In this code snippet we have a custom object that contains a method called GetProperties. The purpose of this method is so the object can return an arraylist of all the named properties it contains. Again you could use this to populate a drop down which then adds fields to be reported on or calculat

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(Jesse Smith) Firewalls and anti-spyware have stopped a lot of hacking on remote ports, but one port still remains unprotected, and is becoming an increasingly popular target of malicious users. HTTP Port 80 — the one that serves web applications and services — is unprotected by firewalls, because t

(Jonathan Hodgson) This article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.

(Ken Pohl) Building a data warehouse has become fairly common in today’s world but with varying degrees of success. The reason for the mixed results is due to the complexity of building the data warehouse in addition to the level of competency of the participants involved.

(David Marco) This article is the fourth installment of an ongoing series of articles on the Data Stewardship Framework. In this month’s installment we will conclude our discussion on the most common data stewardship activities.

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(Miguel A. Castro) Last issue I gave you a ‘hit-the-ground-running’ introduction to custom Web control development and showed you how to build a rendered control and an inherited control.

(Sanjay Narang) Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) provides tools for every role in a typical software development team: Architects, Project Managers, Developers, and Testers. It enables project managers to use the tools they know well—Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel—to store project m