(David Beulke) Web services provide a way to simplify processing and shield developers from the complexity of underlying systems. The simpler things become for developers, however, the more complicated they become for those in IT support and management.
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Following the Changes, Part One
(Mark A. Williams) There are different ways to access data from Oracle databases in .NET applications, but in terms of features and performance, Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is your best choice.
Oracle Content Services 10g Web Services: Technical Paper
The Oracle Content Services 10g Web Services provide a means for third-party applications to leverage advanced document and record management capabilities in their own application. The Web Services can be used to simply integrate applications, or to build complete custom applications using the Oracl
Naming and Idenifying Oracle Databases and Instances
(James F. Koopmann) Identification of the database you are currently working on can sometimes be somewhat confusing. Take a look at the internal parameters that Oracle keeps and see if you can uniquely identify the database you are currently working on.
SQL Building Blocks and Server Settings
(Deac Lancaster) This chapter covers the building blocks available to the database designer and database user to create and modify database objects and data. The SQL Data Types will be covered along with data representation as literals (constants) and expressions.
Using Custom .NET Code With Reports (Sample Chapter)
(Rodney Landrum and Walter J. Voytek II) SSRS 2005 offers software developers a variety of options when it comes to customizing reports through code. These options give software developers the ability to write custom functions using .NET code that can interact with report fields, parameters, and fil
Use MSXML inside T-SQL script
Is it possible to use MSXML inside T-SQL script? I am writing a SQL Server 2000 stored procedure and need to process some XML. Basically, I am storing XML data in a table column, and in the stored procedure, I need to read that XML column value, update it and save it back to the table column. Can I
XML and Web services (the beginning): XML-RPC and JAX-RPC
(William Brogden) The original XML-RPC protocol was invented by Web pioneer Dave Winer at UserLand Software in 1998 and first implemented in the UserLand Frontier development platform (in fact, UserLand Software has trademarked “XML-RPC”). The obvious utility of the “XML text transmitted over HTTP”
Craft A Rich UI For Your .NET App With Enhanced Windows Forms Support
(Chris Sells and Michael Weinhardt) Windows Forms 2.0 is far richer than any Windows application development platform that preceded it. You’ll find improvements across the board, with a more dense and fully featured Microsoft .NET Framework, tighter Visual Studio integration with many new additional
Simplify your life with Object Binding
(Iqbal Khan) The .NET framework provides a very flexible and powerful approach to databinding that cuts down a lot of redundant code and simplifies the development process significantly. Unlike the earlier databinding models, which were limited to single data source, the .NET framework provides read