By referencing the following two Microsoft Office DLLs and using the .NET code thereafter, you can convert a .ppt file into either an image file or an HTML file: Microsoft.Office.Interop.PowerPoint.dll
In the past 18 months, Google’s Android mobile operating system has been gaining momentum, to the point where some analysts believe it will inevitably take over as the dominant player
All too often, IT professionals in general and business software development companies in particular use “temporary” bad fixes that somehow never manage to get corrected. As a result, companies produce
Last summer, Microsoft announced that it planned to allow developers to license the Outlook Personal Folders .pst file format freely. Now it has begun that process with the release of
According to officials at Google, portions of the company’s back-end infrastructure are now running applications written in Go, a cross between Python and C++. “We’re already using Go internally at
New SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe says the company is committed to agile development. “We see that the traditional waterfall model is not agile enough, not fast enough to capture
At the I/O Developers conference, Google offered an overview of the new features in Android for both users and developers. At the top of the list of changes are improved
The following C# code references the System.Management namespace to retrieve information about logical drives in a system. You just need to supply the username, password and machine name for the
Social Standards: Understanding Google’s New APIs for BuzzArs Technica dissects the social networking APIs released yesterday. Wednesday at the Google I/O developers conference, the company announced the availability of a
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the best attended sessions at Google’s developer conference here this week — judging by the crowds standing in the hallway waiting for the doors to
The official Apple iPhone SDK only works on OS X and requires programmers to use Objective-C, a little used variant of C++. But Zimusoft hopes to change that with its
SAN FRANCISCO — Will it be “Chromoid” or “Androme?” Google executives said their strategy of releasing different operating systems is playing out just fine despite the potential for confusion among
SAN FRANCISCO — With its search business and catchy TV commercials for Android phones, Google has looked mostly like a consumer company. But at its Google I/O conference here Wednesday,
The Semantic Web is a great vision that began almost ten years ago, but at this point, the failures outnumber the successes by a very large margin. In order to
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. The add-on provides support for a number of Silverlight capabilities within both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual
The official release version of Linux 2.6.34 features a number of noteworthy improvements to the code. In particular, the update includes a new filesystem known as “Ceph,” which is capable
This series of articles is not just about revisiting the UML basics. It also will discuss best practices. (Go to “Useful UML Modeling: The Goldilocks Conundrum” to read part 1
Many developer teams experience conflict between their younger and their older members. In this article, Eric Spiegel argues that both groups have things they could teach the other. “Youth often
Hoping to out-do or at least keep up with the blazing speed of Google’s Chrome browser, Mozilla is prepping Firefox 4.0 to be “super-duper-fast,” noted Firefox director Mike Beltzner in
XML has been in use for over a decade and it’s now getting a boost thanks to a new standard from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). This week the
Following in the steps of Twitter and Facebook, location-based social networking service Foursquare is turning into a platform. Company co-founder Dennis Crowley knows of 100 apps based on Foursquare and
In the seemingly never-ending argument between Adobe and Apple over Flash, Adobe has responded to Steve Jobs’ critical open letter with a much gentler ad campaign. The ads boldly proclaim,
As soon as Microsoft released the latest emulator for Windows Phone 7, hackers began tearing it apart. While Microsoft insists, “The emulator is based on early code and is not
Before suggesting what type of business is right for you, I should say that there is no right or wrong here, and that there are exceptions for every rule. Many
Today, start-up Swipely announced the availability of a new social shopping service, backed by $8.5 million in capital, that would compete with established player Blippy. Not to be outdone, Blippy
A recent survey of 400 North American developers by Evans Data reveals that they aren’t happy with mobile app stores. Eighty percent said they should receive more than 70 percent
JRuby 1.5 is now available and includes 1,300 revisions and 432 bug fixes. The latest version of the Ruby variant that runs on Java Virtual Machines has been designed to
Microsoft finally launched SharePoint and Office 2010 this morning, after about 18 months of preparation, at an event for customers and partners in New York. But the thousands of people
One of the most innovative features of the iPhone and iPod Touch is the built-in accelerometer. The accelerometer allows the device to detect the orientation of the device and adapts
VMware’s Spring Source unit has announced that it has acquired GemStone Systems for an undisclosed sum. GemStone makes software for caching data across a server cluster to help scale applications.