(John Peterson) Those of us who use Windows all know what wizards are, and whether you love them or hate them, they’ve become a fixture in the modern computing landscape. For those of you who don’t already know, according to Wikipedia, “A wizard is an interactive computer program which acts as an in
Tag: Development
Implementing Data Quality Through Meta-Data: Part Two
(David Marco) This article is the concluding portion of a two-part series on implementing data quality through meta data. The first installment examined the role meta data can have in the data warehouse model and data acquisition designs for information content and quality. This segment will examine
A Word About Rapid Application Development Tools
(Skip Munk) While the primary focus of this blog centers on Microsoft Visual Basic®, it bears mentioning that VB is not the only Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool available. Notwithstanding the various versions and variations of Visual Basic itself (VBA, VBS, ASP, etc), Microsoft Visual FoxPr
Customizing the CreateUserWizard Control
(Erich Peterson) In the never ending quest to create web applications that are more functional, responsive, and user-friendly, ASP.NET 2.0 has added a multitude of new server controls to help us achieve those goals. One of these new controls is the CreateUserWizard and is the focus of this article.
Sorting Collection of Custom Type using Generic
(Dipen Lama) This article describes the sorting techinque using Generic that can be implemented in any custom type collection based on the selected property.
Protect your Web apps from state-based attacks
(Mike Andrews and James A. Whittaker) The Web is “stateless” in the sense that it does not remember which page a user is viewing or the order in which pages may be viewed. This is ideal when browsing for information, but users do more on the Web than surfing static, standalone pages, and statelessne
Generic DataGridView
(Yildirim Kocdag) DataGridView is a new control which is more flexible for coding than simple datagrid. However, there are a lot of developer having difficulties about DataGridView Calendar, Mask, ComboBox and also Validations. Actually, DataGridView does not support such as important properties.
Working with Files and Directories using ASP.NET
(Sanjit Sil) In our real life applications it is required to read, write, or manipulate files and directories. The .NET Framework provides a set of classes in the System.IO namespace to allow synchronous and asynchronous reading from and writing to data streams and files. Before working with files
Java/.NET Integration as Simple as Possible
(Vitaly Shelest) For a number of years, I have been developing software for integrating applications written in different platforms. And in my business, I face with interoperability issues: Java and C++, Java and COM, Java and .NET. To solve them, I have developed a number of tools. The last one is
Introducing Data Unification and Harmonization: Critical Success Factor for Data Warehousing
(Bonnie K. O’Neil) What is the bane of every data warehouse project? What seems to be the major cause of project overruns? Most experienced data warehouse project managers would quickly say, “Data Integration.” When planning a data warehouse project, a project manager breaks it into main phases,