Tech Articles of the week

"Native XML Web Services in SQL Server 2005"
(http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3547866)
By Mike Gunderloy These days, you should hardly be surprised when you run
into a business requirement to make data available over the Web.
Fortunately, database products are making it easier and easier to hook up
Internet protocols directly to your data. Microsoft SQL Server is a case in
point. While SQL Server 2000 did allow Web data access, the process had a
certain Rube Goldberg feel to it, requiring the use of the SQLXML library
and a full installation of Internet Information...

"The Story of a WML Generator"
(http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3549736)
By Radu Braniste Go to page: 1 2 3 Next This article presents a flexible,
compile-time safe way of generating WML and WML-like dialects code. Two
contrasting solutions are discussed-one relying on C# without generics and
the other one on C++. A rarely used C# idiom is presented, increasing the
reusability of the code, but C++ and templates related techniques confer
the ultimate level of flexibility. Throughout the article, WML is used as
an example of an XML dialect imposing strict...

"WiMax/802.16 Revealed"
(http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials...le.php/3550476)
By Tim Sanders September 21, 2005 WiMax is big news today. People far and
wide are talking about it -- although how many of them actually understand
WiMax is less clear. We often hear terms like WiMax and 802.16 used
together, even interchangeably. But what exactly is the relationship and
the difference between the two? Also, how are the standards evolving? The
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a standards
body that develops and publishes standards for numerous...

"VC++ Cures for .NET Configuration Change Headaches"
(http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3531746)
By Nick Wienholt Most developers have experienced the following scenario
(or something similar): A few customers have reported an intermittent bug
that can't be reproduced in the test lab. The bug is a real pain for the
team responsible for that area of functionality, and it overshadows the
good work they have done. Finally, a customer with the bug calls into the
help desk and offers to do some diagnostics with the team. The lead
developer talks the customer through the exercise of...

"Protect Resources with the Using Block"
(http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3549141)
By Paul Kimmel Opposing market and technological forces are imposing a mild
sort of schizophrenia on Visual Basic. Some want Visual Basic .NET to
remain as much like VB6 as possible, so they can use forms without invoking
the constructor and the new operator in VB.NET <http://VB.NET> 2.0. At the
same time,
others want to drag VB .NET into the 21 st century by adding constructs
like the using operator introduced with C#. No matter which side you are
on, if you want to use VB.NET <http://VB.NET>, you have to actually...

"Programming with Partial Classes in VB.NET <http://VB.NET> 2005"
(http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/3549731)
By Paul Kimmel Sometimes I wonder what motivates language developers to
make some of the design choices they do. In fact, I d like to arrange
events called Authors Summits, where the language vendor, such as
Microsoft, explains its decisions directly. Imagine gathering about 200
authors in a room. There is Dan Appleman and Charles Petzold. Dave Chappell
is presenting with Chris Sells. Over by the coffee table are Carl Franklin
and Rocky Lhotka having a danish. And I am in the back...

"Cross-Platform Game Development for C++ Developers, Part IV: ClanLib SDK"
(http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3532786)
By Victor Volkman Go to page: 1 2 3 Next ClanLib is a cross-platform C++
framework focused primarily on the needs of game developers. Although the
API is streamlined for gaming, you could easily use ClanLib to develop a
scientific 3D visualization tool or multimedia application (such as the
Gecko Multimedia System ). ClanLib has APIs for 2D and 3D graphics, sound,
network, I/O, input, and GUI and resource administration. It provides
transparent support for OpenGL, so you can use native...

"Cross-Platform Game Development for C++ Developers, Part V: OGRE 3D"
(http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3547726)
By Victor Volkman Go to page: 1 2 Next OGRE (Object-Oriented Graphics
Rendering Engine) is a scene-oriented, flexible 3D engine written in C++.
Designed to quickly and easily produce applications with
hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, the class library abstracts all the
details of using the underlying system libraries such as Direct3D and
OpenGL and provides an interface based on world objects and other intuitive
classes. To use OpenGL, OGRE requires a base OpenGL version of 1.2.1 or...

"Accessing Your Database with C++ Is as Easy as DTL"
(http://www.developer.com/net/cplus/article.php/3550906)
By Victor Volkman Go to page: 1 2 Next In the late 1980s, when I first
learned to program in C, I cobbled together data structures and algorithms
from books and pretended they were generic or they could be generalized,
perhaps even by macros. Invariably, however, I would end up copying them or
tweaking them for every new task that came along. A typical application in
those days might have dozens of implementations of linked lists, each coded
with varying degrees of usefulness....

"Writing Database Objects in CLR: Advanced Scenarios"
(http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3550341)
By Sahil Malik Go to page: 1 2 Next My previous article demonstrated how to
write a simple table valued function (TVF) that accepts an integer and
returns a table of results, breaking down the input of value into its
factors. Thus, if you pass in 2, you get 1 and 2, but if you pass in 15,
you get 1, 3, 5, and 15. But you may ask, 'what does that have to do with a
database?' It turns out not much. And when you write code to be run inside
SQL Server 2005, more often than not, you will...

"Consider Database Triggers in Your .NET Enterprise Application Design"
(http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3550636)
By Scott Robinson Go to page: 1 2 Next I remember a time (a time long past)
when the idea of tying applications together across functional (and, heaven
forbid, departmental) boundaries was not only politically incorrect to the
in-house user community, but downright frightening to some-and certainly
intimidating to IT (or, as we called it back then, 'data processing'). The
problem, from a business process standpoint, sprang largely from the fact
that each department felt a strong sense...

