(William Tay) The new System.ServiceModel namespace, which is a core component of Windows Vista, will change the way .NET developers look at building and securing services. Before developers can get going with full-fledged secure Web services, they need to know how to enable one Web service to talk

(Robert Vollman) Proactively maintaining your database … something some people do only AFTER a problem of some kind.

When you are ready to build and run your XML Web service, you must first compile the ASP.NET Web Service project. Once compiled, you can run the XML Web service.

(Ted Holt) The RPG compiler team is one fine bunch of practical people. From my perspective, everything they do seems to be motivated by the desire to help programmers do their jobs more easily, rather than by some theoretical, esoteric computer science concepts that have no practical value. (I will

(Serdar Yegulalp) When you run a report in Reporting Services, the dataset created for that report is created, used and then discarded. If you’re running the same report many times against the same dataset for different departments or users, that dataset is recreated and destroyed again and again. T

(Kalen Delaney) Metadata is data about data. It not only describes the structure and meaning of your data, but also the structure and meaning of your applications and processes. In this article, I will discuss the concept of metadata visibility and focus on the visibility restrictions introduced in

(Ed Hild) Imagine you work for a company that has a critical database application that continually records new incoming information. This database could be storing order information, sales contacts, or just about any other kind of data. Now consider that a group of individuals within your company re

(Robert Bogue) When you’re trying to change the way that SharePoint appears and operates to something more in-line with what your organization needs, you’ll find that modifying the site definition to change the appearance is a good first start. As you get more advanced, you may decide that you n

(Alejandro Gervasio) When you are writing an object-based web application in PHP, you want to prevent your classes from being convoluted with input objects of the incorrect type. These input objects can cause the application to throw a fatal error. In this article, you will learn how to enforce obje

(Paul C. Zikopoulos) In this article, I explore the features that make programming PHP-based DB2 UDB applications as seamless as possible and ultimately shorten the development cycle for these types of applications.