Paul Stovell gets development questions and he's not afraid to answer them. "I recieved an email this morning as from Steve Pietrek, a Delphi programmer moving to .NET (great choice Steve!). His question essentially asked how would he go about binding a Windows Forms ComboBox to an enumeration such as this:
public enum CustomerType {
Type1 = 1,
Type2 = 2,
Type3 = 3
}
Fortunately, I figured out how to do this in Trial Balance about a week ago, so I thought I’d share my approach here.
The values in an enumeration (Type1, Type2, Type3 in this
Adrian K. writes a fantastic article about how to integrate XML, AJAX, and C to create an error catching system. The short story, in their words, goes: "It's kind of scary realizing that should your JavaScript fail, the only way you'll know is if some kind user lets you know. We've all seen "object x is undefined" errors and so on, how many times have you reported the error to the webmaster? It's easy for these problems to go unnoticed for prolonged periods of time.
I have recently been getting to grips with 'AJAX' techniques, and had a magic
The Forms working group is chartered by the W3C to develop the next generation of forms technology for the world wide web. The mission is to address the patterns of intricacy, dynamism, multi-modality, and device independence that have become prevalent in Web Forms Applications around the world. The technical reports of this working group have the root name XForms due to the use of XML to express the vocabulary of the forms technology developed by the working group.
The Forms Working Group is comprised of W3C members and invited experts. The Working
Enhanced online form creation
Allowing users of varying degrees of skill and ability, on any web-enabled device, to facilitate in entering information easily, and understand when a mistake has been made.
A well organised form is easier to understand and use effectively. Jadu XForms Professional applies various techniques to help make using forms simple and accessible upon your website.
Features include:
* Branching Forms - Making it possible to branch a user to questions specifically aimed at them due to their response to a given
Abstract
This specification defines the XML Linking Language (XLink), which allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.
Status of this Document
This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used
The XML Schema WG is currently working towards the completion of XML Schema 1.1, which is intended to be mostly compatible with XML Schema 1.0 and to have approximately the same scope, but also to fix bugs and make whatever improvements we can, consistent with the constraints on scope and compatibility. A Last Call working draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes was published on 17 February 2006; a new Working Draft of XML Schema 1.1 Part 1: Structures is expected soon.
If you have suggestions for specific requirements for XML Schema 1.1 (or for
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