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Introduction The Microsoft VB and C# programming teams have merged. (Refer to the MSDN article What’s New in Visual Basic 2010.) Hopefully this will no longer mean competition, but a healthy dose of reality injected into the VB language. Yes, VB is originated as a different tool perhaps with a different agenda geared towards developer […]

Microsoft says it’s ramping up efforts to distribute engineering test copies of Windows Phone 7 handsets to developers, with potentially thousands getting an early, hands-on trial of creating apps on the new OS. The underlying message for developers is that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) upcoming iPhone competitor is still on target for a fall release and […]

ptInPolygon – Point classification This is an algorithm to test if a point is inside, outside or on (according to an input tolerance) a closed polygon definite with an ordinate set of points. The classical algorithm is “Ray casting algorithm” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon) and counts the number of intersections between the polygon and a segment that connect […]

Introduction Microsoft’s Dynamics AX is an ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) in the traditional sense: it contains tons of features and usually requires customizations to best support an organization’s needs, and can initially look like a black box. But every system has its internals, and for developers, Dynamics AX is a challenge that allows you […]

Introduction In this article you will learn how to integrate the Bing search in your ASP.NET application. The Bing Developer Center exposes a few APIs for Bing search which can be used to integrate it in your .NET framework application. Our applications can make requests with the required parameters to the Bing search APIs and […]

Microsoft has confirmed it is paying some third-party developers to create applications for its forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile devices. However, industry watchers differ on how much it will help establish Windows Phone 7 as a serious challenger to the likes of Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and the growing list of Android-powered devices. The move […]

The ASP.NET Web Forms model strives to encapsulate the lower level complexities involved in building a web application. Features like server-side event handlers, the page lifecycle, and view state effectively blur the line between the client and the server, simplify state management, and free the developer from worrying about HTTP, requests and responses, and similar […]

“I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words, How wonderful life is while you’re in the world.” –Bernie Taupin Introduction Multithreading or parallelism is a big topic. There are a lot of issues to consider: what is available, how much parallelism should be employed, what performance benefits will I achieve, and what […]

Introduction In a prior article Constructing Your First PowerShell Provider. I explained how to build a basic PowerShell Provider. If you’ve experimented with writing Provider code you’ve probably realized that building a Provider is unlike, for example, a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application. There are no buttons to “wire-up” and no existing pattern for partitioning […]

Introduction Exception handling is termed to be a costly affair and should be used meticulously. It undoubtedly serves as an integral part of our applications, and cannot be sidelined for any reason. The common problem in implementing an Exception handling mechanism is the dependency on the library after we create a provider.This C# tutorial looks […]

Introduction Building cross-platform software has been a pain in the side of C# developers since the early days of computing. While it certainly has gotten much better, we still aren’t quite to the point of one executable running as-is on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. That is unless you consider the Mono toolset from […]

Introduction I was born in 1966. People born in the years 1946 to 1964 are often referred to as baby boomers. Boomers are the people that are retiring now and there are a lot of them. Generation X followed in from roughly 1964 to 1979, and Generation Y followed that group. The current generation including […]