(Giuseppe Vettigli) A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.[1] RSS and ATOM are families of Web feed, in this article we develop a "feed reader" binding the data in a GridView control of ASP.NET. A feed is an XML file, sliding the tags we can see informa
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Tip/Trick: Building a ToJSON() Extension Method using .NET 3.5
(Scott Guthrie) Earlier this year I blogged about a new language extensibility feature of C# and VB called “Extension Methods”.
How to enable the Cancel button on Application Login page
(ahmadbilal) Oracle Applications provides the ability to include several optional attributes in the login page.
Building a Gmail Style File Uploading System using ASP.NET 2.0
(Jesudas Chinnathampi) A normal file upload routine consists of a Textbox, browse button and a submit button. Users have to click on the browse button, choose the file that needs to be uploaded and then click the upload button for the actual transfer of file from the client pc to the server. Take a
Are AJAX Applications Vulnerable to Hack Attacks?
This paper reviews AJAX technologies with specific reference to JavaScript and briefly documents the kinds of vulnerability classes that should raise security concerns among developers, website owners and the respective visitors. The proposed solution suggests auditing AJAX and JavaScript based appl
XML-Enabled Applications – Part 3
(Yuli Vasiliev) To retrieve XML data from an XMLType table, you can use a SELECT SQL statement, just as you would if you had to query a relational table.
Oracle and Access Part 2: Generalisation and List Boxes
(Howard Rogers) In the first part of this series, I showed you the basic piece of VBA code needed to get an Access client to connect to an Oracle back-end database. The crucial bit of code turned out to be this one: connOra.Open (“Provider=OraOLEDB.Oracle;Data Source=lin10;User Id=system;Password
Stretching The Envelope – WPF Control Templates
(Ged Mead) Control Templates are a particularly powerful feature of WPF. They allow you to change almost any aspect of the look of a control, but – and here’s the key benefit – you still retain every bit of the functionality pre-built into that control. So you can create, for example, a button that
Writing MySQL Programs Using C
(Paul DuBois) Many web developers view development of C programs as a bit of a black art. Development of programs in a compiled language such as C is vastly different from the development of applications in a scripting language. To familiarize more developers with the MySQL C API, we present a three
Use the Business Intelligence Reporting Tool with DB2 Data Warehouse Edition, Part 3
(Vaibhav Srivastava) Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) is an open source relational reporting solution. It provides an Eclipse-based plug-in for report development and testing, and it provides J2EE deployment and APIs that can be used in custom Java applications. With IBM DB2 Data Warehous