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Usability and Design
The Usability and design space brings together the latest information, research, tools, podcasts, and conference information related to usability and design. Content is pulled from IBM and non-IBM sites.
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Ajax Resource Center
This space is your one-stop shop for information on the Ajax programming model, including articles and tutorials, discussion forums, blogs, wikis, events, and news. If it's happening, it's covered here.
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Linux Security
The Linux security space gives an overview of security issues related to Linux and covers all aspects of securing a Linux distribution. It also links to Linux security-related news and articles.
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Ruby Programming
Take a closer look at Ruby, a dynamic programming language that is growing rapidly in popularity. Explore its intriguing features and learn what programmers are doing with it.
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Wiki: WebSphere, SOA, J2EE in Practice
This wiki discusses how to use J2EE and related technologies to develop business applications, including how to make best use of IBM J2EE products like WebSphere Application Server and Rational Application Developer, and IBM SOA products like WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer. While it occasionally delves into tangential topics and future trends, the primary focus is on how to make use of the products and technologies that we have today.
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Create MySQL 5.1 Storage Engine Plugins Under Win32
Rating: none Ludwig Ertl - 11/15/2007 A MySQL Storage engine requires functions that MySQL provides. Therefore, you
normally need to link it into mysqld-core under Windows because mysqld.exe doesn't export all required functions (because it's an .exe, not a .dll). So, you're unable to import the required functions in our Plugin. Learn a possible way to circumvent this limitation by using the .map files that are provided with MySQL.
Importing Data into SQL Server 10/02/2007 by William R. Vaughn - Having problems importing large amounts of data? ADO.NET has only one method designed to help with this task: the SqlBulkCopy class exposed in ADO.NET 2.0.
Hierarchical TableAdapters 301
Rating: none William R. Vaughn - 08/08/2007 Are you having problems setting up a TableAdapter that can be fed from stored procedures instead of base tables? Here is a road map to guide you to success.
Ponderings about the Tech Ed 2007 Keynote
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 06/12/2007 The people at Microsoft are busy with lots of products. Did someone forget that they should be excited about them?
Report Solution Patterns and Recipes: Creating Sparklines
Rating: none Paul Turley - 05/15/2007 In the last of this three-part SQL Server Reporting Services recipe series, Wrox author Paul Turley shows how to create the graphics for word-size graphics that visualization pioneer Edward Tufte dubbed sparklines.
Visual FoxPro: Its Day Has Finally Come
Rating: Bradley Jones - 03/14/2007 If you thought the end of Visual FoxPro had already happened, then you are wrong. Its end is now.
Forging Transact SQL Code with CodeSmith
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 02/28/2007 If you're haven't used CodeSmith for your TSQL coding yet, now's the time. This template-based code generator enables you to add fire-and-forget programming to your TSQL development.
SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition: The Little Engine That Can
Rating: Josh Fitzgerald - 01/16/2007 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition provides relational database functionality for mobile and desktop applications through a lightweight and easily distributable engine. Take a look under the hood.
News: Don't Embed That Database!
Rating: Bradley Jones - 11/09/2006 Did you replace MSDE with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition? Did you make the wrong move?
Getting Started with SQL Server Service Broker
Rating: none Mike Gunderloy - 10/31/2006 Learn how the Service Broker provides the "plumbing" to let you pass messages between applications, using SQL Server as the transport mechanism.
Designing a SQL Service Broker Control Bus
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 10/02/2006 SQL Server Management Studio just doesn't cut it for complicated configuration and monitoring implementations. Learn how to implement your own SQL Service Broker (SSB) control bus solution to serve the needs of complex SQL Server-based messaging solutions.
MySQL UDFs
Rating: DarkLizener - 09/19/2006 Learn how to extend MySQL with your own functions in C/C++.
SQL Server 2005 Service Broker Plays Well with Older Relatives
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 09/08/2006 You can leverage SQL 2005 Server Service Broker with existing technologies such as SQL Server 2000 and MSMQ. BizTalk and SSB external activation are viable options, but a simple polling solution is easier.
Creating Custom WPF Controls
Rating: none Chad Campbell - 08/28/2006 Custom controls assist developers in maximizing code reuse and minimizing headaches. Learn the process of creating custom controls within Microsoft's latest UI model, the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
Using SQL Server to Implement the Publish-Subscribe Integration Pattern
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 07/31/2006 Utilizing design patterns with SQL Server 2005 Service Broker enables you to assess and select appropriate solutions for all of your SQL Server 2005 asynchronous messaging needs.
A PDF Solution for All Programming Platforms
Rating: none Victor Volkman - 07/12/2006 To begin writing raw PDF files, you need a solid working knowledge of PostScript—and that's not pretty. In reality, you need a complete PDF library that handles all your document-creation needs.
[Updated] Help Your Application Users Become Great Spellers
Rating: none Victor Volkman - 06/20/2006 Spell checkers for the Visual C++ and Visual Basic developer are plentiful and easy to integrate. So, why not enable your interactive applications to help users look a little smarter?
Incorporate Data Warehouse QA Checks into MOM 2005
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 06/12/2006 Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM) is a very capable monitoring tool, but it's limited when it comes to quality assurance. Learn how to use WMI and MOM's rules and notification capabilities to run automated data warehouse QA checks.
[Updated] DVD Explorer
Rating: Georges Dumond - 06/12/2006 Learn about a new utility to analyse the data's structure on a DVD.
