(Dave Beulke) It is usually pretty easy to quickly implement the new DB2 features. DB2 makes it easy to improve your database performance with a new zParm or table space definition.
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Free Video Training: ASP.NET MVC 3 Features
(Scott Guthrie) A few weeks ago I blogged about a great ASP.NET MVC 3 video training course from Pluralsight that was made available for free for 48 hours for people to watch.
Creating PDF Documents with ASP.NET and iTextSharp
(Scott Mitchell) The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. Due to their ubiquity and layout capabilities, it’s not uncommon for a websites to use PDF technology. For example, an eCommerce store may offer a “printable receipt” option that, when selected, displays a PD
SharePoint 2007 and SQL Server, Part One
(Buck Woody) One of the fastest-growing, highly adopted Microsoft products (as of this writing) in many organizations is SharePoint. This software acts not only as a product people can use right out of the box, but it also is a full platform that lets developers write code, businesspeople create wor
Using SQL Server Templates
(Deanna Dicken) SQL Server Management Studio has a not well known but very handy feature for using and creating template scripts. This article will provide an overview of the Template Explorer in SQL server Management Studio and dive into examples of using existing templates as well as creating your
Creating and Using a jQuery Plug-in in ASP.NET Web Forms
(Bipin Joshi) Developers often resort to code reuse techniques in their projects. As far as ASP.NET framework server side programming is concerned classes, class libraries, components, custom server controls and user controls are popular code reuse techniques.
Invoking a Web Service dynamically
(Shantanu) Sometimes, it is required to invoke a web service dynamically. The standard way is to add a web reference to the service from the project and then use the generated proxy client to call the web service.
Drop Object If Exists
(Michael McLaughlin) Writing an anonymous block to conditionally drop tables and sequences got very old. I figured it was time to simply put a procedure that would simplify it. Avoiding repetition was important too, so it supports an invoker rights model. This mimics the IF EXISTS syntax available i
5 Ways to Parse XML in C#
This tutorial illustrates five ways to parse XML in C#. To make the tutorial more user-friendly and easier to understand, actual scripts can be tested and run in your Visual Web Developer environment.
Oracle PL/SQL collections
(sandip_bhadane) PL/SQL applications typically consist of SQL statements intermixed with procedural logic to process data retrieved from the database. If compiled as a stored procedure, your PL/SQL code will reside on the server, an ideal place for programs that require intensive database interactio