(Simon Cooper) ConcurrentQueue is, like ConcurrentStack, a lockless collection, in that it is implemented without using any locks at all. However, the semantics required for a queue impose a quite different approach; unlike ConcurrentStack, which has a single point of concurrent contention, a queue
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SQL Server stored procedures supercharged in recent, upcoming versions
(Richard Ding) SQL Server stored procedures are Transact-SQL (T-SQL) statements or references to the common language runtime in Microsoft’s .NET framework that are designed to make database querying easier.
Using HTML5 Web Storage in ASP.NET
(Bipin Joshi) HTML5 Web Storage provides a streamlined data storage mechanism that allows developers to store data on the client as key-value pairs. This article explores what Web Storage is, its flavors and illustrates how Web Storage data can be transferred between client and server in ASP.NET web
Nooner Viewing Summary
(Jason Strate) Over the last few weeks, I’ve been watching SQL Server videos and webcasts. My primary motivator in doing this is to help myself prepare for re-taking the SQL Server MCM Lab exam.
Using JDBC to extract data into XML
(Nicholas Chase) XML is best suited to storing data, so it’s inevitable that at some point someone will ask you to pull information from a database and manipulate it as though it were XML. This tutorial will teach you to access a database using JDBC and use SQL to pull information, which you will th
Using PHP Closures as View Helpers
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this first part of a two-part tutorial, I develop a basic template system that can parse any type of closure assigned as a property of its view object(s).
Displaying XML in a WPF TreeView
(Gil Yoder) In this article I will describe how to display data contained in a simple XML file using a TreeView control in a WPF application without writing any code. In this article all of the magic is found in the XAML file that defines the window contents. Admittedly you would not try to write a
Creating A Keyboard-Shortcuts Module In A Modular JavaScript Application
(Ben Nadel) Last week, I looked at handling keyboard shortcuts in a modular JavaScript application architecture. In that initial exploration, I distributed the handling of keyboard shortcuts across two different modules: a Controller module and the View module that would ultimately be affected by th
XQuery and HTML5
(Dave Erickson) XQuery is amazing at generating server-side dynamic XHTML. PHP, Java, .Net and the like are good too but don’t have the advantage of a seamless connection to a storage model. However, they do hav a big advantage over XQuery when it comes to HTML5 because they can serialize non-XML
Finding the Next Primary Key Value, a Pre-fixed Solution
(Charles Hooper) A request for assistance came in from an ERP mailing list. The original poster (OP) is running an unspecified version of Oracle Database 9i, and is in need of a solution to generate new part numbers with prefixed characters that describe the type of part, followed by a sequential n