(Brett McLaughlin) For most Web developers, the task of outputting HTML, XHTML, or even XML is a trivial one: it’s just part of the everyday process of creating and deploying Web applications. While it seems a tremendous leap to move from displaying pages on the Internet to answering and responding
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User Controls for ASP.Net Web Applications
(Peter Aitken) The concept of a control is important in many areas of programming. By encapsulating functionality and often visual interface elements as well, controls provide many benefits to the programmer, not the least of which is code reusability.
XML Querying, Text Streaming, Debug Capture, and LDAP
(Werner.Reyneke) This GPCL (General Purpose Code Library) contains some general C# code functions that I use quite often. Please feel free to use the source code and implementation samples as freely as you like, and do not hesitate to tell me what you think of it.
Express Runtime V2.1.1
(Jim Cook) Mid-market companies are looking for complete solutions from solution providers who know their businesses and specialize in a particular solution category, such as warehouse management or supply chain integration, within their industry. (pdf)
Memory in .NET – what goes where
(Jon Skeet) A lot of confusion has been wrought by people explaining the difference between value types and reference types as “value types go on the stack, reference types go on the heap”. This is simply untrue (as stated) and this article attempts to clarify matters somewhat.
An Introduction to Generics
(Brian Mains) Generics are a new, very powerful, addition to the 2.0 version of the .NET framework. Through a new syntax, generics add support to creating strongly-typed properties, methods, classes, fields, events, and collection classes.
Beware of using external hard drives for offline backups
(Serdar Yegulalp) Most of us are by now familiar with external hard drives that attach to a computer through a USB 2.0 or 1394 interface. The prices on these units have stayed stable or dropped slightly, while the amount of storage available in the average drive has exploded — up to 250 GB or more.
Date and Time in MySQL 5
(Ian Gilfillan) In April 2003, I wrote two articles on MySQL’s Date and Time functions (part1 and part2). With MySQL 5 now released, and in widespread use, it is time for an update. Much remains the same, but there have been a few significant changes you will need to be aware of. This article, which
Learn two methods for installing the AdventureWorks database in SQL Server 2005
(Arthur Fuller) If you install SQL Server 2005 simply by using the defaults, you’ll notice that the AdventureWorks database is not installed. Since many of the tutorials and examples rely on it, it’s important that you find and install the AdventureWorks database. This article explains where to obta
Intelligent Document Delivery: The Ins and Outs of Business Process ROI With Oracle ERP
Did you know the definition of document delivery has changed? Learn how a single solution with full Oracle integration allows you to not only automate business processes such as invoicing, sales orders and purchase orders in and out of your Oracle system, but also capture data, archive documents and