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evelopers write unit tests to check their own code. Unit testing differs from integration testing, which confirms that components work well together, and acceptance testing, which confirms that an application
he INI (application INItialization) file format became popular because it provided a convenient way to store values that might change (such as file locations, user preferences, etc.) in a standard
Learning to program for the .NET Framework has been an interesting experience. I use the term “interesting” loosely: it has sometimes been amazingly easy, and sometimes unexpectedly frustrating. For instance,
What You Need To build the samples you need Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework (sp1). You should have an understanding of the .NET Framework and scripting on the
Remoting is a means by which one operating system process, or program, can communicate with another process. The two processes can exist on the same computer or on two computers
In the first part of this article, I explained the basics of calling functions in unmanaged DLLs from managed .NET code. In this part, I’ll show you how to use
his article describes how to use an HTML Application (HTA) file that you can use to launch CD’s. Developers have had the ability to create HTML applications since the release
As Flash MX becomes an integral part of enterprise applications and rich-media interfaces, developers must learn to incorporate Flash into their established software development processes. A few years ago, Flash’s
Quick Facts SmartCombo Control 1.0Visual Data SolutionWeb: www.vds.us.comPrice: $120.00Quick Facts: SmartCombo is a COM control for Microsoft Visual Basic, Visual C++, and any other Windows development environments that support COM
The Internet was originally used primarily by English-speakers, but the percentage of non-English speakers is increasing as Internet penetration increases. With huge populations in Asian countries coming online and European
uppose that your company’s field reps regularly upload files to the server, and the proper people need to be notified when these files arrive. Perhaps you need to monitor and
When you first start learning VB.NET, one of the first things you may notice is the absence of “traditional” file I/O support in .NET. Microsoft has replaced the classic IO
The concept of threads is central to the inner workings of most operating systems, including Windows, but relatively few programmers even know what they are?let alone how to take advantage
Most of you have heard of?and probably used?the new anchoring and docking properties available to Windows form controls. They enable controls to automatically resize or reposition themselves as the form
Those of you who already know me as The Remoting Guy won’t be surprised to hear that I was positively excited when I read the first announcement of Intrinsyc’s Ja.NET.
ASP.NET provides a robust framework for your Web applications. However, at times it becomes necessary to go beyond the out-of-the-box functionality. For example, when you request a resource such as
In this article you’ll examine the features that ASP.NET provides to help you build fully localized web applications. In particular you’ll see how .NET manages culture information, and how you
The .NET framework has a number of powerful Remoting features to make working with remote objects simple especially in the client side code. You can use factory patterns to enable
Say you want to retrieve all of the authors whose last names started with an L, M, or S. Here’s the query: select au_lname, au_fname from authors where au_lname like
For inserting explicit values into the identity column of a table, IDENTITY_INSERT property is set to ON. Table tblName has got following fieldsCompanyID INT IDENTITY(1,1)CoName VARCHAR(75) And following the data:
Editor’s Note: The Visual Studio project included in the source code for this article requires ‘Office XP Web Components’ (OCW10). The development and run-time machines must have these installed. You
In this article you’ll finish examining the features that ASP.NET provides to help you build fully localized Web applications. In particular you’ll see how .NET manages dates, numbers, and currencies,
This add-in tries to generate a complete HTML project from your VBproject forms. It iterates over the forms in your VB project and generates an htm file for all the
Andrea Zanetti Riccardo Munisso Downolad code from here Introduction Serialization is a very powerful characteristic of the .NET Framework. Serialization make the task of object persistency very easy but there
When you work with XML documents loaded into an XmlDocument class, you often need to examine the contents of child nodes. The XMLDOM programming interface purposedly provides the ChildNodes property.
Suppose that your ASP.NET pages display contents read from database fields. Suppose also that some of those fields may contain URLs or email addresses. A typical example is when you
In the XmlNode class, that is the class that provides node functionality in an XMLDOM representation of an XML document, the SelectNodes (and the ancillary SelectSingleNode) method exploits the XPath
In the .NET Framework, the DataSet’s WriteXml method when used to create a DiffGram does not provide the capability to include schema information along with the data. This is more
Many ADO.NET classes, including DataSet, DataTable, and DataColumn, use the ExtendedProperties property to enable users to add custom information. Think of the ExtendedProperties property as a kind of generic cargo
If you use VB6 to write COM programs that raise errors, it seems impossible to continue after hitting one of them. However, the (almost undocumented) commands ALT+F8 and ALT+F5 let
