(Argiris Kirtzidis) After all the fuss and the hype about AJAX technologies, now there are plenty of solutions for AJAX that developers can choose from. The drawback is that you have to replace the standard ASP.NET controls that your web pages contain with custom AJAX-enabled controls, and/or write
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CheckedListBox(2) – Saving and Retrieving Checked Items To/From File
(Ged Mead) We covered how to check and uncheck individual items in code in a CheckedListBox in Part 1. In this part I want to quickly run through some ways you can save and retrieve user’s choices.
Creating Slide Show using ASP.NET AJAX
(Bipin Joshi) Companies often need a mechanism to showcase their products in the form of a web based slide show. Of course you can use plain JavaScript to develop such slide show but using ASP.NET AJAX makes your life easy. In this article we will develop a simple slide show with the help of page me
For all of you security minded folk out there, z/OS 1.8 is now EAL 4+
(Willie Favero) It’s 6:30 AM Friday and I’m back at Dallas’s Love Field playing airline roulette. Flights are still messed up this morning because of crews arriving late last night and planes being in the wrong place after the thunderstorm finally ended (or has it really ended). I am hoping to make
Using Scripting in a Report Design in BIRT
(Don French, Tom Bondur, Iana Chatalbasheva, Jane Tatchell and Jason Weathersby) BIRT provides a powerful scripting capability with which a report developer can provide custom code to control various aspects of report generation.
Walkthrough: Displaying Data from Oracle database in a Windows application
(John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to illustrate one of the most common business scenarios such as displaying data from Oracle database on a form in a Windows application using DataSet objects and .NET Framework Data Provider for Oracle. I want to attend some questions about this topic
How to assign the same number identifier to different groups that contain the identical set of data in a SQL statement
(Frank Zhou) The following two SQL patterns can be used to assign the same number to different groups that contain the identical set of data.
SqlCredit – Part 5: Adding Card, Vendor, and Purchase, Plus Much Refactoring
(Rob Garrison) I am writing this month from Redmond, where I am attending the SQL Server Katmai “System Design Review”. Considering that we’re fairly close to seeing the first publicly-available CTP for Katmai, I have decided to end my struggle with supporting both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 200
Get started with Industry Formats and Services with pureXML
(Susan Malaika) The industry bundles for pureXML, published on alphaWorks, illustrate access to content stored on IBM DB2 in XML, through small script or Java™-based applications. They are focused on populating, validating, and querying XML content that is pertinent to a specific industry. A pureXML
Padding a string for fixed width display in VB.NET
(Irina Medvinskaya) Whenever you need to display data in a console or get it ready to be printed, you may need to align columns for a fixed width display in VB.NET. In this tip, I look at a simple way to pad strings for a fixed width display utilizing the PadLeft and PadRight methods of a String obj