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Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Introduction

Author: Herwig H10162 This is the first post in a short series on using the jqGrid jQuery plug-in with ASP.NET MVC. In this short introduction I will describe the plug-in, list some of its strengths and weaknesses, and explain why we selected it for our MVC applications. In the next few days, I will give detailed information about how to use the grid in your own applications. jqGrid provides a…
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DataSnap Server Methods Parameters

Author: Jim T1392 Delphi 2009 introduced support for DataSnap server methods. If you are not familiar with this feature, here are two articles that describe server methods: DataSnap 2009 Overview , Getting Started with Delphi DataSnap 2009. DataSnap server methods support a…
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Customizing jQuery Validation

Author: Andrew Bond While doing some bug fixing and cleanup in a web application, I had the chance to go a little deeper into the jQuery user input validation framework. There are many tutorials available about implementing custom validations. But what I wanted to do was to extend the default validations with my own code, while preserving the existing functionality, and to do it site-wide. So…
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My quotes.txt file

Author: Rudy Velthuis I have often been asked about the quotes I use when writing to the newsgroups. These come from a file called quotes.txt, and are placed under my messages by my news client, XanaNews, by some kind of random process. Although, sometimes the quotes are so…
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Showing Download Progress in Delphi SOAP

Author: deepak S1409 Download the code for this white paper (dlprogress.zip, 12 KB) Abstract This paper talks about how you can show a download “progress” bar (like many download utilities do) when using SOAP to transfer data. I’ve used Delphi 7 in this article, and made some code changes to the source code, so this might not work with any other version of Delphi.
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Basic Authentication in Delphi 7 SOAP

Author: Tóth Erik Back after a break. It’s been quite a while since I wrote, so I’ll cut to the chase. Question on newsgroups: How do I set username/password for Basic Authentication on SOAP. Issues: The HTTPRio.HTTPWebNode.UserName and .Password properties…
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Making "Stay-on-top-forms" do want you want

Author: Embarcadero USA Delphi supports this type of forms by providing the FormStyle property for the TForm class. All you have to do is to set this property to fsStayOnTop. So why did I write this article? Well, there are a few things to consider: Using fsStayOnTop…
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Playing WAV and MIDI files Using DirectX Audio with Delphi

Author: Embarcadero USA DirectX Overview Conducting a survey about what game programming API used by most of game softwares running on PC, I am sure that, DirectX will be on top list. Nowdays, DirectX had become a mature API for game programming on Windows platform. It makes game developer’s life easier. In old days of game programming history, game…
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