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Have you ever implemented a method and wanted to return the value of a variable and then clear (or change) the variable? Since you can’t typically execute another line of
oday is November 3rd, 2004. In case you didn’t know, this country held elections yesterday and as of this morning we have another four years of President Bush. One thing
n an effort to downsize, we recently decided to put the house in Los Angeles on the market?it’s our attempt to “cash out,” and take advantage of the hot real
am the host of .NET Rocks!, an Internet audio talk show for .NET developers online at http://www.franklins.net/dotnetrocks and http://msdn.microsoft.com/dotnetrocks. My co-host, Rory Blyth, ( http://www.neopoleon.com ) and I interview the
ocoon is a powerful tool for publishing content to multiple formats from XML. It can be used for static content, but its most powerful application is publishing dynamically generated XML
here are so many new features to discuss and master in ASP.NET, this article series may never be finished. Thus far, we’ve covered the following: A La Carte, Part 2:
he recent DevX editorial “OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice” by Richard Mansfield has caused quite a stir among our audience. The strong response revealed contrasting viewpoints
n his recent DevX editorial, Richard Mansfield proposes that “OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice.” In reading his article, many of his objections seemed to be based
am currently developing for a company that recently purchased a new content management system. Due to the number of requested custom enhancements, the vendor phased the implementation. They delivered the
y wife and I recently had a baby. In the labor and delivery room, the medical staff connected several sensors to my wife’s tummy to monitor the baby’s heartbeat, contractions,
ave you ever needed to populate a database with realistic, but generated (as opposed to actual) data, in volumes that demand automation? Such a need arises in many circumstances, such
In Servlets/JSPs, there are two ways to achieve servlet chaining using javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher: Include: RequestDispatcher rd = req.getRequestDispatcher(“Servlet2”);rd.include(req, resp); Forward, where req is HttpServletRequest and resp is HttpServletResponse: RequestDispatcher rd =
In order to debug ASP pages in Visual Interdev, you need to change some some IIS settings. Open the Internet Service Manager console (using the inetmgr command on Start?>Run). Right
Pressing Ctrl + C in the table view of Enterprise Manager copies the create table statement along with constraints, defaults, etc. to the clipboard.
Say goodbye to inline Response.Write statements for debugging in ASP.NET! In addition to its built-in debugging capabilities, Visual Studio .NET also supports a new mechanism for run-time debugging, called page
ow often have you found yourself repeating the same tasks in Flash over and over? Perhaps you’ve recreated a logo or animation, or rewritten some simple script again and again.
You can use this algorithm to reverse the order of elements in any sequence container. It takes two bidirectional iterators as argument: int iArr [] = {1, 2, 3, 4,
any companies devote a sizeable portion of their IT infrastructure to converting traditional EDI data to and from the data formats their back office systems use. Typically, they handle this
espite its similarity to ASP, PHP is rapidly becoming the language of choice for Web development. Its simplicity, power, and widespread support are all factors that have influenced an increasing
isplaying two-dimensional table data in a grid is one of the most common programming tasks. When the number of rows is small, a single page with a scrollbar is sufficient,
Suppose you’ve got a make-table query using an INTO clause in an MS ACCESS SQL SELECT statement. You can actually send the resultset to a text file instead of a
You already know that stored procedures offer enormous benefits over direct SELECT statements. But one of the things you tend to have to sacrifice when you replace a simple SELECT
Simply start your application with: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote This allows you to monitor the GC, thread, and memory status of the application throughout: [jdk_home]/bin/jconsole
Ever needed to access individual bits of a value? It can be done with bitshifting and a sequence of logical &s quickly and easily. When finished, you will have a
en years have passed since Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (aka the Gang of Four or GoF) wrote and published Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented
John Vlissides he question John Vlissides is most asked about the landmark book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software that he and his colleagues wrote more than a decade
ike many ideas that sound good in theory but are clumsy in practice, object-oriented programming (OOP) offers benefits only in a specialized context—namely, group programming. And even in that circumstance
ith the release of.the NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft is enhancing the feature set by baking the ability to execute SQL commands asynchronously into the ADO.NET Class Library. Using this new
liché but true: To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. We developers seem to be especially vulnerable to this problem because we like technology for its own
ne of the most useful features of Microsoft Reporting Services is its extensibility model. Just about any aspect of Reporting Services can be custom-tailored to meet your specific requirements. Part
