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A quick way to insert the current date and time in an Excel spreadsheet, Access table, or SQL Server table is to use the following keyboard shortcuts: Current date: CTRL+SEMICOLON
Everyone wants their applications to be secure and to disallow unauthorized changes. Java makes this task relatively easy for developers and deployment teams with the jarsigner tool. Assuming you have
ow! In a word, that was my first reaction to developing my first Web application using Ruby on Rails. This third of a series of articles on Ruby guides you
indows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the new graphics subsystem in Windows Vista that will enable developers to build applications that provide breakthrough user experiences. If you look at the applications
ind out how to create simple Excel spreadsheets dynamically using a Java servlet. Spreadsheets play a vital role in the enterprise. Business analysts and management typically use the data in
evelopers usually agree that it does not make sense to write all code character-by-character. After coding some features, they usually start to find similarities in the code, patterns that seem
SP.NET reduces the need for generic message pages with its postback-based metaphor. Because most pages post back to themselves rather than going off to other pages, you can often redisplay
rocessing text or long strings in SQL has never been an easy task. SQL is a powerful language for performing fast operations on data sets, but when it comes to
ince its first release, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) has supported a plethora of data sources. Out of the box, its data modules, called data extensions, allow you to
A class employ can not contain an object of another class employ, but it may contain a pointer or reference to an object of a class employ. The reason for
There are several ways to simply count the number of rows in two tables using single query. select ( select count(*) from Table1 ) + ( select count(*) from Table2
The following code is a JSSE client application that uses the HandshakeCompletedListener interface to find out when a handshake is over. import java.net.*;import java.io.*;import javax.net.*;import javax.net.ssl.*;class contact_server implements HandshakeCompletedListener{Socket SSLsoclu=null;
Maybe you’ve had this problem after installing Skype: when you try to launch a Web application in .NET, you get the following errror: ‘Visual Studio.Net has detected that the specified
ecently, a friend called to tell me about a huge turnout at an Atlanta JUG meeting to hear about a new product from JBoss called Seam. I went to my
was one of those many developers who, since Visual Basic 2.0, have hated the concept of data binding. It incorporated patterns that were not extensible, it did not make use
he previous article in this series supplied a grounding in the Windows Presentation Foundation (aka Avalon). In it, you saw how XAML, Cider, and Expression hang together to give you
ode reviews are widely recognized as one of the most effective ways to detect bugs, performance issues, and coding errors of all sorts. And by promoting discussion and knowledge sharing,
racle recently released version 1.0 of SQL Developer, its free PL/SQL development IDE. Formerly known as Project Raptor, Oracle SQL Developer is based on the same IDE platform as JDeveloper
sk any typical .NET developer about Code Access Security (CAS) and you’ve got the chance of hearing “Huh?” as the response. Most developers haven’t run into CAS at all?let alone
Suppose you have a DataGrid with several columns full of data. The DataGrid contains several pages. You can disable paging and export all the data to Excel using the RenderControl
ood programmers are what make a software company. Not just good programmers, mind you, they have to be great hackers, rock stars, the best. Great hackers are three times, five
Very few alternatives are available to someone wanting to generate RTF documents using Java. The best and easiest way is to use the iText third-party freeware library. Just plug in
This script displays all your table names—along with their column names, data types, data lengths, and null/not null information in a database. SELECT Sysobjects.name AS TABLE_NAME, syscolumns.Id, syscolumns.name AS COLUMN_NAME,systypes.name
ver since the 4.0 browsers were released, cross-browser dynamic HTML libraries have proliferated as a simple matter of necessity. Any developer who wants to take advantage of the latest and
he Ajax.NET Framework presents a remarkably easy-to-use framework that will simplify Ajax development and allow developers to spend more time on implementation details and less time on parsing XML. If
must confess, 2005 was an odd year. Perhaps you remember a column a few months back, describing the wretched flight with four cats and an ill seatmate, moving the household
ast month I had some developers over to my office house to do a code review of a project they had developed for a client. During the review one of
ome time ago, I posted a blog entry entitled, “Refactor as you Develop.” I did so because a buddy of mine out in Chicago was stuck in Refactor hell, as
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
o matter how well you write and understand high-level programming languages, your applications can probably benefit if you’re willing to dig down into the lower-level code that makes the computer
