(Mahesh Chand) XAML element represents the XAML TextBox control. This article discusses how to create a TextBox and set its various properties such as background and foreground colors, setting size and positions, fonts, wrapping, scrolling, and input validations.
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A progress report on MySQL Table Sync
(Xaprb) I wrote an article late last week about benchmark results for the two table-synchronization algorithms I’ve been implementing for the MySQL Table Sync tool. I’ve spent some time developing a test suite for the tool, and learned some really interesting things about the general problem of sync
Don’t Use Spaces in Directories: Problem importing XML Schema in BPEL Process
(Peter Ebell) Ever since Microsoft introduced long filenames back in whenever, using spaces in file or directory names has always been tricky. As I found out recently, even with modern software like the BPEL Designer in JDeveloper, using spaces in your directory structure might come back to haunt yo
XML Documents vs XML Data Packages
(Eliot Kimber) Both James Clark’s recent posts on XML and JSON as well as some recent attempts I’ve made to describe what I do professionally with respect to XML led me to realize that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to distinguish XML documents that are intended primarily to produce human-cons
Multipurpose code in Oracle and Oracle Forms
(Steve Callan) When Oracle gave up the ghost on client-server Forms several years ago, one of the built-in’s that went by the wayside was related to feeding parameters into an alert message function. If you handled errors or missing input (as you should), part of the Forms migration process involved
Critical Patch Update April 2007 Pre-Release Analysis
This is a brief analysis of the pre-release announcement for the upcoming April 2007 Critical Patch Update (CPU).
Use XML to develop with the Google Web Toolkit
(Nicholas Chase and Tyler Anderson) The Google Web Toolkit enables you to use Java syntax to create the JavaScript necessary for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) user interfaces. Most of these Ajax applications use XML to transfer information to and from the server, so your application must be a
Reading and Writing Files in SQL Server using T-SQL
(Phil Factor) SQL Server has never been short of ways to read from and write to files and it is always better to use the standard techniques provided by SQL Server where possible. However, most of them are really designed for reading and writing tabular data and aren’t always trouble-free when used
.NET String Hashing: The Hidden Knot
(Joseph Chahine) As defined by Wikipedia, "a hash function is a reproducible method of turning some kind of data into a (relatively) small number that may serve as a digital ‘fingerprint’ of the data. The algorithm ‘chops and mixes’ (substitutes or transposes) the data to create such fingerprints, c
Developing with SQL Server 2005 Express
(Jeremy Kadlec) Who ever imagined Microsoft would be offering a free version of its enterprise database management platform? From the original SQL Server 2000 MSDE to the current SQL Server 2005 Express edition, we never before had a fully featured Management Studio to build and deploy SQL Server da