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This is the first in a series of tips being posted based on the most read posts in one of our ASP Forums. Problem / Question: When .docx files are downloaded from an ASP page, they can give an error when opened in Word. The error is: “The Open Office XML File cannot be opened […]

Some programming languages have a dominant testing framework that nearly all developers use. For C++, however, the landscape is a little bit more wide open. Developers have an array of both open source and proprietary tools to choose from. For this slide show, we focused on some of the best known and widely used C++ […]

By Sudha Polapragada Generally, large-scale Web applications will be deployed to load-balancing servers to share traffic evenly across a number of application servers. Additional application servers then can be added without making any changes to your application. For applications deployed to stand-alone servers, more hardware can be added to improve performance. The application server or […]

By Sudha Polapragada Introduction Large scale application design indispensably considers some factors like scalability, maintainability of the code, and performance. Performance of an application is simply how fast a user’s request executes; this is especially important when the application is hit by thousands of users concurrently. The time taken for a high volume of concurrent […]

What Microsoft Said was Coming: New APIs, Bots, and More At Microsoft’s Build Conference, the focus is on what Microsoft plans for developers for the future including the coming year. While there weren’t a lot of “Wows!” from the presentations this year, there were some interesting tidbits that showed where Microsoft is focusing. While it […]

By Sergey Zaitsev DevExpess XAF is a very useful tool for creating rich line-of-business applications simply and quickly. However, there are certain issues developers can experience when creating complicated forms, especially when it comes to the form view customization. Being loyal XAF users ourselves and often working with large and complicated forms, we decided to […]

By Anna Dolbina Introduction When it comes to developing an application for a POS, information touchscreen, or self-help kiosk, the choice is often between using specialized kiosk development platforms or relying on a familiar technology stack, adding some customization to turn the app to kiosk mode. Browser-based kiosk applications are a popular choice for a […]

By Laraib Ather. Introduction This article is about object-oriented programming; I will try my best to explain the correct concept easily. An object-oriented programming language is the basics of any C# program and also is the first step for a developer to move toward the programming world. It is necessary for any developer to understand […]

IoT Adoption We did a survey of on the topic of the the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the questions we asked was around the considerations or adoption of IoT. More specifically, we asked whether they were deployed and using IoT, were in progress of using IoT within a year, were exploring or defining […]

By Nilesh Patel If you’re squeezed for time and you don’t have the bandwidth to implement a new automation strategy, it makes sense to consider outsourcing. You can find the right skillset much faster and at a fraction of the price it would cost to recruit and train. The trick is finding the right partner […]

If you are working in such a place you probably won’t get to create Makefiles on your own. There is a build team for that. Your auto generated version will include “do not modify below this line” disclaimer implying that there’s not much to modify above the line either – all required libraries along with […]

By Sergii Ganushchak and Roman Sherbakov Every time we design screens that feature friend lists or contact lists, we face the problem of choosing between list view and grid view. Although list view usually provides more details about each user or contact, grid view allows more users or contacts to appear on the screen at […]