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Extending the Visual FoxPro 9 Reporting System

here are incredible improvements in the Visual FoxPro 9 reporting system. Of several aspects, I’ll discuss just one in this article: the ability to extend the behavior of the runtime

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TierDeveloper 4.0 Enterprise Edition Review

ierDeveloper is an Object-to-Relational (O/R) mapping tool that integrates with Visual Studio versions 2002 and higher. TierDeveloper maps Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) tables to .NET objects (VB.NET and C#),

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Shutdown/Restart Windows Without Long API Calls

To shutdown Windows, just type the following code: Shell “shutdown -s -t 00” To restart windows: Shell “shutdown -r -t 00” Here’s the key: -s means shutdown. -r means restart.

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Persist Java Objects in a File and Retrieve Them Later

For persisting Java objects in a file, use java.io.ObjectOutputStream. ObjectOutputStream writes primitive data types or Java objects. Persistent storage can be accomplished by using a file for the stream. Only

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Controls, Events, Commands, and More

‘m sure you are as anxious as I am to explore new properties, events, and methods, new or improved commands, and FoxPro Foundation Classes (FFCs). Let’s dive right in! Anchoring

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Visual FoxPro 9 IDE Enhancements

very version of FoxPro has always included a number of enhancements to the IDE and Visual FoxPro 9 is no exception. Fonts and Colors EverywhereOne major enhancement to the UI

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The Visual FoxPro 9 Report Writer

n this article, you’ll learn about the new reusable data environments, report protection, and several user interface enhancements, enhancements to layout objects and data groups. Finally, you’ll learn about one

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What’s New with Data in Visual FoxPro 9?

isual FoxPro 9.0 contains more functional enhancements to the data engine than any release since 3.0. From the new and extended functionality in SQL to new data types and a

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Use Java to Interact with Your Clipboard

clipboard acts as a temporary staging area where application users store cut or copied information, including text, graphics, objects, and other data types. It is a heavily exploited data sharing

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An Introduction to Java Object Persistence with EJB

toring and retrieving information for most applications usually involves some form of interaction with a relational database. This has presented a fundamental problem for developers for quite some time since

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Registering ActiveX Files

This tip is in response to the tip “Register ActiveX Files Using the Mouse.” There’s a much easier way. Put a shortcut to regsvr32.exe and regsvr32.exe /u in your “SendTo”

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Read Time Zone Names Stored in the Registry

The following code reads the time zone names stored in the registry and places those names in a combobox. The time zone names (there are about 50 or so) look

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Create a Taxonomy in UDDI Using UDDI4J

This code demonstrates how to create a tModel taxonomy in UDDI for WSDL specifications using UDDI4J. import org.uddi4j.datatype.tmodel.TModel;import org.uddi4j.response.AuthToken;import org.uddi4j.datatype.OverviewDoc;import org.uddi4j.util.KeyedReference;import org.uddi4j.util.CategoryBag;import java.util.Vector;import org.uddi4j.response.TModelDetail;import org.uddi4j.client.UDDIProxy;private String createTaxonomy() { try{ TModel

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Push the Limits of SharePoint Customization

harePoint has a very extensive API that connects to almost any part of the SharePoint functionality through your code. With SharePoint 2003 Microsoft has re-written most of the base API

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Build Better UIs with the Asynchronous Support in .NET 2.0

synchronous programming has always been a difficult and time-consuming process in Windows programming. Until now, developers typically wrote asynchronous code in .NET by using an asynchronous pattern with a Begin/End

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Authenticate the UDDI Server and Gain Access to the UDDI Registry

The following code uses the the UDDI4J library to authenticate to UDDI and gain access to the UDDI registry: import org.uddi4j.client.UDDIProxy;import org.uddi4j.response.AuthToken;private AuthToken accessUDDI(){ UDDIProxy uddiProxy = new UDDIProxy(); //Create

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Read an Image from a Database and Show it in a Browser

This script reads the image from the databse and uses JDBC and stream to write it into a browser. //import the required filesimport …//class declarationpublic class … extends HttpServlet{ public