rtificial intelligence (AI) has been in existence almost as long as computers. However, only recently have AI techniques been widely incorporated by companies to enhance traditional business applications. Building Intelligent
ritten by the inventors of the technology, Visual Studio Tools for Office is both the first and the definitive book on VSTO 2005 programming. VSTO is a set of tools
he WCF is an incremental, yet evolutionary technology that brings all the formerly distinct and separate Microsoft connectivity technologies together under a single umbrella within the System.ServiceModel namespace. Included in
nternationalization of applications is something developers have been encouraged to do for years, though all-too-frequently it doesn’t get done. But the risks of not doing so are growing ever higher.
icrosoft opened the PDC this year to a sold-out crowd eager to see the Redmond giant’s future plans. And they weren’t disappointed. Not only is Microsoft showing off future systems,
or the past several years, creating client-side JavaScript based menus using the browser’s DOM capabilities has been a popular way for developers to implement Web site navigation?so popular that there
his book provides hands-on training in using: The new code-behind model that untangles .aspx pages from their code-behind files Master pages, themes, and skins to standardize the look and feel
n the first article in this series, I discussed how to create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF; code named Avalon) applications using XAML. In a follow-up article, I discussed the new
hen developing object-oriented applications that use relational databases, creating a domain object design that’s consistent with the database design makes applications easier to understand, because domain objects typically represent real-life