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Determining Who Has Opened a Shared Folder

Ever forgot to un-share a folder that you shared with a colleague or friend? Ever forgotten the path of a folder that you shared? Want to know who has opened

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The Pros and Cons of Virtual Machines in the Datacenter

y organization has been using VMware and Xen virtualization products for a few years for several purposes, including testing of new software configurations, development, and consolidation of production servers. We

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The Developer’s Guide to Building Virtual PCs

irtual PCs are extremely useful for development, testing, and setting up deployments that require applications to be isolated from one another. During the past year or so, I’ve built more

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A Developer’s Eye View of Virtual Machines

n a world of multiple operating systems, each with various versions, no developer has the luxury of building applications for only one target configuration. Every developer needs to ensure that

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A Link to LINQ

ML, Arrays, DataSets, database tables, collections of all types?all these have a common attribute; they are data stores that hold sets of data values or objects grouped together for some

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Introduction to Tablet PC Development

f you are familiar with development on PCs using Microsoft’s tools, you already know most of what you need to develop for Tablet PCs. The main addition in the Tablet

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The Modern World of Mobility

recall my first laptop computer. During my first year of college, I purchased an NEC laptop from my college advisor, Art Sanchez. This computer was sweet. Here’s the list of

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Welcome Letter from the Tablet PC Team

Welcome to the CoDe Magazine Focus issue on Tablet PC and Mobile PC application development. On behalf of the Mobile PC Business Unit at Microsoft (see Figure 1), I’d like

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Protecting Freed Memory

When you’re freeing memory, remember to set the memory contents to 0 so no other malicious program can read it after it’s been freed. //For example#define DATA_SIZEBOOL function(){ char pszData

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Simplify .NET Debugging with SmartInspect

fficient software debugging is definitely an acquired talent. Most programmers have some ideas on how to do it when they first get started but typically can’t handle a large complex

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Rapid Java Web Application Development with Tapestry

he J2EE world is full of development frameworks, all designed to simplify tedious low-level programming tasks and allow the programmer to get on with more interesting business-related stuff. The most

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How to Create a Windows Installer for an SWT Application

ative Windows installers offer unparalleled integration with the operating system, as well as a familiar installation process for your users?they just double-click on the installer, click Next a few times,

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Taming Friends for Use in Templates

any design patterns and programming idioms rely on the use of friend declarations. However, when friend declarations are used in templates, the obfuscated syntax can bewilder even expert programmers. This