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Value-based Billing for Wireless Java Applications

With the present possibility of downloading new J2ME applications over the air, the transformation of the mobile phone into something extraordinary is well underway. Today’s applications are primarily local applications:

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Using XML Glue to Solve Big Integration Problems

he core asset of any company is its business data. In a typical company, business data is stored in many formats and across many systems and databases throughout the organization.

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Learn to Use XML with DB2

y employer has just spun off our product testing facility into an independent organization, able to seek other clients. They will have their own, independent data systems but background data

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Dynamically moving a server control

Dynamically moving a server control instance on the page is very easy, thanks to the possibility to add any style attribute to the control. In this case, you can dynamically

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Linking a file in Visual Studio .NET

If in VS.NET you add to the current project an existing file that’s located outside the current project’s directory, the file is first copied in the project’s directory, and then

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Measuring a string drawn with a specific font

When you’re dynamically drawing text (either on a Windows Form or Web Form application), you may need to calculate the width and height of a string printed with a particular

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New S# Language Adds Capabilities for .NET Developers

February 12, 2003?This month, SmallScript Corp.will debut a new .NET language: S#. S# gives the .NET platform its first Smalltalk implementation, and adds formidable new capabilities to the .NET language

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How to Embed Resource Files in .NET Assemblies

his article describes how to use .NET’s ability to embed XML files, icons and other files in an assembly so your code can access them at run-time. Embedding the files

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Generate XML Mapping Code with JAXB

f you spend any time at all writing DOM or SAX code, then you need to know about the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB). It rapidly generates XML mapping

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How to Check for Open Cursors in an Oracle Database

If you are using Oracle, you might have faced the following error sometime during the development/testing cycle. ORA-01000: Maximum open cursors exceeded How do you check for open cursors in

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Disable the Alt+F4 Key Combination to Keep the Window from Closing

Assume you have an MFC application. The solution is to override the virtual function: virtual BOOL CWinApp::ProcessMessageFilter(int code, LPMSG lpMsg); The following code demonstrates: BOOL CMyProgramApp::ProcessMessageFilter(int code, LPMSG lpMsg){ if(WM_SYSKEYDOWN

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Using the JEditorPane to Display HTML File

The JEditorPane provides a mechanism through which you can add support for custom text formats. A standard editor pane can understand plain text, HTML, and RTF. import javax.swing.*;import javax.swing.event.*;import java.awt.*;import

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The Foundation VB Library

The Foundation library is intended to provide VB developers with convenience and simplicity of working with data available for their C++ colleagues from standard STL library. The author tried to

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Relative Urls in user controls

Urls that you set in user-control’s child controls are relative to the user control’s directory, not to the host page’s directory. Say for example that you have an user-control located

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Disabling the session state to improve performances

Sessions management consumes server’s resources and memory, thus, if you don’t use them in your application, you should disable them to improve performances. You can disable sessions for the entire

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Creating a popup calendar control

Many data entry forms have one or more text fields that the user should fill with a date value. Many sites have a button near these fields that when clicked