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Using Insert Iterators

Insert iterators come in very handy when you need to populate a container using an STL algorithm which uses an assignment operator to fill in the data: int iArr []

Breaking Type Barriers with UDTs in SQL Server 2005

he integration of the common language runtime (CLR) into Microsoft SQL Server2005 gives developers much more flexibility than ever before. This new feature lets you author stored procedures, triggers, and

Best Practices

he focus of this issue is best practices and techniques. From testing to free tools you can use with ASP.NET, we discuss several topics that are important to developers. I

Making Sausages

henever you gather multiple travel veterans in the same location for long enough, sooner or later the discussion turns to travel horror stories. I’ll admit that it’s just August as

Getting Started with Unit Testing

utomated unit testing lets a team exercise its entire code base against a battery of tests, facilitating a quick, reactive environment by providing instant feedback during development. When developers can

Maximize Your Productivity with Project Item Templates

ode reuse has been a mantra of software development for decades. .NET provides for code reuse in many ways including inheritance, components, and of course the indispensable function. Visual Studio

Optimize the Massive DELETE Operation in Oracle, Part 2

y previous 10-Minute Solution “Optimize the Massive DELETE Operation in Oracle, Part 1” described the technique for performing a high-performance massive DELETE operation as a direct-path INSERT. At the end

CoDe Talks: Q&A with Steve Ballmer

CoDe (Markus Egger): Mr. Ballmer, There is so much written about offshore development these days?I know Microsoft has offshore development operations in various parts of the world…how is it working

Understanding and Using .NET Partial Classes

ne of the language enhancements in .NET 2.0?available in both VB.NET 2005 and C# 2.0?is support for partial classes. In a nutshell, partial classes mean that your class definition can

Partially Optional Function Parameters in VBScript 5.0+

As you know, VBScript doesn’t support the declaration of optional parameters in subroutines or functions. So, if you have a function declared as: Myfunction(p1,p2,p3), to simulate optional parameters, you’d have

Using STL Binders

You can use STL binders to use binary function objects as unary function objects in many STL algorithms which need them. Suppose you need to find the count of strings

Walking on Cloud 9.0 of Visual FoxPro

isual FoxPro 9.0 is fully compatible with pervious versions of Visual FoxPro. With its local cursor engine, tight coupling between language and data, and powerful features, Visual FoxPro 9.0 is

Use XMLBeans to Manage Multi-version XML

he integration of heterogeneous software systems often requires disparate clients to share data seamlessly in real time. Two technologies that have eased this data flow are XML and Web services,

Build Your Own Messaging Application in Java with jYMSG

Instant messaging represents a medium via which messaging partners can interact in a synchronous fashion. Correspondence can occur in a near “instant” manner. Chances are the majority of workgroups in

Tracking and Resuming Large File Downloads in ASP.NET

erving files that clients can download over the Internet couldn’t be easier, right? Just copy the downloadable files into your Web application’s directory, distribute the links and let IIS do

Extending the Visual FoxPro 9 Reporting System

here are incredible improvements in the Visual FoxPro 9 reporting system. Of several aspects, I’ll discuss just one in this article: the ability to extend the behavior of the runtime

TierDeveloper 4.0 Enterprise Edition Review

ierDeveloper is an Object-to-Relational (O/R) mapping tool that integrates with Visual Studio versions 2002 and higher. TierDeveloper maps Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) tables to .NET objects (VB.NET and C#),

Shutdown/Restart Windows Without Long API Calls

To shutdown Windows, just type the following code: Shell “shutdown -s -t 00” To restart windows: Shell “shutdown -r -t 00” Here’s the key: -s means shutdown. -r means restart.