Many of us have to make older applications and components work with newer technologies. I found myself in this predicament last year when I was required to make a new ASP.NET (3.5) web application work with a ten year old VB6.0 COM Plus Component.
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Common C# Build-Time Errors: Part I
Here’s the situation: You’ve written a program in C#. You’ve checked the flowcharts, examined your coding and developed your user interface. You’re anticipating that everything will flow as smooth as silk. You’re ready to create a build of the program and, instead of seeing a beautiful, efficient result, you get several (often incomprehensible) error message. How did this happen?
The XREF table for MySQL
The XREF, or cross reference table, is a database table that links records together. These tables are very good for normalization in your database. I almost always use an xref when I need an many to many relationship.
The Usefulness of the document.createElement()
The new HTML5 Markup Language has introduced several new element features not available in HTML4, for example elements like header, section, nav, footer, aside, and article.
Designing a Clean Website Part 2: The Layout
Last week we discussed how important navigation is to a website and how developing an interactive navigation system will help give a clean, minimalist website a bit of character and make it feel modern and current. We’ll pick up where we left off last time and begin by setting up the basic HTML for our page layout. Since we’re going to use a PHP include we’re going to have to save our homepage as index.php, rather than index.html.