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Five XML in .NET tips
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JAXP facilitates DOM development with Java
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Huffman coding in Python
We'll show you how to implement Huffman encoding, which is useful when dealing with small sets of items, such as character strings, in Python. Read more »
Speeding up code documentation
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Create a VB6 grid control your users can modify
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Comparing strings with and without case sensitivity in VB.NET
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-- As a .NET developer, there are a few “best practices” that you should always consider. And one of the biggest is that every application you write should include error trapping to trap critical and non-critical errors that may occur. And the .NET framework makes it easy to use “Try… Catch” statements to intercept any errors that occur and allow you to handle the exception. Read more »
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