(Xianzhong Zhu) In the first part of this article, we summarized the multiple solutions suggested by MS AJAX, and began building an example to show some of these solutions in action. In the conclusion, we continue exploring this rather complex example to show you the under-the-hood workings of all t
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VB 2005: How To Hide and Show a TabPage in a TabControl
(Ged Mead) Sometimes you may want to hide a TabPage from the user’s view, but you don’t want to permanently remove it. Now, if you’ve checked out the TabPage’s methods you will see that it does have a "Hide" method in VB 2005. That’s great, but the trouble is if you try using it, it doesn’t work!
AJAX-enable an Existing ASP.NET Web Page
(Brian Finnerty) Over the last year or so, AJAX has taken the web development world by storm. AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and is an approach to building dynamic web applications that behave less like the static web pages we are used to and more like desktop applications.
Polymorphism, Up-casting and Down-casting
(Phil Curnow) The original aim of this article was to explain Up-casting and Down-casting. Having started writing the article, I was struggling to find an ideal way to describe these two concepts. Having thought further about it, one way I found was to introduce the concept of polymorphism to help e
Palettes
(Joe Gillespie) The next couple of pages are about palettes. Colour palettes were very important in the early days of the Web when most people used monitors that could only display 256 colours or less. These systems are now becoming increasingly rare and the dithering problems associated with restri
New features in DB2 Viper 2 to help your business grow
(Kevin Yeung-Kuen See) As organizations grow, systems and database administrators face many challenges; among them being how to increase the capacity of the database, how to store more data effectively, and how to manage privileges and authorities for a growing numbers of users. This article shows h
Much Faster ADF Faces Tree – using a POJO as cache based on Read Only View Object – (showing proper leaf nodes again)
(Lucas Jellema) The ADF Faces tree is potentially a very rich component that can add value to many user interfaces. Data sets frequently are hierarchically organized and the tree allows visual representation of that structure. The user can quickly and intuitively navigate through the data to get to
Synchronizing with CVS in JDeveloper
(Susan Duncan) Whatever your mechanism for working with CVS during development one of the things that we all like to avoid is unresolveable conflicts. But when working in a team environment it’s an ever present evil.
Using the .NET 2.0 Build in support for AJAX
(Hannes Foulds) I have spend most of my professional career in a Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Content Management server 2002 environment and have learned to appreciate the value of custom WebControls – In SharePoint we have WebParts which are just glorified WebControls and in MCMS 2002 we have
Tuning LAMP systems, Part 1: Understanding the LAMP architecture
(Sean A. Walberg) Applications using the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it’s written by someone else. This series of three articles discusses man