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Create a New XML File Using XmlDocument

Here’s the XML File: XML This is a list my XML articles. true Here’s the code: Related Posts EnterpriseDB?? Offers New Program to Oracle?? Customers Affected by SE2 Licensing ChangeChina’s

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Showing Some MVP Love

t’s always great to be recognized for doing a great job or helping someone out. That was the original idea behind Microsoft’s MVP (Most Valuable Professional) program. In Microsoft’s (collective)

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Comparing Things

ne thing I’m pretty sure of is that boys like to compare things. Yes, I know what you’re thinking?that’s not where I’m going here. I have a vivid recollection of

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So Many Choices, So Little Time

he 1st quarter of this year has been one of the most challenging and interesting quarters for me in some time. I have been working with a client to help

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Finish Your Week with .NET Rocks!

his is the first in a series of what I hope will be one of your favorite columns for years to come! I am the host of a talk show

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Async-Up Your Objects

art of good component writing involves designing and developing components with the idea that developers other than you will use them. A good practice is to use conventions that are

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A Practical Guide for Integrating EJB and Struts

ou’ll find plenty written about building and deploying EJB, and perhaps equally as much about building applications with the Struts framework. But what about leveraging EJB and Struts together? This

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Prefer Templates to Macros

Because macros do not behave as function calls but merely as text substitutions, they might exhibit strange behaviors during complex calls. For instance: #define mul (t) t*t*tmul(3+3) gives 24 though

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Create Rollover Graphics in ASPX Pages

Although this tip creates onmouseover and onmouseout attributes in the IMG tag within the A tag when rendered to the browser, it could be used to set any attributes. Create

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Import Web Content into Your Excel Workbook

Importing Web content into your Excel workbook is simple using Micorosoft’s WinHTTP tools (they are free and included with IE). First, create and save an Excel Workbook. Next, access the

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Suffering from Spam?

One of the major ways that spammers get email addresses is by crawling Web pages and extracting any email addresses they find. As part of your own Web site development,

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Add Flash to Your .NET WinForms to Create Skinable UIs

ithin the last few years, Macromedia’s Flash has become a leading development environment for online vector animation, Web site production, and rich Internet applications?as well as for offline presentations, small

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Unheralded Java Filters Simplify Web-app Testing

ava filters, first introduced in the Java Servlet specification 2.3, are a powerful addition to any Java Web application toolkit, yet they probably are the most under-used and under-appreciated of

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Mixing JSTL and JSF in Web Applications

avaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) is a library of standard tags that you can place on JavaServer Pages (JSP). The tags encapsulate functionality commonly used in Web applications. JSTL

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Preserve Code Safety with Conversion Operators

ertain objects must be converted to a low-level representation and vice versa. Programmers using std::string objects, for instance, have to convert them to bare char pointers, as in the following

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Named Parameters in C++

Named parameters allow you to send function arguments in any sequence. This is very useful when your functions have long parameter lists. Named parameters are not supported in C++, but

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Develop a Reusable Image Cache in JavaScript

cripting a browser’s Document Object Model may be easy these days, but while the DOM is highly functional in some areas, it remains distinctly inflexible in others. Asynchronous operations like

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Smarten Up Your DataSets with XML Schema

ou might as well face it; your data model is going to change. You can whine about it. You can fight with the DBA and the requirements team. Or you

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Control Transaction Boundaries Between Layers

hen developing a software solution on a three-layered architecture, an inevitable mismatch emerges between business transactions and system transactions. Business transactions stem from application requirements, and they are defined at