(Paul Kimmel) For all their fancy extras, ASP.NET Web controls are basically little engines that spit out HTML. Don’t get me wrong; the controls are clever and helpful engines, but it is important to know that the output is HTML.
Other News
Returning Rows Through a Table Function in Oracle
(James F. Koopmann) In Oracle9i, we are now able to call a table function within the FROM clause of a SQL statement and have it return a result set that mimics what we would normally expect from a traditional SQL SELECT statement.
Using Hash Keys instead of String Indexes
(Arthur Fuller) Your application may require an index based on a lengthy string, or even worse, a concatenation of two strings, or of a string and one or two integers. In a small table, you might not notice the impact. But suppose the table of interest contains 50 million rows? Then you will notice
Introducing the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView Control
(Ziran Sun) Most web applications perform some sort of data access. The data access tools made available in ASP.NET 1.x were far more powerful then anything available in classic ASP, but with that power came an additional level of complexity. With ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has taken things to the next
Building a High-Availability MySQL Cluster
(Kris Buytaert) Today’s enterprise depends on the availability of mail and web services. Failure is never far away, whether it be a hardware failure or a human error. We have to try to make an infrastructure as highly available as possible.
Exceptions and Performance
(Jon Skeet) Almost every time exceptions are mentioned in mailing lists and newsgroups, people say they’re really expensive, and should be avoided in almost all situations. As an idea of just how expensive some people think they can be, in one article someone asked whether the fact that his web appl
Tip: Use data URIs to include media in XML
(Uche Ogbuji) If you have some XML to be bundled with related media, such as an image file, you can use simple URI reference. Listing 1 is an example of some XML with such a reference — based, incidentally, on a construct in the IBM developerWorks content format.
Stored procedure: Generate code for ad hoc data operations
(Brian Walker) A SQL Server DBA often needs to perform ad hoc operations on data in their databases. The tasks can typically be handled with simple T-SQL statements, but other times a more complex operation is called for – and having to manually enter all the T-SQL code necessary for such an operati
User Interface Controls in Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 2005
(Bill Sempf) In the world of conversion of Visual Basic 6 applications, little causes more concern than controls that just won’t convert. Between in-project controls that you have the source code for, custom ActiveX controls that you bought back in 1997, and the built-in Microsoft controls that have
ASP.NET 2.0 Demystified, Chapter 4: Variables and Expressions in ASP.NET
(Jim Keogh) ASP .NET 2.0 Demystified explains how to write server-side components for dynamic, interactive Web pages and powerful Web-based applications that are easy to develop and modify. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each ch