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XLinq Part 1: Classes and Methods

(Thiru Thangarathinam) Nearly every .NET application needs to handle data that may reside in a wide range of data sources, from relational databases, to XML, to in-memory or disk-persisted objects. Although .NET Framework 2.0 exposes a number of classes to handle these types of data, it lacks a unif

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DB2 Packages: A Deeper Look

(Willie Favero) My previous article on packages (z/Journal, February/ March 2006) provided what one might consider an introduction or refresher. However, how to create packages and how some aspects of a package work are just a small part of the picture. A package is the DB2 process that lets you get

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DB2 XML evaluation guide

(Gerald Leung and Grant Hutchison) The DB2 XML evaluation guide is a step-by-step tutorial to introduce the reader to the DB2 Viper data server on Windows platforms using the XML storage and searching (SQL/XML, XQuery) capabilities available to support next-generation applications. (R)

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The Benefits of a Page Class

(Brian Mains) Partial classes are a great new feature for the .Net 2.0 framework, because they can separate code into several classes, which is especially useful when working with large files. I always had the assumption, though, that I had to inherit directly from the Page class for this to work, b