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Drawing DOM Content To Canvas

(Robert O’Callahan) I see that one feature Web developers are asking for is the ability to draw DOM objects to an HTML canvas. I’ve got good news and bad news about that. The bad news is that such a feature has to be designed very carefully or it’s a security risk. The good news is that this feature

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Replication stars

(Giuseppe Maxia) Working with replication, you come across many topologies, some of them sound and established, some of them less so, and some of them still in the realm of the hopeless wishes. I have been working with replication for almost 10 years now, and my wish list grew quite big during this

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Insider: A Debugging Story

(Peter Vogel) I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ programming recently, so my next column is probably going to be called something like “Stupid LINQ Tricks”. Because LINQ, like SQL, is a declarative language you don’t get a lot of code to look at when your code isn’t doing what you want.

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What is PostBack in ASP.NET

(Prabhu Raja) PostBack is the name given to the process of submitting an ASP.NET page to the server for processing. PostBack is done if certain credentials of the page are to be checked against some sources (such as verification of username and password using database). This is something that a clie