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Accessing Server Controls Using JavaScript

Suppose you have a Web server control called TextBox in your Web page: You can access this value in a couple ways using JavaScript: document.getElementById(”).value;ClientID – server control identifier generated

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Automate Resource Management with shared_ptr

td::auto_ptr is the only smart pointer class available in C++98. Alas, since this class is neither assignable nor copy-constructible, creating containers of auto_ptr objects is illegal. This limitation has been

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Using Recursion Efficiently

It’s important to use recursion carefully to avoid running into stack overflow. This sample code reverses a given integer number using recursion: #include “stdafx.h”int myreverse(int num){ static int nLocal =

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Developing Windows Forms Applications on Mono

ross-platform software development means different things to different people. For many programmers immersed in Microsoft languages such as VB.Net or C#, the real test comes down to creating a Windows

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UML for the Software Developer, Part 5: Component Diagrams

ccording to Clemens Szyperski (author of “Component Software?Beyond Object-Oriented Programming,”), software components are binary units of independent production, acquisition, and deployment that interact to form a functioning system. He continues

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Inheritance 101

isual Basic developers had wanted inheritance for what seems like decades. The feature finally made it into VB.NET, making VB.NET an official object-oriented language. By now you are probably already

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VB Paradigm Shift

ver the last few months, the blogosphere has been waging a battle for continued development and support for VB6. This battle reached its crescendo a few weeks before Microsoft’s schedule

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Are We There Yet?

dmit it. You’re dying to know. How did the cross-country move, with four cats on a packed American Airlines Luxury Liner (if ever there was a misnomer, that’s it) go,

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Capturing the ESCAPE Key Event

Consider a scenario where a dialog is launched from a panel which itself was launched by another panel. It’s very tedious to get the dialog disposed when the ESCAPE key

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Am I a Mad Scientist?

o you want to save keystrokes? Do you want to ease maintenance? Do you want inline information about the code structures that you’re working with? How about statement completion? Are

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Five Great Patterns for Dealing with References

n a UML class model, classes are described by having attributes, operations, and relationships with other classes. When such a model is converted into code, both the public attributes and

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Dynamically Remove HREF from the Anchor Tag

Sometimes you need to remove a link from an anchor tag dynamically. You can do this with JavaScript.Take a look at this example: Devx To remove the link (i.e, the