Ever since the MX 2004 announcement, lots of you have been asking about HomeSite wanting to know if that product is being upgraded too. You'll be pleased to know that HomeSite 5.5 is in the works. Information can be found at the HomeSite homepage at http://www.macromedia.com/software/homesite/, new...
is used to execute a process (executable, batch file, script, etc.) on the server. can save any generated output to a file or write it to the screen, and so many of us would wrap calls in between and tags so as to save generated output in a variable. As of ColdFusion MX 6.1 this is no longer...
Several CFMX 6.1 users have reported receiving a "Required user name is missing." error when using , , , and . The problem occurs only if there is no username and password specified for the datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator, and only if using the four mentioned tags (it does not affect )....
A reader this morning asked me if there was a way to check if a block of text was XML. My initial reaction was to say "just use the IsXML() function", but that I checked and discovered that CFML does not have an IsXML() function. It has an IsXMLDoc() function, but that checks to see if a passed...
Are you planning on attending MAX (the conference formerly known as DevCon)? If so, and if you are interested in Web Services, you may want to attend my hands-on "Using Web Services with ColdFusion" session. Hands-on sessions tend to sell out first, so if you are interested in this one you may want...
A 15 page ColdFusion MX 6.1 performance brief has been posted on the Macromedia web site at http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/whitepapers/pdf/6_1/cfmx61_performancebrief.pdf. Based on these numbers it looks like we lied about the performance gains in this new version, it's not what we...
This wasn't always possible, and I don't know when it become possible, but as I am working with Java CFX code now and am using this feature I thought I'd share. The CFXAPI (used in creating CFX tags in C/C++ or Java) exposes a limited subset of the ColdFusion world to your code. One of the things...
If you are writing CFC methods that are exposed as Web Services, then you may want to be able to determine exactly how your method is being invoked (as a CFC or as a Web Service). I'd been struggling with this one for a while, and today Tom Jordahl came to my rescue with the following function. You...
This one slipped under the radar for lots of folks, but if you are using COM objects from within CFML code then it is important. CFMX 6.1 added a new function named ReleaseComObject(), which does exactly what its name suggests. In the past ColdFusion did its own cleanup (eventually) and this caused...
I discovered one minor problem when upgrading from CFMX to CFMX6.1, it looks like GetTickCount() changed and it is now returning a value that is very different from what was returned previously. If you use GetTickCount() to return a value that is to be compared to another GetTickCount() value then...