(Simon Greener) This article shows how the ability to create vector Delaunay cells and grids inside a database can be applied to solving real world problems. An Inverse Distance Weight algorithm is also used along with 3×3 cell “smoothing” of interpolated values to reach a final result.
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CRUD operation using Web API in Asp.net Web form application
(Kedar Kulkarni) There is lot of buzz going on around the word Web API these days. In this short article, we will look at the basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations using Web API… but, In Web form application.
Create ASP.NET Date Range Picker Control using AJAX Controls Toolkit, JQuery and C#
(Muhammad Makhaly) Sometimes you want your website users to query your database with date ranges like querying their orders, transactions or their statements. One solution is to display From Date and To Date fields and let the user to type the date range.
White boxes: handling special ANSI characters in XSL and XML
(Lars Nielsen) Using a data view web part you can render XML content from a public XML feed (a vacancies list) onto a SharePoint page. You add the URL of the data feed into the XML files section of the data source library. The XML feed I was using was simply a public URL which returns pure and prop
What DBAs can do to Reduce Deadlocks
(Ember Crooks) Deadlocking is an application problem. There are only a few things that DBAs can do to reduce deadlocking, and they all require buy-in from the application. Let me repeat that another way. Don’t set the parameters mentioned here without understanding the impact on your application.
Authentication Error in InfoPath Form services in SharePoint 2010
(Melick Rajee Baranasooriya) The following errors occurred for me while InfoPath form services was trying to access a user profile service. My profile connections are stored in a udx file.
.NET Known and System Colours
(Richard Carr) The Color class can represent over sixteen million colour shades with over two hundred and fifty levels of transparency. Often, however, a simple, named colour or a system colour is desired. These can be obtained using the KnownColor enumeration.
ColdFusion 10 – An Augmented Virtual File System (VFS)
(Ben Nadel) Last week, I explored ColdFusion 10’s new ability to load custom Java Classes and JAR files on a per-application basis. In that exploration, I ended up creating a number of Java classes and a ColdFusion component (CFC) that needed to work together.
New Date and Time Functions in SQL Server 2012
(Ashish Kumar Mehta) SQL Server 2012, code named Denali, has new date and time functions such as DATEFROMPARTS, TIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIME2FROMPARTS, SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS, DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS, EOMONTH that can be used to Get Date and Time Values from their parts. In this tip we
Thoughts for Database Naming Conventions
Notice anything? swynk@sswug.org < Let me know what you think! Thoughts for Database Naming Conventions Today I have lots of food for thought when it comes to naming things in the Database. The meaning of data as well as the name of the data are frequent questions that have been asked. Some feel that meaning is more important than naming […]