(Wim Martens and Frank Neven) Typechecking consists of statically verifying whether the output of an XML transformation is always conform to an output type for documents satisfying a given input type. We focus on complete algorithms which always produce the correct answer. We consider top–down XML t
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Linq to Xml – querying an RSS feed
(Jeffrey Palermo) Linq (and all its flavors) will come out with .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Along with the Xml support are classes such as XDocument, XElement, XAttribute, etc. What’s interesting about XElement in particular is that it allows us to load some Xml from many sources and query into
jQuery and XML
(Uche Ogbuji) Whether you’re an admirer of AJAX, or one who can’t stand all the hype, if you’re a web developer you must admit that it’s proven very useful in driving explosive competition among JavaScript utility libraries. And the embarrassment of riches keeps on growing. jQuery emerged a couple o
DB2 9 for z/OS: New Tools for Query Optimization
(Paolo Bruni, Terry Berman, John Iczkovits, Basuki Soetarman, Bart Steegmans and Mike Turner) The cost-based optimizer of DB2 for z/OS has continually evolved since its initial inception. Support has included new optimization algorithms, join methods, complex relational data structures such as star
ASP.NET MVC Framework
(Scott Guthrie) One of the things that many people have asked for over the years with ASP.NET is built-in support for developing web applications using a model-view-controller (MVC) based architecture.
Beginning to Mock with Rhino Mocks and MbUnit – Part 2
(Ben Hall) This is the second in a series of articles covering the Rhino Mocks mock object framework for the .NET Framework. The aim of this series is to provide you with an understanding of how mock objects are used, how they can improve the quality of your unit tests and how mock objects can make
Source Control with Visual Studio.NET
(Ruslan Sudentas) This explains how to integrate TortoiseSVN – a Subversion Source Control client with Visual Studio.NET. It is a “how to” cookbook that outlines specific steps needed to set up a functional Source/Version Control system to be used in a .NET project with all of the tools accessible i
DB2 V8, sample programs, SPUFI, SQLCA, GET DIAGNOSTICS, and oops!!!
(Willie Favero) What might you think that all of the above have in common? They all play some roll in a behavior change that took place (or will take place) when you upgrade to DB2 Version 8 for z/OS. This one is not only kind of subtle; it’s not even documented (yet) in the DB2 Version 8 manuals, d
Cursor Sharing Trap…..
(Vivek Sharma) A customer wanted to move their production database from Windows platform to Sun and hence, before planning a final movement, had a trial run to evaluate the total downtime required and to check for any issues after the platform migration. The Database version was 9208.
.NET Tip: Throwing Custom Exceptions
(Jay Miller) Creating your own custom exceptions is very easy and allows your code to be more explicit as well as being able to provide more user-friendly error messages. To show how to use custom exceptions, I will use connecting to a database as an example. Connecting to a database is something yo