Technology Questions

It Return true if the argument is not a number.

Joins are used to combine data of one or more tables. Joins should be used when there is abundant data. Joins can be LEFT, RIGHT, OUTER, INNER or even SELF JOIN. The purpose is to bind data from multiple tables without any receptivity

switches are configured using the .config file

<system.diagnostics>

<switches>

<add name="MyTraceSwitch" value="1" />

<add name="TraceSwitch2" value="1" />

</switches>

</system.diagnostics>

both are on.

XAML is a markup language used to define dynamic or static UIs for .NET applications. Though Windows Vista would be used to design XAML UIs, they can be applied to Windows XP or Windows 2003 too.

XAML is similar to MVC in terms of the separation of the UI code from application logic.

XAML is bound to Windows Presentation foundation to build a UI in .NET 3.0 and Windows Vista.

XAML Features:

- XAML inherits all XML definitions and rules.

- It also contains HTML, XHTML and other markup languages for UI.

- Every XAML element represents a .NET CLR class due to which working with XAML becomes simple.

- The application logic can be put in a separate file or be embedded in XAML file itself as XAML in conjunction with Windows Presentation Foundation model to provide the developers design a good UI in ASP.NET.

- XAML files get compiled to BAML files which are smaller than XAML and easier to read which make them faster to load.

Oracle database comprises of three kinds of files:
- Datafiles
- Redo log files
- Control files

A throw is used to throw an exception manually, where as throws is used in the case of checked exceptions, to tell the compiler that we haven't  handled the exception, so that the exception will be handled by the calling function.

A NSArray’s contents can not be modified once it’s been created whereas a NSMutableArray can be modified as needed, i.e items can be added/removed from it.

Requirements gathering, functional design and business process, change management etc are very critical tasks for a business analyst.