(Matt Milner) Over my years of working with clients on building Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications, I have often heard a common feature request for Visual Studio .NET: “It would be great if we could create our own project types and item types so that all developers in our organization would
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Improve Your Build Process with Ant
(Michael Kimsal) Web applications today are much more complex beasts than they were even just a few years ago. The largest sites may constitute thousands of files with complex directory structures, and migrating those between development, staging, and production environments can be difficult to say
Using WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.0 to build an On Demand production environment
(Birgit Roehm, Thomas Erker, Carrie Finneran, Ken Klingensmith, Vijay Mann, Kwan-Ming Wan and Peter Wiedeking) This redbook gives a broad understanding of IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment V6.0. It explains the various functions and features of this product and will help you to design and create a s
Check large backup sets before a full restore
(Serdar Yegulalp) The larger the SQL Server backup set, the more likely you are to have some kind of error. This isn’t to say that errors are inevitable, but they are more likely to occur during a large backup (1 GB or more). Since restore operations for big backup sets are not trivial (and take a l
Oracle lowers price for some multicore chips
(Martin LaMonica) The database heavyweight updated its licensing terms on Monday to reflect the changes. The shift was made because of the emergence of high-volume servers with multicore processors, according to Oracle.
Building a Relational Content Management System in PHP/MySQL
(Roger Stringer) You may be familiar with relational databases, but what is a relational content management system? Read on to learn how to build this system, which helps you create a search engine friendly site fairly quickly.
Write Maintainable Unit Tests That Will Save You Time And Tears
(Roy Osherove) There’s a lot of talk these days about unit testing and how one should go about writing unit tests for their applications under different scenarios (for starters, see my June 2005 MSDN Magazine article on testing your data layer, available at Know Thy Code: Simplify Data Layer Unit Te
Developing Managed Code and Executing Within Microsoft SQL Server 2000
(Jagadish Chaterjee) This article explains how to develop .NET based components and access them using Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
How to Use Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to Create Graphics?
(Balaji B) Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a format of graphic that can be generated on the fly by using the data extracted from XML files or a database. Creating images on the fly in the other formats like GIF, JPEG, and BMP are not easy since they cannot be created dynamically by extracting data
Operator Overloading in VB.NET 2005
(Paul Kimmel) Advanced features like operator overloading don’t make VB.NET 2.0 harder to use. Most advanced features — including operator overloading and multithreading — are unobtrusively tucked out of the way. In this article, I demonstrate a methodical approach that makes overloading operators e