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very company has some form of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process?whether it is formal or informal. An SDLC includes people, processes, and tools that span the design, build, and support
ode Access Security (CAS) is the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) mechanism for maintaining security based on the identity of code. Most developers don’t have to work with CAS on
inux Unwired teaches you to install and configure a variety of wireless technologies to fit different scenarios, including an office or home network and for use on the road. You’ll
HP, an increasingly popular Web scripting language (see Figure 1), is particularly well suited for the creation of dynamic database-connected Web sites. The two strengths that make PHP a powerful
Sometimes you need to help the compiler differentiate between a type expression and a non-type expression. For example: template void func (type t){t::Str * p;} Now, say t represents a
The following function generates a string of specified characters and of desired length: public static String getStringOfChars(char ch,int length) { StringBuffer sb=new StringBuffer(); sb.setLength(length); return sb.toString().replace(‘u0000’,ch); }
Just as you can reflect, it’s possible to have a C# program reflect upon itself. For example, you can have a class reflect upon itself and this will tell you
QL Server Reporting Services (RS) is: A new component of the SQL Server platform that Microsoft recently made available (January 27, 2004) A server-based package that comes in four configurations:
eplication agents are the basic components of SQL Server 2000 replication. Before you settle on the type of replication you want in your application architecture, it is important to understand
o matter what Microsoft representatives said this week at its Tech·Ed conference in San Diego, the message that the company is delivering to the roughly 11,000 IT administrators and developers
n .NET, sorting arrays or collections of primitive types is a relatively simple task. Most developers understand that for a collection of numbers or strings, the runtime will know how
When at home, I like to have my browser’s home page to be different than at work. When I open up my browser on my laptop at home, it goes
he official release of Microsoft’s Web services Enhancements (WSE) toolkit promises to help developers deal with at least some of the pain and suffering accompanying the emerging Web services’ standards.
This code converts the filesize in a number to string format?for instance, 1000 Bytes, 1 KB, etc. Option Explicit’ Add a module and copy paste this function.’ To test this
Here’s the XML File: XML This is a list my XML articles. true Here’s the code:
t’s always great to be recognized for doing a great job or helping someone out. That was the original idea behind Microsoft’s MVP (Most Valuable Professional) program. In Microsoft’s (collective)
ne thing I’m pretty sure of is that boys like to compare things. Yes, I know what you’re thinking?that’s not where I’m going here. I have a vivid recollection of
he 1st quarter of this year has been one of the most challenging and interesting quarters for me in some time. I have been working with a client to help
his is the first in a series of what I hope will be one of your favorite columns for years to come! I am the host of a talk show
art of good component writing involves designing and developing components with the idea that developers other than you will use them. A good practice is to use conventions that are
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
ne of the fundamental tenets of the Internet revolution is that distance is irrelevant: It makes no difference where network clients are located, as long as they have a reliable
ou’ll find plenty written about building and deploying EJB, and perhaps equally as much about building applications with the Struts framework. But what about leveraging EJB and Struts together? This
Because macros do not behave as function calls but merely as text substitutions, they might exhibit strange behaviors during complex calls. For instance: #define mul (t) t*t*tmul(3+3) gives 24 though
I’ve had two instances recently where I had to execute some form processing code once the page load event was fired. However, I didn’t have access to the
Although this tip creates onmouseover and onmouseout attributes in the IMG tag within the A tag when rendered to the browser, it could be used to set any attributes. Create
Importing Web content into your Excel workbook is simple using Micorosoft’s WinHTTP tools (they are free and included with IE). First, create and save an Excel Workbook. Next, access the
One of the major ways that spammers get email addresses is by crawling Web pages and extracting any email addresses they find. As part of your own Web site development,
ithin the last few years, Macromedia’s Flash has become a leading development environment for online vector animation, Web site production, and rich Internet applications?as well as for offline presentations, small
reate dynamic Web sites and applications using the functional power of Dreamweaver MX 2004. Web experts Tom Muck and Ray West walk you through Web site and application development using











