(Stephen Rylander) The task was simple and sounded like a decent technical challenge and an interesting opportunity. Build an ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005 transactional website that the financial industry can use to list special events and webinars so traders and investors can find it all in on
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ASP.NET AJAX, Windows Mobile 5, Bluetooth GPS and Virtual Earth
(Dan Wahlin) I’ve been playing around a lot lately with a great set of components from http://www.gpsdotnet.com/ that allow GPS functionality to be integrated into .NET applications. The samples included with the GPS components were awesome and made it simple to do what I wanted (since they did mos
XSLT as Pretty Printer
(Hew Wolff) Recently I was wading through some hard-to-read XML files. Art & Logic, the company I work for, was helping a client to build an Ajax-style Web interface that used XML to talk to the backend and client-side XSLT to produce the HTML. I found myself reformatting the XML by hand to make thi
Creating CSS Friendly Websites with ASP.NET 2.0
(Scott Mitchell) One of the features of ASP.NET 1.0 was its adaptive rendering capabilities that allowed for the markup rendered by an ASP.NET web page to be appropriate for the visiting browser. In short, when an ASP.NET page is visited its Web controls are rendered into markup that is sent down to
Beware of NOT IN and NULLS
(René Nyffenegger) Beware of select statements with a NOT IN where nulls are part in the NOT IN clause.
Building Style Sheets Using Visual Studio 2005
(Jacob J. Sanford) With Visual Studio, you have the ability to create and edit cascading style sheets (CSS). You can use Visual Studio to create a CSS for your web pages, or you can simply add a CSS to a web application you are building. (video)
You cannot connect to a named instance of SQL Server 2000 by using the shared memory protocol after you remove the default instance
Consider the following scenario. You are running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as a default instance and as a named instance. You connect to SQL Server 2000 by using the shared memory protocol. You uninstall the default instance of SQL Server 2000. In this scenario, you cannot use local client applicati
More on Unicode and SQL
(Willie Favero) If you have been to any kind of DB2 Version 8 presentation, I can almost guarantee that at some point someone brought the changes in collating sequence you will experience once you move to NFM. A friend sent me another example of how easy it is to solve this potential problem.
Aggregation, Summarization and Abstraction Demystified
(Steve Hoberman) This article presents short explanations of the terms aggregation, summarization and abstraction.
Simplify your code with MySQL transactions and prepared queries, and the Perl DBI
(Melonfire) The behind-the-scenes logic of many Web applications often involves repeatedly running the same database query with different arguments, or executing a set of related queries as an all-for-nothing block. To support these requirements, most database systems (including MySQL) support prepa