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 .NET Tip: Take a Byte out of Strings
By Jay Miller -
Published 09/19/2008
Convert a string to an array of bytes and back again.
Working With Design Patterns: Odds and Ends
By Jeff Langr -
Published 09/18/2008
The design patterns book lists 23 design patterns, but that's just the beginning! Many more patterns exist, including the specification pattern, lazy initialization, object pools, and the utility class pattern.
More Ways to Maximize SharePoint's Out-of-the-Box Features
By Daan De Brouckere & Raj Agarwal -
Published 09/17/2008
Review three additional real-world solutions you thought couldn't be implemented with SharePoint's out-of-the-box features but can with some creativity. You'll continue to take a practical approach by viewing them with examples from real projects.
OP-ED: What Kind of Boss...
By Paul Kimmel -
Published 09/16/2008
Wisdom is figuring out whether every time you encounter a pointy-headed manager you are going to roll over and save your sanity (and possibly your job) or stand up, be counted, and risk greatness or the guillotine. There is a temporary sense of safety in staying with the herd, but all herd-roads lead to the butcher.
Dynamically Building Windows Presentation Foundation DataTemplates
By Jeffrey Juday -
Published 09/15/2008
Discover how to use the XamlReader to dynamically create a Datatemplate. Then, see how you can bind to a Dataset and display the data in a ListView control (via a sample application pointing to the Northwind database).
.NET Tip: Determining the Type of a Character Variable
By Jay Miller -
Published 09/12/2008
Is it a number, a letter, punctuation? Use this extension method to determine the type of a character variable.
Portal Performance Planning
By Scott Nelson -
Published 09/11/2008
The performance of your portal has a direct impact on usability, and usability can make or break your portal ROI. Learn design and development approaches that will help prevent and pinpoint pesky portal performance problems.
How to Maximize SharePoint's Out-of-the-Box Features
By Daan De Brouckere & Raj Agarwal -
Published 09/10/2008
Review two real-world solutions you thought couldn't be implemented with SharePoint out-of-the-box features but can with some creativity. We'll take a practical approach by demonstrating them with examples from real projects.
Images, Drawn Graphics, and Event Handling in a MIDlet
By Richard G. Baldwin -
Published 09/09/2008
Learn how to paint images, draw graphics, and do event handling on a cell phone screen.
Framework Source Code Stepping
By Nick Wienholt -
Published 09/08/2008
Despite the best documentation, stepping into the actual source code of third-party libraries can be the fastest way to diagnose a difficult bug or determine the state that a component needs to be in before a certain operation can be completed. With a little set-up magic, developers can step into libraries quickly and easily.
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Gary Carleton, Intel Senior Software Engineer, provides an overview of Intel tools shown at the Game Developers Conference that help developers thread code as easily as possible, improve performance, identify bottlenecks, and take advantage of multicore. In the next video Gary gives an in-depth demo of the Thread Profiler and Thread Building Block Tools.