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VB Zone
(06/26/09)
With the Microsoft WinSock Control and a few coding tricks, you can use Access as a high-performance syslog sender, receiver, and logger.
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(02/09/09)
Microsoft has been building data binding frameworks for years. Each one promises to solve our data binding woes forever. We're still waiting for the perfect one—but we're getting closer!
(01/27/09)
Writing popular programming articles involves focusing on the basics: topic suitability, audience needs, clarity, interest—and brevity.
(01/26/09)
CSLA.NET for Silverlight provides Silverlight developers with a multitude of features from the full version of CSLA, including data binding, validation and business rules, authorization, abstract data persistence, consistent coding, and business logic encapsulation.
(01/22/09)
Setting properties and handling events in Windows Presentation Foundation are fundamentally different than they were in Windows Forms. Find out how to deal with properties and events in both XAML and WPF-targeted code.
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(01/09/09)
Learn how to use Windows Presentation Foundation to build engaging, dynamic user interfaces that can really grab the user's attention.
(12/24/08)
Using domain-specific languages (DSLs) and F# computation expressions will save you from writing UI code. Find out how.
(12/22/08)
Are you tired of Windows Explorer in Vista changing your folder views? Here's a registry tweak that solves the problem.
(12/15/08)
Microsoft has been building data binding frameworks for years, and each promises to solve our data binding woes forever. But we're still waiting for the perfect one. Could WPF data binding be the one we've been waiting for?
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Novell Teams With Ingres for SUSE Linux
Open source vendor Novell is looking to broaden its SUSE Linux footprint with a new partnership with the database vendor Ingres that promises to make life easier for developers.
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CodePlex Launches Network Monitoring Project
Microsoft's open source CodePlex Foundation launches its second project gallery, opening with NetMons Parser project, providing network monitor parsers for open standard protocols.
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Microsoft Previews IE 9
Software giant makes ambitious pitch to developer community with platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, a browser it promises will enable a 'whole new class of applications.'
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Digg Dumps MySQL for Cassandra
The social networking and voting site is migrating from the MySQL database to Cassandra, an open source non-relational database.
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Google Unveils Apps Marketplace
Search giant debuts online shop for apps, expanding beyond its own App Engine to offer developers working in other frameworks an integration into the marketplace.
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Apache Project CouchDB Taking to the Cloud
Thanks to some commercial support from Cloudant, open source NoSQL database project CouchDB is getting ready to take to the cloud, offering an "organic" alternative to conventional relational databases.
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Twitter Surpasses 70,000 Apps
Biz Stone, co-founder of the popular microblogging service, notes the growth of the company and the launch of its first developer event.
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Oracle Says OpenSolaris Will Stay Open Source
Seeking to ease concerns about the future of the OpenSolaris project following the acquisition of Sun, Oracle is assuring the community that it will keep OpenSolaris available as open source, and invest heavily in its development.
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You Cant Teach Expertise
Over the past several weeks, I've had the obligatory parental experience of teaching a teenager to drive. This can be a nerve-wracking process as the new driver learns the mechanics of controlling the car: steering, using the pedals, shifting gears,...
What If Oracle OpenWorld Did Swallow JavaOne?
Does Oracle's acquisition of Sun mean a merger of their flagship conferences, Oracle OpenWorld and Sun's JavaOne, into a single co-located show? For Java developers, feeling like second-class citizens would be an unavoidable consequence.
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