Database Visualization
Rating: none VGirish - 06/07/2006 When handling a project with hundreds of tables, it takes some time to understand the flows. Learn how to create a simple tool for Visualizing database tables and relations.
SQL Server 2005 Programmability Enhancements — Common Table Expressions
Rating: none Scott Klein - 05/16/2006 There is a plethora of new T-SQL features and enhancements in SQL Server 2005. Learn about one of them — specifically, Common Table Expressions (CTE), because they often come in handy.
[Updated] Microsoft Excel Automation Class
Rating: Val Golovlev - 04/25/2006 Learn to implement and OLE and IDispatch interface to access basic Excel functions from a C++ application.
User-Defined Functions: Powerful Alternatives to Views and Stored Procedures
Rating: Jeffrey Juday - 04/14/2006 Table-valued user-defined functions (UDFs) are functionally similar to views but structurally similar to stored procedures, giving them all the important features of views and stored procedures and some additional functionality that they lack.
Storing Session State in a SQL Server Database
Rating: none Bipin Joshi - 04/05/2006 In ASP.NET 2.0, you can customize the session state store as per your requirement. Explore one of the scalable and reliable approaches for storing session variables—SQL Server.
A Kick-Start to SAX with C++, Part 1
Rating: Marius Bancila - 03/10/2006 Learn how to process XML documents' content with the Microsoft COM implementation of Simple API for XML (SAX).
Put Some "BAM" in Your Next BizTalk 2004 Project
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 02/24/2006 Need to gather some metrics on the steps within your BizTalk 2004 Orchestration? Check out Business Activity Monitoring (BAM).
WinFS Basics: Working with a Data Store
Rating: none Sahil Malik - 01/30/2006 Introducing the next step in information storage on the Windows platform: WinFS, an active storage platform. Learn the basic operations that you can perform on a WinFS data store.
Using the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Class Library
Rating: Jeffrey Juday - 12/02/2005 Learn how to extend SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), the new ETL tool that ships with SQL Server 2005, to perform operations that aren't already bundled with the product.
Solving the Mysteries of SQLCLR and System.Transactions
Rating: none Sahil Malik - 10/17/2005 When you write to an underlying table via a CLR database object, a number of questions come up. Get the answers—along with a breakdown of how System.Transactions, a new .NET namespace, can help.
Using DDL Triggers to Manage SQL Server 2005
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 09/28/2005 Get an introduction to the extended SQL Server 2005 trigger functionality that Data Definition Language (DDL) triggers provide for both databases and servers.
Accessing Your Database with C++ Is as Easy as DTL
Rating: Victor Volkman - 09/23/2005 Go one step beyond the Standard Template Library (STL) with the Database Template Library (DTL), which offers many advantages over the traditional procedural approach to database access.
Writing Database Objects in CLR: Advanced Scenarios
Rating: none Sahil Malik - 09/21/2005 When you write code to be run inside SQL Server 2005, you usually want to deal with other database objects. Learn how to write a CLR-stored procedure that uses a simple table valued function to handle that scenario in a couple of ways.
Writing Database Objects in CLR
Rating: Sahil Malik - 09/14/2005 You can use CRL to author a number of database objects. Follow a canonical example that explains the main steps involved in using and creating a CLR object inside SQL Server 2005.
The Fundamentals of the SQL Server 2005 XML Datatype
Rating: Jeffrey Juday - 08/31/2005 SQL Server 2000 developers and DBAs who've been yearning for better XML support in SQL Server will be pleased with the new XML datatype in SQL Server 2005. If you're one of them, learn the fundamentals of the datatype so you can get going.
An Intro to CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005
Rating: Sahil Malik - 08/19/2005 Learn all you need to know about the CLR integration available in SQL Server 2005. Get a high-level introduction, followed by a discussion of the implications of writing database objects in CLR code and a comparison with existing alternatives such as T-SQL or extended stored procedures.
War of the Worlds: Endianness
Rating: Marius Bancila - 07/26/2005 Learn about the differences between little- and big-endian representations.
Identity Management with Microsoft Identity Integration Server
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 07/22/2005 Identity management with Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) not only saves time and money; it also eases the burden on end-users and enhances security. Learn how to create an MIIS solution.
[Updated] Delaunay Triangles
Rating: Sjaak Priester - 07/19/2005 Learn about an algorithm to calculate this intriguing and important data structure in
computer graphics.
Introduction to SQL Server Report Builder
Rating: none Mike Gunderloy - 07/15/2005 SQL Server 2005 is the first version to include end user reporting capabilities. See how the new Report Builder makes it easy for analysts to generate reports while avoiding the performance pitfalls of completely ad hoc reporting.
Understanding Hibernate ORM for Java/J2EE
Rating: Saritha S.V - 07/12/2005 Hibernate is the most popular and most complete open source object/relational mapping solution for Java environments. Learn Hibernate by using a simple Java application.
MySQLWrapp: MFC-Extension Library for MySQL
Rating: Ovidiu Cucu - 06/28/2005 A collection of C++ classes for working with MySQL databases, easy to integrate in an MFC application.
Loading Blowfish-Encrypted Data Into an MSXML2 DOM Object
Rating: Tom Archer - MSFT - 06/15/2005 Learn how to use helper functions that (by utilizing a popular Blowfish class) open and decrypt an XML file in memory and then load that memory—without writing it to disk—into a DOM object.
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