(Xianzhong Zhu) With the elegant integration with legacy ASP.NET applications and the introduction of fully object-oriented JavaScript, Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX has been attracting more and more web developers. In this article the author examines the typical ways to extend the ASP.NET AJAX framework f
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Microsoft unveils an MVC framework for ASP.NET
(Kevin Hoffman) Just this morning I saw a blog post containing some details about Microsoft’s new and upcoming MVC framework for ASP.NET. I’m actually a little shocked – the sheer amount of “stuff” that is being piled into the Visual Studio 2008 release is positively staggering, though technically t
Incremental elimination using predicate negation
(Mike) Application requirements sometimes include the need to match consumers with products. A common solution is to create a consumer table having a varchar2 column which will contain a string of predicates or a where clause. The consumer’s where clause is tested against the attributes of a product
Mini-Tip #15 – View (and pretty print) LCRs
(Lewis Cunningham) In my last mini-tip, Mini-Tip #14 – View AnyData, I showed you how to view data in an AnyData data type variable. In today’s tip, I’ll show you how to use that function to view the internal data of an LCR.
A little more on the upcoming IOD Conference
(Willie Favero) With the Information on Demand (IOD) Conference now just a week away, you still have a chance to register. I thought if you are on the fence about attending, a few conference statistics may help in making that final decision. If you are already registered (Thank You) maybe these num
Free Line and Shape Controls for Visual Basic 2005
(Mike McIntyre) Do you get frustrated trying to add graphics to you .NET Windows Forms applications? Learning to use the .NET graphics classes is not easy. Managing the graphics you create with the classes increases the amount of code you need to write.
Teaching XSLT 1.0
(Jeni Tennison) I’m exhausted after two days of teaching XSLT 1.0. Yes, there are still people out there who want to learn it. The exhaustion comes mainly because I’m an introvert (INFP, Myers-Briggs fans!) who finds it tiring just being in the same room as someone else.
Tax Solution Education Kit
DB2 9 introduced a new feature called pureXML. The pureXML feature enables companies to store XML data in DB2, either alone or side-by-side with relational data. This provides many benefits to tax authorities that are modeling or plan to model tax forms and filings in XML format. The XML data can
Browser extensions using XUL, Part 1: Create a Firefox browser extension with user-interface features
(Uche Ogbuji) Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabilities of Web browsers. The Mozilla project’s XUL engine is a user-interface language that you can use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone applications. XUL is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform browser ex
Outputting XML with XmlWriter
(Jim Mischel) XML has over the years proved to be a very convenient form for storing and transferring information. To be sure, there are problems with XML: it’s very verbose, takes enormous amounts of disk space, and doesn’t lend itself well to storing binary data or random access. But it’s very con