),

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Hibernate 3 Adds XML-Relational Persistence

ibernate has taken the IT world by surprise with its easy-to-use, high-performance, and sophisticated features for object-relational (OR) persistence. The most recent version of Hibernate (version 3, released on March

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Developers: No Longer the Hackers’ Allies

o one who works in IT today can escape the carnage wreaked by hackers. Worms and other exploits are increasingly designed to target specific vulnerabilities in software ranging from operating

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Subversion Delivers Version Control that CVS Can’t

he designers of Subversion have created an open-source version control tool that fixes the flaws and addresses shortcomings in the popular Concurrent Versions System (CVS) version control system. The following

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Does the Compiler Always Create a Default Constructor?

The compiler creates a default construtor only in the following situations: When the class’s base class defines the default constructor. When the class of member objects defines default constructors. When