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Silverlight 2 SDK for Visual Studio 2008
This package is an add-on to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2008 to provide tooling for Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 1. It provides a Silverlight project system for developing Silverlight applications using C# or Visual Basic.
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Article: What Does it Take to Build the Best RIA?
With the proliferation of Rich Interactive Application (RIA) platform choices out there, you no longer have to take a one-size-fits-all approach to developing your next RIA application. Knowing the strengths (and weaknesses) of each platform can help you to decide the best RIA for your next application.
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Expression Blend 2.5 Preview
Use Expression Blend 2.5 to create and modify managed Silverlight 2-based applications. Expression Blend for Silverlight 2 includes all of the features in Expression Blend 2 but has not reached the quality level of Expression Blend 2 for WPF or Silverlight 1 development. »
The Hottest Mobile Platform Meets the Hottest RIA Platform
With the Symbian OS now supporting Microsoft Silverlight, mobile developers can bring new and exciting capabilities to handsets all over the globe. Find out why developers now need to make mobile devices a core part of their RIA development strategy.
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Article: Leveraging Your Flash Development with Silverlight
You're not giving up Flash any time soon (and we don't blame you.) But if you could get your Flash application working in Silverlight, why wouldn't you? We show you the tools and techniques required to have your rockin' Flash application rolled for Silverlight.
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Wt: C++ Web Toolkit Library Lets You Write Scripting-Independent Web Apps
Rating: none Victor Volkman - 06/06/2008 Tired of over-committing to one web scripting technology only to get derailed by the client's browser? Wt will insulate your application logic from the bumpy ride of trying to guess the right web platform for your apps.
Edit (Add/Remove/Modify) ARP Table
Rating: Usama El-Mokadem - 01/16/2008 Use this simple tool to display and modify the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), such as Windows command-line arp.exe.
Distributed Network Object
Rating: Ejaz Anwer - 10/22/2007 Learn to use the "Network Distributed Object Model" to have a simplified way of performing network communication at the object level.
[Updated] Step by Step Developing a SOHO HTTP Filter
Rating: Reza Shadmani - 08/27/2007 Most available web filters work inline, meaning that all outgoing and incoming packets are passed through a filter driver. This approach along with its own benefits has a big flaw; the filtering process affects data transfer throughput. Learn about an experimental remedy to this issue by putting the filter engine in sniffer mode. This way, the filtering process and data transfer act independently.
[Updated] XML Data Binding
Rating: Simon Sprott - 07/17/2007 XML Data Binding allows you to manipulate an XML document via a set of simple objects. Learn about the generation of these objects, and see a summary of the existing products on the market.
XSD Tutorial: XML Schemas For Beginners
Rating: Simon Sprott - 05/24/2007 This five-part article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas, showing how and when to use them.
RSS 2.0: Really Simple Syndication
Rating: none Andrew Watt - 05/02/2007 Walk through the components of an RSS 2.0 feed for building your own feeds either by hand or programmatically.
Future-Proofing Your URIs
Rating: Erik Bruchez - 04/18/2007 Look at how to design your web application URIs to ensure you give them the maximum lifespan possible from Professional Web 2.0 Programming co-author Erik Bruchez.
TIP: IE URL History Tool (Yet Another)
Rating: none arkadi - 04/10/2007 Discover a command line tool and tutorial to manage Internet Explorer's history. It is solely based on the CUrlHistory object.
URI Encoding and Decoding
Rating: jinq0123 - 11/02/2006 Learn about fast and portable URI encoding and decoding functions that use std::string as the argument and return type, and do the buffer conversion, including '\0'.
Creating Custom WPF Controls
Rating: Chad Campbell - 08/28/2006 Custom controls assist developers in maximizing code reuse and minimizing headaches. Learn the process of creating custom controls within Microsoft's latest UI model, the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
XPath Support in Browsers
Rating: none Nicholas C. Zakas - 08/14/2006 Learn about XPath, a small language used specifically to locate a single node or multiple nodes that match a particular pattern.
Offline Capable (Internet Explorer) AJAX Client
Rating: Ariel Yakobovich - 08/10/2006 Learn what makes a successful AJAX client, and how many AJAX applications lose sight of the enormous benefit of supporting offline mode operation.
A Windows Service Solution for Unreliable Web Services
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 06/28/2006 Reliability is a big issue in Internet Web services integration. Learn how to mitigate Web service reliability problems by using an asynchronous messaging approach.
