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Book Excerpt: Mobile and Wireless Design Essentials

his book explores the full spectrum of wireless networks including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and 3G. You’ll also find easy-to-understand guidelines and pointers on how to implement a mobile and wireless application

Changing the Column Name Through StoredProcedure Dynamically

Here’s the syntax for the stored procedure: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[RenameColumn] @tblname as varchar(50), @oldcolnameas varchar(50), @newcolname as varchar(50)ASdeclare @tblColname varchar(100)set @tblColname = @tblname +’.’ + @oldcolnameBEGIN TRANSACTIONSET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ONSET TRANSACTION

An Alternative to StringTokenizer

Suppose you have a String containing comma-separated substrings. In order to access the substrings individually, you’d normally rely on a StringTokenizer. And if you wanted to put the substrings in

Stop the Flickering

This code stops the annoying flicker often seen when you pack an object with data. Test this code with the controls that bother you most: Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib

Navigate the TRACEs in Your Code

If you put many TRACE’s, in your code, it might be very convenient to jump to each one of them by double clicking a text line in the Debug window.

Granting Permissions on Database Objects

These permissions are required for security reasons USE pubsGOCREATE PROCEDURE GeneralSelect @TableName SYSNAMEASEXEC (‘SELECT * FROM ‘ + @TableName)GO You probably expect that your stored procedure will make a call

Deprecate Old APIs

When you write a new version of an API, you want to deprecate the old API. If you deprecate old API’s, the compiler will tell you wherever that deprecated API

VBScript: Microsoft’s Orphaned Language

ack in the early days of the browser wars, Microsoft created a huge incentive for existing Visual Basic developers to transition easily into building Web applications by creating a cut-down,

Serialize JVM Execution Context with a New Programming Library

elare Technologies’ ATCT (Asynchronous Transfer of Control Threading) is a versatile new programming library that implements a “separation of concerns” approach?one of the key precepts of aspect-oriented programming?to enable programmers

Getting Started with the Eclipse Workbench

he Eclipse Workbench, at the most fundamental level, is merely a platform for software development tools and provides little functionality on its own. With the appropriate plug-in components, however, it’s

Structured Error Handling in VFP 8

isual FoxPro 8.0 introduces a new error handling mechanism known as “Structured Error Handling.” This mechanism uses Try/Catch blocks to wrap sections of source code and attach the appropriate error

Creating a StatusBar Control with VFP 8

isual FoxPro 8 offers full support for themes and the XP style look. Unfortunately the Windows Common Control OCX that ships with VFP 8 doesn’t support this same look. This

Collections Are Cool!

ntil recently, Visual FoxPro developers wanting to use collections often created their own classes that were nothing more than fancy wrappers for arrays. However, in addition to being a lot