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indows Forms applications often require some sort of asynchronous invocation option. You rarely want to block the user interface while a lengthy operation executes in the background. Windows Forms pose
‘m writing this editorial in early 2004. Yes this is the March/April issue but I see January out my window. Like many people, I made a new resolution for the
his past Christmas, my wife Joy asked me for a Roomba. For those of you who don’t know, Roomba is a miniature robotic vacuum cleaner that looks like a motorized
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
reat Windows applications have a consistent user interface. As users learn how to work with one form in the application, they can leverage that knowledge to work with other forms
lose your eyes and imagine a utopian world where client and/or department Web sites are easily deployed and the responsibility for content creation and modification is turned over to the
ave you ever wanted to manage processes in Win32 code? When it comes to this, there’s good and bad news. On the good news side, you can do virtually everything
s we all know, premature optimization is considered evil as it often entails eventually useless design complications and portability compromises. However, this doesn’t mean that healthy programming habits should be
First, bind a data control with the listbox. When you’ve bound a listbox control to a field within a recordset, the control will display the value in the field only
This feature is new in the JDK 1.5 and is intended to reduce the Java app verbosity. Static imports allow you to put into scope a set of methods and
ontent searching has moved into the spotlight over the past decade. A technology that was once the province of academics and researchers has become mainstream business via successes by Alta
‘ve been trying to come up with any reason to criticize the participants in last Friday’s big news that made uncommon bedfellows out of archrivals Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. But
C++ has an alternative for the if condition using the sign “?”. The syntax for this condition is : “condition”?”case true”:”case false”. For example, a function to return the maximum
Save a round trip to the database when a keyed item is selected from any list type. This example uses a combobox, but any type of list control that accomodates
arket trends are a dominant factor in the evolution of IDEs. 15 years ago, syntax highlighting and extensive online help were all the rage; in the late 1990s, it was
ike most DevX readers, anticipating change is an important part of my job. As a software developer and system architect, it is particularly important that I make sure our middle-tier
any view Web services as the backbone to a new generation of cross-platform, cross-language distributed computing applications. In fact, Sun defines Web services as “a well-defined, modular, encapsulated function used
One way to enhance a Web DataGrid’s appearance is to alternate the background color of the row. This requires only two lines of code. For example, to display an even
Doclet is a code generation engine that enables a concept known as Attribute-Oriented Programming. To use XDoclet, a programmer adds metadata (attributes) for classes and methods within the JavaDoc for
ainsoft’s Visual MainWin is a revolutionary product that allows you to develop applications in C# and deploy and run them on J2EE application servers (for a detailed review, click here).
There are times when sorting your resultset by the primary key doesn’t accomplish what you need. One way to get around this is to create a sortable column dynamically in
Put this code in a BAS Module: Public Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1Public Const MAX_PATH = 260Public Type FILETIME dwLowDateTime As Long dwHighDateTime As LongEnd TypePublic Type WIN32_FIND_DATA dwFileAttributes As Long
Use the following code to change the private variable outside of a member function definition: class test{int x;public:test():x(0){}int& getx(){return x;}};int main(){test t(10);cout
Use the following code to give your Java app a Windows look and feel: UIManager.setLookAndFeel(“com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel”); Ensure the class “com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel” isin your jvm bootstrap classpath. Mostly it can be found in
ou may never have heard of it, but HTML Tidy isn’t new. HTML Tidy is a once-free but now open source application. It was originally written in C as a
lot of ugly things can happen in the early morning hours when you are frantically trying to meet a deadline. For example, your mind can falter for a split second
hough there were no big surprises and no major announcements, VSLive! San Francisco was notable this year for several reasons. First, despite the dismal economy, the conference was full, showing
uch of the buzz surrounding the release of SQL Server Yukon seems to be about its new integration with the CLR. However, there are plenty of other worthwhile features in
Sometimes you need to know if is a specific instance of an object, is the one you’re looking for.objptr() provides a nice VB-ish way to compre object pointers. So, you
ecently my company, Desaware, decided to release the source code for our component products?and in doing so found ourselves suddenly directly involved in the open source vs. closed source debate.
