(Victor Zverovich) This article presents an implementation of XPathNavigator that can be used to perform XPath queries over HTML documents.
Other News
ASP.NET Menu and SiteMap Security Trimming (plus a trick for when your menu and security don’t match up)
(Jon Galloway) ASP.NET 2005 introduced a pretty solid menu which is integrated with a configuration driven sitemap. The cool part is that the menu can be hooked in with your security roles, so you don’t have to worry about hiding or showing menu options based on the user – the menu options are autom
The 4 main approaches to datatype extensibility
(Curt Monash) Based on a variety of conversations – including some of the flames about my recent confession that mid-range DBMS aren’t suitable for everything — it seems as if a quick primer may be in order on the subject of datatype support. So here goes.
Implementing the Passive View — a Derivative of the Model-View-Control
(Matthew Cochran) A while ago I wrote an article about the MVC pattern and just recently received a request for an example closer to a real-world implementation so I thought I would share the approach I have used in live projects.
The information perspective of SOA design, Part 1: Introduction to the information perspective of a Service Oriented Architecture
(Brian Byrne, David McCarty, Dr. Guenter Sauter, Peter Worcester and John Kling) This article is written for architects and practitioners designing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). It introduces a set of patterns and capabilities representing the information perspective in the design of an SOA
Producing RSS from PL/SQL
(Tyler Muth) First things first. The idea and the bulk of the code for this post are not mine, they are Sean Dillon’s. Sean is a good friend of mine and originally wrote this code for AskTom. You can actually still find Sean’s code here. It’s a very cool idea that he came up with and it still works
ADO.NET Trace Logging
(Bipin Joshi) Tracing allows you to keep track of various events happening in the system. Tracing allows you to track the sequence of code execution along with the time taken for each step. Together, tracing can throw light on how your code is being executed and the performance of every step. Many r
Introduction To Reverse Key Indexes: Part III (A Space Oddity)
(Richard Foote) A possibly significant difference between a Reverse and a Non-Reverse index is the manner in which space is used in each index and the type of block splitting that takes place.
SQL Server 2008: Spatial indexes
(Paul S. Randal) One of the cool features of SQL Server 2008 for developers is spatial data support. There have been some great posts recently about using spatial (see Simon Sabin’s blog here), which is all developer stuff – but what I’m interested in are the implications of spatial support for DBAs
Monitor query performance with the SQL Server 2005 procedure cache
(Tim Chapman) In SQL Server 2005, you only need to recompile the statements inside stored procedures. This is much different than SQL Server 2000, where the entire procedure or batch may be recompiled. The benefit to the statement level recompile in SQL Server 2005 is that typically just a few state