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was surfing the web the other day, looking for Visual Basic questions to answer, when I stumbled across an old FAQ that explained why Visual Basic no longer has arrays
An easy way to identify the current execution path is by using the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory property, which identifies the current assembly’s execution path. This property works well for both Windows and
Inserting an XPath Expression into a Java Application can be very useful if you need to develop a Java application that evaluates a simple XPath expression. Just a copy/paste your
Suppose you’ve just copied something to your clipboard. Want to send somebody an email containing that clipboard data? Just press CTRL+V in outlook. This opens a new Window with the
oday’s customers demand easier-to-modify and more flexible applications than ever before. In this article, I will show you how to design applications with extensibility points so that they will grow
My previous article on Silverlight demonstrated how to use the MediaElement control to playback media files. This bare-bones control simply plays back a media file?it does not have visual controls
he Ruby language’s conciseness makes it great for development?fewer lines of code means reduced development time and maintenance costs. Rails, the Ruby-based web application framework, can be equally developer-friendly, but
ingletons, stream objects, and other classes must disable copying and assignment. However, C++ doesn’t yet provide a direct mechanism for disabling copying. Another related problem exists with undesirable conversions of
ny user-centric application you write will require some sort of data integration?at minimum, you’ll need to retrieve some data and display it in the user interface. Often, applications must retrieve
s the line between the desktop and the web blurs, more applications are taking advantage of the best of both worlds. Adobe AIR and JavaFX are prime examples of frameworks
Ever wish you could have your RMI application notify you when it’s using the distributed garbage collector? Sometimes it’s useful to know when a RMI server “kills” an object. Just
Here’s an example of how to use XSLT 2.0’s new character-map element to replace a character (or group of characters) with another character (or group of characters) on the transformation
More and more Windows applications are internationalized to take advantage of the global marketplace. However, multi-byte string handling functions may impact program’s performance and should not be used with single-byte
Maybe you’ve noticed that when a DataSet’s date columns are passed to a remote web server or web service whose time zone differs from that of the client, the date
# 3.0 includes a few syntactical additions to the language. For the most part, Microsoft added these language additions to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ). These features include (but are
calable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML specification for producing vector-based graphic content that you can create, modify, and manipulate dynamically from programming languages. Here, you’ll explore the most important
ne of the fundamental visions of the semantic web is the ability to provide improved technologies for machine-processable data. The current web is a swell place for people, but absent
he Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and the M2Eclipse (M2) plugin are separate projects, each with high value for the developer who uses Eclipse. WTP is a tools bundle that
oogle Maps (GM) provides a powerful online environment that you can use to provide your web application with rich interactive 2D mapping features. You can render points, lines, or areas
his article looks at a line of business application built using .NET 2.0, Windows Communication Foundation, and Visual Studio 2005 that automatically chooses the most suitable connection based on the
etting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft
asily customizable and configurable software is becoming increasingly important, and a flexible interface for searching is one way in which software is becoming more configurable. The key to achieving flexibility
ou undoubtedly know by now that Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing in November, just in time for Christmas. It comes wrapped up with a new version of Visual
ith the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0, contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced Language
The code below contains standard, pre-defined macros used at runtime to determine whether a C or C++ compiler was used to compile the code. For C compilers, it also determines
To get the current date, your first instinct is probably to use the java.util.Date class. However, this class has so many deprecated methods that it’s probably best to ignore it.
In ASP.NET, a web form’s title is determined by the HTML View’s Title attribute. However, there is no property in the default (or any other namespace) that helps you to
hen you need to develop a web form with a special design and great effects, you will probably elect to use Flash. But building and programming Flash forms is considerably
he book A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux walks you through every feature and technique you need to know about Ubuntu Linux, from installing Ubuntu—using the DVD included with the
ith the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0, contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced Language
