Programming against XML using the DOM API todayis a bitch. The accidental complexity of working withthe DOM is so high that many programmers are giv-ing up on using XML altogether, cursing the hype thatXML makes dealing with data simple, which no one whohas actually written DOM code could claim. The W3CDOM was not designed with [...]
Quickstart Guide
This Guide is designed to help you build your own VB.Net database applications using WestfaroCorporation’s VB.Net Scripts as the starting point. If you follow the steps outlined in this guide you willbe able to create the equivalent application for your databases very quickly.Version 2 of the VB.Net demonstration scripts uses an MDI framework for [...]
This Guide is designed to help you build your own VB6 database applications using Westfaro Corporation’s VB6 Scripts as the starting point.
Your work force is your single biggest investment. In today’s fast paced corporateenvironment, it is not enough to provide a breadth of learning resources and haveemployees use them as they can. Time is too valuable and resources are stretched toothin. It is imperative that your team gets the information it requires in a way thatmatches [...]
.NET is a revolutionary advance in programming technology thatgreatly simplifies application development. Microsoft’s popular Visual Basicprogramming language has been upgraded to take advantage of the new .NET features.Visual Basic .NET, or simply VB.NET, has become a full object-oriented programminglanguage with capabilities comparable to C++, Java, and Microsoft’s new language C#.This course is a practical introduction [...]
To understand the world of object-oriented programming, look at the world aroundyou for a moment. You might see vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, ceiling fans, and ahost of other objects. Everywhere you look, objects surround you.Some of these objects, such as cameras, operate independently. Some, such as tele-phones and answering machines, interact with one another. Some [...]
The Visual Basic .NET Coach builds on an approach that I intro-duced in The C++ Coach and The Visual Basic Coach, and appliesit to the exciting new world of Visual Basic .NET. The book’s prem-ise is the same one that successful coaches have long used: Themore you practice a skill, the better your mastery of [...]
More than three years ago, the Microsoft Visual Basic team set out to createVisual Basic .NET. At that time managers would kid the development team bysaying that they were making only three “simple” changes to Visual Basic 6: anew runtime system, a new development environment, and a new compiler.The Visual Basic development team spent the [...]
Marketing practice is now busy integrating the potential of information and communication technologies through theutilization of databases and Internet marketing. Billions of potential consumers can now be reached this way.Nevertheless, a brief observation of the practices of marketing on the Internet show that some firms implement aggressiveactions such as pop-ups, deceiving banners and hyperlinks and [...]
Rear-End Crash Tested to 75 mph Police Interceptor is engineered and tested to with stand a 75-mph rear-end collisionwithout a fuel tank puncture.
Rear-Wheel Drive Provides more balanced handling during extreme maneuvers. Impala has a front-wheel-drive design placing the entire drive train weight over the front wheels, which increases understeer when cornering. Unlike rear-wheel drive, front-wheel [...]
