SMS messaging may have it's drawbacks, but it's benefits make it a viable solution for many of today's enteprise applications. This article uses a sample hospital application to show you how to integrate SMS messaging using the .NET Compact Framework.

Windows are moveable and resizable; graphics and controls inside applications are not. The second part of this article explains how to design complex moveable and resizable graphical objects and use moveable and resizable elements in your Windows Forms applications.

Build a system to securely talk to your Linux server via email using an email client, GnuPG, procmail, and PHP.

ASP.NET 3.5 and LINQ provide the greatest amount of functionality yet for building data-aware web applications. Even if you prefer to write stored procedures, you can still leverage some of LINQ to SQL functionality for accessing stored procedures inside .NET.

C++03 offers no portable mechanism for querying the alignment of a certain type, let alone overriding the default alignment. This vexing state of affairs is about to change with the addition of two new built-in operators to C++0x.

Learn the differences between the various types of custom controls, and find out how to integrate your controls into Visual Studio and make them easy to use.

OpenCalais and Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey both focus on document metadata. OpenCalais is a new toolkit that allows you to incorporate semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application. Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey API allows you to connect data services from around the world and integrate them into the Yahoo! search engine.

You can use Live Search on your site through the Live Search Box or by using the Windows Live Search API.

Histograms help people analyze large amounts of data, whether you display them as tables or as charts. This article shows you how to do both.