Ajax Submission Throttling
Rating: none Nicholas C. Zakas - 05/18/2006 Ajax is becoming the hot topic in Web programming today. Discover more useful things that it can do for you.
XMLHttp Requests for Ajax
Rating: none Nicholas C. Zakas - 05/12/2006 Professional AJAX author Nicolas Zakas shows the benefits as well as some of the disadvantages of using HTTP requests in your applications.
[Updated] WinIPCfg
Rating: egawtry - 03/23/2006 A clone of the Win95/98/ME utility for checking and controlling IP addresses.
Computing a MS-CHAPv2 Client Response (not yet reviewed)
Rating: none Eugene Prigorodov - 03/06/2006 Learn about a RFC2759-compliant implementation of the MS-CHAPv2 response calculation algorithm.
TJFTP: A Visual C++ FTP Client
Rating: ShellRaker - 12/08/2005 Learn about a Windows FTP client written without CInternetSession or CFtpConnection classes.
Remote Desktop View Lite
Rating: Andy Bantly - 10/31/2005 Learn about a native C++, MFC, ATL/COM system to remote view a desktop.
Build a SharePoint Newsletter Generator That Alerts Users to Changes
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 10/28/2005 Leverage the SharePoint SDK classes to build a newsletter generator that collects all the changes to a site and presents them to users in an e-mail newsletter format.
Publishing with Authoring Connector
Rating: none Packt Publishing - 09/20/2005 Learn to integrate Web publishing with working with your Word documents.
Implement a Centralized BizTalk File Creation Broker
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 05/25/2005 By using BizTalk 2004, Web services, and the Broker enterprise pattern, you can create a centralized file broker that enables you to more easily configure security, administer services, and share code across your organization.
Selecting the Best Approach for Designing an Interoperable Web Service
Rating: Nalaka Withanage and Martin Kropp - 05/10/2005 Learn about the different Web service design methodologies as defined by the Web Services Standardization Groups, clarify the terms, and highlight their differences.
Build a Custom SharePoint Web Service for Your InfoPath 2003 Documents
Rating: none Jeffrey Juday - 05/03/2005 Learn how to develop a custom SharePoint Web service for InfoPath 2003 documents, which allows you to reliably perform actions whenever a user saves one of the documents.
"Indigo" CTP Released Today
Rating: none Bradley Jones - 03/16/2005 Microsoft released the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of their next-generation Web-Services technology, "Indigo," today.
Using The CE HTML Viewer Control To Create Powerful, Customized Presentations
Rating: Nancy Nicolaisen - 03/09/2005 Create an HTML viewer control on a CE device. Once animated, this control allows you to pass any data that is capable of being rendered by using HTML tags from the desktop device to the CE device. The power and
elegance of this approach can hardly be overstated.
Composite Custom Web Controls in Managed C++
Rating: Stephen Fraser - 01/05/2005 Continuing his series on custom Web control development in Managed C++, Stephen Fraser takes it up a notch by examining the more advanced—and far more powerful—composite custom Web control.
HTTP Post Using C
Rating: Uday Chitragar - 01/05/2005 Learn to write a small routine or utility to make a post request to a Web server and retrieve the data. This article demonstrates such a technique, tested on Linux.
Monitoring Changes in IE Settings
Rating: Krishnasamy Venkatesan - 11/05/2004 Learn about a way to know exactly when IE settings have changed.
Mastering Internet Programming on Mobile Devices: First Steps
Rating: Alex Gusev - 11/02/2004 Learn how to create applications that may connect to the Internet or an intranet. Take a look at typical scenarios that often occur in programming practice.
[Updated] The K.I.S.S. Approach to I/O Completion Ports
Rating: Robert Simpson - 10/18/2004 I/O completion ports are the holy grail of performance. This article provides an extremely lightweight and open framework for easily implementing IOCP's in your application(s).
Invoke Hidden Commands in Your Web Browser
Rating: eagleboost - 09/15/2004 Demonstrate an innovative way to invoke hidden commands to show modal dialogs such as the "Add To Favorite" dialog or "Import/Export Wizard" dialog in your Web browser-based application.
Publishing Schema as Web Service in BizTalk 2004 (not yet reviewed)
Rating: PradeepMurti - 08/06/2004 Learn to create a simple scenario for consuming a Schema as a Web Service with minimum effort.