(Ged Mead) Sometimes you might need to take a copy of what’s displayed in a ListView and save it. There are several options and one of these is simply to save it to a plain text file.
Other News
Xslt 1.0 biggest issues (kind of) solved
(Pawel Kadluczka) Xslt 1.0 has a number of issues that can make the life of an Xml developer frustrating. A lot of them are addressed by Xslt 2.0. Unfortunately the .NET Framework does not have an Xslt 2.0 compliant processor. Fortunately most of the biggest Xslt 1.0 pain points have workarounds. Ha
Creating A Private Scope By Extending The Public THIS Scope In JavaScript
(Ben Nadel) In JavaScript, we create objects. These objects don’t really have a sense of public and private variables (in a classical object-oriented sense); but, thanks to the lexical binding of Closures in JavaScript, we can finagle private variables that can be accessed via public methods.
Work Smarter
(Jim Mischel) “Flying,” it’s been said, “consists of endless hours of boredom interspersed with brief moments of sheer terror.” As a private pilot, I agree with the sentiment. I’ve had few moments of “sheer terror” in an airplane, but quite a few brief periods of excitement. Mostly, though, flying a
SortedDictionary and SortedList
(Simon Cooper) Apart from Dictionary, there’s two other dictionaries in the BCL – SortedDictionary and SortedList. On the face of it, these two classes do the same thing – provide an IDictionary interface where the iterator returns the items so
An Easy Way to Monitor SQL Server Replication
(Claire Hsu) In SQL Server, replication is a widely adopted technology for the purpose of real-time data replication between SQL servers. It serves the purpose of keeping data consistent between multiple end points. So the last thing we want to hear from clients is that data is no longer in synch, a
SQL Server Transaction Replication Bounded Update (or why my UPDATE was transformed into an DELETE/INSERT pair)
(José Moreira B. Neto) Bounded Update is the term used to describe certain types of UPDATE statements from the publisher that will replicate as DELETE/INSERT pairs on the subscriber.
XSL Code Generator
(Avi Bueno) In some stage of development (professional and/or mental), you might find yourself seeking sanctuary in the realms of auto-generated code.
TOP 100 PERCENT doesn’t work within a VIEW
(Vadivel) Way back in 2003, I wrote a blog post titled “Is sorting possible in views?”. I came to know that by using TOP 100 PERCENT in our SELECT query we can make use of ORDER BY clause within a VIEW. I tested that out in a SQL Server 2000 machine. But till date I have never used that in […]
Recover a dropped DB2 for z/OS XML table space: A real-life example
(Christoph Theisen) The pureXML features introduced in IBM DB2 for z/OS are becoming more and more popular. These features offer new possibilities for application developers but also new challenges for database administrators.