SQL Anywhere Integration with Visual Studio 2005
SQL Anywhere 10 contains a number of integration features with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (both 2003 and 2005). These features are designed to make it easier to work with a SQL Anywhere database while developing an application using Visual Studio. This whitepaper outlines the integration features that are present with Visual Studio 2005, and contains tutorials demonstrating how the integration features can be used to ease application development while working with a database.
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Working with DataGridView
This lesson describes how to configure and work with data in a DataGridView control. The DataGridView is typically used to display the contents of a DataTable in a DataSet. This lesson shows how to:
- Use the DataGridView control to display and update the data.
- Bind a DataGridView control to a data source.
- Configure a DataGridView to use multiple data sources.
- Manage columns in a DataGridView control.
- Format a DataGridView control by using styles.
- Format a DataGridView control by using custom painting.
- Configure the column and cell types of a DataGridView.
- Add tables and columns to a DataGridView control.
- Delete columns in a DataGridView control.
- Respond to clicks in a DataGridView control.
- Validate input with a DataGridView control.
- Change data displayed in a DataGridView control at run time.
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The JCA and the JCE
The basic functionality for using cryptographic techniques in Java is provided by the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) and its sibling, the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE). In this chapter, you will look at how the architecture works, as well as why the architecture is the way it is. You will look at the policy files associated with the JCA and JCE, how signing of cryptographic services providers works, and how the JCA and JCE decide which provider to use if an algorithm you have requested is implemented by more than one. Finally, you will see how to install a provider either statically in the Java runtime or dynamically when an application starts up.
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Develop Mobile Solutions Using ASP.NET Mobile Controls
Iam totally impressed with the .NET Framework and the .NET integrated development environment (IDE). Using the MMIT toolkit and .NET IDE, I put together this example in less than 2 hours! Like many of you, I was a little intimidated by developing mobile solutions. I wasn’t sure what technology solution to use. I was confused because you have to know a lot of things to develop a mobile solution.
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Forms Authentication, Authorization, User Accounts, and Roles Security Basics and ASP.NET Support
What is the one thing forums, eCommerce sites, online email websites, portal websites, and social network sites all have in common? They all offer user accounts. Sites that offer user accounts must provide a number of services. At a minimum, new visitors need to be able to create an account and returning visitors must be able to log in. Such web applications can make decisions based on the logged in user: some pages or actions might be restricted to only logged in users, or to a certain subset of users; other pages might show information specific to the logged in user, or might show more or less information, depending on what user is viewing the page.
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