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(Willie Favero) While watching ER last night (Thursday) on TV, I commented on the “foreign” language the doctors and nurses spoke in the emergency room. It sounded like a bunch of meaningless garble. My daughter quickly pointed out to me that I must not listen to myself talk very often. She is so co
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Custom Web Controls Demystified, Part 2
(Miguel A. Castro) Last issue I gave you a ‘hit-the-ground-running’ introduction to custom Web control development and showed you how to build a rendered control and an inherited control.
DB2 UDB for Visual Studio 2005 developers, Part 2: Build applications and Web sites for DB2 using IBM Database Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005
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Combine Microsoft Project and Visual Studio Team System for a One-two Punch of Productivity
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