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(Closing in a few days!) September Survey – 7 Questions to WIN We’re giving away not one, but two 2-year memberships to SSWUG.ORG – all you need to do is give us your thoughts about SQL Server and Bananas. No, really. It’s only 7 questions, and you can win… Seriously, could use your feedback – please stop by the survey […]
Using ICustomTypeProvider in Silverlight 5 with XML
(Matt Duffield) Back in June I did a post on ICustomTypeProvider with JSON and ASP.NET MVC 3. Today, I want to present to you the ability to use XML as your source data for the ICustomTypeProvider and being able to bind to the data.
Java XML and XML Parsing Interview Questions
(Sandeep) XML is often used in all kind of applications. Even when applications are using database systems, XML is often used for communication between two entities in the application.
Leverage Your Financial Data with the XBRL Chart Wizard–Part 1
(Beth O’Brien) Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), an XML-based language for financial data, is increasingly being used by both public and private organizations across the globe – in fact it is mandated for some companies in countries including the United Kingdom and the United States.
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(Simon Cooper) To many people, System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary is just a useful collection. In this post, I’ll be looking inside that collection and see how it really works.
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(Stephen Toub) .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 saw the introduction of a wide range of new support for parallelism: the Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), new synchronization and coordination primitives and collections (e.g. ConcurrentDictionary), an improved ThreadPool for handling p
Video Sitemap Action Result for ASP.NET MVC
(Keyvan Nayyeri) I don’t think I need to talk about the significance of search engine optimization for a site to drive the majority of the visitors to it. A vital part of search engine optimization is the use of sitemap which should be one of the very first features being added to a website as soon
WARNING, WARNING, DANGER, DANGER !
(Gary Myers) Yes, the catch-cry from the “Lost in Space” Robot. But I’m more interested in PL/SQL Warnings.
Effective JavaScript Tips
(John Papa) Welcome to the first article of my new column, Papa’s Perspective — and thanks for reading it!