(Irina Medvinskaya) Developers often deal with various date manipulations in applications. If you need a simple way to figure out how many days there are between two given dates, consider using VB.NET’s TimeSpan object.
Other News
The Future of XSLT 2.0
(Kurt Cagle) I recently wrote a weblog entry about the directions that I saw with XML, and while it has proved to be fairly popular, it has also generated a fair number of comments that really deserve more detailed examination. One of these comments — and one that I’ve been planning to write about f
A Handy Server Property in SQL2005
(Linchi Shea) One frequenctly asked question is, “How do I find out via T-SQL which cluster node is running this SQL Server instance?”
Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 apps to SQL Server 2005 databases
(Brian Eastwood) Without data access, ASP.NET applications are just pretty Web pages. Trouble is, connecting ASP.NET apps to a SQL Server database isn’t exactly a walk in the park, particularly when working with the beefed-up security features in ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. (R)
DocMounter Help File Builder
(10Tec and Serge Gorbenko) Since Visual Studio .NET was first released, it has been possible to document your classes directly in code and define the standard documentation sections (such as the summary, remarks, parameter descriptions, etc) which contain the standard tags (such as the member refe
Ajax and XML: Five Ajax anti-patterns
(Jack D Herrington) You can learn a lot about how to do things correctly by understanding how things are done incorrectly. Certainly, there’s a right way and a wrong way to write Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) applications. This article discusses some common coding practices you will want to a
Working wth Variables in Database Interactions with Transact-SQL
(Jagadish Chaterjee) Quite some time ago, I started a lengthy series on “Database Interactions with PL/SQL.” It continues to this day. I have received a lot of feedback from several readers throughout the world. I want to thank all of them for suggesting new topics for me to cover.
So, why use mySQL 5.0
(Dathan) Every database that houses user generated content is a master in at least 1 pair within my environment. To make sure that id’s don’t collide we engineered around the auto-increment functionality or lack there of in mySQL-4.1. For the most part the auto-increment is externally generated.
Restart Manager and Generic Method Compilation
(Stephen Toub) When my application attempts to access a file, I get access-denied errors because the file is in use by another application. In the past, I’ve used tools from Sysinternals (microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals) to figure out what that other application is, but I’d like to be able to dis
Comparison Between VB 6.0 and VB.NET Objects Part III
(Hannes du Preez) In Comparison between VB6 and .NET Objects Part I and Part II, I covered the differences in the Properties Windows and in the Toolboxes respectively. With this article, I will concentrate on the differences in the Visual Basic 6 Project Explorer and the Visual Basic.NET Solution Ex