(Rod Coffin) This is the second article in a two-part series comparing Spring and EJB 3.0. The first article looked at how each technology addresses persistence, transaction management, and state. In this article I’ll continue the analysis by looking into other characteristics such as messaging, rem

(Bipin Joshi) ASP.NET 2.0 offers you several ways to set a dependency between a cached item and a file(s), another cached item(s) or SQL Server database table. No doubt they satisfy most of the real world needs. However, at times the features offered by these dependencies are not sufficient. In such

(John Mueller) For many developers, the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox contains a set of familiar controls—and then there are those controls that you might want to try, but never seem to find time to do it. The odd thing is that developers have requested these controls, and even occasionally ordered the

(Scott Lysle) This article describes a simple approach to maintaining control state in an ASP.NET 2.0 custom web control. Control state is a new construct within ASP.NET 2.0 and it is really nothing more than view state however it is view state with a significant advantage; that advantage is that o

(René Paw Christensen) I wanted to update a project of mine, which eases database access using Generics, Attributes and Reflections. My original project used database classes like SqlConnection, SqlCommand and SqlDataReader, but to support more database types (MS SQL, MS MDB and MS SDF) I needed to

(Uday Denduluri) CodeDOM is a very powerful Application Programming Interface (API) that is available with Microsoft .NET 2.0. This API can do wonders for you by generating code on the fly. This article takes a look at this technology and explains it with code examples wherever appropriate.

(Rod Coffin) Software development professionals today are faced with a bewildering array of technology choices. It is not always easy to decide which technologies are most appropriate to employ in solving any particular business problem. In the area of enterprise Java development, there has recently

(Michael Livshitz) In the first part of this article we have defined our task and have prepared a basis for creation and testing the ComboBox_C control derived from an Windows Forms ComboBox control. In this part we are going to build and test the control.

(Danny Lesandrini) There is a clever, poke-fun-at-George-Bush web site named Weekly Radio Address where you can listen to a new parody of the president each Monday morning. It’s irreverent and probably exaggerates GW’s difficulty with the English language, but it’s funny all the same, and a little c

(George Schlossnagle) When you’re writing a daemon, it is usually advisable to have it set its own working directory. That way, if you read from or write to any files via a relative path, they will be in the place you expect them to be. Always qualifying your paths is of course a good practice in an