(Brian Mains) Many are familiar with the DropDownList control, which inherits from ListControl. This control contains an Items collection property, which each item is rendered as a child item of the control, as the default property. How is this done? The following article will discuss this in detail
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My Feature in VS 2005: Storing Application and User Settings
(Paul Kimmel) The My feature in Visual Studio 2005 provides abbreviated access to many commonly used features in .NET. For example, My in Visual Basic .NET makes the common task of accessing settings in an application configuration (App.config) file easier. It does this by using the CodeDOM to gener
Book Excerpt: Practical .NET 2 and C# 2
(Patrick Smacchia) In this book Microsoft MVP Patrick Smacchia gives a detailed overview of the .NET Framework and the C#2 language with these chapter excerpts covering the important topics of multithreading and security. In chapter 5 of “Practical .NET,” the author describes the process and thr
Using More Perl in PostgreSQL
(Andrew Dunstan) The first article in this series examined the use of PL/Perl to create triggers. The trigger inserted a row into a database table for audit purposes using a new PL/Perl method called spi_exec_query(). This article looks in more detail at uses of that function and its new cousin, as
Configuring and using XA transactions with WebSphere MQ V6 Classes for Java
(Ben Ritchie) This article shows you how to configure and use XA distributed transactions with WebSphere MQ Classes for Java, and how to resolve common problems you may encounter.
Working with Analysis Services Cubes in SQL Server
(Baya Pavliashvili) After you have populated your dimensional database (as discussed in the previous article in this series), you’re ready to build Analysis Services cubes (Analysis Services is free when you purchase SQL Server 2000). The tool that lets you build and manage cubes with Analysis Servi
SQL Server Express Utility
SSEUtil.exe is a tool that lets you easily interact with SQL Server. Among other things, it allows you to: • Connect to the main instance or user-instance of SQL Server. • Create, attach, detach, and list databases on the server. • Upgrade database files to match the version of the server. • E
Basic DB2 Buffering and Memory Guidelines
(Craig S Mullins) One of the most important areas for tuning DB2 subsystem performance is memory usage. DB2 for z/OS uses memory for buffer pools, the EDM pool, RID pool and sort pools to cache data and structures in memory. The better memory is allocated to these structures, the better DB2 will per
A Close Look at the Compact XML Schema-Aware XML Processing Framework
(Jinyu Wang) Wide deployment of XML technology in enterprise applications demands high performance XML processing framework. This results in extensive investigation on building an XML processing infrastructure leveraging a compact, pre-parsed XML format, which could save in the memory and CPU cons
What is XML?
(Ankh) I’ve recently held a number of Future of XML sessions at various conferences. I posted about it on my Advogato blog too. I got quite a lot of feedback, but one thing emerged clearly: XML is what you make of it. There is no one answer. There is no One True Data Model. There is no One True Mean