As you progress to more and more complicated scripts, you will undoubtedly find yourself working with some form of data—perhaps a group of files, entries in a text file, or a group of dates. The possibilities are limitless. In any case, VBScript provides a few different facilities for handling and manipulating whatever kind of data you might be working with.
Every software engineer can testify that all kinds of projects, regardless of their purpose or how simple the requirements seem to be, deal with dates and mostly times. Fortunately, C# has built-in methods and properties that make our lives much easier. In this article we will present some of the most common techniques to manage and work with date and time variables.
Windows XP provides built-in zip file support in a feature referred to as Compressed Folders. While the compression of a Compressed Folder is not as effective as many third-party implementations, it does offer great compatibility since it is natively supported on all modern Windows platforms.
Sometimes you don't realize the shortcomings of a tool you use every day until someone comes along and redesigns it. OrdinarySoft did just that with something so ubiquitous that most of us don't even think about it. Keep reading to learn how a new Start menu for the Vista operating system can help you get more done, with greater efficiency.
Rumor has it that the .NET Framework is inaccessible from VBScript. It’s true that support for VBScript was never implied or included, and it's also true that VBScript cannot instantiate native .NET Framework classes. But that doesn’t mean that the .NET Framework is off limits for scripters—at least, not all of it.
Why has Microsoft created a home version of their server software? Well, in case you haven't noticed, a lot more people are becoming computer savvy and want to do some of the fun things that only geeks used to be able to do, such as host a web site. Will Windows Home Server let them do it without causing more problems? Keep reading to find out.
Computer programming is all about working with data. Data can be of various types and kinds and take multiple shapes and forms, but with the help of programming languages we are able to manage them seamlessly. In this article we are going to take a look at what collections are all about and how to implement them in C#. For now it’s enough if you know that under collections we understand data that’s grouped together.
As I was going through my own personal script repository, I noticed that I had compiled quite a number of simple scripts and code snippets that I had either found or created to perform simple but often necessary scripting tasks. A good many of them are workarounds developed to add functionality that is otherwise unavailable in WSH or VBScript alone. I decided to package them up and offer them to my readers.
This is my fifth article in a series focusing on Silverlight 2.0 development using Visual Studio 2008. Technically, we will have Silverlight 2.0 controls accessing a regular WCF Service and doing CRUD operations against a database using the “LINQ to SQL” model. Discuss (1)
In the old days, writing an AJAX-based web chat application often required developers to be quite familiar with client-side JavaScript programming, and to take later maintenance into consideration. In this article, Xianzhong Zhu will lead you through construction of a mini ASP.NET web chat application using the ASP.NET AJAX server centric mode.
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