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f you have worked with XML in Java applications during the past few years, you know the pain of parsing and extracting XML data inside the application. The process required
his book provides hands-on training in using: The new code-behind model that untangles .aspx pages from their code-behind files Master pages, themes, and skins to standardize the look and feel
n the first article in this series, I discussed how to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF; code named Avalon) applications using XAML. In a follow-up article, I discussed the new
In C#, you can use the keyword params to define a method which will accept a variable number of arguments of the same type. The keyword has to occupy the
The syntax for the IIF command in T-SQL is: select case when then when then ….else endfrom In the following example, the bit data type will store either 0 or
One way to find which fonts are available to your Java programs is to call the getFontList method of the java.awt.Toolkit class. It returns an array of font names. Although
True or false: main is always the first function called in any C++ program? Technically, this is true in C. But in C++, there is one way you can excute
Follow these steps to change the foreground and background colors of the code window in VS.NET: Go To VS.NET?>TOOLS?>Options Choose Environment?>Font and Colors?>Display Items In Display Items, choose Text and
essage transformations have long been an integral part of EAI projects. Disparate systems participating in an integration project need transformations as dictated by their respective standards. As an EAI tool,
spect oriented programming’s (AOP’s) rapid rise in popularity inspires both fear and worship?and for good reasons?it’s a very powerful software development technique that separates business logic from the infrastructure services
he third release of the .NET Framework (version 2.0) introduces many changes and innovations not just in the application frameworks, but also in the essential mechanics of assemblies themselves. Microsoft
he Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) is a Java open source framework and code-generation facility for building tools and other applications based on a structured model. While the Eclipse Platform provides
s an open source database, PostgreSQL has one of the largest libraries of Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs) available, letting you access it easily from various languages. One such language is
earn my living as a Java consultant and have concluded that Java is far from a perfect programming language. For many applications, I prefer to use dynamic languages like Common
hen developing object-oriented applications that use relational databases, creating a domain object design that’s consistent with the database design makes applications easier to understand, because domain objects typically represent real-life
hen it comes to their GUIs, distributed applications have always observed a pendulum effect. The early enterprise distributed application comprised a heavy centralized server with a dumb terminal for data
Suppose you need to prevent the derivation of a class?like in the final classes of Java. Simply make the constructor of the class private. Here’s an example: class final{private: final(){}
Use this code to retrieve all the Index names for a given table Using SQL query: declare @tblName varchar(50);set @tblName = ‘GivenTable’;SELECT o.name as TableName, i.name AS IndexNameFROM sysobjects o,
sing the BindingSource and Binding objects in .NET 2.0, getting what you expect in minimal code becomes a whole lot easier. In this article, I will explore how to use
he .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 2: Networking Library, Reflection Library, and XML Library, completes the definitive reference to the .NET Framework base class library. This book-and-CD set
ata-bound controls make ASP.NET programming much easier. They expose a bunch of properties and methods to link their properties to a valid data source and they know how to build
n my last article, I talked about the different types of applications one can build using Microsoft’s new Avalon UI framework as well as XAML, the language used to build
roductive developers and coding shops all maintain some type of custom code or scripts library, usually chock-full of code routines for common tasks such as string parsing, database operations, etc.
n the first article of this two-part Visual Studio Snippets series, I introduced snippets, how to use them, and how to create your own, as well as packaging them for
bfuscate. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, obfuscate is a transitive verb meaning to darken, to make obscure or to confuse. In the software engineering business, obfuscation refers to “the deliberate
uring a session at last week’s LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco, Google’s Open Source Program Manager Chris DiBona showed slides of the search company’s growth?from a few servers in a
he World Wide Web has traditionally used a book or slideshow metaphor as the basis for navigation between hyperlinks. Clicking on a link is like flicking from one page to
evelopers often need to monitor a set of applications and perform recovery measures in the event of a failure. In my case, I had to design a monitoring server for
Consider an employee service, say in an SOA-based implementation, which exposes the following method: Employee getEmployeeInfo(int employeeId) Looking at this signature, Employee can be defined as struct because it would
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