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Getting Started with Windows Mobile Development

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,

Eliminate Server Polling with WCF Callbacks

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

Base Concepts of Internationalization in PHP

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

An Introduction to F# for Functional Programming

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

How to Warn Users Before Their Browser Closes

Suppose a user enters some information on the page and tries to close or navigate from the window?without saving the data. You may want to warn the user about possible

Resize a Form to the Working Area on the Desktop

The code below demonstrates how to resize a form to the working area on the desktop using GetScreenRect. Private Sub frmFullScreen_Load _ (ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

Create a Menu Bar with JavaFX

Here’s a JavaFX example that creates a nice menu bar. All you need is a set of images named: home_1.bmp (unpressed), home_2.bmp (pressed), news_1.bmp, news_2.bmp,contact_1.bmp, contact_2.bmp, photos_1.bmp and photos_2.bmp: import

What’s New in ASP.NET 3.5?

icrosoft released Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 in November 2007. I have good news and, depending on your perspective, I have either bad news or good news. If you

Understanding Windows Mobile Security

ne topic you really need to understand when deploying Windows Mobile applications is security. Often, developers spend a lot of time developing and testing their applications on emulators. However, applications

Riding the Semantic Web Fence

The semantic web turned me into a flip-flopper. I’ve heard from both the positive and negative camps. The positive camp thinks the semantic web will revolutionize the web. The negative

Doclets: Decipher and Document Java Code Easily

rying to understand the logic of an unfamiliar Java project can be taxing. Learning the project’s code is even more difficult when there is no knowledge transfer from the developer(s)

Calling C Libraries from .NET

Suppose your library is in C and and your code is in .NET or VC++ (for a UI-based application). Further, suppose you want to display a message box whenever the

Relational Database Integration with RDF/OWL

WL ontologies allow you to describe data and relationships between data items. Common examples of this include complex knowledge domains such as pharmacology, but you can use OWL ontologies with

SharePoint Applied: CAML, Your New Pet

harePoint is a powerful platform that gives you a very easy-to-setup place in which to put data. But you know what happens when you have a tool like SharePoint? People

Network Know-How: Finding Shortest Paths

n my Taming Trees series of articles (see the Related Resources for links), I explained how you can store and manipulate hierarchical data. Those articles showed how to build trees,

ASP.NET 2.0’s Project Health Monitoring Feature

ASP.NET 2.0 provides much needed project health monitoring through its Health Monitoring feature. Simply add few tags and their values in Web.Config and your project will be automatically monitored. This

When Is Open Source Not That Open Source?

Setting the legal nuances of the chosen open source license aside, wouldn’t two products under any open source license have the same claim to the open source moniker? Maybe so

Manipulate the Components of a JNDI Composite Name

This following code shows you how to list, add, and remove components from a JNDI composite name (javax.naming.CompositeName): import javax.naming.*;class jndiCompositeName{ public static void compositeComponents(CompositeName cn) { for(int i=0;i&ltcn.size();i++) System.out.println(cn.get(i));

Applying SKOS Concept Schemes

nyone who has started to look into the semantic web has inevitability seen the Semantic Web Layer Cake diagram some place. This ubiquitous image highlights an overall (and evolving) vision

Managing an Agile Software Project

verything right or wrong with a software project is management’s fault. Either management staffed the right people or the wrong people. Management was absent or involved. Management is hard, and