(Mads Kristensen) The easy way for .NET developers to create an API over HTTP is to use SOAP web services. It’s natively supported by .NET and has rich support for more complex data types such as the DataSet. The problem with SOAP is that it isn’t well supported by other platforms and to consume a .
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ASP.NET Page Life Cycle
A page in an ASP.NET application consists of several server controls. These are the fundamental building blocks of an ASP.NET application. The Life cycle of an ASP.NET page, depends on whether the page is requested for the first time or it is a postback. Postback is a process by which a page can req
Impact of Clustering Factor in Cost Calculation
(Vivek Sharma) A real life example of the impact of Clustering Factor and the way Cost Based Optimizer uses this value to calculate the cost of a query.
Deploying ASP.NET Applications
(Satheesh Babu) This article covers how to deploy ASP.NET Application in the production environment. It takes you through some of the concepts like application pool, why we need it and Configuring Application pools. At the end the author discusses some of the common problems that may arise during de
Book Excerpt: Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications
(David Johnson, Alexei White and Andre Charland) The book, Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications, resulted from the authors’ inspiration to address the dearth of information available for more advanced topics in AJAX development. Primarily because people in the i
Random RDBMS and SQL Myths debunked
(Roland Bouman) A few times now, I’ve been wanting to write this down. I know: a lot of people will go *shrug*. Others may find me pedantic. Some of will say I’m being a smart-ass. Whatever…but I just got to write down a few of these common misconceptions that keep floating around.
.NET Tip: Passing a Variable Number of Arguments to a Method
(Jay Miller) If you need to pass an unknown number of arguments to a method, the params keyword is exactly what you need. With params, you can pass a variable number of parameters to a method and any parameters after the fixed parameters will be collected into an array and passed to your method. You
Sometimes a variables table is better than hard coding into a package
(Rex Baldazo) When writing PL/SQL packages, there are times where it’s better to store a variable in a table instead of coding it into the package. It’s most useful for a variable that you might want to change fairly often. If you put such a variable directly in the package (either the spec or body)
Fuzzy backups and RESTORE DATABASE WITH STOPAT
(kfarlee) So what’s a “fuzzy backup” and how does it relate to STOPAT?
Reporting at the Top
(David Leibowitz) Often, when developing reports in Reporting Services (SSRS), one has to mix summary information with the details. In Reporting Services, It is not difficult to provide flexible grouping and to display the detail records in a drill-down on-demand method. It is more difficult to comb