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XML Comments, Online Payments, and More
(Scott Mitchell) The Microsoft .NET Framework simplifies the task of documenting classes, methods, properties, and events through XML comments. XML comments are special XML tags embedded within source code comments that provide metadata about classes and their members. During compilation, this metad
Notification Services in SQL Server 2005
(S. Srivathsani) SQL Server Notification Services is used for developing and deploying applications that generate and send notifications. Notifications are personalized messages sent to a device that subscribes to them. A subscription defines the preference of the subscriber for a specific type of e
Getting Productive with XMLMind
(James Elliott and Marc Loy) What do you use when you need to edit large technical documents with complex structure and cross-references? The answer used to be very easy: FrameMaker. We encountered this powerful, multiplatform authoring tool back in the ’80s on Sun workstations, and were happy to co
SQL SERVER – Retrieve Current Date Time in SQL Server CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, GETDATE(), {fn NOW()}
(Pinalkumar Dave) There are three ways to retrieve the current datetime in SQL SERVER. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, GETDATE(), {fn NOW()}
SQL Server 2008 – Helping SharePoint Scale cost effectively
(Andrew Woodward) With the covers coming off the SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) I have been looking at how this may impact on SharePoint. When we first started to introduce WSS v2/SPS 2003 there was often comments from people: “You store the documents in SQL Server!”
VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense
(Scott Guthrie) One of the features that web developers will really like with VS 2008 is its built-in support for JavaScript intellisense. This is enabled in both the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition as well as in Visual Studio, and makes using JavaScript and building AJAX application
Oracle Session Tracing Part VI
(James F. Koopmann) Part VI in our series will show you how to access and generate reports off of the trace files we generated in Part V through the use of the TKPROF and trcsess utilities.
ASP.NET Configuration and Group Policy, Part 3: Using the Enterprise Library Manageable Configuration Extensions
(Alex Homer) The first article in this series showed how to create custom configuration sections in your ASP.NET application configuration file, while the second article demonstrated using Windows Group Policy at both the machine and domain level to control configuration settings from a central loca
Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and the Worst-Case Scenario
(Randy Nash) In recent history, catastrophic disasters have highlighted the need for business continuity and disaster recovery planning. From terrorist attacks to large-scale natural disasters, the stakes are extremely high. The truth is that if your business doesn’t have a realistic business contin