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Creating Particle Effects in Silverlight
by John Mannix
Learn how to use a classic animation technique to create realistic special effects in Silverlight - offering visual effects including fire, water, smoke and fog.
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Domain Driven Design: A Step by Step Guide - Part 2
by Casey Charlton
Get to grips with the fundamental concepts of entityes, value objects, aggregate roots and domain services.
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Domain Driven Design: A Step by Step Guide - Part 1
by Casey Charlton
There is a lot of interest in DDD recently, both in the book, and in the methodology, and in the buzzword. Casey aims to clear up the confusion and start to demystify it.
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C# 4.0 goes dynamic - a step too far?
by Mike James
Is C# in danger of too much change? Mike James ponders the implications of dynamic types in C#.
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The Future of .NET Languages
by Damon Armstrong
Wondered why Microsoft always seems to release different language features for each language? Discover how .NET 4.0 will reduce the disparity between C# and VB.NET with some great new features for both languages, plus a new dynamic language runtime and new functional and parallel programming languages.
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Using Adobe Flex in Visual Studio
by Matt Wicks
You can now take advantage of the Flex framework from right within Visual Studio to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). We get you up to speed on what Flex is and a basic application talking to a web service.
Latest column
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How to survive an audit or code review
by Aidan Fitzpatrick
Don't be surprised if your code is audited when your startup goes after funding - be prepared.
Latest code
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Binding Multiple Fields to ASP.NET ListControl classes
by Neil Dodson
Out of the box, the ASP.NET list controls (CheckBoxList, RadioButtonList, DropDownList) only support data binding on a single field. Learn how to work around this to bind to as many fields as you need.
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Deep clone an object in .NET
by James Crowley
A simple code snippet that deep-copies an object by serializing and de-serializing using the BinaryFormatter
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Making a .NET app run on Vista with Administrator priviledges
by James Crowley
If you're targeting Windows Vista and your application requires administrator priviledges (such as accessing the program files directory), then it will fail unless you include a manifest so Windows knows. Here's how.
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Dynamically Generating PDFs in .NET
by James Crowley
Learn how to use the free iTextSharp library to load a PDF form, populate some dynamic fields, and then save out a flat PDF file.
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Debugging client JavaScript in VS 2005
by Ziemowit
Short guide how to debug client JavaScript in VS 2005.
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The AJAX "Top 5" security tips
by Moe Tarhini
There is no doubt that AJAX and AJAX-style technologies are the way forward for web design. Developers can create true "applications" on the web like never before - however care needs to be taken with AJAX, in order to keep web sites secure.
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Calculate the difference between two dates, ignoring weekends
by joki
This code allows calculating with dates as if there were no weekends. To achieve this, days are numbered from Monday, 29 December 1969 without any intervening weekends (that is, five days per week). One purpose is to calculate the number of working days in a month, ignoring further public and bank holidays.
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Interacting with TinyPic from C#
by Fernando Sanchez
The following tutorial will demonstrate how to interact with http://tinypic.com, an image mirroring service, directly from a C# application using the WebRobot component.
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Create PDF Files on fly in C#
by Salman Zafar
This sample code shows how to use the iText library to generate PDF files on the fly. The iText classes are very useful for people who need to generate read-only, platform independent documents containing text, lists, tables and images.
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Start a Process as a Different User
by Peter Rekdal Sunde
This tutorial will help you learn how to start a process as another user e.g. the Administrator account.
Latest podcast
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Stack Overflow Podcast: Podcast #73
Published 11 hours ago, running time 1h0m
In this episode of the Stack Overflow podcast, Joel and Jeff discuss the meaning of “professionalism” online, the divide between ad-subsidized and pay business models, and the five things everyone should hate about their favorite programming language. A brief mini post-mortem of DevDays. What mak.
