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Create Python Executables Automatically

his article shows you how to automate the task of creating Python executables via py2exe using Python itself. I call the Python file containing the code makeExe.py. This technique requires

JBoss Meets Eclipse: Introducing the JBoss-IDE

Boss, the open source, J2EE-based application server, has been a favorite of the Java community for a long time. But recently JBoss got a handy new toolkit, thanks to Eclipse—one

Whidbey Simplifies Browser Client Script Callbacks

here are plenty of good reasons to anticipate Whidbey, among which are a number of enhancements for client script support, including new attributes and a ClientScriptManager class to handle client

Getting the Length and Dimensions of an Array Object

A given array of objects can be one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or n-dimensional. How can you tell? In this tip, the function getDim(Object o) takes an object and finds out it’s

Initializing Class Members

The following code demonstrates how to initialize class members in the initialiser list for more efficiency: class A{int a;char b;float c;public: A();};A::A():a(0),b(0),c(0){}is more efficient thanA::A(){ a = 0; b =

Changing the Attributes of a File

Say you’re trying to overwrite an existing file, but its attribute is set to “Readonly,” so it generates a “Permission Denied” error. The following code shows how to change the

ADO.NET Best Practices, Part II

DO.NET has a strong and powerful disconnected model that lets programmers build a Web of in-memory objects and relate contents coming from different tables and even from different data sources.

Three Cool New Features in C#

# has always had a reputation as a clean language with lots of innovation. The Whidbey-release of Visual Studio .NET ships with a new version of the C# compiler that

Dynamically Adding Controls

‘m a baseball fan. While I’d rather watch a game in person, more often than not, I’m watching it on the television. Something that you may not consciously notice while

Creating User-Defined Data Types in Yukon

he next version of SQL Server (code name Yukon) has extensive support for the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Previous versions of SQL Server (2000 and earlier) had a mechanism for

Creating Skinned Controls for ASP.NET

opular applications including ICQ, WinAmp, and Windows Media Player use skins to enable a user to choose another appearance for that application. The skins for those applications can be very

.NET Gripes and XAML Worries

ike many of you, I spend my days and nights building applications in Visual Studio .NET. I have been developing “real” applications in this tool for around a year and

C# 2.0 Code Refactoring

he next version of C# will feature a code refactoring engine built into the Visual Studio environment. A term coined by Martin Fowler, code refactoring allows you to change the

Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET Whidbey

e remember clearly the time period before ASP.NET 1.0 shipped. While building applications using ASP, we said over and over “I sure wish we could use this stuff right now,”

Finalize(): Knowing Where You Are

ou know what happens when an expensive lightweight bicycle attached firmly to the top of a two-ton vehicle moving at approximately five miles per hour hits an immovable house? Figure

Exploring New WinForm Controls in VS .NET Whidbey

he WinForm controls provided by the .NET Framework 1.1 are extremely useful, and the framework for developing new custom controls provided in 1.1 is very strong, but sometimes the development

An Introduction to Visual Studio.NET Whidbey

hen I was asked to write a few pages on what’s coming in the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (code named Whidbey), the biggest issue I had was

The Mind of an Angry Coder: Waiting to Inhale

ny Microsoft-sponsored conference, whether it be Tech?Ed or the PDC, ends up being a double-edged sword. You find out about all sorts of great tools and technologies that Microsoft is

Exploring WMI: Integrate WMI into the .NET Framework

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is one of the most fascinating technologies for managing distributed corporate computer systems. As the Windows implementation for WBEM (Web Based Enterprise Management), a standard developed

Open Source and Security: Letters to the Editor

o call last week’s featured opinion unpopular would be understated to say the least. In his commentary, DevX Executive Editor A. Russell Jones opined that open source software is more

Handling a Final Empty Parameter

The StringTokenizer and the Missing Token tip tells us how to cater for empty parameters, for example in the comma delimited string following: token1,token2,,token4,,,token7 The tip works well, with the

Bit Shifting in VB

The basic principal of this function is to divide the decimal number by two for bit number of times (if that makes sense). So, if bit 30 was to be

Two-dimensional Arrays

Data that is in rows and columns is usually stored in 2-dimensional arrays. Two-dimensional arrays are declared by specifying the number of rows then the number of columns. Unless specified,