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Microsoft Expression Blend Unleashed is not only about learning a new designer tool; it targets both developers and designers, showing both a new way of thinking about UI development. Expression
o, you’ve decided to try building a mobile application. You’re looking for a lot of control over the user experience and you’d also like access to various device features: sound,
here is no question that the web is an unprecedented success. It is the single most adventurous and useful platform for information exchange ever conceived and built. The architectural choices
ector graphics abound on the web, and they come in a variety of formats, including Flash and SVG. HTML Canvas, one of the newer incarnations, occupies a different niche from
ource control is an important aspect in software development even if you are not doing team development. It can help you manage your application more efficiently and make sure that
You can set your computer’s name using the SetComputerName function, which is available in kernel32.dll: //Codeusing System.Runtime.InteropServices; [DllImport(“kernel32.dll”)] static extern bool SetComputerName(string lpComputerName); bool status = SetComputerName(“MyDen”);
Did you know you can set multiple fonts for several controls using a simple CFont object in MFC? Using the Detach() method, which disassociates the associated window object from a
Whenever a class is referenced in a Java program, the class is loaded using the class loader from the JVM’s bootstrap or from the application-server. This often becomes a problem
he core concept of the semantic web is integrating and using data from different sources. Using semantic web technologies such as RDF/RDFS and the SPARQL query language to integrate and
ost people do not realize how difficult it can be to process a digital image and extract meaningful data, such as information required to drive a robot or operate an
colleague of mine, a database programmer who had spent some time working with an early XQuery implementation, once referred to the language as the smiley language. When I asked whether
Cloud computing has been getting an increasing amount of press recently, because it offers attractive solutions to a number of business problems. Cloud computing translates to “hosted applications;” a hosting
isual Basic 9 has a new set of language features that allows developers to work with XML in a much more productive way using a new API called “LINQ to
en years after the ratification of the first ISO C++ standard, C++ is heading for no less than a revolution. C++0x, the new C++ standard due in 2009, brings a
ne major new feature in the C++0x standard is multi-threading support. Prior to C++0x, any multi-threading support in your C++ compiler has been provided as an extension to the C++
very C++ programmer has had one of those days: A simple use of a template library turns into a nightmare, with pages upon pages of error messages streaming out of
Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming language, is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He has always been
or most enterprise architects, the value proposition of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is clear: SOA enables flexibility, agility and re-use benefits that are broadly recognized throughout the software development community. You
indBugs is an open-source static analysis tool designed to find bugs in your Java code. Unlike many other static analysis tools, however, FindBugs concentrates almost exclusively on isolating potentially dangerous
At a lunch conference yesterday, Yahoo! released Fire Eagle out of beta. This API allows you to broadcast your location to whomever you want, automatically or manually via your phone.
previous article on XForms in OpenOffice showed how to create a simple XForm in OpenOffice. My introduction to this particular technology came while working on the Danish UBL project, which
Amidst a flurry of announcements about the foundation at last week’s LinuxWorld, LiMo’s Morgan Gillis held a kind of “state of the foundation” session on Wed., describing the foundation’s seemingly
The following code shows you how to develop a simple Java application that can play MP3 files. This application is based on JMF (Java Media Framework). import javax.media.*;import java.io.*;import java.net.URL;
An easy way to identify the execution path of the current assembly is to retrieve the read-only AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory property. Note that Environment.CurrentDirectory property (read-write) also does the same, as long
In SQL Server Management Studio, you can use the Alt key in your keyboard to select blocks of text to execute. For instance, sometimes I create a SQL script to
In today’s world of fast food, fast cars, and instant gratification, people expect to be in touch at all times. We have become conditioned to staying in touch with businesses,
he traditional ASMX web service request/response communication model is limiting, because it is passive?in other words, web services return results only when called by client code. For example, imagine a
f you develop Web applications that have an international target audience, then you have to take internationalization into account—a process that includes avoiding date/time or currency confusions and delivering all
his series of articles addresses functional programming, the main concepts and differences compared to other paradigms, and how F# helps you get up to speed and produce results. This article
