(Willie Favero) So, what does one do in Seattle when all of the roads are iced over, it’s 25 degrees (F) and getting colder, and it’s threatening to snow again? Well, you sit around a cold and boring hotel and try to figure out what the two DSNZPARM keywords CMTSTAT and IDTHTOIN have in common with
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AJAX DataGrid: An ASP.NET User Control
(Jibin Pan) This DataGrid is a Client Side Control. It is created by JavaScript and uses Ajax.net technology to communicate with ASP.NET code behind, from there, using ADO.NET to access the database and update the database with dataset.
REST versus SOAP – the SOAP story
(William Brogden) The title “REST versus SOAP” is somewhat misleading. REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer, is a style rather than a standard. However, as discussed in my previous article, many software designers thinking about Web services have come to the conclusion that SOAP is
On creating an AJAX Application with Oracle
(René Nyffenegger) With the PL/SQL gateway, it’s possible to invoke PL/SQL procedures via HTTP (or a browser, for that matter) and to return HTML pages to the browser. Since AJAX seems (or at least seemed) to be quite popular at the moment, I decided to find out if it is possible to create an AJAX w
You must perform a full database backup before you back up the transaction log for a database in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000
Before you try to back up the transaction log for a database in Microsoft SQL Server 2005, you must perform a full database backup. Otherwise, you receive error messages that indicate that the BACKUP LOG statement stops abnormally. You must also perform a full database backup before you try to back
Validating PostgreSQL Performance
(Josh Berkus) Tweakers.net recenty ran an article comparing database performance on Woodcrest and Opteron CPUs. What’s interesting about the article from a PostgreSQL geek perspective is that it validates a lot of PostgreSQL peformance design to date, and a lot of our propaganda about the difference
ASP.NET Graphs: Raise the Bar
(Pat Wong) They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is this more evident than in the use of bar charts.
Session Diagram – A Better Way To Control Your Session
(Mohammad Hefny) When developing an ASP.Net application, it is very common for many developers to use Session for passing data between different pages in the web application. Usually developers tends to leave Session data in memory until the whole session is closed when the user closes the window br
Creating a Custom Tool to Generate Multiple Files in Visual Studio 2005
(Adam Langley) Visual Studio is a great environment for Rapid Application Development. It also provides a rich extensibility API for customising it for your specific needs. A good example of this is the highly utilised “Custom Tool” facility.
Breathe New Life into Old Controls with ExtenderProviders
(Rod Stephens) From the beginning, the Tag property has been a Visual Basic programming staple. Any time you want to attach a little extra bit of information, you can put it in the Tag property. In .NET, the Tag property became even more useful, allowing you to store objects rather than just strings