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ASP.NET WebGallery launched
WebGallery is a .NET 3.5/SQL Server 2008 web application that allows you to publish and manage photos, videos and articles. To see a website powered by WebGalery, visit New Zealand Adventure
FeelGoodApartments relaunched!
Based on a newly developed PHP/MySQL Hotel management and CMS software, FeelGoodApartments is now ready to accept your bookings. Visit FeelGood Apartments
PHP Modules Based Framework launched
The MBFramework is a PHP / MySQL / Smarty development platform that allows a developer to build web applications by clearly separating user interface, application logic and database operations. With an already predefined set of modules and with an architecture that allows the development of new modules, this framework reduces development time and cost. read more
Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series
Steve Bohlen created an amazing series of screencasts that will help you get up to speed with NHibernate. Other techniques and tools like refactoring, unit testing and code coverage are also introduced. Visit Steve Bohlen's website
.Net DatabaseHandler is on its way to version 2.0.
This data provider writen in C# and based on the .Net Framework 2.0 now includes connectivity to Oracle databases besides MS SQL Server, MySQL and MS Access which are already present in version 1.1.read more
NUnit 2.5 Released
The final release of NUnit 2.5 is now available at http://www.nunit.org. NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages read more
.Net DatabaseHandler at Tucows
This C# library for database connectivity continues to increase in popularity. Listed at Tucows, the .Net DatabaseHandler 1.1 already reached 83% of popularity and was recently awarded by Soft32Download.com!
Building Automated Backups
Backups are the foundation of any well run database server, or even any computer system. Numerous articles have been written about SQL Server backups and now author and expert database administrator Paulo Luis Gonçalves brings us a new twist on building automated backups using devices. This article explains how to do it for MS SQL 2000 and 2005. read more
Guidelines for Test-Driven Development
Find out how to incorporate Visual Studio Team System into test-driven development practices emphasized in Agile development methodologies. read more
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This chapter helps you create your first SharePoint solution by introducing you to some of the projects, project item templates, and tools that are in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint development.
9/3/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu conclude their conversation about the D programming language by discussing concurrency, the complications of sharing data, dynamic loading, specification and licensing, and the future of D.
8/25/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Part 2 of this interview about the D programming language finds Eric Niebler and Andrei Alexandrescu deep in discussion about structs versus classes, the difficulties of copy semantics, rvalue references, the intricacies of garbage collection, and Andrei's occasional failure in serving as the standard-bearer for policy-based design.
8/18/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Danny Kalev talks with Rob Pike, the co-developer of Google's new Go programming language. In this interview, Pike speaks about the limitations of C++ in large-scale projects, the design philosophy of Go and its unusual type-system, and Go's future.
8/17/2010 12:00:00 AM
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In part 1 of this three-part series, Eric Niebler talks with his pal and fellow InformIT contributor Andrei Alexandrescu about the D programming language and Andrei's new book about it: what makes D different from other languages, whether D's class libraries rival those of Java and .NET, and why Andrei claims not to be a guru.
8/11/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Mike Snell and Lars Powers cover the basics of Visual Studio installation; configuration; booting up the IDE; and getting to know the layout of the tool in terms of projects, menus, tools, editors, and designers.
8/10/2010 12:00:00 AM
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The Expression API and the capabilities of the DLR lower the barriers to entry for creating systems where code and algorithms are created at runtime. Bill Wagner, author of
Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#, Second Edition, shows how to use the Expression API and dynamic runtime support to build dynamic systems based on the data in your application.
7/29/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Adam Nathan explains how WPF 4 and Windows 7 are bringing multi-touch to the masses.
7/8/2010 12:00:00 AM
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This chapter teaches the basics of both object-oriented and component-oriented programming, moving on to creating a class in C# and examining how it fulfills the goals of object-oriented and component-oriented programming.
7/7/2010 12:00:00 AM
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Johnson (John) M. Hart, author of
Windows System Programming, shows how to speed up simple file comparison by a factor of 10 or more, using parallelism with speculative processing, combined with memory-mapped files. These techniques work just as well in Linux/UNIX, and they can be extended to parallelize and speed up other file and data stream computations.
6/30/2010 12:00:00 AM
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