(Michael Livshitz) I think all of us have had a few minutes of “respite” between projects, when you can look back and ask yourself: “What a line of the code I have written, which I have searched so for a lot of time? May be I will tell my friend about it !”. This is some kind of “tips”, which […]
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Conceptual Children: A powerful new concept in WPF
(Dr. WPF) Have you ever wished an element could have a parent that was neither visual nor logical? Okay, let me ask that another way… Have you ever seen either of the following exceptions?
Setting the TabPanel background colour
(Neil Knobbe) A question came up in the vbCity Forums that I participate in about changing the background colour of the header portion of the TabControl. The original question was about changing the colour of the tabs themselves (original question).
Enabling Mixed Mode Authentication in SQL Server
(Brendan) I recently needed to enable Mixed Mode Authentication on a SQL Server instance, so I will demonstrate how to go about setting this up. It is a pretty easy process, but I figure I’ll document it nicely here. Perhaps I will come back to this later to reference this. Who knows?
Storing Images and BLOB files in SQL Server Part 4
(Don Schlichting) BLOBs files are binary data, in other words, not text. Files like an MP3, exe, or pictures are all examples of BLOBs (Binary Large Objects). Often, these types of files may be part of a larger database project. The question usually arises as to how and where to store them, on the F
Virtual Earth Meets SQL Server 2008 and ASP.NET AJAX
(Matthew Ellis) In this tutorial we’ll analyze Microsoft Virtual Earth, the new SQL Server 2008 GEOGRAPHY data type and ASP.NET AJAX. We’ll build a database of longitude and latitude records for specific locations, we’ll then use ASP.NET AJAX and the Virtual Earth service to exploit these locations
Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls
(Scott Guthrie) One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls.
New options for analyzing lock timeouts in DB2 9.5
(Dirk Fechner) The combination of the db2pd tool and the db2cos script can be used to gather information about the reason for a SQL0911N lock timeout error, as discussed in “Analyzing lockwait situations in DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows” (developerWorks, Jul 2007). With DB2 9.5, the options for l
The Easiest and Most Efficient Way to Modify XML Documents
(Jimmy Zhang) The easiest most and most efficient way to update XML documents is to use non-extractive parsers (such as VTD-XML) because they support incremental content update. Suppose you have the following XML document, named test.xml. Below is a snippet that inserts two attribute name/value pair
MySQL Proxy recipes: parsing a query with regular expressions
(Giuseppe Maxia) If you want to filter a query for further usage, you need first to identify the query as the one to process, and then you need to isolate the elements to use for the task.