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Do Your Web Pages Use JavaScript?

What happens if your visitors have it disabled?Include the following code to: Let them know that JavaScript is disabled. Tell them how to enable it in their browser. To view

Case-sensitive Comparisons

To program a case-sensitive comparison of a user-typed password on a case-insensitive SQL Server 7.0 instance, assume that the value of the password stored in your table is BamBi2000 (notice

Improve Your Search Algorithms

A normal practice in implementing a search is to use the “like” operator. As long as you are searching for your keyword in only one column, there will be no

A Preview of Visual C++ .NET 2003

y the time you are reading this Microsoft will be very close to shipping Visual Studio .NET 2003 and its associated language products?including Visual C++. February 2003 marks an exciting

Shaped .NET Windows Forms

ince the earliest versions of the Windows operating system, all Windows have been rectangular. However, the number of applications that break out of this boring mold is rising. Even Microsoft,

Scripting SQL Server 2000 Indexes

dding indexes to tables is the most effective way to optimize your SQL Server query performance. Tables that you query often may require several indexes in order to handle the

Using Remote Object Models in .NET

odern applications are no longer isolated, stand-alone applications, limited to a single process or machine. Distributed applications allow you to put components in close proximity to the resources they use,

Reflection Part II: Emit

irst, a quick review of exactly what reflection is and what it is used for. From Part 1, you know that “Reflection is a means of discovering information about objects

Office Server Quirks

ord, Excel and PowerPoint all use VBA, so you would think that using Automation in one should be pretty much like using Automation in another, right? In fact, they do

Working with Extender Classes

xtender classes do just that; they allow you to extend the functionality of a .NET control class. The Error Provider and Tooltip classes are two examples of extender classes in

Random Ramblings

elcome to this first issue of 2003. We have some interesting things in this issue for you. The first item to note is our coverage of Visual C++ 2003. YES,

Customize the Windows Forms DataGrid Control

hen I first met the ASP.NET DataGrid control, it was love at first sight. Together we built several applications, taught dozens of classes, published countless articles and tips; we even

Become a Cross-platform Wireless UI Expert

he promise of write-once-run-anywhere is arguably more attractive and far more economically advantageous for developers targeting mobile devices; mobile hardware is so diverse that cutting development time by writing one

Reevaluating the Wireless World

everal months ago I sat down to write an editorial for DevX, which I had tentatively titled “Where’s My Wireless Killer App?” The premise of this editorial was to be,

Examining Developers’ Artillery

he job ahead of creating new wireless applications and extending traditional desktop applications to mobile devices is somewhat ominous, but the good news, according to Gartner Research Analyst Theresa Lanowitz,

Inspecting the Ranks

t’s tempting to think that we might be at or near the peak of the curve for wireless device proliferation, but that’s nowhere near the truth. Ken Dulaney, vice president

Making the Case for Local Database and Synchronization

Editor’s Note: Martyn Mallick is a wireless solutions evangelist at iAnywhere Solutions, a vendor of mobile database solutions. Though the article is not impartial, we have sought it for publication

Making a Cafeteria Plan

ven as wireless hardware diversifies (see sidebar “Inspecting the Ranks“), there’s a simultaneous convergence of sorts going on, but that convergence is happening inside devices, not outside. “The great thing

Heed the Siren Call of Wireless Development

here’s no lack of innovation going on in the wireless area and the technology is maturing fast. But still, the vast majority of developers have avoided taking the wireless plunge.

The DataTable’s Compute method

The DataTable class has a method, Compute, that executes SQL-like functions on the rows locally stored in the DataTable. It supports functions such as COUNT, SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG and

BackupDatabase – Backing-up a SQL Server database

‘ Backup the specified database.’ Note: requires Imports System.Data.SqlClient” Example:’ Dim connString As String = “server=(local); user id=sa; password=; ‘ Database=master;”‘ Try’ BackupDatabase(connString, “MyTestDB”, “D:MyTestDbBackup.bak”)’ Catch ex As Exception’ MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)’