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 Sometimes when you start your Windows computer or while working on it, the operating system can not read the drive and shows some error messages. If the problem occurs with C drive, then system does not boot up and all of the data stored on your Windows hard drive become inaccessible.Oct. 9, 2009 12:36 PM EDT Reads: 386 |
 When the disk controller gets damaged or it fails, hard drive become inaccessible, undetectable in BIOS and renders the system unbootable. Same problem may also occur if your hard drive is malfunction due to either logical or physical problems. It might result into serious data loss an...Oct. 9, 2009 12:36 PM EDT Reads: 333 |
 You may not be aware of this, but Microsoft now provides a rather powerful charting control free of charge as an add-in for .NET 3.5. It’s available for download at http://xrl.us/ben3pm. Because it supports 35 different chart types (see Figure 1), it can add significant new charting ca...Aug. 27, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,321 Replies: 1 |
 As a long-time PB developer, I have successfully created or maintained many PB applications for clients and for myself. Since day one, I was impressed with the ease with which applications can be created using PowerBuilder. Although I had been exposed to Visual Studio and other client/...Aug. 27, 2008 03:36 PM EDT Reads: 3,541 |
 I've always been puzzled by the ability of some traders to consistently make money. A cynic would say that anyone who is able to profit in all adverse economic environments (recessions, depressions, etc.) is most likely able to do so because they are getting information that is not gen...May. 30, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,903 |
 CLINQ v1.1 has been released. Some of you may have already downloaded some of the new builds, but here's a rundown of what the new release includes: Support for Continuous Aggregation. Now, in addition to being able to have your result sets automatically update themselves in response t...May. 2, 2008 05:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,103 |
 Microsoft recently released the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 in order to allow 'developers to incorporate VB.NET Forms and Controls into their VB6 applications' (www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=934de3c5-dc85-4065-9327-96801e57b81d&DisplayLang=en).Oct. 8, 2007 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,979 |
Adobe Flex Builder has many convenient keyboard commands and hints that make your programming faster. But this is a list of Flex Builder shortcuts that I use on a regular basis Jul. 21, 2006 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 21,557 Replies: 2 |
 It's been a few months since Visual Studio 2005 was released. In that time you've probably seen and read quite a bit about generics. Unfortunately all those articles and presentations can leave you with the impression that generics are useful only in the context of collections (List, D...Apr. 17, 2006 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,297 |
 If you work in a .NET environment you have probably come across Base64 encoded data. For example, Base64 encoding is used in ASP.NET for a Web application's ViewState value, as shown in Figure 1. Base64 encoding is also used to transmit binary data over e-mail. However, if you are like...Mar. 19, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 41,269 Replies: 2 |
 In this article, we're going to look at how DataWindow.NET technology is a simpler but more powerful way of formatting data in the presentation layer. We'll be taking a sample application provided by Microsoft for .NET and implementing it using DataWindow.NET technology.Feb. 3, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 27,546 Replies: 11 |
 Here's a question: If you write your application's code in an OO language - such as C#, VB.NET, or managed C++ - why not write database query and update code in the same language? It would certainly make life simpler, wouldn't it? At the very least, you'd only have to hold one language...Jan. 22, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 14,565 Replies: 2 |
 I've tried to make it a point to learn different programming languages throughout my career. It's not that I'm fluent in multiple languages (for example, I wouldn't call myself an Eiffel expert by any stretch of the imagination), but by learning about a language's features and ideas I'...Dec. 3, 2005 11:15 PM EST Reads: 7,553 Replies: 1 |
 Writing code that runs quickly is sometimes at odds with writing code quickly. C.A.R. Hoare, computer science luminary and discoverer of the QuickSort algorithm, famously proclaimed, 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil.' The extreme programming design principle of 'You Aren...Sep. 13, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 102,772 Replies: 8 |
Imagine you are coding a .NET application that must perform some logic when a CD is inserted into the drive. Unfortunately, there is no standard event visible to your application that gets fired when a CD is inserted. Windows knows when a user puts a CD in the drive, but how can it not... Dec. 10, 2003 12:00 AM EST Reads: 29,686 Replies: 7 |
Here are some tips on how to improve the performance of your .NET applications. In the old Visual Basic 6 world, string manipulation was a performance issue that many developers spent time dealing with. Jul. 21, 2003 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,235 |
