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Java Copier Frees You from Tedious Coding

ometimes Java classes seem like close relatives who unfortunately don’t have the same parent. Their structures and looks are similar, but not so similar that you can derive one from

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Load Testing with Apache JMeter

bad response time on your Web site can drive away visitors and prospective customers. Unfortunately, you may not realize that your Web site is having problems until people start complaining.

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Using MySQL 4.0 with .NET

have been a Microsoft SQL Server developer for a number of years. One the things I like about SQL Server is that it is easy to install and once installed

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Implementing Two-Way Control Binding for Web Forms

SP.NET has considerably raised the bar for Web development with very rich developer functionality built into a flexible and highly extensible object model. If you have a background of hand-coding

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Add Mouse Wheel support to the VB6 IDE

Vanja Fuckar has developed a library that adds support for the mouse wheel in the VB6 IDE, i.e. in the code window, Immediate window etc. The library is written in

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Adding Design-Time support to your classes

If you use VS.NET you know that there are a number of classes that offer visual design-time support, i.e. they can be dragged and dropped on your form, and their

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The Enterprise Instrumentation Framework

e’ve all faced those irritable questions about our applications running in production. Typically a system administrator will spring one on you on a Friday afternoon just when you’re finishing out

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Deconstructing Add-In Architecture in Visual Studio .NET

isual Studio .NET provides an incredible leap forward from its predecessor in terms of functionality, but eventually, every developer finds a sought-after feature that just seems overlooked. VS .NET provides

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Hearts and Minds

rom the time Visual Studio.NET was first in beta there has been a constant debate about a subject that is near and dear to all Visual Studio .NET developers. This

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The Mind of an Angry Coder: I Take Exception to That

y favorite source code repository is SourceGear’s Vault. Besides being written in .NET, it is highly optimized for remote development scenarios. I was installing a new instance of Vault on

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ADO.NET Best Practices

o get the most out of ADO.NET classes, developers must fully understand the model and study a few best practices. Based on years of real-world experience with ADO, ADO.NET provides

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Longhorn and Mozilla: Birds of a Feather

oftware technology goes forward in fits and starts. Bigger advances can cause plenty of information indigestion for technologists. At each leap, a new understanding gap opens up. Such a gap

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Find and Replace a String in a Table

The folowing stored procedure will find and replace a string in a table: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_st_FindANDReplaceString]@Tablename varchar(20),@FieldName varchar(20),@FindString varchar(30),@RepalceString varchar(30)ASdeclare @sqlstring varchar(8000)Select @sqlstring = “Update ” + @Tablename + “

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A Fabricated ADO Recordset

A disconnected recordset is a recordset which does not hold an active connection. A fabricated recordset can be viewed as a variation of a disconnected recordset. The variation in the

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Get the Current Host Info

This program prints out the name and the address (in both textual and numerical forms) of the machine on which its run, using the InetAddress singleton. import java.net.*;public class CurrentHost

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Replace All Occurrences of One String with Another String

All programmers?especially database programmers?require a function that replaces all occurrences of one substring with another string. For example, they need to replace the single quotes in strings passed to an

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Serialize Data Using a PropertyBag

You can serialize your data quickly by placing it into a PropertyBag object, then reading the PropertyBags Contents property. This property is really a Byte array that is a serial