Codeguru Update eNewsletter – October 21st, 2008

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This Week’s Topics






Comments from the Editor

This week, I’m attending Microsoft’s PDC in
California. There are a lot of announcements being made and paradigms
being changed in regard to development. Although I’d like to tell you
everything being said and announced, I’d have to skip out on sessions to
do so. Rather than send you a long editorial, I’ve written up an overview
of some of the comments that have been made to this point. You can check
these out at in my notes posted to Codeguru.com. These are posted as Notes
from PDC 2008
. You’ll find I talk about Windows Azure, C# 4.0, Windows
7, Visual Studio 2010, WPF, Silverlight, and more!

Expect articles and more information on all of this soon after PDC is
over!  

Until next week…

Brad!



Recently Published Books

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
.


The
C# Programming Language (3rd Edition)

By Anders Hejlsberg, et. al. for
Addison-Wesley
800 pages for $44.99

Better organized and
more complete.


Visual
C# 3.0 Unleashed

By Joe Mayo for Sams Publishing
1056 pages for $49.99


Essential
C# 3.0: For .NET Framework 3.5

By Mark Michaelis for
Addison-Wesley
800 pages for $49.99


New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru

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 here.


Building
a Windows Workflow SQL Server Integration Services
Activity

By Jeffrey
Juday
Learn to how to make SQL Server Integration Services a part of
Windows Workflow Foundation.


General
Solution for a Transparent Control

By galexding
Discover a very simple,
integrated method to make a control, such as static, button, sliderctrl,
and progress control transparent in a dialog box.


OP-ED:
The Realities of an Uncertain Economy

By Paul Kimmel
When handed a crate of
lemons, make lemonade. Success in a tough economic climate is about
perspective and attitude.


Binding
to the Most Recent Visual Studio Libraries

By Marc Gregoire
Explore how to let your
applications bind to the most recent version of the Visual Studio 2008 SP1
Libraries.


[Updated]
Increment File and Product Version Number: Multiple
IDE

By Jordan
Walters
Learn about an add-in to automatically increment the
FileVersion and ProductVersion fields in your application’s files.


Discussion Groups

Check
out the CodeGuru discussion forums

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

… HOT THREADS …


How
to close another program with C# (C#)


String
Specialization for Binary Search Function (C++)


Basic
design question (C++)


New Articles on Developer.com

Stubbing
For Fun, Profit, and Survival

By Scott Nelson
The importance of
stubbed methods is often misunderstood, leading to approaches that hinder
development progress. Learn why this common technique is key to a
project’s success and a variety of approaches to adapt in your daily
development.


Viewing
Agile concepts from a phase perspective

By Greg Smith & Ahmed Sidky
Be
nimble with your Agile projects. Learn how here.


Applications
of the Vector Dot Product

By Richard G. Baldwin
Learn how to use the dot product to
compute nine different angles of interest that a vector makes with various
elements in 3D space, to find six of the infinite set of vectors that are
perpendicular to a given vector, and to perform back-face culling of an
image.

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