(Edmond Woychowsky) George Bernard Shaw once described the British and the Americans as two people separated by a common language. Interestingly the same can also be said of application developers and the people that use applications. Worse is that not only does one group not understand the other, b
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Support Certificates In Your Applications With The .NET Framework 2.0
(Dominick Baier) Certificates are used in many places across the Microsoft .NET Framework, from secure communication to code signing to security policies. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced revamped support for certificates and it added a completely new namespace for standards-compliant cryptographic
What Does XML Smell Like?
(Michael Day) This article introduces a set of heuristic rules for sniffing the content of a file in order to determine whether it is an XML document or an HTML document. An implementation is provided using the xmlReader interface of libxml2. This implementation is used in Prince, a formatter for cr
Focusing on Forms and Menus in Visual Basic
(Tim Patrick and John Clark Craig) In this final article in a four-part series, we take a closer look at what you can do with forms and menus.
QMF vs. SPUFI
(Craig Mullins) As regular readers of my blog know, I sometimes use the blog to answer questions I get via e-mail. This is one of those times…
Building and Using an SQL/PL Stored Procedure with Visual Studio 2005
(Paul Zikopoulos) Since the middle of 2006, I’ve been writing about all the great integration features in IBM DB2 9 for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 integrated development environment (IDE) and the accompanying ADO.NET 2.0 API.
Planning to upgrade XSLT 1.0 to 2.0, Part 5: Make your stylesheets work with any processor version
(David Marston and Joanne Tong) This article provides examples of stylesheets that are portable between versions 1.0 and 2.0, with special guidance for those who must run both 1.0 and 2.0 processors for a long transition period. The new 2.0 features may occur in the form of instruction elements, dec
Expression Web Impressions
(Jennifer Wood) There was a time when people who created web pages used either Front Page or Dreamweaver. Users who liked the familiarity of a Microsoft interface and didn’t want to mess with the HTML code usually preferred Front Page while people who dreamed in HTML and wanted final control over th
How to Use the Oracle SQL Developer Tool
(Jayaram Krishnaswamy) Now there is a standalone graphic user interface that you can use to develop your SQL with Oracle databases. The many things you do in Oracle 10G XE can also be carried out with the Oracle SQL Developer. It is expected to enhance productivity in your Oracle applications.
Integrating .NET Code and SQL Server Reporting Services
(Rod Paddock) SQL Server Reporting Services versions 2000 and 2005 (SSRS) has many powerful features. SSRS has a well-designed data access engine, a great set of layout tools, and an excellent expression system for creating complex formulas. While the expression system is quite powerful it is not su