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Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and XNA Game Studio
Published 04/01/2010
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Outline Text, Part 2
Published 09/25/2009
Display outline text with a translucent shadow and display a cached outline text for video rendering.
GraphicsMagick: Image Processing Add-In as Easy as Abra Cadabra!
Published 08/22/2008
Need to create, update, or convert images programmatically? Look no further than GraphicsMagick for help for your C, C++, Perl, or .NET app.
Turn Image Hotlinking to Your Advantage
Published 02/12/2008
Don't block hotlinked images; instead, learn how to label them to bring visitors to your web site and increase your web presence, even if you are restricted by a shared hosting environment.
Interactive Mapping Using SVG & ASP.NET
Published 01/10/2008
This article provides an in-depth introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics, some simple and complex examples, and a case study that shows how to use SVG to enable real-time travel updates to the London Underground online subway map.
Can You Say "C# Xbox 360 Development?"
Published 08/15/2006
XNA Game Developer is coming from Microsoft, and the Express edition will be free!
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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.
.NET Framework: Collections and Generics
Published 06/23/2011
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...
How to Determine Which Office Version is Installed with VB.NET and C#
Published 01/04/2013
Knowing which version of MS Office is installed on the client computer is vital; unfortunately, many programmers see this as an afterthought. Hannes du Preeze shows you four different ways to determine the Office versions installed so that you don't make this mistake.
Building an Azure Queuing Message Pipeline
Published 01/15/2013
A developer building messaging solutions with Azure Queuing and Azure Service Bus should follow a Pipeline pattern when processing a significant number of different messages. One approach to building a Pipeline is to layer a message following an Envelope pattern.
