Overview of Push Notifications Support on Windows Phone
Real-time applications need a mechanism to support instant updates to their status (for example, a mail client or a social chat application). To facilitate such scenarios, application developers targeting the Windows Phone devices need to be aware of the support for push notifications, which is available in the platform.
How to Make Fewer Errors at the Stage of Code Writing. Part N3.
This third article in the series discusses a couple of new programming methods that can help you make your code simpler and safer.
SSE2 Vectorization of Alphablend Code
Wong Shao Voon shows you how to use SSE2 to Speed up Alphablending.
How to Make Fewer Errors at the Stage of Code Writing. Part N2
This is the second article on avoiding certain errors at the early stage of code writing. In the previous post, we have already advised you to avoid a large number of calculations in one expression. However, we should investigate this question in detail. Let's see what's dangerous about complex expressions and how we can avoid many logical errors.
Creating a Video Converter Using VB.NET
Learn how to use VB.NET to create your own Video Encoder.
90 Errors in Open-Source Projects (not yet reviewed)
The materials collected in this article will be useful for authors of articles, books and blogs. Examples of errors can be used to demonstrate the advantages of different programming styles -- for instance, why you should not try to make your code shorter by writing long expressions.
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USING VC++ .NET |
MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.
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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 |
Navigating OData and WCF Data Services
Understanding OData conventions are important to building an OData client and testing an OData Endpoint. Of all the OData conventions the most important convention a WCF Data Services developer must understand are the OData URI conventions. This article explains how OData URI conventions map to code living inside of WCF Data Services.
The Developer's Toolkit is an infographic that shows the top tools being used by developers. The information based in this infographic is based on a survey of 500 developers around the world that was conducted by BestVendor. More importantly, this...
At Microsoft Build, Microsoft released a developer preview of Windows 8. There are a variety of pre-beta downloads you can grab today if you want to check out the preview of Windows today. In addition to including the next version...
Lots of different people have written for Codeguru, Developer.com, and our other sites. It is great to see some of these writers expand their efforts into books and other project. Chuck Connell has published a book called Beautiful Software, which...
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