(Anand Kumar) Visual Studio 2005 express edition has lots of enhancements to increase developer productivity; the "Code Snippet" is one of those enhancements. I am going to talk about how code snippets can help you to write code faster based on predefined templates. I am also going to demonstrate h
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Generics FAQ: Fundamentals
(Juval Lowy) Review frequently asked questions regarding generic types and their various uses.
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(Rick Strahl) Web Services are powerful technology even in its basic form. However, with .Net you can easily couple them with .Net’s new data services to provide a powerful data delivery mechanism that works over the Web making it possible to build distributed applications that work easily without a
Using the New Security Controls in ASP.NET 2.0
(Wei-Meng Lee) ASP.NET 2.0 comes with several new security controls located under the Login tab in the Toolbox (see Figure 1) that greatly simplify the life of a Web developer. Using the new security controls, you can now perform tasks such as user logins, registration, password changes, and more, w
Get the Jump on Toad for DB2
(Justin Whitney) On October 25, 2005, Quest Software launched the release version of Toad for DB2, a “database development and administration solution.” Part of a line of Toad database tools, Toad for DB2 works specifically with the IBM DB2 family, including IBM DB2 Universal Database and DB2 Expres
Oracle Certifications: Which ones do I need?
If you’re currently working with Oracle products, odds are there is an Oracle certification out there for you. Although at one time, Oracle certifications were considered for database pros only, the certification programs offered by the “world’s largest enterprise software company” are evolving to k
Super-Sizing A Database: Oracle 10g Tablespace Enhancements
(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle’s highest-level logical container for data, the tablespace, is a lot like an orphaned, lonely child. Tablespaces live in that lonely place between the physical raw data contained in their datafiles and the myriad logical objects whose structure they organize, manage, and cont
Using DataSets Without a Database in ASP.NET
(Steve Schwarting) Sometimes you don’t have a database table to work with, but you still want your page to be dynamic in terms of the data it presents to the user. Meaning, you don’t want to have to modify code in order to make the page display new information or information in a different way.
Building managed code using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005
(Sekhar Lanka) In this article I am going to talk about a cool new feature of SQL Server 2005 called "CLR Integration", its advantages and how to program database objects using managed code with a simple project in Visual Studio 2005 beta 2.