(Jay Miller) Last week, I showed you how you can help ensure that your objects release their resources by implementing IDisposable. This week, I want to show you the using statement that allows you to specify when your objects release their resources. Objects declared in the using statement will exp
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Performance Impact: Frequent Manual Checkpoints
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Employing a Winning Porting Strategy
(Mark Cafazzo) In the recent “Race to Linux 2.0” competition, a .NET programming event hosted by DevX, .NET developers were invited to get ASP.NET applications up and running on Linux. The three-part competition allowed entrants to download preselected .NET applications and either port them or rewri
Ease Web site navigation by implementing ASP.NET’s SiteMapPath control
(Tony Patton) The ASP.NET Site Map Web server control allows you to easily set up and define a Web application’s logical structure. It is designed to work with ASP.NET 2.0’s Menu, SiteMapPath, and TreeView navigation controls. This article describes how to implement user-friendly Web site navigation
IDS 11 purifies XML
(Jean Georges Perrin) As an application developer, I love Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11 (which was code-named “Cheetah” before its release). Why get so excited? Because “Cheetah” brings tools that make my day-to-day life easier. I also love XML. For me, XML is the sign of a new generation of IT p
New SQL Server Weekly Show, SelectViews, Open Access
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Using XMLHttpRequest, reading XML data (Adobe AIR Application)
You guys might know the importance of XML, XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a flexible markup language, meant to store, carry, and exchange data. We can make use of XML as a simple database to store data and retrieve data.
The State of Native XML Databases
(Frank Cohen) Elliotte Harold put together a good summary of the state of native XML database technology here. His announcement of the information to the XQuery-talk email list elicited a big response. XQuery-talk is a list started by Jason Hunter of MarkLogic and is populated by the architects, dev