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he complex, component-style development that businesses expect out of modern software developers requires greater design flexibility than the design methodologies of the past. Microsoft’s .NET Framework makes extensive use of
rror handling, paying taxes, and root canals. Each one conjures up a number of negative mental images?some real, some imagined. While I cannot do much to ease the pain of
he .NET framework provides new tools to make deployment of fat client .NET applications easier. This article describes the basics of .NET Auto-Deployment technology and the security mechanism that prevents
Here’s the code: #define offset(a,b) ((int) (&( ((a*)(0)) -> b))) Step by step, here’s what it does: Type-cast 0, or NULL, into a pointer of type a. So a must
XML provides many opportunities to share and store data. One of the most common and simple uses of XML is to use it to store data used by your application.
The HTML CheckBox/RadioButton is selected only by clicking on the control and not the text associated with it. Using , you can bound the text with the CheckBox. For instance,
San Francisco?At a somewhat anemic LinuxWorld 2003 conference in San Francisco, big-corporation Linux supporters showed that Linux has grown up and “gone mainstream,” according to Peter Blackmore, Executive Vice President
This program opens connection with a specified URL and hex-dumps the contents received from an associated input stream. Use this to find out what’s going on with your browser. public
hy learn SQL? First, because most database programmers would be better programmers if they knew more about SQL. Second, because SQL programming is a valuable specialty in itself. And third,
To begin, create a table with dummy records: Create table Table1 ( [Record Value] varchar(20), [Record Date] smalldatetime)goinsert into table1 values (‘Record 1′,’07/21/2003’)insert into table1 values (‘Record 2′,’07/22/2003’)insert into table1
When designing a portion of an application that must grab users’ attention quickly&3151;such as your companys splash screen?you might want to create a nonrectangular window. This code shows you how
VBScript does not support the StrConv() function, which is useful to format strings in proper case. Use this algorithm to help you: Public Function StrConv( _ ByVal psString, ByVal plFormat)
By default, a solution has a single start-up project, namely the project that is automatically launched when you click Debug | Start or press F5. However, you have the option
When you build strings by concatenating hardcoded constant strings and variable strings, it’s easy to forget a closing double quote, and thus receive a compile time error when you launch
When you create a new ASP.NET Web Application, VS.NET by default creates a folder with the specified application name under the Visual Studio Projects folder (typically under :Documents and SettingsMy
VS.NET has a nice feature that allows you to visually navigate through the content of hierarchical files, and quickly jump to a particular section. Hierarchical files are all those files
When you create a new project, VS.NET automatically creates a folder with the project’s name under the selected directory. If you name your project MyTestProject, and select an existing folder
Visual Studio .NET has a number of useful features that are often underused by developers, because they are hidden under several menus and not easily accessible. Here is a list
When I was asked to provide the next installment of the BREW Intro Series, I wrestled with various content ideas. I didn’t want to write another “Hello BREW” application, simply
ontinuous integration is the practice of conducting code builds at least once a day to catch small integration problems before they grow into show stoppers. The more often programmers test
his tutorial shows how to use a Java servlet, a JavaServer Page (JSP), and a static Java class to create a SQL gateway application that enables users to interactively execute
icrosoft originally designed NTFS (New Technology File System) for its NT series of operating systems. Over time, NTFS was improved and it is now being used on the newer server
Such of the innovation in programming in recent years has involved loose coupling. The invention of database driver methodologies such as JDBC and ODBC led to applications being loosely coupled
lmost everyone nowadays knows what the neologisms “bluescreen” and “general protection fault (gpf)” mean. That these terms are so familiar attests to the fact that computer users have come to
Sometimes it’s convenient to have your program be runnable both as an applet and as an application. One simple way of accomplishing this derives from the fact that any class
The program is used to display the current and parent directory. ‘.’represents the current directory and ‘..’ represents the parent directory import java.io.File; public class CurrentDir { public static void
It is said that C++ provides data hiding, but the following code shows that this is not always true. You can break the C++s data-hiding facility using the memory function:
There is no TSQL function for extracting maximum values across columns. However, you can use MAX() and MIN() functions to obtain the maximum or minimum value in any particular row.
The following piece of code is a sample example that can print a HTML page without showing the print-popup dialog box. NOTE: It is restricted with IE 5.5 SP2 onwards.
