(Joydip Kanjilal) Serialization is the concept whereby an object is written into a linear stream. The .NET Framework provides an excellant support to serializing and deserializing objects. This article discusses Serialization, XML, SOAP and Binary and provides code examples to illustrate the concept
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War of Web-Words: ‘It’s Time for Web 2.0 to Stop Being Exclusive,’ Warns Dave Winer
A war of words has broken out in the world of Web 2.0 – between the software developer Dave Winer (pictured) – who created or was a lead contributor to several of the most popular XML dialects and APIs related to web publishing such as RSS 2.0, XML-RPC, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API – and the founder
Spotlight on XML
DB2 9’s “pureXML” technology introduces powerful XML management capabilities. Here’s how to use the skills you already have to put that power to work. (R)
Upgrading to Version 8? Watch out for SYSOPR
(Willie Favero) “Oh what a tangled web we weave…”* And DB2 does, if you are not careful. There are so many things that affect other things in DB2 that we sometimes take for granted.
Get a head start with JDBC 4.0 using Apache Derby
(Victor J. Soderberg) At the time of this writing, the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) 4.0 specification is expected to be released from beta testing. It offers developers several enhancements to speed development and create a more object-oriented paradigm with regard to accessing and manipulating
A First Look at SQL Server Everywhere
(Mike Gunderloy) For years Microsoft-oriented developers have struggled with the problem of what to use for a database in single-user applications with modest data storage requirements. The choices for this embedded database problem space have boiled down to Microsoft Access or MSDE (or its current
Deploying a .NET Application with Crystal Reports
(Muhammad Shahbaz Saleem) Crystal Reports often cause problem in dot.net deployment package. Errors like “Can’t find keycode32.dll” are likely to occur if license key is not provided during creation of deployment package. To include license information use the following procedure.
Executing all SSIS packages in a folder: three methods
(Nigel Rivett) A common requirement is to execute several SSIS packages as part of one logical process. This is especially true when one is transferring existing data from an external system.
Query performance may decrease when you try to run a query in a parallel plan in SQL Server 2000
Consider the following scenario. You try to run a query in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The query runs in a parallel plan. In this scenario, query performance may decrease.
Implementing with PHP: Standalone Scripts
(George Schlossnagle) If you’ve ever been interested in making significant use of PHP outside of a web environment, this article will show you how.