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aps are not only very useful, but they are also cool! In recent months, we have seen a lot of innovation in the area of online maps. Today we are
eing able to take handwritten notes or annotations is nice, but the real power of Tablet PCs comes from the ability to analyze and recognize handwriting written in digital Ink.
ack in 2000 while taking a walk in downtown Houston, I was approached by a couple of Astros baseball fans who asked me to join them in testing the plumbing
ou can transfer information between systems using ASP.NET in multiple ways; however, many are cumbersome, complicated, or insecure. For example, many data transfer methods pass information in plain text, which
When you use JavaScript’s window.print to print a Web page in IE, by default, it prompts IE’s printer dialog box. To avoid this, use the following JavaScript code: if (navigator.appName
Most “memory leaks” in Java are caused by references to objects that are no longer needed?if an object is still being referenced, then it cannot be finalized, and the memory
Suppose you want to select records from a table (say orders from a Northwind database), before and after a certain value (orderid). For instance, one order before and after 10250.
f you’ve ever tried to find classes in the .NET Framework that allow you to play audio and video, you may have noticed the gaping hole where this functionality should
rom the earliest days of the BREW platform, its designers at Qualcomm have paid close attention to the demands of multimedia presentation. Early versions of BREW supported animated image display
any people have written about the disjunctive nature of Linux distributions?and the problems involved in differentiating among all the various distributions that exist. Questions experts routinely hear are “Which Linux
am a big fan of objects. It’s so convenient to work with programming entities that you can ask to do something and they just do it. The shift that we
ideShow allows users to remotely control PCs and servers. It allows PCs to create interactive output on devices other than monitors so users can view useful data stored on their
n index on a computed column can boost your SQL Server query’s performance or even implement a complex business rule. (Computed columns do not store their own values; their values
This tip is a simple application that demonstrates the possibilities of your StAX parser by setting the XMLInputFactory properties to true/false. The StAX parser tested in this example is the
here are some pieces of code that you write over and over again. Some of these pieces make sense as standard components or standard methods, such as logging or validation.
Learn how to install and run your ASP.NET applications on systems without IIS in six easy steps:
In Web pages, when you move the mouse over an image, you can see a description of that image.Similarly, you can have a mouse over text for a link in
Usually, the RMI client is an RMI client only in that it specifies the true store zone for certificates. For example, you can use any certificate available to System.setProperty: (“javax.net.ssl.trustStore”,”SSLcert”);
he Sudoku game is the latest craze in the UK, and it’s become so popular that every major newspaper now publishes puzzles with varying difficulty levels. I’ve found the process
hen I was writing code for user interfaces, I needed to present data in different ways. Logically it wasn’t difficult, but since the presentation layout was often quite different from
he recently released Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6, a.k.a. Mustang) beta is feature complete and stable enough for mainstream evaluation. I downloaded and test drove the release in
y now, it’s certainly no secret to anyone that Flash is a successful delivery option for animation and interactive content on the desktop. Flash content can be distributed in its
tandard Ink collection is incredibly easy using the Tablet PC SDK; however, for scenarios that require more control or non-default behavior, default Ink collection may not be the best choice.
or someone coming to ActionScript development from a traditional client-server background, connecting Flash to a database is a bit of a black art. In the .NET or Java world, you
etween project deadline pressure and user demand for the latest software features, security often isn’t the highest priority for development teams. Many times, eliminating vulnerabilities is seen as a task
here’s a lot of new ground to cover about data binding in Windows Forms 2.0, so it’s best to just jump right in. This article assumes you have SQL Server
n the first part of this article, you saw how to use the Windows Forms version of the ReportViewer control. This article walks you through the differences and discusses the
t’s the responsibility of the developer to ensure the best user experience for the increasing number of mobile PCs being bought and used. Every activity your application carries out can
n the previous articles in this series, you received a primer on the Windows Communication Foundation, before moving on to look at the fundamental aspects of the framework insofar as
DO.NET 2.0 is faster than the first version of ADO.NET; in some instances, significantly faster. While many view ADO.NET 2.0 as more evolutionary than revolutionary, it provides many functions to
