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he much-anticipated release of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is not far away. This is the successor to SharePoint Team Services, and the changes go beyond small enhancements. In the new
f you developed smart tags in Office XP, you’ll be interested in the changes in Office 2003. Smart tag technology links text to resources that provide relevant information useful in
t’s Monday. After arriving at the office, you fill out last week’s timesheet (Microsoft Excel), your expense report (a handwritten form), and your project status report (Microsoft Word). When you
Figure 1: The Research Library is available from the task pane. icrosoft Office 2003 Editions add a powerful new tool to the Office task pane: the Research Library.By default, the
ffice is a staple in most corporations, and .NET developers can easily take advantage of its power and omnipresence. The Visual Studio Tools for Office provide the ability to use
he .doc file format that is still present in Word 2003 is essentially a proprietary binary format; sadly, .doc files are difficult to extract information from. By saving documents in
t DevX we’ve dubbed 2004 the Year of the Document. And one technology?and only one technology?gets the credit for putting the limelight and a bit of excitement back on the
Figure 1. Printing and Previewing Plain Text: Here’s the main form of the TextPrinting Project in Part II of this series, along with the print preview form from the same
n October 2003, Microsoft announced the technical preview of its Web Services Enhancements for .NET (WSE) 2.0 toolkit. This release implements some of the new Web Services Architecture (WSA) specifications
‘ Return the name of the method that calls this function.’ The function is useful for logging purposes, for example.” Example:’ Private Sub Button4_Click(…) Handles Button4.Click’ MessageBox.Show(GetCurrentMethodName()) ‘ => Button4_Click’
‘ Return the Tag value of the selected RadioButton from the input array of ‘ controls.’ This is useful when you have many radio buttons, with a value associated to
System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation is a little known class that exposes a number of static properties that return information about many system settings, such as: Icon and cursor size (IconSize and CursorSize properties)
‘ Return a random color’ Example: Me.BackColor = GetRandomColor()Function GetRandomColor() As Color Dim rand As New Random Return Color.FromArgb(rand.Next(0, 256), rand.Next(0, 256), rand.Next(0, _ 256))End Function
‘ Return a case-insensitive hashtable containing all the members in a type’ Note: requires Imports System.Reflection” Example:’ Dim ht As Hashtable = GetAllMembers(GetType(String), False)’ For Each key As Object In
It took me a while to figure out how to enable debugging on a traditional .asp project with Visual Studio .NET using Windows 2000. I would always get an error
The following class retrieves the starting and end dates for the Current Hour/Day/Week/Month/Year: Option ExplicitPublic Property Get CurrentHour() As CollectionSet CurrentHour = New CollectionCurrentHour.Add CDate(Date & ” ” & Format(Now,
s there any reason to do image processing in unmanaged code anymore? GDI+’s managed classes may just be good enough to give the unmanaged approach (mainly in unmanaged C++) a
ost of the time, when you add a Repeater, DataList or DataGrid control on the page, you hardcode their templates: you know the data you want to show, and to
The Parse static method of the Date type does a good job in parsing an input string and returning a Date instance. It recognizes and accepts the commonly used separators
Most document-based applications typically allow to open a document file in two ways: with the Open File menu command / toolbar button, or by dragging and dropping the file from
When you add a new record to a SQL Server table that has an identity column, you usually want to read back the auto-generated ID, for example to use it
The String type has an instance method, Split, that splits the instance string into an array of substrings. The problem with this method is that it can only use single
elieve it or not, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from NASA is actually developing Java capabilities. The JPL is a division of NASA responsible for the robotic exploration of the
f you look through the help-wanted ads, chances are you won’t see many advertisements for SVG gurus?not yet. No one is making next generation animation with it, it’s not a
ML is a fundamentally simple idea?take bits of content and give them identifying tags?but it has far-reaching effects. In just a few short years, XML’s evolution has sparked an explosion
The ByteBuffer Class (from the java.nio package) helps you to write data in UDP by converting them to the respective bytes they generally occupy. This is especially helpful when trying
The following code: `ls -t ../../html/indexed | awk {‘print $9’}` Will return an array of files, eg: @files=`ls -t ../../html/indexed | awk {‘print $9’}`; @files is now an array containing
Many times, you’ll find you need to create a container for pointers to functions. The example below demonstrates the syntax for a vector of pointers to functions. For simplicity’s sake,
he great thing about technology is not so much the gadgets and the radical changes in the way that we interact with the world, but it’s that technology gives a
J2EE takes the hassle out of distributed programming, but there’s a catch. Although you no longer have to contend with such low-level issues as threading, synchronization, or persistence, you also
