(Doug Doedens) With xml and xslt transformations becoming a large part of many business applications it would be benificial to have this functionality in the .NET IDE. Following are the instructions for adding xslt transformations and intellesense to xslt documents to the .NET IDE.
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Nine Compelling Reasons to Move From VBA to VSTO 2005
(Justin Whitney) When it was first released in 2002 as part of the larger .NET initiative, Visual Basic .NET made an evolutionary leap from Visual Basic 6.0. At the same time, Active Server Pages underwent a similar seismic shift to ASP.NET, and its VBScript was replaced by VB.NET. So VB6 to VB.NET.
Best Practices: Exception Management
(Anand Kumar) Exception management is a key area for developers doing any kind of application development. As a developer, you should adopt an appropriate strategy for exception management that will enable you to build high quality and robust applications. Exception management is a very powerful
Search RDF data with SPARQL
(Phil McCarthy) As more data is being stored in RDF formats like RSS, a need has arisen for a simple way to locate specific information. SPARQL, a powerful new query language fills that space, making it easy to find the data you need in the RDF haystack. Take a tour of SPARQL’s features and lear
Zend making PHP development easier for Oracle users
(Paul Krill) Oracle and PHP tools maker Zend Technologies will announce plans to enhance open source PHP development on Oracle databases via a free package called Zend Core for Oracle.
Create Extensible .NET Apps
(Francesco Balena) It’s nice to create applications that you can customize easily for different customers. At the same time, you don’t want to disperse hundreds of If statements and other conditional blocks just to account for each and every possible user. In fact, you shouldn’t do this, for at
Fastrack to federated replication
This tutorial shows you how to replicate data over WebSphere MQ queues from a table in a DB2 Universal Database (UDB) database to a table in an Oracle database on Windows. Replication over WebSphere MQ queues is called Q replication. If you are interested in learning about federated Q replication fr
Find Unmatched Data (Old School)
(Gabriel Wieskamp) This is an “old school,” yet fast, way to find data in one table that is not matched in another table.
Detecting and Resolving Stalled and Stuck I/O Issues in SQL Server 2000 SP 4
(Robert Dorr) This articles explores how the reporting tool in SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 significantly reduces the time it takes to identify and determine the underlying causes of stalled and stuck I/O operations.
Visual FoxPro 9.0 more SQL Server friendly
(Jennifer Lawinski) Database developers working with SQL Server 2000 or the soon-to-be-released Yukon might find a useful tool in Microsoft’s recently released Visual FoxPro 9.0 database and desktop FoxPro now supports a lot of the SQL data types that it didn’t support before. (R)