Featured Article(s) Best practices of synchronizing threads There might be situations in your applications where multiple threads are accessing the same data at the same point in time. Some may be updating the data, some reading them, etc. In such situations, you need to synchronize the access to this data, mostly because if multiple threads are accessing the same data […]
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Tips for using SQL Server 2005 bulk copy
Featured Article(s) Tips for using SQL Server 2005 bulk copy Here are some helpful tips to performance tune and optimize SQL Server 2005 bulk copy. Changing DBAs… In continuing the look at the need to move into new technologies (or the perceived need anyway), I wanted to pass along a couple more notes from SSWUG readers. From Brandon: "I have […]
Islands of Richness with Silverlight on an ASP.NET page
(Brad Abrams) While I certainly think there are tons of interesting scenarios for a Silverlight application that takes over the full browser screen, there are also some interesting scenarios for putting Islands of richness on a predominately ASP.NETHTML page. This could be to display video, show
Sundry i5/OS V6R1 and System i Enhancements
(Timothy Prickett Morgan) Our coverage of the forthcoming i5/OS V6R1 operating system continues this week with a hodge-podge of smaller enhancements and features that were rolled up into the January 29 announcements. IBM has made a bunch of tweaks to DB2 for i5/OS, logical partitioning, performance
XML is 10
(Eliot Kimber) The XML Recommendation is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, that is, the anniversary of the official publication of the Recommendation on 10 February 1998. However I think of XML as really starting in 1996, when the activity was revealed publicly for the first time at the SGML 2006
Customizing Visual Studio 2008 using VS Shell
(Ed Tittel) One of the more interesting items I’ve come across regarding the new Visual Studio 2008 is the extensibility that its built-in Shell environment offers. In fact, this is such a powerful and compelling toolset for customization that Microsoft has set up a Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)
Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats
(Jeff Williams) Fundamentally, there’s nothing terribly new about the problems posed by Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) when it comes to security, we just need to apply some good old security principles to this new technology.
A Scalable Ajax Wizard Sample Application
(Mike Clark) Ajax advertises the ability to quickly develop web applications which act like window’s stand alone applications by reducing the flicker between post backs. One potential trap, like with all dot-net applications, is that if these applications are not well architectured then they will no
RDF and XML Q&A: Which should I use?
(Jeni Tennison) Another question to answer: I’ve been reading about RDF, and I’m not sure in what situations it is more appropriate to use RDF over straight XML. I usually see RDF expressed as XML, but sometimes I see it written as language-independent functions (or methods).
Simplifying ASP.NET ListView Control Templates
(Dan Wahlin) I’ve been working with the new ListView control in ASP.NET 3.5 combining it with LINQ and Lambda expressions and was finding myself duplicating a lot of code between ItemTemplate and AlternatingItemTemplate templates (I’ll be posting the sample application that demonstrates using LINQ,