(Ged Mead) I’ve done a lot of work with WPF in the past few years, but only recently turned my hand to to its smaller sibling, Silverlight. One of the first things I always want to know about with any new technology like this is to find out how easy it is to deploy and maintain my applications.
Other News
A Quick Solution for Complicated Functions
(DaveMcG) Some data conversions require multiple steps to satisfy today’s complex data communication requirements. Altova MapForce 2011 lets you graphically combine a wide variety of mathematical, logical, string, and other specialized functions to build complicated “data equations” to get the resul
Retrieve Drive, File and Folder Names
Many software projects involve interaction with the file system. When this requires that a list of drive letters is generated, or that a drive or folder’s files and subfolders are retrieved, the Directory class can be used to obtain the list.
SQL Server virtualization is inevitable: Get the right hardware
(Don Jones) Let’s face it: If you haven’t already virtualized SQL Server instances in your environment, you’re going to do so eventually, if not “real soon now.”
Dealing with Oracle Database bottlenecks
(Frank Ohlhorst) Oracle Database performance problems can often be attributed to bottlenecks, a situation in which data has to traverse a process or route that increases response time by forcing traffic to “slow down” due to the processes’ inability to move the data expediently.
Creating an XML document based on my POJO domain model – how will JAXB help me?
(Lucas Jellema) The challenge is a common one. We have got data in a domain model, based on POJOs. And we need to marshall that data into an XML document. Note that the exact structure of that document is not so important – we will probably translate is somewhere anyway. At this point, all we have i
Oracle Restart configuration after Renaming the Database – 11gR2
(Anand) The Oracle Restart ensures that various Oracle components gets automatically restarted after hardware or software failures.In my last post as i had renamed the database, i had to update the OLR (Oracle Local Registry)for the database to come up automatically.
JDev 11.1.2.0.0 – af:showDetailItems and af:regions – the power of Facelets – part 3
(Chris Muir) The previous blog posts in this series (part 1 and part 2) looked at the behaviour of the af:region tag embedded in a af:showDetailItem tag with JDeveloper 11.1.1.4.0. This post investigates the changing nature of the “deferred” activation property for the underlying af:region task flow
Active Objects Pattern Futures with .NET Framework Task Parallel Library
(Jeffrey Juday) Active Object is a common pattern for hiding access to concurrent data structures and simplifying an object’s interface. Task Parallel Library (TPL) includes all the structures needed to build an Active Object.
ADO.NET EF 4.0: Working with Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO) Classes
(Mahesh Sabnis) A common question that comes up while discussing Application Development in WCF, ASP.NET or MVC applications is the use of ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF). .NET professionals having experiences with other O-R-M tools like NHibernate etc. are eager to know about ADO.NET EF and its new f