(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) The Castor project provides data binding capabilities to the open source realm. It works much like Sun’s JAXB, and adds enhanced mapping and binding to relational database tables. In this article, you’ll take the first steps to get Castor to run on your own machine with do
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XGenPlus – A flexible tool to generate typed XML serializers for your .Net applications
(Sivakumar G.) XGenPlus is a flexible tool to generate typed XML serializers for your .Net applications. It provides more flexibility than the sgen.exe tool combining the efficiency offered by Mvp.Xml.Xgen library.
Generic Delegates and Lambda Expressions
(Paul Kimmel) Archimedes said: “Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.” Archimedes was referring to the potential power of tools to magnify the amount of work that can be done. Generic delegates and Lambda Expressions are tools. These tools magnify the amount of
Extend ASP.NET AJAX Client-Side Function – The Server-Side Way
(Xianzhong Zhu) In my previous article entitled Explorer Ways to extend ASP.NET AJAX Client-side Function, we only, from the client side’s point of view, focused on adding the client-side functionalities and behaviors to the current ASP.NET AJAX framework. However, creating custom ASP.NET AJAX clien
OCFS, ASM, RAW Devices and Regular FileSystem
Oracle, as a multi-platform product, must to have the ability to function with more than one file system and drive device configuration. There are several different storage options for a Database administrator to choose from. It is important to understand what the storage options are available to
Investing in an Oracle data warehouse
(Philip Howard) Regular readers will know that I am a fan of the data warehouse appliance approach and also, historically, an advocate of column-based processing. However, none of that means that there aren’t good reasons for investing in data warehousing technology from traditional vendors. In this
Oracle Security Simple Operating System External Authentication
(James F. Koopmann) With today’s un-ending security attacks at our databases it is only pertinent that we as database administrators lock down as much of our databases as possible. We should constantly be looking out for tricks, trade secrets, and common practices so that we can defend our databases
VB 2005: How To List Known Colors
(Ged Mead) I saw a couple of unrelated questions on vbCity recently – one was about PropertyInfo and the other was in regard to Colors – and seeing them reminded me about how easy it is to use PropertyInfo to get access to and list all the 141 named Colors. There are of course other ways of doing
Converting Microsoft Access Databases to MySQL
(David Badurina) For small and large database projects, Microsoft Access works wonderfully. If you have a database with hundreds of thousands of records, maybe even connecting to other databases remotely, Access will work just fine. Security isn’t too much of a problem (no Access database is truly s
Explore an overloading method in VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers often need to define a method with the same name that may perform different functionalities. In order to do that, you should use the Overloads keyword in .NET. In this quick tip, I look at an example function that performs different sets of functionalities with the sam