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Scalability and Goal Testing for Developers

Often developers are tasked with not only developing functional code but also with ensuring that the code they develop scales well and performs in the application environment. The tests that

Book Excerpt: Emergent Design

or software to consistently deliver promised results, software development must mature into a true profession. Emergent Design points the way. As software continues to evolve and mature, software development processes

WPF Meets the iPhone

he iPhone is one of the most compelling and exciting user interfaces to appear on any consumer electronic device, with many innovations that make it a pleasure to use. This

Get Proper Filtered Results from a Data View

Ever notice how your data isn’t filtered properly even though you’ve set the Row Filter Expression correctly? For example, suppose you have this code: DataView dv = ds.Tables[0].DefaultView; dv.RowFilter =”location=11″;

Passing Strings Between Delphi DLL and VBA

Unlike other routines, this one doesn’t need to pass the length of the returned string for later trimming in VBA. This is because the Delphi function also tricks VBA into

Building Truly Useful Extension Methods

isual Studio 2008’s new extension methods feature stands out from among Visual Studio’s new offerings because you’ve been clamoring after it for years, right? What’s that? You weren’t clamoring for

Setting Up JBoss Tools for Seam Application Development

n the Java enterprise development ecosystem, you’ll find a wide proliferation of frameworks and solutions. However, unlike in the Microsoft development world, very few of them provide an end-to-end solution

Make Your Mouse Pointer Tremble

To make your mouse pointer appear to be trembling, you first create a form with ScaleMode = 3 – Pixel. Then use the following code: Option ExplicitPrivate Type POINTAPI X

Using Explicit Casting to Display Data

Suppose you’ve retrieved data from a datasource and you want to display the value of field1. Normally, you’d do this by using the &lt%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,”field1″) %&gt in the aspx/ascx file.

Validating an XML Document

The following code shows you how to use the DOMImplementationLS and DOMConfiguration classes to validate an XML document only when an XML Schema is present: DOMImplementationLS DOMiLS=null;//get a LSParserLSParser LSP=DOMiLS.createLSParser(DOMImplementationLS.MODE_SYNCHRONOUS,

Visual Basic and Respect

feel that all my life, I’ve been channeling Rodney Dangerfield (may he rest in peace). For those of you too young to remember ol’ Rodney, he was a comedian, most

A Practical Approach to Threat Modeling

ecurity is a hot topic these days. It is as if developers and system designers are fighting a never ending war against those who desire to damage hardware, compromise system

What’s New in Visual Basic 9.0? Part 2

ith the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has also updated the VB language to the latest version, 9.0. VB 9.0 boasts several key language enhancements that have been made

Autocomplete Combo Boxes

When you develop an application in Microsoft Access, your combo boxes will, by default, incorporate autocomplete. However, Visual Basic does not include this intrinsic support. If you want autocomplete in

Trigger Efficiency in Oracle

The documentation for Oracle 9.2 and previous versions contains the following paragraph: “AFTER row triggers are slightly more efficient than BEFORE row triggers. With BEFORE row triggers, affected data blocks

Exploring Secrets of .NET Diagnostics

iagnostics, also known as “program tracing,” is a crucial?and often overlooked and underappreciated?component of application development. I have long been an ardent believer in diagnostic support, and have written diagnostic