Newest Articles Accessing Business Data in WPF Applications By Jani Järvinen - Published 08/19/2008 Many WPF demos focus on slick graphics and designer user interfaces. While this is all good, those regular business database applications will eventually make the transition from WinForms to WPF. Learn how to get started accessing business data in your WPF applications.
Building a Simple BlackBerry Application Interface By Jeff Langr - Published 08/14/2008 Building applications for the BlackBerry involves a few interesting wrinkles. Explore some of these challenges in building a front end for a new BlackBerry unit testing framework.
Explore the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework By Alex Gusev - Published 08/13/2008 The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), is a powerful and flexible platform for rapidly creating embedded device firmware with Microsoft Visual Studio. Now is just the right time to explore this new world.
SQL Server 2008: First Impressions By William R. Vaughn - Published 08/13/2008 Pulling your hair out trying to get the SQL Server 2008 Sample AdventureWorks databases installed? If so, you've come to the right place; this article makes it easy(ier).
Why Portal or Why Not Portal? By Jeffrey Ryan - Published 08/11/2008 Many developers and software architects question why they should use a portal framework to create their websites. Perhaps a better question is why not use a portal framework to create your website. Read on to learn how a portal framework knits together the architectural elements related to user experience.
Android: A Brief Introduction By Shane Conder - Published 08/08/2008 Discover Android, an open source mobile platform being developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance.
Using Neural Networks and OLAP Tools to Make Business Decisions By Marcia Gulesian - Published 08/07/2008 Enterprise data is the lifeblood of a corporation, but it's useless if it's left to languish in data silos. Data warehousing and mining provide the tools to bring data out of the silos and put it to use.
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Simple WCF Services By Dan Rigsby - Published 08/13/2008
After reviewing the basics of services, see how to create a simple service using Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
ASP.NET Request/Response By Paul Hacker - Published 08/01/2008
Explore how to use the ASP.NET Request and Response objects to interact with a Web site. You'll discover how to parse the HTML from any Web site in order to find anything you want.
Shelving Source in TFS By Paul Hacker - Published 07/17/2008
Discover how to take advantage of version control features in Team Foundation Server without fully checking in software.
Highlighted Tutorials Working with Images in Google's Android By Chunyen Liu -
Google's new mobile platform, Android, has become increasingly popular among developers even without hardware available on the market yet. Discover where to get the right software APIs and documentation as well as what technologies are supported. Then, you will focus on the technologies for images by working through an example.
Working With Design Patterns: Interpreter By Jeff Langr -
Many of the design patterns lead a double life—the structure of some patterns are exactly alike, but the intent differs. An interpreter is a composite whose purpose is to support interpretation of a simple grammar.
Jython Reborn By Chris McAvoy -
Jython is back! With recent investment from Sun Microsystems, Jython is poised to take the JVM by storm. Create apps with the agility of Python and the speed of Java with Jython.
Python Tutorial Index Page By Richard G. Baldwin -
Want to learn a new programming language and looking into Open Source for an option? Python may suit your needs.
Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases By Mike Gunderloy -
You are probably still pumping data in and out of a database, just as we all did a
decade or more ago. That makes it all the more surprising that mistakes are still being made that date back to the good old days of Windows 95 and before.
The 4C Architecture Blueprinting Process By Jeff Ryan -
City plans and zoning boards. Building codes and inspectors. These concepts are quite familiar in the field of urban planning. Do they really apply to enterprise architecture? Read on to learn about creating your own city plan using the 4C architecture blueprinting process.
Roles Within The Development Community By Robert Bogue -
This series of articles will help you understand where various positions and skill sets fit within the development industry. Each article describes a specific role, defines the skills that position uses, and outlines what to expect from the position: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Code: XML Serializer Published 08/11/2008 By anuvk - Serialize and deserialize XML files and XML buffer with this set of macros and classes. The serializer uses ATL String and ATL collections. Get the object representations of XML files and a means to store and load objects to and from XML.
Slow Chat with the MS Visual Basic Team Published 08/08/2008 By Bradley Jones - VBForums had a Slow Chat with some of the members of the Microsoft Visual Basic team. Find out what's new and important with VB here.
Tip: String Wrapper for Formatted String Output in C++ Published 08/07/2008 By Michael Furman - Learn how to construct a simple and lean string class wrapper that allows you to send formatted output to a string directly.
The Threading Methodology used at Intel has four major steps: Analysis, Design & Implementation, Debugging, and Performance Tuning. These steps are used to create a multithreaded application from a serial base code. While the use of software tools for the first, third, and fourth steps is well documented, there hasn't been much written about how to do the Design & Implementation part of the process.
