Menu
Since 1998, DevX has helped people start businesses, build websites, and provide enterprise technology to people globally. Interviewing the likes of Microsoft’s co-founder, Steve Ballmer, the publication brings comprehensive, reliable, and accessible insights to the Internet.
he era of agile software development is upon us. Chances are, if your development shop doesn’t already practice some form of agile development, you’re probably competing with a company that
o more with less code is the slogan of Visual Studio 2005. When it comes to reducing the amount of written code, wizards are definitely a viable option. Visual Studio
hile AJAX is the current rage for building interactive browser-based client applications, the action on the server side has focused on Web services. In fact, Web services have become the
One way to create a SAXSource is to use a SAX InputSource and an XMLReader object. The transformer, ContentHandler, calls the XMLReader.parse(InputSource IS) method. Here’s an example: … try{ //get
An object function is a regular C++ object whose class defines the () operator. An object with a () operator can be called like a function: CFoo foo; // just
Displaying strings from .NET resource files may be a puzzle if the strings include escape sequences. For example, take the newline (linefeed) character. Suppose you want to display a hardcoded
hese days, the biggest threat to an organization’s network security comes from its public Web site. Unlike internal-only network services such as databases?which can be sealed off from the outside
This small function counts the number of cells in a worksheet that contain a specified string and outputs a total. Suppose you set the string to = “”. The function
ending out email in a Web application is a common business need. In the Java realm, sending out e-mail is facilitated via the JavaMail API, which is a required part
he Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API enables access to data and metadata from standard relational database systems (RDBMS). However, an intrinsic mismatch exists between the object model of the application
oftware Factories are one of today’s new buzzwords in IT. This Microsoft initiative is likely to change the way that developers build software in the near future. The Software Factories
his is the second article in a two-part series comparing Spring and EJB 3.0. The first article looked at how each technology addresses persistence, transaction management, and state. In this
or a C++ programmer, the term “a callback function” means at least three different things: a pointer to a freestanding function (i.e., a C function), a pointer to a member
hen I first saw attributes in Visual Studio .NET, I thought they were some sort of oddity Microsoft had dragged in from Java, C++, or perhaps the Delta Quadrant. They
This code shows you how to use the instance methods from the FileReader and BufferedReader classes with a Xalan 2 processor to read the first line from a text file.
Have you ever looped through the entire dataset to get the totals you need to put in the footer? The DataTable.Compute method eliminates this hassle by retrieving commonly performed arithemetic
Removing an unused Window service involves removing your registry key. Go to Start?>Run?>regedit. Find the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services Locate the service name you want to remove. Press key to remove the
sers want their forms to be in the same position the next time they open their application. While Visual Studio 2005 out of the box provides a way to store
he core of any Web site is the navigation mechanism, the menu. If Web sites are primarily about organizing and presenting content, a site’s menu provides the means of traversing
n Part 2 of this article series, you looked at Linq’s query features, including the standard query operators and their applicability in querying XML data. With that background, this installment
f your software development lifecycle is anything like mine, it has several phases that each requires its own project configurations?which can make moving a project through all the different phases
penGL has long been a standard interface for 3D graphics development. Developed by SGI, its only real competitor today is Microsoft’s Direct3D. Unfortunately, until recently there’s been no mobile analogue
n my last article on Atlas, I gave you an introduction to the Atlas framework and showed you how to use the UpdatePanel control to update portions of pages without
s business becomes more and more global, software developers increasingly need to make applications multilingual and culturally aware. The .NET Framework may well have the most comprehensive support for internationalization
henever you have to fix a problem in a production environment, one of the most common issues is retrieving some useful debug information to tell you what happened. Of course,
evelopers frequently must work with data at different levels, with different tools, and in different forms. This article is the first in a two-part series on some of the more
rior to Window Mobile 5.0 (WM5) even simple things such as checking battery status, sending an SMS, or programming Pocket Outlook were rather difficult. Fortunately, WM5 came with new managed
oftware development professionals today are faced with a bewildering array of technology choices. It is not always easy to decide which technologies are most appropriate to employ in solving any
icrosoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) consists of a programming model, an engine, and several tools for building workflow-enabled applications. The programming model resides in the System.Workflow namespace of Microsoft’s .NET
ust as Microsoft provides a native desktop UI toolkit called Windows Forms that ships with Microsoft .NET, the Mono project provides a compatible implementation of this same API, making it
