Is Access Dead? Microsoft Access has filled a niche in software tools for departmental applications for many years. It provides a lot of rich functionality for less technical individuals to use filling business data requirements when development resources are not available. Some people have tried to create applications with a broader user base having different levels of success. The product […]
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Dynamically create huge tooltips in WPF TreeView and ListView
(Calvin Hsia) Tooltips are useful. When the mouse hovers over a button a tip can indicate what happens when it’s clicked. The mouse move does not actually invoke the button, but can give information in a passive way.
Using ASP.NET 4.0 Chart Control With New Tooling Support for SQL Server CE 4.0 in VS 2010 SP1 and Entity Model
(Abhijit Jana) In this post I’m going to talk about how we can use ASP.NET 4.0 Chart Control with SQL CE as back-end data base using Entity Framework. I will also show how Visual Studio 2010 SP1 provides new tooling supports for SQL Server CE 4.0. ASP.NET 4.0 introduced inbuilt chart controls featu
Visual Studio Locals and Autos Windows
Visual Studio provides a large number of tools for use when debugging applications or stepping through code. Possibly the two most commonly used are the Locals and Autos windows, which allow variable values to be inspected and changed.
JAXB (XJC) and Nested Classes
(Blaise Doughan) Recently I came across a complaint on Twitter about how JAXB (XJC) generates deeply nested class structures from XML schemas. In this post I want to first explain why JAXB does this, and second how to easily configure JAXB not to do this.
APAR Friday: Are you overly enthusiastic in your use of the OR predicate
(Willie Favero) Sometimes there are just so many things to pick from. Choosing between A or B just isn’t going to cut it. You need to decide between dozens, if not hundreds of different choices. You WHERE clause looks like the O R keys were stuck for a while.
Task Flows: Sayonara automated nesting of Application Modules JDev 11.1.2.0.0?
(Chris Muir) In a previous blog post I discussed the concept of automated nesting of Application Modules (AMs) when using Bounded Task Flows (BTFs) with a combination of the transactional options Always Begin New Transaction, Always Use Existing Transaction and Use Existing Transaction if possible.
11.2 RAC’s New Goodies, Node UnPinning….
(Aman Sharma) From the past few months, I have been delivering a lots of sessions on 11.2 RAC and I must say, there are many new things which are being added to it. There are some more highlighted pieces about the changes and some are not so much.
LINQ to XML in a Nutshell
(Dhananjay Kumar) The objective of this article is to understand how could we work with LINQ to XML.
How About Some SVG Editors
(Darla Ferrara) Hopefully by now you have gone through some SVG tutorials or taken the SVG classes available here on About.com. If so, you might be asking yourself how about some SVG editors. Manually coding SVG is tough, but it is always better to learn the basics of a development language first.