(Kurt Cagle) Suppose, for a moment, that you had the whole computer revolution to do over again, knowing what you know now about things such as the shape of languages, the emergence of databases, the rise of networking and the Web, and so forth. For instance, while networking took shape first in the
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Producing XHTML using XSLT in .NET
(Oleg Tkachenko) Producing XHTML using XSLT 1.0 processor is tough (no wonder – XSLT 1.0 is so old – it was published even before XHTML 1.0). While XHTML is just XML, XHTML spec defines a set of very specific formatting rules called “HTML Compatibility Guidelines”. The goal is to facilitate renderin
Canceling Server Tasks with ASP.NET AJAX
(Dino Esposito) Last month I built a framework to monitor ongoing server-side tasks from the client. Using this framework, which I’ll call Progress Monitor Framework (or PMF), you can provide Web users with information about the progress of operations running on the server, something that typically
Oracle 11g New Feature: PL/Scope
(Lewis Cunningham) Until I can get access to an 11g database, all I have are the whitepapers on OTN. There is some good information in those docs though.
An Introduction to Fiddler
(John Peterson) Sometime when you’re trying to track down a bug in a web application you need to roll your sleeves up and get your hands dirty. I was recently forced to dust off a tool I haven’t used in a while to help me get to the root of a particularly nasty little problem I was having. As I […]
Asynchronous Pattern in Windows Communication Foundation
(Keyvan Nayyeri) Asynchronous pattern is a very well known and common design pattern in systems that are built on top of executions. You are probably familiar with some of asynchronous pattern implementations in different aspects of technology. In software and electronic systems, asynchronous patt
AppDomain concept in ASP.Net
(Rajendra kumar yerra) Asp.Net introduces the concept of an Application Domain which is shortly known as AppDomain. It can be considered as a Lightweight process which is both a container and boundary. The .NET runtime uses an AppDomain as a container for code and data, just like the operating syste
LINQ to SQL (Part 4 – Updating our Database)
(Scott Guthrie) In today’s blog post I’ll cover how we we can use the data model we created earlier, and use it to update, insert, and delete data. I’ll also show how we can cleanly integrate business rules and custom validation logic with our data model.
You obtain an incorrect result or receive an error message when you run an MDX query against an instance of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services
Consider the following scenario: • A server is running an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. • You have a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query that uses a key column value. • The data type of the key column is date. • From a client computer, you run the MDX quer
Microsoft Windows Power Shell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 4
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Part I and Part II of this series discussed Power Shell installation and simple SMO, WMI cmdlets. Part III discussed how to script PowerShell and connect to SQL Server. This installment illustrates how to use PowerShell script to loop through the content of the file and con