(Huw Collingbourne) In theory, Microsoft’s Visual Basic .NET should provide an easy path for experienced VB programmers to migrate to the .NET Framework. However, not all VB programmers have been enthusiastic about making the move. VB.NET is so different from Visual Basic 6.0 that even an experience

(Aliaksei Sanko) Here is a version of a data replication prototyping attempt made almost eight years ago. Some parts of it might still be of interest. Initially, it used a proprietary library built on top of ODBC, but it can be easily modified to use any database interfacing layer. A demo applicatio

(Kishore Ramanathan) Some business clients still maintain their legacy COM business components while developing newer ones in .NET. Iterating a recordset involves complex while loops with MoveFirst/MoveNext methods and checking for BOF/EOF. The article will demonstrate how to create an encapsulating

(Ian Felton) Why is PHP become more like Java, when the PHP developer community seems to want anything but that to happen? What is Zend thinking?

(Les Pinter) You never know when your software might be used by people who speak different languages. In a multinational company, branch offices need to share database applications. By localizing your product, you can enormously increase its potential market. In addition, letting people work in the

(Scott) ASP.NET provides a configuration system we can use to keep our applications flexible at runtime. In this article we will examine some tips and best practices for using the configuration system for the best results.

(Paul Kimmel) This article provides a no-frills demonstration of raising and handling remote server events using Microsoft’s .NET Remoting, while guiding you through potential traps and errors.

(Mitch Landry) Three suggestions for thinking beyond simple backup and restore, to create processes that take a more sophisticated, business-focused approach to protecting database operations.

(Peyton McCullough) Python is a very object-oriented language, which makes it easy to work with. For those of you who may not be familiar with the concept of object-oriented programming languages, Peyton provides a complete, easy-to-understand explanation, and then gives a number of examples that il

(Bipin Joshi) In the previous article we saw how to create a shopping cart using session variables. Continuing the concept further this article will illustrate how to use store your shopping cart in a database. This technique is more robust and scalable that the previous two techniques.