Are you a Web developer using HTML? Take this short Tech IQ Test to see if you already know enough to start building Windows 8 Applications. You might be surprised at how close you are!
At times you need to store image data directly into a SQL Server database rather than the image URL. While dealing with this scenario you need to read images from a database and then return this image data from your Web API. This article shows the steps involved in this process.
There are many ways to serialize data; you can serialize info into and from the registry; you can store and load info from a database, or from a file. Hannes du Preez shows you how to save info to an XML file and load it from that XML file.
Learn how simple it is to build and consume WCF services using the async and await keywords in .NET Framework 4.5.
Hannes du Preez shows you how to make your own Uninstaller in VB.NET.
Is your knowledge of Visual Basic basic or advanced? Test your knowledge!
Bipin Joshi discusses the basics of using Data annotation attributes in an ASP.NET MVC application to perform validations at the model level.
WebSockets are intended to build bi-directional connections between a web browser and a server. This must be done in a safe way. In addition, the WebSockets have a huge disadvantage (to say it politely). Read on to learn more.
Hannes du Preez shows you how to disable titlebar buttons and menus in your programs temporarily.
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.
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...
There are many ways to serialize data; you can serialize info into and from the registry; you can store and load info from a database, or from a file. Hannes du Preez shows you how to save info to an XML file and load it from that XML file.
Learn how simple it is to build and consume WCF services using the async and await keywords in .NET Framework 4.5.
Microsoft made a lot of comments at their latest conference, Microsoft Tech Ed 2013. One thing is clear. Microsoft is moving ahead with their plans around the Cloud and Windows. I summarize many of the tidbits in some of the observations I made.
There is a lot of excitement about new gaming consoles. Microsoft announced the Xbox One. While it has great potential, I jot down ten question that come to mind.
A lot of people have lots of comments telling Microsoft what is wrong with Windows 8 and with what should be changed or fixed. Many of these people have even loaded and ran the operating system. See if you agree with my perspectives.
