Take Advantage of External Storage with Your Android App
Does your Android App need a lot of storage? Don't hog the phones internal storage, instead use Android's External Storage to store data on the users SD card.
Download and Decode JSON Data with your Android App
Ready to start integrating and using JSON data with your Android app? In this article, I will demonstrate the basics of requests data and extracting elements from JSON data.
Monetize Your Free Android App by Creating a Paid App to Unlock Additional Features
Trying to figure out how to bring in more revenue for your Android app? Try adding a paid version, which would be used to unlock features in the free version.
Creating Your Own Search Engine for C/C++ Code Samples
Christopher Frenz describes a means of post processing keyword search results using regular expression, based pattern matching as a means of automatic C/C++ code extraction.
Adventures with _chkstk
Silviu-Marius Ardelean offers some insight into _chkstk and stack corruption.
C++ used to lack a special value to indicate a null pointer, which led to some problems. The new standard introduces a new reserved word nullptr, to designate a constant rvalue that represents a null pointer. Read on to learn more.
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USING VC++ .NET |
Faster Microsoft C++ Programming With The MFC Class Wizard
During the glory days of MFC and ATL in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Visual C++ class wizard was a highly-used and useful IDE tool that simplified life for developers. The re-introduction of the class wizard, after the absence of a decade, demonstrates commitment to the 'glory day's' ideal and adds simplicity to class management tasks inside the IDE.
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.NET NUTS & BOLTS |
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...
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VISUAL BASIC TODAY |
Input and Output with VB.NET 2010
The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.
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PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS |
WCF Data Services Providers
OData's simplicity and common underlying Web standards have made it a popular Data protocol in the Microsoft stack. WCF Data Services includes several Providers that surface OData from .NET classes.
