(Vincent McBurney) Some years back, I went after Visual Basic (VB) certification. I was already programming in VB in a full time role, but I didn’t really know whether I was a good programmer. Ever had that feeling?
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Myth Regarding ViewState in ASP.NET
(Vivek Thakur) Most ASP.NET developers think that the ASP.NET ViewState is responsible for holding the values of controls such as TextBoxes so that they are retained even after postback. But this is not the case.
Debugging 101 for Visual Studio
(Peter Aitken) Legend has it that the term bug dates from the early days of computers, when a program malfunction was traced to an insect that had flown into the computer and caused a short circuit. Whatever their cause, bugs are something that you certainly don’t want in your applications! This art
ASP.NET Tip: Using Nested Master Pages
(Eric Smith) Master pages are the best solution for creating a Web site that has shared elements, such as headings and navigation bars. Sometimes you may want to have one set of navigation for one part of your Web site and another set for a "subsite" within the site. In my case, the bulk of my Web s
Use ASP.NET 2.0 pre-compilation to avoid delays
(Tony Patton) A common complaint with ASP.NET 1.x developers is the initial delays experienced by users when an application is accessed for the first time. After all, the initial request ignites a string of processes including runtime initialization, parsing, and compilation of ASPX pages to interme
Database access Optimization in Web Applications
(Peter Zaitsev) This is pretty simple approach I often use called to optimize web application performance if problem happens with few pages. If we have “everything is slow” problem looking at slow query logs may be better start.
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services – Lookup Transformation – Part 33
(Marcin Policht) Continuing the overview of Data Flow components in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, which we initiated in the previous installment of this series, we will focus now on the Lookup transformation. Its basic purpose is to combine data from two sources, by matching one or more of t
Create a SAXSource with InputSource and XMLReader
(Anghel Leonard) One way to create a SAXSource is to use a SAX InputSource and an XMLReader object. The transformer, ContentHandler, calls the XMLReader.parse(InputSource IS) method.
Setting up DB2 for UNIX and Linux on NFS mounted file systems
(Felix Lee) With IBM DB2 9 for Linux and UNIX, you can now run DB2 from NFS mounted code. While there are clear advantages to this configuration, such as simplified maintenance and decreased overall disk usage, there are a number of issues and potential problems to consider. This article takes you t
Using Oracle TopLink with the Spring Framework
(Lonneke Dikmans) Spring, a popular framework for developing lightweight J2EE applications, uses Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and dependency injection at its core. It supports various frameworks, including object-relational mapping (ORM) tools such as Oracle TopLink and JBoss Hibernate. In this