(Scott Guthrie) Yesterday the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit team released an updated version. You can download it from the http://ajax.asp.net web-site, and run samples built with it on the online samples page here.
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Personalization with Application Settings in Visual Basic
(Wei-Meng Lee) My previous article discussed the new Application Settings feature in Windows Forms 2.0. The article demonstrated this feature using C#. However, the application settings feature is also available in Visual Basic. Thus, this article continues my exploration of this new feature, this t
Compare the distributed DB2 9 data servers
(Paul Zikopoulos) In a side-by-side comparison table, author Paul Zikopoulos makes it simple to understand the basic licensing rules, functions, and feature differences between the members of the distributed IBM DB2 9 (DB2 9) data server family.
Disable a Button
(Joël Asselin) This very simple example will present a Form Personalization to remove the “New PO” button normally found at the bottom of Purchase Order Summary form.
Avoid the @ symbol in Oracle passwords
(Bob Watkins) Password complexity is one of many things that IT auditors examine to see whether a system is secure. IT policies usually state that a password must be a minimum length and include a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters.
Performing Full-text and Boolean Searches with MySQL
(Alejandro Gervasio) When a database-driven web site grows past a certain size, it requires an internal search engine. If it is a very big site, it may be desirable for visitors to be able to use full-text searches and Boolean operators to find the information they need. This article, the first of a
Understanding XForms
(Kurt A. Cagle) With XML-based technologies such as XForms, XQuery, and XSLT, it is possible to create complex multi-user applications, from interactive help systems to custom “game” applications in which multiple users can interact with at once. This article shows how to create you fairly simple sc
Buried Treasure: Finding Money in Your Storage Systems, Part 2
(Frank Kettenstock) Effective capacity planning delivers the strategic insight necessary to maximize the utilization of existing resources, while proactively planning for future needs. Part one of this two-part article discussed the benefits of storage capacity planning and the consequences of poor
Business Intelligence a Key for SQL Server 2008
(Jeffrey Schwartz) Developers can now take a first hand look at Microsoft’s next major upgrade of its flagship database platform. The company this week released the first CTP of SQL Server 2008, until now known as Katmai.
Exploit SQL Server Compact Edition and Occasionally Connected Systems
(Roger Jennings) SQL Server Compact Edition v3.1 and v3.5’s free license covers deployment on Windows PC clients as well as devices, so you can take advantage of this lightweight, in-process relational database as a local data cache and automatically synchronize its data with a back-end SQL Server 2