2nd Edition YOUR FREE GUIDE TO PROGRAMMING RUBY
Ruby is a cross-platform interpreted language which has many features in common with other ‘’scripting” languages such as Perl and Python. However, its version of object orientation is more thorough than those languages and, in many respects, it has more in common with the great-granddaddy of ”pure” OOP languages, Smalltalk. The Ruby language was created by Yukihiro Matsumoto (commonly known as ”Matz”) and it was first released in 1995.
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Image Processing Library C++ Edition v1.2 Introduction, Tutorial, and User Guide
IPL/C++ (image processing library C++ edition) is a result of two things: the need of useful common image processing routines, and the frustration of not being able to find a satisfactory and free one.
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Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 - Efficiently Paging Through Large Amounts of Data
As we discussed in the preceding tutorial, paging can be implemented in one of two ways:
- Default Paging – can be implemented by simply checking the Enable Paging option in the data Web control’’s smart tag? however, whenever viewing a page of data, the ObjectDataSource retrieves all of the records, even though only a subset of them are displayed in the page
- Custom Paging – improves the performance of default paging by retrieving only those records from the database that need to be displayed for the particular page of data requested by the user? however, custom paging involves a bit more effort to implement than default paging
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Data Access with ADO.NET
ADO.NET
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= Is the .NET technology for accessing structured data
= Uniform object oriented interface for different data sources
– relational data bases
– XML data
– other data sources
= Designed for distributed and Web applications
= Provides 2 models for data access
– connection-oriented
– connectionless
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Develop a sample application using LINQ programming and the ADO.NET Entity Framework with IBM DB2, IDS, and U2 servers
The IBM Data Server Provider for .NET enables application developers to take advantage of the Microsoft? Entity Framework and LINQ. You can easily develop data access .NET applications using one of the IBM data servers (DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, or U2), the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework, and LINQ. This article shows you how to get started using the Entity Framework with one of the IBM data servers, walking you step-by-step through the process of creating your own application.
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