(Richard Carr) The seventy-sixth part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Fundamentals tutorial begins to look at the WPF menu controls. These controls allow users to select from many commands using menus and toolbars. The first of these controls is the Menu.
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Chain AJAX Requests with jQuery Deferred
(Suprotim Agarwal) Use jQuery Deferred and Promise to chain multiple AJAX Requests and execute them asynchronously.
How to create an if-then-else expression (aka ternary operator) in an XPath 1.0 expression?
(Lucas Jellema) There are situations where I have to create an XPath expression that performs something like if-then-else logic (similar to a CASE or DECODE expression in SQL or a ternary operator in Java or JavaScript). Unfortunately, XPath 1.0 – a version still widely found – does not support the
Unlocking a SQL Server login without resetting the password
(Steve Endow) I had a call with a consultant who was having trouble unlocking a SQL Server login. While trying to login to GP Utilities with the sa login, he used the wrong password and ended up locking out sa.
Using Plupload To Upload Files In AngularJS
(Ben Nadel) Plupload is a very powerful JavaScript library for local file access and file upload. I’ve been using it for years and absolutely love it. But, I haven’t yet done much with it in AngularJS. Sure, I’ve uploaded files; but, I haven’t leveraged much of the Plupload 2.x features in my Angula
Architecting and Deploying IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration in Your Analytical Environment
(Whei-Jen Chen, Brigitte Bläser, Aidan Craddock, Polly Lau, Cong Lin, Kushal Munir, Martin Schlegel and Alexander Zietlow) IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration is a revolutionary technology that is delivered in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Release 10.5. BLU Acceleration delivers breakthrough performanc
Enumeration Synchronization With Application Code
Keeping Enumerations synchronized between application code and database lookup tables is simply painful. I have played with the idea of creating my lookup tables needing to be synchronized with three columns, ID, Description, Enumeration. I’m working on a T4 template that will generate Enumeration C# code from these tables so they can be kept synchronized with no special effort. The […]
More Choices! Wait, Fewer Choices!
More Choices! Wait, Fewer Choices! More options! More granularity! More features, but let me choose… OK, here you go. Wait… too much. That’s a bit how I feel about how things are shaking out with cloud licensing for SQL Server (and other services too, but I’m picking on SQL Server for this…) It’s really great to see how many different […]
SSWUGtv: Today, Steve discusses making checklists for your systems.
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Add text to asp:ValidationSummary (C#)
(Brian Pedersen) This trick is especially useful when you have custom code to be executed after your form have been submitted, and still wishes to communicate an error the same way as you communicate form validation errors.