(Peter Bromberg) I’ve been going through the learning curve with CodeSmith and the initial results are pretty interesting, especially with the free NetTiers template set. Man, does that generate a bunch of stored procs, entity and domain objects and controls! If you get used to the model, you are vi
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Ajax.NET Professional Library
(Wallace B. McClure, Scott Cate, Paul Glavich and Craig Shoemaker) Every once in a while, a technology is extremely simplified with the introduction of new wrapper libraries. These libraries use existing technologies but make the development process easier to use by wrapping the sometimes difficult
Weaving WebSphere: What’s New in WDSC 7
(Joe Pluta) Thoreau is considered an optimist. That’s why the statement above has a particularly dark tone to me. Of course, Thoreau was something of a Luddite, so I suppose I can understand his distrust of all things invented. Then there’s the other end of the spectrum, where all that glitters is g
DB2 may help fix contention from index hot spots
(Willie Favero) Sometimes stuff just all ends up in one place no matter how hard you try to pick a key that will spread the data around. I worked on a system many years ago where we jumped through all sorts of strange hoops trying to insure some kind of even distribution of our index keys to avoid h
Create .NET documentation with Microsoft’s Sandcastle
(Tony Patton) From its beginning, the .NET Framework allowed C# developers to use XML-style comments in their code. This feature was added to VB.NET with version 2.0. The compiler can use these comments to generate basic technical documentation. The end result of using the XML commenting feature is
Developing with SQL Server 2005 Express
(Jeremy Kadlec) Who ever imagined Microsoft would be offering a free version of its enterprise database management platform? From the original SQL Server 2000 MSDE to the current SQL Server 2005 Express edition, we never before had a fully featured Management Studio to build and deploy SQL Server da
.NET String Hashing: The Hidden Knot
(Joseph Chahine) As defined by Wikipedia, "a hash function is a reproducible method of turning some kind of data into a (relatively) small number that may serve as a digital ‘fingerprint’ of the data. The algorithm ‘chops and mixes’ (substitutes or transposes) the data to create such fingerprints, c
Reading and Writing Files in SQL Server using T-SQL
(Phil Factor) SQL Server has never been short of ways to read from and write to files and it is always better to use the standard techniques provided by SQL Server where possible. However, most of them are really designed for reading and writing tabular data and aren’t always trouble-free when used
Use XML to develop with the Google Web Toolkit
(Nicholas Chase and Tyler Anderson) The Google Web Toolkit enables you to use Java syntax to create the JavaScript necessary for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) user interfaces. Most of these Ajax applications use XML to transfer information to and from the server, so your application must be a
Critical Patch Update April 2007 Pre-Release Analysis
This is a brief analysis of the pre-release announcement for the upcoming April 2007 Critical Patch Update (CPU).