t takes an engaged audience and compelling experiences to reach success on the web. Using Windows Live Services, your site can provide engaging experiences that connect directly with hundreds of
The 2008 Semantic Technologies conference wrapped up this week and I walked away with a feeling of (yawn) nothing much going on here. True, the conference did have a record-breaking
roviding programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephens presents a broad, solid understanding of essential
icrosoft has recently updated its latest Windows Mobile 6 platform with a point one release–Windows Mobile 6.1. With so many new devices from handsets giants such as LG, Samsung, and
penSocial, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) based on standard HTML and JavaScript, simplifies the creation of web-based applications that interact with social networks. Launched by Google in November
Business computing today works largely on a flawed vision of reality. For example, consider an inventory-management application. The system holds a list of items in a database, such that: When
ow in its sixth major release, Virtual Earth offers an entire world of opportunities for innovative web-based mapping. Whether you sell real estate, track assets, need a store locator, or
s clients ask for more complex dashboards that integrate data from their accounting systems, you’ll find that Performance Point Server (PPS) can help you answer the call. It’s quite hard
With the .NET framework, you can build Windows Forms applications (those that run on your local machine) or Web Form applications (those that run in your browser). A Windows Form
This morning, Yahoo announced a new search platform, called “SearchMonkey,” which allows developers to change Yahoo’s plain-vanilla search results into attractive customized results that can display information differently (or even
recently got fed up with using the usual shared-directories mechanism to implement file sharing. Not only are there too many permissions to define at the administrator level, it also requires
indows Presentation Foundation (WPF) not only lets you do new things, it lets you do familiar things in new ways. As we’re all developers, rather than going through the background
The SQL GRANT command is used to grant access privileges to database objects and role authorizations. For example, the following statement grants the user username the right to SELECT tabname:
In many situations, it’s wiser to use DataReader instead of a DataSet. However, DataReader is limited due to its inability to transform data rows into a suitable holder, like DataTable.
To customize error reports in StAX applications (except fatal errors), you can configure an XMLReporter like this: XMLInputFactory XMLif=null; //get an XMLInputFactory objectXMLif=XMLInputFactory.newInstance();//setting an XMLReporterXMLif.setXMLReporter(new XMLReporter() { public void report(String
Dean Allemang gave an extremely informative talk at JavaOne today in the session, “Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist.” I walked away thinking the term Semantic Web is misnamed. And
isual Studio is chock full of classes to implement exotic data structures such as collections, hash tables, and dictionaries. One notable data structure that’s missing is the tree. Trees are
Such was Sun developer Terrence Barr’s lament Tuesday night when he asked his Birds of a Feather session participants if they agreed with his portrayal of the arduous and frustrating
The “Developing Semantic Web Application on the Java Platform” session just wrapped up at the Moscone Center. Did the panel discuss Java to the audience of Java developers in attendance?
he auto keyword presented here is related to another C++09 proposal: the decltype operator. decltype(e) retrieves the type of the expression e. By combining decltype and auto, you can simplify
Yesterday at JavaOne, Sun Microsystems announced support for the BDLive.com Developer’s disc. So, what is BD Live? It consists of software and network services that allow the quick creation of
If I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought I was at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas yesterday morning instead of the opening keynote at the JavaOne 2008 Conference in
n general, when a user drags and drops data from an external application onto your Windows application, you need to determine the structure of the data being passed in and
he Semantic Web is a grand vision for increasing the power of the web through better expression and management of context. Semantic Web developers are building a framework to open
If you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, you may not have heard about the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week. As I’m the Mistress
he new platform security features in S60 3rd Edition required several changes to the whole Python for S60 framework. Without these modifications, S60 3rd Edition can’t be supported by Python
n an ideal world, words like cryptography and security wouldn’t even exist, but the real world is far from perfect, so software developers have to spend a good deal of
gile software development has arrived in a big way. I know you’re probably thinking, “Wow! Rod, you are really on top of things.” I know that agile methodologies have been
arl Franklin: Let’s bring on Don. Don Demsak, a.k.a. DonXML, is an independent consultant based out of New Jersey. He specializes in building enterprise applications with .NET. He’s a Microsoft
The launch of the DevXtra Editors’ Blog is bound to raise the YAB (yet another blog) questions: Why, and why now? Those are fair in an age when everyone with