(Kevin S. Goff) Although Crystal Reports provides many outstanding capabilities to help build and deliver sophisticated presentation output, I’ll present a proven collection of reusable practices and methodologies that you can apply across most reporting projects to add that extra sparkle to your so

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(J. Ambrose Little) Did you know that the .NET Framework has no built-in functionality to sort custom type collections? This article provides you with an easy way to use T-SQL-like sort expressions to sort your custom type collections and explains how this great utility works under the hood.

(Phillip Perkins) WSE helps developers build scalable, secure Web services that cross security domains. It also supports sending SOAP messages using transports other than HTTP. Another feature is the ability to build a SOAP router, so SOAP messages could be sent to a SOAP router and the router will

(Keith Brown) Understanding just what user profiles are, and how they interact with the Windows registry system is key to keeping a secure system. Making sure that your programs store settings in the user-specific settings trees, rather than the program directory, will help keep passwords and other

(William Moore, Corville Allen, Ralf Bracht, Sook Chua, Daniel Koch and Donato Marrazzo) This IBM Redbook focuses on issues associated with the integration of an existing enterprise information system (EIS) into a new Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and other service-oriented application

(Robert L. Bogue) One singleton can be an extremely valuable tool for enhancing performance. This is particularly true when there is always just one physical object. In traditional programming, you would instantiate a class as an object every time you need a specific instance of an object. For i

(Sunil Patil) Nowadays a lot of work is going on in the object-relational (OR) mapping field, with Hibernate having seemingly taken the lead over other frameworks. But there is one problem with object-relational mapping tools: most database administrators seem not to be very comfortable with the que

(Rajan Chandras) If the term “enterprise information integration” isn’t immediately clear, there’s a reason: EII is a broad notion that raises more questions than it answers. How do you know if EII is right for your organization? What are the challenges of implementing EII? Above all, what does

(Jonathan Goodyear) One of my personal pet peeves is when I go to a conference or user group meeting and someone is doing a marketecture demo. That is, they are showing how something can be done, but are doing so in a manner that no self-respecting programmer would ever do in a production system of