Codeguru Update eNewsletter – November 6th, 2007

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CodeGuru Newsletter
November 6, 2007

http://www.CodeGuru.com


This newsletter is part of the Developer.com, EarthWeb, and
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TOPICS:



–> Editorial
–> Recently Published
Books


–> New on CodeGuru:


        ==>
Applets
               
– [Updated] Running Windows XP Control Panel Applets from Visual Basic .NET
2005
        ==>
BizTalk
               
– Building a BizTalk Pipeline Content Enricher with SQL Server
2005
        ==>
C++
               
– Two Cool Things in C++00X: Object Initialization and Move
Semantics
        ==>
Memory
               
– Application-Level Memory Management for Memory-Constrained
Devices
               
– [Updated] Fast, Efficient Allocator for Small Blocks of
Memory
        ==>
Misc.
               
– [Updated] Wallpaper Changer
       
==> .NET
Tip 
               
– Execute Commands From C#
        ==>
Threads
               
– Creating a C++ Thread Class


–> Discussion Groups — HOT
Threads 
        – Function
definitions (C++)
        – memset
(VC++)
        – MFC: How do you run a
function after OnInitDialog? (C++)


–> Highlighted new articles on
Developer.com 
        1.
Tools, Iterations, and Stories
        2.
Custom Pipeline Component for the DB2
Adapter
        3. Application Handling of
Database Timeouts and Deadlocks


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Comments
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This week I’m at DevConnections in Las Vegas. This is a conference that has
grown over the last several years. I was told that last year’s Connections
conferences in Las Vegas had about 3800 people. This year’s is stated to be over
5,000 attendees.


While I’m here at the Connections conference, S. “Soma” Somasegar, VP in
Microsoft’s Developer Division is at TechEd in Barcelona, Spain where he made
several announcements. The announcement that many people will find of interest
is that Visual Studio 2008 is still on track to release by the end of November
and thus should be available as they promised — before the end of the year.
This release does not impact the launch date that is still slated for the end of
February 2008.


Soma also announced a number of other items. This includes licensing term
changes in Visual Studio 2008, a shared source licensing program, the release of
the first Sync Framework CTP (Community Technology Preview), and the
availability of Popfly Explorer. These are all related to what Microsoft is
referring to as the Microsoft Application Platform


I recently did a quick fly through of what Popfly can do regarding mashups
(http://www.internet.com/videos/).
The Popfly Explorer works with Visual Studio 2008 and Web Developer Express
2008. This explorer allows you to add Silverlight gadgets to your own Web
applications that you previously develop on Popfly as well as publish HTML pages
to Popfly.


The Sync Framework CTP was also released. I met with Anthony Carrabino of the
Microsoft Data Programmability team regarding online/offline data
synchronization and thus this CTP. In short, Microsoft is building functionality
in the form of a framework that will make it easy for you to synchronize your
data using any protocol, any data type, and any data store.


I also met with Jay Roxe to talk about Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)
and Office Business Applications (OBA). With the Visual Studio 2008 release,
VSTO functionality and designers will be integrated into the primary Visual
Studio products (Professional and above). I’ll post some additional information
on this to the Codeguru in the next few days.


For more on these announcements, you can check you can check out the
Microsoft press release at:


http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,6qvm,j02n,jorm,i5r0


In the mean time, feel free to check out some of the new articles on
Codeguru!


Until next week….


Brad!
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Bradley L.
Jones
www.CodeGuru.com
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Recently
Published Books
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For those of you keeping up by reading books. The following are just a few of
the new books that have been recently released. If you’ve read any of these,
feel free to write a review to be posted on CodeGuru. See the submission
guidelines at:


http://www.codeguru.com/review-guidelines.php


Here are a few new non-programming books:


–> Introducing Silverlight
1.0
      By Laurence Moroney for Microsoft
Press
      250 pages for
$34.99
      http://books.internet.com/books/0735625395


–> Pro ASP.NET for SQL Server
     
High Performance Data Access for Web
Developers
      By Brennan Stehling for
Apress
      420 pages for $59.99

      http://books.internet.com/books/1590598601


–> Windows Vista Home
Entertainment
      with Windows media Center and
Xbox 360
      By S.E. Slack and Greg Slack
for Microsoft Press
      380 pages for
$24.99
      http://books.internet.com/books/0735624488

      Not really a developer book, but I thought
I’d list it!


