ADO.NET Entity Framework Tutorial and Basics Discover an ADO.NET Entity Framework tutorial covering basic data operations for applications, including LINQ To Entities, Method Expressions, stored procedure mapping, and a little discussion about its usage in an enterprise environment.
.NET Web Services Tutorial Writing .NET Web services without using Visual Studio can be tricky. Learn how to create a Web Service without using Visual Studio .NET.
Working with Files in C# Get practical with C# by using it to access file information, create subdirectories, and more. You'll also learn to read and write from basic files.
A Two-Way Requirements Verification Process during Design Phase This article will demonstrate a simple technique, "A Two-Way Requirements verification process", which reinforces the most critical connection point of any methodology: the transition between functional design or requirement sign off and the beginning of the technical design by the technical team. Using NetBeans to Develop a JavaFX Desktop Application NetBeans 6.5 for JavaFX 1.0 is an elegant tool for developing JavaFX projects. Learn how to develop a complete JavaFX project using the NetBeans support and various JavaFX classes. Going Parallel with the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ With more and more computers using a multi-core processor, the free lunch of increased clock speeds and the inherent performance gains are over. Software developers must instead make sure their applications take use of all the cores available in an efficient manner. New features in .NET 4.0 mean that managed code developers too can join the party. Performance Improvement: Understanding The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong. Browser Compatibility Development Guide Do you have defined practices to ensure your website renders and operates properly on your users preferred browsers? If not, do you realize you may be losing customers and partners as a result? This guide for browser compatibility development provides you with the information you need to start or enhance your browser compatibility development practice.
Introducing the Entity Framework Mark Strawmyer - 07/02/2009 The Entity Framework provides a .NET class-based model of a data store, letting you query the model with LINQ, while the model do the background grunt work of contacting the data store to add, update, or delete data.
Using the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ to Go Parallel Jani Järvinen - 06/30/2009 With more and more computers using a multi-core processor, the free lunch of increased clock speeds and the inherent performance gains are over. Software developers must instead make sure their applications take use of all the cores available in an efficient manner. New features in .NET 4.0 mean that managed code developers too can join the party.
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A peek at how to use a PropertyGrid in Windows Forms to quicklybuild a UI for a series of classes.
Using Team Build to Build Database Projects Manning Publications - 06/23/2009 Customize the Team Build project file to automatically deploy the database build script to a target database.
TIP: Utilizing Solutions and Projects in VS 2005 Swee Mok - 06/22/2009 Discover how to use separate projects within a solution to reduce confusion when you have imported code mixed with your new code.
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Working w/ Property Grids By Dan Rigsby - 24-JUN-09
A peek at how to use a PropertyGrid in Windows Forms to quicklybuild a UI for a series of classes.
SQL Server Tracing By Jani Jarvinen - 10-JUN-09
Let Jani show you how to how use SQL's profiler tools to createtraces of all SQL statements executed by your database server, and how to benefit from this during the development phase as well.
State Management : Native Parallel Programming for Visual C++ Nick Wienholt - 06/02/2009 Visual C++ 2010 includes a number of new features for preventing data inconsistencies due to simultaneous updates of memory locations - a key challenge in parallel development.
Introducing the Entity Framework Mark Strawmyer - 07/02/2009 The Entity Framework provides a .NET class-based model of a data store, letting you query the model with LINQ, while the model do the background grunt work of contacting the data store to add, update, or delete data.
Hardware's Dirty Little Secret, or Why Software Can be Mass Produced Paul Kimmel - 06/16/2009 OP-ED: Unlike the Illuminati, the IEEE exists, and they have a secret. This secret helps them turn out shiny MP3 players, phones, and computers with processing power than we programmers can figure out how to use. This is how they do it. When will developers learn the same truths?