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Create a Generic List at Run Time

You can create a list of a specific type at run time by passing the type to the MakeGenericType method, for example: Type t = Type.GetType(“System.Int32”);IList tList= (IList)Activator.CreateInstance( (typeof(List&lt&gt).MakeGenericType(t))); tList.GetType().FullName

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Bricks and Mortar: Building a Castle

n an application built with object-oriented techniques, objects are the bricks. You construct little pieces of code encapsulated in these bricks. To build bigger structures, you need to hold these

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Publish/Subscribe Messaging Can Be Simple with WebSphere MQ

essage-oriented middleware (MOM) decouples applications by allowing them to communicate using one of two messaging models: point-to-point messaging and publish/subscribe messaging. The models differ in fundamental ways, but neither requires

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Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight

s the richness of Internet applications continues to grow through technologies such as Silverlight, AJAX, and Flash, the adoption of common desktop user interface (UI) paradigms within these applications continues

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Have You Gotten Started Yet?

It’s free to join Forum Nokia, and when you become a member, you can make the most of Nokia’s extensive development, testing, signing, go to market, and community resources. Check

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The Zen of Inversion of Control

n the surface, this article is about the techniques of dependency injection and inversion of control. Underneath, however, the article is intended to get you to think about the questions

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The Good Parasite Class Explained

y recent C++ 10-Minute Solution titled “Using a Good Parasite Class to Design a Self-Clearing Memory Buffer” was greeted with skepticism, raised eyebrows, and a torrent of questions from readers

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How Base64 Content Encoding Works

The term “Base64” refers to a specific MIME content-transfer encoding. It’s also used as a generic term for any similar encoding scheme that encodes binary data by treating it numerically

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Incrementing a C# Variable Efficiently

When you’re incrementing an object of a fundamental type, there’s no difference between prefix (++obj) and postfix (obj++) operators. However, when you’re incrementing a composite object, using the postfix operator

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Calling JTidy from Java to Convert HTML to XHTML

The open source JTidy project does an excellent job of converting HTML files to the newer XHTML standard. The following code shows how to invoke JTidy programmatically from Java: /*In:

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Using the OneWay Web Service Attribute

When you call a web service method that doesn’t return a value (a void method), you don’t want to waste time waiting until the call returns. But by default, the

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Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)

ecently I started working with a client who was interested in using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in a custom application. Having never used WF before, I thought it might be

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Why Mobilise Websites? You Can Win BIG!

Did you know that 40% of all internet users today have mobile internet access? That means mobile internet users could represent a large percentage of your site’s traffic. Are you

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Get Internet Connectivity for Your .NET Mobile Device Emulators

Often, device emulator manager software does not automatically synchronize Internet connections between your device emulator and your workstation. To get an Internet connection, you need to install additional software—either Microsoft