(Scott Hanselman) There are a number of ways to programmatically generate custom XML from a database. Before reading Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Special Edition, you probably used FOR XML AUTO to generate fairly basic XML and then modified the XML in post processing to meet your needs. This was formerl
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Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Inserting Data
(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0’s data source and data Web controls make working with data much easier than in previous versions. These controls allow for a declarative approach to working with data, without needing to write any cumbersome data access code. The articles we have explored in the series t
XML to XML Mapping tool
(Srinivas-Miriyala) XML2XML is a mapping tool to transform XML data from one XML format to any another XML format. This tool is simple.., just drag and drop the source xml node on the target xml node, see the generated XSL and output XML. That easy…!!!!
Introduction to UML
(Chad Files) When you’re designing and developing new software systems, it is often hard to see how all the pieces are suppose to fit together. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one tool that allow developers and architects to ease the process and create a big picture before committing to a particu
CUT DOWN Resource Consumption Using DPT
(Omer Brandis) In this post i’d like to tell you a bit about an interesting tool I’ve been working with lately. This tool is called DPT, its developed by Log-on software, which is located in ISRAEL.
Splitting a class across files in VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) With the complexity of today’s applications, developers often deal with classes that are very long. One way to make the classes more manageable is to split them across multiple files. Partial is a new keyword in VB.NET that allows you to split the classes to multiple physical sou
Enforce Business Rules for All Your Data with Constraints
(Alexander Kuznetsov) Of the several ways to enforce business rules in the database, only constraints can guarantee that your business rules are always enforced for all your data. This article teaches you how to apply foreign key constraints with the ON UPDATE CASCADE clause to implement waterproof
Rapid Windows application development with IBM Informix Dynamic Server and IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005
(Vimal Pradeep and Malarvizhi Kaliyakrishnan) IBM introduced the IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005 to allow rapid Windows application development, database schema development, and debugging, along with numerous other features. This IBM tooling has been available for DB2 on all of the Visua
Client asks master to start replication from impossible position
(Dathan) I get this question a lot. Why does a slave report that it’s trying to replicate from an impossible position? 9 times out of 10 it’s because the master crashed and when it came back online a new binlog file was made.
Planning Redundancy and Scaling the SharePoint Environment
(Colin Spence and Michael Noel) Any enterprise platform needs to be able to adjust, grow, and scale out to fit the needs of a changing organization. SharePoint is no exception to this rule, and the creators focused on the ability to scale certain components within SharePoint to be able to adjust to