(Alejandro Gervasio) Most developers must deal with the job of developing robust data validation for forms on a regular basis. Nobody wants to write the same code over and over, so this article (the first of three in a series) will help you develop an extensible and reusable form validation package.
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Mastering OLAP Reporting: Display a Dataset Field in a Report Page Header
(William Pearson) Authoring reports in Reporting Services is largely dependent upon the process of associating controls within the report body with fields that are created within one or more Datasets within the report file. While this is standard operational procedure, and is easily accomplished
Review: Conglomerate XML Editor reaches basic functionality
(Bruce Byfield) Graphical XML editors generally take one of two paths. Ones like FrameMaker with SGML provide a tree-like structure that is often more arcane than editing the raw files. Others, like XMetal, offer a graphical interface whose resemblance to a standard word processor can be equally mis
Forget About TNS: Connect To Oracle Using Easy Connect
(Lewis R Cunningham) Have you ever needed to get to a database but didn’t have the TNS entry for it? Would you like to connect to an Oracle database and have no idea what TNS, or more importantly the TNSNAMES.ORA file, is? Today’s entry is for you.
Migrating Java RMI to .NET Remoting
(Laishram Priyokumar) DotNet and J2EE are both widely used technologies for creating Middleware solutions. Sometime we do have code that can get us more benefit from running on the .NET framework and some of the code exists in J2EE application already. And also to achieve the best of everything in s
Oracle Starts To Cut And Paste From PeopleSoft Apps
(Tony Kontzer and Charles Babcock) Oracle has come a long way from the take-no-prisoners approach it took during its pursuit of PeopleSoft before acquiring the company last year. Since then Oracle executives have worked hard to keep PeopleSoft customers in the fold, but the company has never been al
AJAX Is No Overnight Success
(Peter Coffee) It’s almost time to send first-birthday-party invitations for AJAX, a catchy label (though not a novel idea) that has quickly become the banner buzzword of standards-based interactive applications for the Web. The benefits of AJAX are far more obvious than its burdens on developers, a
Proxy Settings Can Lead to Performance Problems
(Don Kiely) It is critical to write applications that don’t require full trust and that use lesser-privileged host accounts — NETWORK SERVICE on Windows Server 2003 or ASPNET in earlier versions of Windows. That simple step gives you a lot of security, but sometimes it makes things harder than they
Mainsoft, IBM Pair Up To Bring .Net Apps To Linux, WebSphere
(Paula Rooney) Mainsoft’s partnership with IBM will help ISVs, partners and customers move .Net applications to Linux and IBM WebSphere.
SQL Server 2005 Introduction to SQL Server Management Studio
This article will explain how to use the new SQL Server Management Studio to perform basic SQL Server administration task. In particular, it introduces you to SQL Server Workbench, a tool which can help you administer one or more SQL Servers. It can be used for certain other functions as well.