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This tip is useful for displaying a uniform footer in all your site’s pages, including any pages served from the site’s subdirectories. In this case, assume you want to display
any web services offer clients a variety of ways to communicate with them, including SOAP and REST, and can often return either XML or JSON. Silverlight can communicate with any
anguage Integrated Query, or LINQ, is a new Microsoft technology introduced with the .NET 3.5 framework. This Microsoft quote describes its purpose succinctly: “Traditionally, queries against data are expressed as
omain-specific languages (DSLs) and model-driven development (MDD) offer developers powerful new ways to improve productivity, enhance quality, and insulate systems from rapid technological change. The Eclipse Modeling Project allows developers
nnotations have been part of the Spring Model-View-Controller (MVC) Framework since Spring 2.0. In Spring, annotations can greatly reduce the amount of XML bean configuration and wiring needed. Given the
protected EntityManager manager;…String ejbqlDelete = “delete from ClientTicket p where ” + “p.closed = :paramClosed and ” + “p.department = :paramDepartment and ” + “p.ticketUserID = :paramTicketUserID and ” +
ASP .NET has a fast and easy way to take an application offline using a reserved file called App_Offline.htm. When ASP.NET services any application request, if it finds a file
First, declare some types: Type RGBColor Red As Byte Green As Byte Blue As ByteEnd TypeType HSBColor Hue As Double Saturation As Double Brightness As DoubleEnd Type Next, here’s a
Avoid defining new objects within loop structures. Doing so hampers performance significantly, due to object creation overhead. Instead, define objects outside the loop and then use them inside the loop.
If you have an image gallery with dynamically generated thumbnails, you should make sure to tell the browser to cache the thumbnails. If you don’t, the page will download each
ocial networking has reached critical mass. One unique social networking platform, Twitter, launched in March of 2006 and took the world by storm with its social networking and microblogging platform.
he ORA-8177 error “Cannot serialize access” often frustrates developers and testers of Oracle database-driven applications that employ SERIALIZABLE isolation levels. These errors can be particularly vexing because they stem from
uilding on my previous article Yahoo’s Rich web UIs for Java Developers, which discussed how to use various Yahoo User Interface (YUI) web components for setup and design, this article
PF’s new control set includes both familiar controls, such as the Label and TextBox that do more or less the same thing as their Windows Forms counterparts as well as
he ASP.NET Provider Model drives many features within the ASP.NET architecture, yet most developers associate it only with security or membership-related functionality. This article takes you deep into the provider
The simplest way to measure the performance of a block of code (or an entire program) is to obtain the elapsed time. This tip shows you how. ‘At the top
Not all JavaScript loops are identical. Try the code below by pasting the HTML in this tip into a file and then opening the file in your browser. You should
When Oracle bought Sun, it got Java. If you make your living in Java development, that statement can make you cringe, smile, or shrug—depending on how well you think Sun
f you’ve been programming in C++ for any time at all then you’re familiar with variadic functions, functions (such as printf) that can take a variable number of arguments. C99
package com.extensions;import java.io.IOException;import java.io.File;import java.io.PrintWriter;import java.io.FileOutputStream;import java.io.FileInputStream;import java.io.OutputStream;import javax.servlet.ServletException;import javax.servlet.ServletContext;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;import java.util.zip.ZipFile;import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;import java.util.StringTokenizer;public class ExtractZipsServlet extends HttpServlet { protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
You can make Visual Studio build a solution automatically at certain time of the day using a batch file. In the example below, devxtry.sln is the name of the solution
As job losses in the U.S. mount, under pressure not only from the current economic downturn/depression, but also from foreign competition, de-unionization, outsourcing, offshoring, and imported labor (both legal and
roviding flexible reporting capabilities has been one of the key goals for the Microsoft Dynamics series of products. Microsoft signaled a significant shift in this regard with the launch of
he previous articles in the series covered the most significant changes to the core language and type system and the basic data types in Python 3.0. This article covers the
evice fragmentation is an issue that plagues the mobile application developer. With the thousands of devices on the market, it is difficult to know which devices can host a new
Suppose you wanted to retrieve the department number (deptno) and name (dname) fields for employees in an emp table. One way to get the values is with this SQL query:
ilverlight 2 just went RTM. This product is unique because for the first time in the Microsoft world, you have .NET running cross platform, in a secure way, and without
When editing in Visual Studio, you would normally write a MessageBox.Show or a Console.Writeline to log the value of a variable. But you can eliminate that work now. Instead, try
