(Tony Patton) In a recent column, we explored the process of integrating Microsoft Word with the .NET Framework. There are numerous integration possibilities as the full power of the Microsoft Office Suite is available. In this article, we examine another scenario involving Microsoft Excel.
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IBM targets Microsoft’s suite spot
(Martin LaMonica) Once mired in a stagnant market, IBM’s Lotus division will use industry standards to loosen Microsoft’s grip on desktop software, according to the outgoing Lotus general manager.
An access violation occurs in MSXML 3.0 when you try to close the Internet Explorer window that you are using to display XML data in an XSL document
In Microsoft XML (MSXML) 3.0, when you try to close the Microsoft Internet Explorer window that you are using to display Extended Markup Language (XML) data in an Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) document, an access violation occurs.
MySQL Founders Publish Open Letter to the Community
To our fellow developers & users of Free & Open Source Software: This year, we are celebrating ten years of MySQL: the database, the company and the community.
SQL Server 2005 – Automating Creation of Database Snapshots
(Muthusamy Anantha Kumar) SQL Server 2005 is packed with many new features. One of the new features that I would like to discuss in this article is Database Snapshots, which are read only static views of a database. SQL Server 2005 allows you to create multiple snapshots on a database. In this artic
Design Recovery Issues and Opportunities in Extreme Programming
(K. Gauthaman, K. Mustafa and R. A. Khan) The authors examine the software-reengineering tasks and corresponding issues from the Design Recovery side. They also look at the possible solution offered by an existing software process called Extreme Programming (XP) and its practise.
Working with RSS and Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3
(Chris Schalk) RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndicate, is basically an XML format for content on the Web that purely represents the content of an Web page without any extraneous presentation or “look and feel” and can thus be syndicated and represented in multiple sites. This contrasts with a
Benchmarking and Profiling (Sample Chapter)
(Mike Kruckenberg and Jay Pipes) This book departs from novice or intermediate texts in that we focus on using and developing for MySQL from a professional angle. We don’t think the difference between a normal user and a professional user lies in the ability to recite every available function in MyS
On the Extreme Fringe of XML
(Roger Sperberg) The “X” in XML stands for “extensible.” It doesn’t stand for “expert” or “extreme.” But when I think of XML I always think of the Extreme Markup Languages conference as the place to become expert in XML. I say it’s where the graduate seminars in XML are held. The marketing slogan fo
Got 5 Minutes to get some expert tuning advice?
(Chris Eaton) I thought I’d start looking at the various configuration parameters that exist in DB2 and try to provide a one stop shop for the key config parms that you need to know about. But before I get into the details, how would you like the some tuning advice from the people that build DB2 and