(Eric Johnson) This July 1, the world’s best bicyclists will gather in northeastern France to kick off the planet’s most grueling event: the Tour de France, a 20-stage race covering more than 2,100 miles. The cyclists will zip through wheat fields, bounce over cobblestone streets and power up mounta
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Except Operator in SQL Server 2005
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) Microsoft introduced the EXCEPT operator in SQL Server 2005, which returns all of the distinct rows from the left side of the EXCEPT operator. It also removes all of the rows from the result set that match the rows that are on the right side of the EXCEPT operator.
MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle
(Stephen Shankland) In an illustration of just how rapidly change is sweeping the database market, MySQL Chief Executive Martin Mickos named Oracle as a partner of the year just minutes after effectively calling one of its products “crippleware.”
Developing an Extensible Template Processor in PHP 5
(Alejandro Gervasio) This is the first part of a three-part series that covers separating logic from presentation in PHP applications. In this article you will learn to develop a template system that is advanced enough to meet the requirements of a majority of applications.
Enhancements in Assembly and Versioning in Visual Studio 2005
(Rambabu S) The article discusses a couple of features introduced for assembly and versioning in Visual Studio 2005.
DB2 UDB for Visual Studio 2005 developers, Part 3: Build Microsoft Web services using IBM database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005: Highlights of the refresh release
(Sonali Surange) Exposing and consuming information from databases as Web services is becoming a key requirement for businesses implementing heterogeneous scalable solutions. IBM Database Add-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 supports exposing DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) information as Web s
‘Atlas’ Foundations: ASP.NET 2.0 Callback
(Thiru Thangarathinam) One of the issues developers had when they first started to develop commercial Web sites was some of the limitations of using a browser as the interface. For instance, there were many cases where you wanted to retrieve information from the server after the user had performed s
Semantic Breakthrough
(David Baum) By any measure, the World Wide Web is an immense success, helping everybody from preschoolers to CEOs share information, simplify research, and conduct business online. Still, many researchers aren’t happy with the state of Web technology. They think that something is missing: intellige
Windows Presentation Foundation Data Binding: Part 1
(Shawn Wildermuth) Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly Avalon) introduces a profound new way to develop user interfaces for rich clients. For the first time, WPF separates design of the user interface from the code. This separation means that, much like ASP.NET, your markup is typically in one
How Do I…Navigate XML with the XPathNavigator?
This sample illustrates how to navigate XML documents with an XPathNavigator created from an XPathDocument. It also demonstrates how to use an XPathNodeIterator. The XPathNavigator class provides a cursor-style model to navigate an XML document. This topic also introduces XML Path Language (XPath) e