"Winnt NET SEND example"
(http://www.developerfusion.com/show/2044/)
by I.Silviu on Visual Basic Download Now Read Comments Rate this resource
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"PHP Form Validation System: An Object-Oriented Approach"
(http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/weiner20050831.php3)
Mike Weiner All web developers will at some point need to program their own
form. Whether it is for database submission, emailing, or for some other
purpose, forms represent the primary means of enabling a user to send data
to an application. As a result, it is important to have control over the
data collected by your forms, which will aid in the creation of
streamlined, error-free applications. Assumptions This article assumes the
reader has some prior knowledge of object-oriented...

"The Sun Certified Java Programmer Certification, Versions 1.2 and 1.4"
(http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3550406)
By Steve Rowe In the last Java certification article, see ( "Java 2
Certifications: An Introduction" ), you briefly covered the total
certification path Sun has established for Java programmers along with the
SCJP 5.0 exam. As seen in the graph below, from Sun's Web site, there are
several certification paths Java developers can follow. Click here for a
larger image. Java has developed these different paths to better fit
different career goals Java developers may have. But, you can see...

"Adaptive Filtering in Java, Getting Started"
(http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3549991)
By Richard G. Baldwin Go to page: 1 2 Next Java Programming, Notes # 2350
Preface Preview Discussion and Sample Code Run the Program Summary What's
Next Complete Program Listings Preface DSP and adaptive filtering With the
decrease in cost and the increase in speed of digital devices, Digital
Signal Processing ( DSP ) is showing up in everything from cell phones to
hearing aids to rock concerts. Many applications of DSP are static. That
is, the characteristics of the digital processor...

"Building Application Framework with C# - Introduction"
(http://www.developerfusion.com/show/2608/)
by Nauman Laghari on C# Download Source Code Read Comments Rate this
resource Viewed 19830 times Rating: 145 users 3.79 out of 5 Next >
Frameworks are generalized and customized application, which can be built
upon into a complete and fully functional software programs. In recent
years frameworks have been successfully implemented for some specific
application domains, most notably user interfaces and data processing. A
successful framework is a breakthrough because it means that...

"Easy Yahoo stock chart ASP.NET <http://ASP.NET> Page"
(http://www.eggheadcafe.com/PrintSear...asp?LINKID=953)
Printer Friendly Version It's easy to get stock charts from Yahoo finance
without all the extra junk. All you need to do is make a request for the
image with the identical URL that is in the Yahoo Finance page. The
following will get a chart of your favorite stock either with a form entry
or with ?s=SYMBOL on the querystring. I use variations of this to track my
own portfolio. Of course, you can change the querystring parameters to
experiment with the different types of charts...

"Send Binary Data from ASP - Introduction"
(http://www.developerfusion.com/show/2235/)
by Bruce Johnson on Active Server Pages Read Comments Rate this resource
Viewed 38698 times Rating: 207 users 4.21 out of 5 Next > One of the more
common tasks that we've performed is to send a existing document to the
browser. For our client base, the most common document types include Adobe
Acrobat (.pdf), Microsoft Word (.doc) and PKZip (.zip). Innately, it is not
hard to get these files to the client. Simply using a Response.Redirect to
the path for the document works. However, if...

"Retrieving Map Location Coordinates"
(http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/3548171)
By Jason Gilmore In the last installment, "Integrating Google Maps Into
Your Web Applications" , you learned how to take advantage of Google's
amazingly convenient mapping API. In this tutorial, I mentioned the API
doesn't yet offer a means for translating addresses to latitudinal and
longitudinal coordinates. Because these coordinates are required to display
locations and plot points, information about two third-party solutions
capable of doing so was provided: doing so through the...

"Writing Database Objects in CLR"
(http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/3548331)
By Sahil Malik Go to page: 1 2 Next My previous article covered the basics
of CLR integration in SQL Server 2005 . It compared CLR inside SQL Server
2005 with TSQL and extended stored procedures, and discussed the judicious
use of CLR in lieu of other available choices. This article takes the
discussion further, discussing how to write various common database objects
in CLR. You can author a number of objects using CLR and host them in the
database: UDT : User-defined types (UDTs) allow...

"Developing ActiveSync Service Providers: The First Look"
(http://www.developer.com/ws/pc/article.php/3548521)
By Alex Gusev Go to page: 1 2 Next Why You Need It Mobile applications are
getting more powerful even faster than you can imagine. Data management
gets more complex, functionality becomes richer, and so forth. In such
situations, the role of data synchronization between PDA and desktop
computer cannot be underestimated. If you develop a companion application,
you should implement ActiveSync facilities wherever you can. There is no
doubt that it will make your product more attractive, no...

"Display Images in a DataGrid Directly from Memory"
(http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20050911.asp)
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time." -
Willem de Kooning You can find a number of solutions around that illustrate
techniques for displaying images from a database in your DataGrid or other
databound control, but they almost universally resort to the trick of
having the image source set to an external handler or page that receives
the image ID on the querystring, pulls it out of the database, and writes
it into the Response stream. That's fine, if that's...

"Using Reflection to Create a Data Access Class"
(http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20050918.asp)
by Jon Wojtowicz In most applications database access is restricted to a
single database type. If you are connecting to SQL Server Microsoft has the
Data Access Application Block to eliminate most of the mundane code of
database access. If you are connecting to a database other then SQL Server
you can use the same pattern as Microsoft. This works well if you are
connecting to a single type of data store. But what happens if you need to
connect to multiple types of data store? Do you...