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n last month’s article, I gave you an overview of some of Flash 8’s most exciting features. This month, I’ll show you how easy it is to achieve a long-desired
an Francisco?At its OpenWorld Conference here this week, which combined for the first time with the PeopleSoft Connect conference, Oracle unveiled its vision for Project Fusion, which promises to push
In order to send email in C# code, do the following: // create mail message objectMailMessage mail = new MailMessage();mail.From = “”; // put the from address heremail.To = “”;
During design time, you generally allocate some space to the columns by default. When it comes to tweaking performance, you may try to go back to the design and reduce
An Lvalue is an expression that can appear on the left-hand side of an equals sign. Likewise, an Rvalue expression appears on the right-hand side of the equals sign. Therefore
he onslaught of Web services messaging and XML-based data transfer has led to a need to express these message exchanges in some structured way. The Web services Description Language (WSDL)
If you look in the bin directory of a regular Java2 SDK installation, you’ll find a ‘javap’ application (javap.exe), which you can use as a disassembler by adding the -c
Using window.event.clientX and window.event.clientY gives you the X and Y coordinates of the mouse position:
n my last article, I introduced XMI, an incredibly useful XML standard for interchanging models. Because XMI uses XML and XML is just text, using a schema or standard, it
ne feature introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 is the use of the “provider model” to provide maximum flexibility and extensibility to your Web applications. Using the provider model, developers can easily
xceptions, indicators of abnormal conditions that disrupt the normal flow of a program, are a prominent fixture of the Java language. You have to handle exceptions to write a useful
icrosoft opened the PDC this year to a sold-out crowd eager to see the Redmond giant’s future plans. And they weren’t disappointed. Not only is Microsoft showing off future systems,
ood news for mobile application developers: The open source IDEs for J2ME are starting to come into their own. In a recent article on DevX, I reported that Sun’s NetBeans
oftware security is a very important topic, because not a single day passes without the discovery of some new exploit. Windows 2003 Server was the first product Microsoft shipped under
ome suggest that the Struts framework has reached the point where its innovation and adoption will start declining. In fact, the Craig McClanahan, chief architect and author of Struts, has
he collections API has always been one of the most important aspects of the Java Development Kit (JDK). Nearly every Java program makes use of collection classes such as HashMap,
or the past several years, creating client-side JavaScript based menus using the browser’s DOM capabilities has been a popular way for developers to implement Web site navigation?so popular that there
n antipattern is a classified bad design; in other words, it is the opposite of a design pattern that suggests good design. Antipatterns present bad solutions in a manner that
When you deploy two Web applications as Web archives (WARs) into JBoss’ deploy folder, you expect them to run independently of each other. But this does not happen. WebApp1.war +
There are two ways to initialize a TextBox whose TextMode is “password” with a default password:
In C++, arrays and pointers are inextricably linked. The elements of an array are stored in consecutive memory addresses on the computer and the name of the array is equivalent
Use JavaScript to make a tag dynamically and then adds code to handle the onmouseclick event to it.”: /*The following code generates a div in javascript dynamically and add events
++ implicitly converts the operands’ types in expressions that involve different datatypes. Here’s a few examples: int n=5;double d=n; //5 implicitly converted to 5.0if (n==d) //same here Many programmers don’t
f you have worked with XML in Java applications during the past few years, you know the pain of parsing and extracting XML data inside the application. The process required
his book provides hands-on training in using: The new code-behind model that untangles .aspx pages from their code-behind files Master pages, themes, and skins to standardize the look and feel
n the first article in this series, I discussed how to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF; code named Avalon) applications using XAML. In a follow-up article, I discussed the new
In C#, you can use the keyword params to define a method which will accept a variable number of arguments of the same type. The keyword has to occupy the
The syntax for the IIF command in T-SQL is: select case when then when then ….else endfrom In the following example, the bit data type will store either 0 or
One way to find which fonts are available to your Java programs is to call the getFontList method of the java.awt.Toolkit class. It returns an array of font names. Although
True or false: main is always the first function called in any C++ program? Technically, this is true in C. But in C++, there is one way you can excute
