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My previous article on Silverlight demonstrated how to use the MediaElement control to playback media files. This bare-bones control simply plays back a media file?it does not have visual controls
he Ruby language’s conciseness makes it great for development?fewer lines of code means reduced development time and maintenance costs. Rails, the Ruby-based web application framework, can be equally developer-friendly, but
ingletons, stream objects, and other classes must disable copying and assignment. However, C++ doesn’t yet provide a direct mechanism for disabling copying. Another related problem exists with undesirable conversions of
ny user-centric application you write will require some sort of data integration?at minimum, you’ll need to retrieve some data and display it in the user interface. Often, applications must retrieve
s the line between the desktop and the web blurs, more applications are taking advantage of the best of both worlds. Adobe AIR and JavaFX are prime examples of frameworks
Ever wish you could have your RMI application notify you when it’s using the distributed garbage collector? Sometimes it’s useful to know when a RMI server “kills” an object. Just
Here’s an example of how to use XSLT 2.0’s new character-map element to replace a character (or group of characters) with another character (or group of characters) on the transformation
More and more Windows applications are internationalized to take advantage of the global marketplace. However, multi-byte string handling functions may impact program’s performance and should not be used with single-byte
Maybe you’ve noticed that when a DataSet’s date columns are passed to a remote web server or web service whose time zone differs from that of the client, the date
# 3.0 includes a few syntactical additions to the language. For the most part, Microsoft added these language additions to support Language Integrated Query (LINQ). These features include (but are
calable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML specification for producing vector-based graphic content that you can create, modify, and manipulate dynamically from programming languages. Here, you’ll explore the most important
ne of the fundamental visions of the semantic web is the ability to provide improved technologies for machine-processable data. The current web is a swell place for people, but absent
he Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) and the M2Eclipse (M2) plugin are separate projects, each with high value for the developer who uses Eclipse. WTP is a tools bundle that
oogle Maps (GM) provides a powerful online environment that you can use to provide your web application with rich interactive 2D mapping features. You can render points, lines, or areas
his article looks at a line of business application built using .NET 2.0, Windows Communication Foundation, and Visual Studio 2005 that automatically chooses the most suitable connection based on the
etting popular open source software (OSS) languages running on Microsoft .NET started when Microsoft adapted Python, creating the .NET version called IronPython. The latest OSS project to get the Microsoft
asily customizable and configurable software is becoming increasingly important, and a flexible interface for searching is one way in which software is becoming more configurable. The key to achieving flexibility
ou undoubtedly know by now that Visual Studio 2008 was released to manufacturing in November, just in time for Christmas. It comes wrapped up with a new version of Visual
ith the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0, contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced Language
The code below contains standard, pre-defined macros used at runtime to determine whether a C or C++ compiler was used to compile the code. For C compilers, it also determines
To get the current date, your first instinct is probably to use the java.util.Date class. However, this class has so many deprecated methods that it’s probably best to ignore it.
In ASP.NET, a web form’s title is determined by the HTML View’s Title attribute. However, there is no property in the default (or any other namespace) that helps you to
hen you need to develop a web form with a special design and great effects, you will probably elect to use Flash. But building and programming Flash forms is considerably
he book A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux walks you through every feature and technique you need to know about Ubuntu Linux, from installing Ubuntu—using the DVD included with the
ith the release of Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft has updated the C# language to its latest version, 3.0. C# 3.0, contains several key language enhancements that support the recently-announced Language
f you’ve ever worked with sophisticated database systems or large applications you’ve probably accumulated sizable libraries of stored procedure code. Such libraries typically hold a few hundred stored procedures, ranging
he general-purpose XML transformer and/or validator discussed here, named “XmlTransform” operates on an arbitrarily deep directory tree containing files you want to transform. As output it optionally generates multi-level indices
ne complaint about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 was the difficulty in making changes to the environment after it was deployed. Officially, changing
racking data changes is an essential requirement in many software, application, and business-integration scenarios. Rigorously implementing this requirement is relatively difficult because modeling and working with the delta for typical
ne of Silverlight’s key strengths is its ability to provide rich, interactive features. Besides using it to perform cool animations and transformations on graphics and videos, another good use of
