(V.N.S Arun) Concurrent collections in .NET Framework 4.0 allow the developers to create type safe as well as thread safe collections. These collection classes form an essential part of the parallel programming feature and are available under the namespace System.Collections.Concurrent.
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4 Tips to Using SharePoint Lists to Improve Project Delivery
(Steve Hart) A SharePoint list represents a great tool to capture and maintain project information in a very structured manner. In addition, the information maintained in the list is more accessible to the team than information maintained “off-line” in tools such as Excel.
ColdFusion 10 – Control Flow And Scopes During A WebSocket Request
(Ben Nadel) A few years ago, I demonstrated that the FORM scope does not exist during SOAP-based web service calls. SOAP requests are handled somewhat outside of the normal ColdFusion page request model. In ColdFusion 10, we now have native WebSocket calls.
.NET Application for SQL Server Data Management
(Sherlee Dizon) You are assigned the task of creating an application to maintain the data for a new application from a data administration perspective. The application should be able to add new records, but first check to see if the record already exists. If the record already exists, it should upda
Foreign Key Names
Foreign Key Names Today Thomas shares his thoughts on constraint names as well as indexes: For Foreign keys I use FK_PARENTTABLE_parentcol1_parentcol2_CHILDTABLE_childcolum1_childcolumn2 Currently, we don’t have any keys more complex than 2 columns and we are well under the 128 character limit. Our child column names are usually the same as their parent’s so I’ll probably resort to some kind of […]
Naming Conventions ? Primay and Foreign Keys
Naming Conventions – Primay and Foreign Keys Hank writes in with a scenario revolving around system assigned key names. In Microsoft SQL Server you can declare constraints without providing names. In these situations, the system assigns a name on your behalf, usually part of the key looking like a GUID. There is little meaning or value in the name. The […]
SQL Server 2012 Backup Types and Scopes
(Mike Chapple) One of the major advantages that enterprise-class databases offer over their desktop counterparts is a robust backup and recovery feature set. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 provides database administrators with the ability to customize a database backup and recovery plan to the business a
Declaring VARCHAR without length
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XML Parsing and Handling Guidelines
(Michael Marr) If I had a quarter for every time I’ve had to convert a big bulk of XML formatted data into some other sort of datatype, well then, I’d have a few dollars. However, these far and few between projects have had an exponentially higher return of headaches.
Krengel Adds Credit Card Processing to RPG-XML Suite
(Alex Woodie) Developers who write XML-based Web service programs for IBM i using Krengel Technology’s RPG-XML Suite now have an easy way to add credit card processing to their apps. The company recently announced that the suite now contains an application plug-in that processes credit card transact