(Randy Nash) In recent history, catastrophic disasters have highlighted the need for business continuity and disaster recovery planning. From terrorist attacks to large-scale natural disasters, the stakes are extremely high. The truth is that if your business doesn’t have a realistic business contin

(Shaun Wilde) The Visual Studio setup projects that come installed as part of Visual Studio are handy for knocking out quick-and-easy installers, but they are a bit limited in scope. Two main drawbacks are: –You have only a limited number of dialogs to choose from, which can easily run out on a

(Kevin Tatroe, Rasmus Lerdorf and Peter MacIntyre) Picking up where we left off last week in our discussion of databases and PHP, we’ll talk about connecting, issuing a query, and more.

(Sanjit Sil) The level at which a transaction is ready to accept inconsistent data is termed as isolation level. A transaction is a set of operations that must either succeed or fail as a unit. The goal of a transaction is to ensure that data is always in a valid, consistent state. To know more abou

(Bornish) The purpose of this investigation is to enable applications written in VB6 to use function pointers. Other advantages may be discovered, such as embedding native code in VB applications, thus extending the world of possibilities without the need of external DLLs. For the sake of keeping th

(Bryan Sullivan) These days, the biggest threat to an organization’s network security comes from its public Web site and the Web-based applications found there. Unlike internal-only network services such as databases-which can be sealed off from the outside via firewalls-a public Web site is general

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET 2.0’s data source and data Web controls make working with data much easier than in previous versions by allowing for a declarative approach to working with data. In short, the data source controls make it possible to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data without having t

(Manas Bhardwaj) The Microsoft Windows Forms Datagridview provided with the MS Visual Studio 2005 has got a lot new and good features which were missing in the datagrid control provided in the earlier versions of MS .Net. But still, many times the developers or I should say the functional need of th

(Tony Patton) The second iteration of ASP.NET includes a number of enhancements for working with configuration files. Configuration files include a variety of ASP.NET settings, as well as facilitate the use of custom data elements. While it isn’t a difficult process to retrieve data values using ASP

(Scott Guthrie) Earlier this month at TechEd we announced the official name of Visual Studio “Orcas” – which will be called Visual Studio 2008. We also said that the official name for the .NET Framework “Orcas” release will be called .NET Framework 3.5 (it includes the new LINQ support, integrated