Bradley L. Jones

Silverlight is here to compete with Flash and Flex. I believe everyone is aware that Microsoft has set its sites on Flash and is workign to show they can take over the market. You might consider it a losing battle to go against Flash, but then when Internet Explorer started, there was already a dominating company in […]

InternetNews posted a story on Facial recognition called Facial Recognition Gets a Black Eye at Black Hat. In this article they tell how facial recognition as built-in security is busted. Bottom line, a picture of your face is as good as your face itself! If you are building biometric security into your applications, you should […]

Tuesday February 17, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Updating a Database from WinForms Controls, Old School Introduction to AJAX Technologies VIDEO: Develop Windows Services Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com Securing Web Services in JBoss Application Server with WS-Security Introduction to Multi-Tenant Architecture […]

I’m watching a video of the February Indianapolis .NET Developers Association meeting. In this meeting Mark Strawmyer is presenting on changes in C#  and Visual Basic coming with the next release. To be fair, the presentations were based off of PDC presentations, so the material was a bit reused. In this blog, I will reuse […]

Tuesday February 10, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru C# Tips and Tricks Using the Windows Vista/Windows 7 Built-In Buffered Animation API Graphics Class Design : Shape WinForms to Web .NET Tip: Searching for a Needle in a Haystack, or an Entry in an […]

Fads come and go. Social networking and linking to third-party sites seems to be today’s craze. We live and operate in a Web 2.0 world. If you are a developer of web sites, or even if you just have your own, chances are you are already familiar with a number of social networking, social bookmarking, […]

Tuesday February 3, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Exploring the New MSBuild Features for Visual C++ 2010 Building an FM Radio with RDS Support BLOG: 10 Tips for Writing Consistently Popular Programming Articles (DevX) Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com XML Manipulation with […]

For those of you following what Bill Gates is now doing, here is a link to his first annual letter: 2009 Annual Letter from Bill Gates It isn’t coding, but rather life after coding. Very impressive. For more, read his letter!

As you should know, Codeguru accepts technical articles. You can easily submit them using the link on the left side of the main Codeguru pages (site pages, not forum pages). Need some help writing an article or knowing what to do or not do? Russell Jones over at http://www.devx.com has made a few tips – […]

Tuesday January 27, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Using T-SQL CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY Is Azure the New Silver Lining? Common Pitfalls of COM Interoperability in .Net (not yet reviewed) VIDEO: Modeling in M Hottest Discussions New Articles on Developer.com 3D Displays, […]

The Microsoft SDKs page is a great to book mark if you are developing with Microsoft technologies. This single page has a list of about four dozen SDKs or key tools for working with Microsoft products. These include SDKs for: Azure Service Platform Windows Desktop Server Technologies Office Devices Games Other Specific SDKs you might […]

Tuesday January 20, 2009 This Week’s Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Asynchronously Download Content In Silverlight 2 JavaScript Security BLOG: Technical Terms You Should Know: “Dirt Bound” How to Create Your Own Visual WebGui Silverlight Theme Developing a Silverlight Web Application with Visual WebGui [Updated] Using […]