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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
n my inaugural article on how to integrate your .NET applications with external devices, I showed how to display system information using an LCD display. In this article, I will
Frequently, and especially during development and debugging, you want to write out the values of a variable. To distinguish these variables, label them by putting this directive in: #define PUTOUT(x)
Using the column index to hide columns in a DataGrid can pose a problem if the index changes. Here’s a quick workaround for when the columns are auto-generated. Using column
To display justified text in a table cell, use the HTML tag within the tag with the attribute align set to “justify.” So, instead of using:
nd-user JavaScript bugs would be easier to debug if you had access to the end-user’s computer. Since you don’t, you can do the next best thing: get users to send
XCop is a free code analysis tool (open source) from Microsoft that analyzes managed .NET assemblies. .NET assemblies contain metadata entries that describe the assembly and all its contained types.
f you’re an Oracle PL/SQL developer, you have two familiar needs: Include as much debugging code as possible without risking a performance hit when the code is running in production
hen designing an RFID system, you should first understand and consider two key aspects of turning RFID data into useful information. First, you need a way to convert the raw
n a previous article on Windows Workflow, I discussed the basics of workflow and how workflows can be hosted in your Windows and console applications using the WorkflowRuntime class. In
lot of articles have been written about database concurrency conflict detection and the various ways of handling them. Unfortunately most of these articles, and accompanying solutions, have one major flaw
The following code shows you how to simulate the “ping” command with the J2SE Tiger InetAddress.isReachable method. import java.io.*;import java.net.*;public class reachable{ public static void main(String args[]) { String[] addrs=
You know that you can extract constructors, methods, and variables from a Java class file. Generally, when you use Field fields[] = c.getDeclaredFields( ); where c is initialized using Class
Instead of copying DataRow column by column, the following code copies data in one line from the source to the destination row: DataTable dtDest = new DataTable();dtDest = dsActivity.Tables[0].Clone();foreach(DataRow dr
This PHP function pulls a single field from a single record in the database once the MySQL connection has already been established: function getField($field, $tbl_name, $condition = 1){ $result =
String streams allow reading and writing strings just like cin and cout allow reading standard input and writing standard output. String streams may be used by including . Reading from
art one of this series introduced the first seven common site map navigation problems and their solutions. This part explores more advanced techniques with the final two problems: Hiding unauthorized
he Dictionary class in .NET 2.0’s System.Colllections.Generic namespace provides the ability to create a strongly-typed dictionary where both the Keys and Values collections can accept any object-type. This capability enables
n Part 1 of this article series, you looked at XLinq’s ability to create, modify, and delete XML data. Building on that background, this installment focuses on XLinq’s query features,
an Francisco?At a press event here on August 14, Sun announced plans to open source components of Java SE (Standard Edition) and all of Java ME (Micro Edition) by the
