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icrosoft has recently announced the release of Windows Mobile 6 to device manufacturers. While it will be sometime before you can get your hands on a Windows Mobile 6 device,
uring the past 20 years I have had the privilege of working with well over 1,000 different software developers. Some of the best developers in the industry mentored me when
y previous article showed you how to improve your applications’ sophistication by using the power of ontologies to tap into conceptual information about a domain. This article discusses how to
s web application security breaches and attempts rise, developers are increasingly being asked to take more responsibility for the security of their applications, and application framework vendors are building more
he RichTextBox component in WPF/.NET 3.0 received a major upgrade compared to the previous version of the RichTextBox control that shipped with.NET 2.0. But with the expanded capability comes the
Query is a declarative language for querying XML that’s similar to SQL for querying relational data. Most Java developers are familiar with JDBC, which provides a standard Java API to
o you ever feel like you’re beating your head against a wall? I know I do; quite often, in fact. It seems like developers spend half their time bending technology
am the host of “.NET Rocks!”, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at www.dotnetrocks.com and msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. My co-host Richard Campbell and I interview the movers and shakers
icrosoft recently rolled out its next-generation operating system (OS), Windows Vista. One of the core Vista components is a new version of Microsoft’s web server?Internet Information Services version 7.0 (IIS
Suppose you accidentally start building a big project and now you have to wait until the debugger (IDE) shows the stop icon. Use CTRL+Break and cancel the build.
Use this application to determine what image formats you can load and save in J2SE. import javax.imageio.*;class picture{ public picture(){} void RWF() { //read image formats System.out.println(“R-IF:”); String[] readFormats=ImageIO.getReaderFormatNames(); for(int
Typically, as part of the product installation, applications/products are required to create some database tables. It’s a good practice to isolate product installation tables from the application/solution specific tables. One
ave you ever been frustrated by the lack of sophistication in some of today’s search applications? I certainly have been. For example, I was recently evaluating a tool, called Green
ookup and navigation screens initially seem like no-brainers, when compared to other parts of an application?yet by the time a developer has met all the user requirements and requests, he/she
any people believe that according to Moore’s law, you would expect a doubling of processing power about every 18 to 24 months. In truth, that rate is not what Moore’s
hile the industry continues to grapple with the meaning behind Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, or the semantic web, it’s nevertheless seeing more tangible technology advancements in frameworks and tools
an Francisco, Calif.?Sun crossed the open source Java finish line when it announced it was releasing the remaining bits of the Java SE (Standard Edition) Development Kit under version 2
few months ago, I received a message from quite an experienced DBA and database programmer asking me whether I knew a nice trick for manipulating date/time data without using Microsoft
don’t work on a Sunday. My boss doesn’t work on a Sunday. Therefore, I don’t see why my business objects should work on a Sunday either. Of course, there will
isual Studio comes with a huge number of pre-built components and controls, including controls for entering and displaying text, letting the user pick options and make choices, displaying values graphically,
hen Microsoft set about building the Windows Presentation Foundation, one core goal was to create an environment for applications capable of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional content simultaneously. Using a traditional
opy construction, assignment, container reallocation, string concatenation, and string copying are all instances of copy operations. However, in recent years a new paradigm is emerging: move semantics. This discussion presents
racle’s XDK 10G extends JAXP to make reading, writing, and querying XML easy. One of the first programming exercises for beginning XML developers is to create and parse an XML
o you finally have a product to sell, and a site to sell it on. But wait; how do you prevent unauthorized users from downloading your products? Forms Authentication provides
ne technique becoming increasingly popular with developers is the adoption of an Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) model. AOP provides techniques for changing the behavior of business objects and other classes through
f the several ways to enforce business rules in the database, only constraints can guarantee that your business rules are always enforced for all your data. This article teaches you
f you read my DevX article “Beautify Your UIs with Perfect Pen and Brush Control,” then you know all about how to draw lines that are thick or thin; dashed,
ttention C# developers: C# is good for a great many things, but it’s not the best language for everything. In fact, there is no such thing as “the best language.”
o you’ve discovered the grace and power of Ruby and you’re ready to explore the subtle but important ideas behind its elegance. Follow this tutorial to create a small, useful
f you’re a C++ developer who’s curious about all of the hype surrounding the Ruby programming language, this article is for you. It provides a high-level overview of the key
