(Rick Strahl) In a recent ASP.NET MVC application I’m involved with, we had a late in the process request to handle Content Negotiation: Returning output based on the HTTP Accept header of the incoming HTTP request. This is standard behavior in ASP.NET Web API but ASP.NET MVC doesn’t support this fu
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Determining Graphic Object Collision with VB.NET
(Hannes Du Preez) As a .NET trainer, the very first question I get asked when teaching a class is: “How do I create a game?” Obviously there are many answers and many examples at my (and their) disposal, but the very first thing that you have to learn is to make objects move, and then, possibly, det
Parsing EDI to XML (and vice verse)
(Kamen Nikolov) I’ve been meaning to provide a brief overview of the EDI format from the perspective of parsing and interpretation. I have an affinity for data formats and parsers. My first encounter with EDI was when I worked for an airline services provider.
Trying on Tuples
I have recently become reacquainted with one of the cool generic techniques found in .Net, tuples. Tuples allow you to pass data in a structured form without fully defining a class or struct to pass complex object. If I had the need to pass an integer identifier, a phone number, and an Email address I could create a class with […]
Troubleshooting SQL Server 2012 CLR Problems
Troubleshooting SQL Server 2012 CLR Problems If you have problems with SQL Server 2012 Common Language Runtime (CLR) objects, review this troubleshooting checklist to find potential solutions. 1. Install the latest SQL Server 2012 service pack. Because some SQL Server 2012 CLR bugs were fixed in SQL Server service packs, you should install the latest SQL Server service pack. At...
JQuery Empty Selector Example
(Krishna Srinivasan) This tutorial highlights the benefits and usage of the empty selector in JQuery. JQuery empty selector selects all the elements that have no children. It represents the elements with no children which includes element nodes, text nodes etc.
Row-based replication, MySQL 5.6 upgrades and temporal data types
(Jay Janssen) MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it’s important that you can build a migration plan that safely allows for your upgrade with minimal risk — rollback is often a
Tuning your DB2 CLP environment: Customize appearance and editor
(Henrik Loeser) Over the last weekend, the annual Tuning World Bodensee was guest at the Messe Friedrichshafen (exhibition center and fair grounds). More than 100,000 people interested in car tuning traveled to Friedrichshafen.
GoldenGate 12c Features Found in 11.2.1.0.21 ???
(mdinh) I was curious if there was a way to add supplemental logging for ALL columns at the schema level.
Invisible Indexes (Part 1)
(Andrew Reid) Oracle introduced INVISIBLE indexes in version 11. The example below creates an INVISIBLE index, makes it VISIBLE then makes it INVISIBLE again. The VISIBILITY column in USER_INDEXES is used to check that each change has worked:
