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n this article, I’ll explain how the Data Sources Window in Visual Studio 2005 will enable you to extend the list of controls supported for Drag Once Databinding. I’ll show
distinguishing factor of J2ME over browser-based approaches is the ability to store data on the device. This allows networked applications to be useful even in the absence of a network
toring and retrieving information for most applications usually involves some form of interaction with a relational database. This has presented a fundamental problem for developers for quite some time since
ybase’s DataWindow .NET provides a powerful tool for creating data driven applications with capabilities far beyond the native DataGrid. With it, you can develop flexible, high performance, visually appealing applications
eneric containers and algorithms often impose certain restrictions on the objects that they manipulate. For example, the std::sort() algorithm requires that the elements on which it operates shall define the
To open only one instance of a popup window in an HTML page, use the windowName parameter of the window.open method. For example window.open(‘http://www.devx.com’) will open a new window each
This code allows you to format a textbox string to the correct currency in SQL Server, independent of regional settings or the user input decimal symbol: Public Function FormatMoney(ByVal strValue
on’t you hate it when you are debugging your code within Eclipse, and while stepping into a method call, a Class File Editor pops up exclaiming “Source Not Found”? Wouldn’t
Suppose you want to register one SQL Server twice in Enterprise Manager. You want to test different registration properties from inside Enterprise Manager?especially permissions. In SQL Server 2000, if you
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 []
oftware Architect is a great job title. It looks great on business cards. When someone asks you what you do for a living, you can say you’re a Software Architect.
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
Some applications use an extensive set of objects. Upon startup of JVM, a set of objects is assigned a fixed heap space. When the JVM becomes heavily loaded with live
inding what you need in the Microsoft? Visual Studio? .NET documentation, which has over 45,000 topics, can be a daunting task. The Doc Detective is here to help, utilizing his
am the host of a weekly Internet audio talk show for .NET developers called .NET Rocks! Each week my co-host, Rory Blyth, and I interview the movers and shakers in
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
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
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
n real life, sequences aren’t easy to control. Once something is set in motion it is difficult to manipulate discrete portions of that movement. And of course, in real life
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
hen you’re unit testing, you often want to test an individual unit of code without testing its dependencies. One common solution to this problem is to utilize the mock-object testing
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 (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
This SQL code retrieves the nth Maximum and nth Minimum values in the column specified in from the table . The argument will be accepted in the runtime by SQL:
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
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
This tip is an extension of a Design Pattern called “Service Locator” for the J2EE architecture. Generally, the “Service Locator” pattern returns a home object by merely accepting a string,
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
The Java API provides a class called java.util.Observable which can be extended by any Java class. The child class can then be an “observable” class and other objects can “observe”
n the old days, building mobile applications involved using the ASP.NET mobile controls which were a subset of the larger ASP.NET. ASP.NET developers had to learn new concepts (for instance,
