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Introduction Riddle: When is an object not an object? When it is a dynamic object. Well, not really. Dynamic objects are a mechanism for mapping class-like object behavior and binding at runtime. The short of it is that you have something you want to treat like an instance of a pre-defined class without having the […]

The channel would be exclusive to subscribers of Microsoft’s Xbox Live video-game network, said the people, who sought anonymity because the talks are private. At an April 12 meeting in Redmond, Washington, Chernin suggested raising Xbox Live’s monthly fee by $1 or $2 to add programming aimed at the online service’s young, male target audience, […]

If you have an MSDN or TechNet subscription, currently, two downloads are available at each site: 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) versions of the Professional Plus Retail edition. Subscribers to each service get a single product key for the Office 2010 download. If past history holds true, this key can be used to activate two […]

Microsoft has created a new version of the Windows software development kit designed to allow developers to target the latest Windows operating systems, but also to leverage the most recent advances in terms of the company’s development platform and tools. The new iteration of the SDK will enable developers to build applications targeting .NET Framework […]

Introduction Recently I was asked to provide a top 10 list of ASP.NET controls. When I first started thinking about how in the world I was going to narrow down all of the available ASP.NET controls, I must admit, I was a bit overwhelmed. I decided my first step was to decide what types of […]

Introduction C++03 initialization is inconsistent and lacking. For instance, it doesn’t let you initialize POD arrays that are class members and POD arrays allocated using new. The limitations of C++03 initialization rules become more noticeable when you need to initialize a container object. Usually, you’re forced to use a cumbersome loop as a workaround: […]

Some of the key enhancements in the latest release include managed self-service business intelligence (BI) for reporting and analysis, enterprise-class scalability and greater IT efficiency, and platform integration spanning the data center to the cloud, Microsoft said. “Customers continue to receive and create increasing amounts of data, as information impacts their business and social lives. […]

Why so quick to produce a new release? The desire to support .NET Framework 4 for starters! DotNetNuke 5.3 was only released at the end of March. That update included improved content administration through the addition of page level workflow, a new ribbon bar control panel and improved access to page editing. But they had […]

.NET Framework 4 RTM became available for download alongside Visual Studio 2010 RTM the past week, with Microsoft topping the releases off with Silverlight 4 RTW. Additional resources to accompany the development platform and tools are also served by Microsoft, most of them free of charge, in order to streamline software-building efforts. It is the […]

Introduction Developers working with other 64-bit operating systems will learn much interesting as well. The course will consider all the steps of creating a new safe 64-bit application or migrating the existing 32-bit code to a 64-bit system. The course is composed of 28 lessons devoted to introduction to 64-bit systems, issues of building 64-bit […]

Introduction Some time ago, Microsoft released a full-featured Chart Control for the .NET Framework 3.5. The Chart Control provides a wide range of capabilities for both ASP.NET and WinForm applications. In this article, I will focus primarily on ASP.NET capabilities; however, many of these techniques will work in WinForm applications as well. To get started, […]

Embarcadero will offer next month an upgrade to its Delphi Prism platform, enabling Object Pascal-based development in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 IDE. Delphi Prism 2011 is built on top of the Microsoft Visual Studio shell and can be used either with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 or independently. The Visual Studio shell features the Visual […]