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New
& Updated Articles on
CodeGuru
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Following are short descriptions of new articles on CodeGuru. If you are
interested in submitting your own article for inclusion on the site, then you
will find guidelines located at


http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,fka1,909i,jorm,i5r0


This week’s CodeGuru posts:


==> Applets


– [Updated] Running Windows XP Control Panel Applets from
Visual Basic .NET 2005
    By Hannes
du Preez
Discover how to run all the various Control Panel applets from your
own program.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,ihqi,kjii,jorm,i5r0


==> BizTalk


– Building a BizTalk Pipeline Content Enricher with
SQL Server 2005
    By Jeffrey
Juday
Learn how to implement the Content Enricher integration pattern using
BizTalk 2006 R2 and SQL Server 2005.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,3xr6,cybn,jorm,i5r0


==> C++


– Two Cool Things in C++00X: Object Initialization and Move
Semantics
    By Victor
Volkman
C++0X is coming and with it are new object initialization features
and better control over struct/class member alignment.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,lc82,is27,jorm,i5r0


==> Memory


– Application-Level Memory Management for Memory-Constrained
Devices
    By Raveendran Vadakkoot
and Neeraj S. Sharma
Discover a faster and better dynamic memory allocation
technique for real-time systems.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,h02t,hmjp,jorm,i5r0


– [Updated] Fast, Efficient Allocator for Small Blocks of
Memory
    By znrobinson
Learn about an approach
to allocate small blocks of memory quickly and efficiently.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,3ktc,cyvd,jorm,i5r0


==> Misc.


– [Updated] Wallpaper Changer
    By
Hannes du Preez
Learn how to create an application that changes your
wallpapers after a specified period, as well as how to apply the Tile, Center,
and Stretch wallpaper styles.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,darp,ktkn,jorm,i5r0


==> .NET Tip


– Execute Commands From C#
    By Jay
Miller
Have you ever needed to execute a system command from your
application? You can accomplish this easily with C#.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,gt8b,kte,jorm,i5r0


==> Threads


– Creating a C++ Thread Class
    By
Walter Capers
Learn how to create a simple platform-independent C++ thread
class.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,5fy9,7l8x,jorm,i5r0


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Discussion
Groups
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Check out the CodeGuru discussion forums at:


http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,bcr8,cx5j,jorm,i5r0


Forums include Visual C++, General C++, Visual Basic, Java, General
Technology, C#, ASP.NET, XML, Help Wanted,
and much, much, more!


… HOT THREADS …


Some of the current threads with the most activity are:


==> Function definitions
(C++)
        http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,jkbk,4vd4,jorm,i5r0


==> memset
(VC++)

        http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,8gku,k3zz,jorm,i5r0


==> MFC: How do you run a function after OnInitDialog? (C++)

        http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,k66h,chpg,jorm,i5r0


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New
Articles on
Developer.com
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Below are some of the new articles that have been posted to Developer.com (http://www.developer.com).


1. Tools, Iterations, and Stories
    By
Jeff Langr –
For all the things that tracking tools and iterations are good
for in an agile team, teams should focus on delivering completed business value
via stories.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,25za,bupg,jorm,i5r0


2. Custom Pipeline Component for the DB2
Adapter
    By Drew Block –
Discover how to use
BizTalk custom pipelines to more effectively pull data from the DB2
adapter.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,kuc8,fvdf,jorm,i5r0


3. Application Handling of Database Timeouts and
Deadlocks
    By Aleksey Shevchenko –
Learn how
to minimize the occurrence of database transaction locking and how to handle
situations when your database does return error codes that constitute deadlocks
and timeouts.
http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3l1h,1,7soo,fdic,jorm,i5r0


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