RIA & Web Tutorials & Articles
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Game development using Silverlight 2
by Dave WheelerImplementing a game using Silverlight is a good way to learn its more advanced aspects. Dave Wheeler shows us how, and has some fun on the way.
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Bluffer's Guide to C# 3
by Jon SkeetPretend you know what you're talking about in suitably geeky company. More seriously, it will give you a very rough overview to give some context if you choose to investigate a particular feature further.
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REST and .NET 3.5 Part 1 - why REST based services?
by Richard BlewettWhy has REST been getting so much attention recently? It's no accident that Yahoo, Google and Amazon have chosen not to use SOAP to expose their APIs. Learn some of the issues of using SOAP, and how a RESTful based architecture can resolve some of these.
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Introducing Visual Studio .NET 2008 - Top 10 Features
by Mark SmithAfter a long beta period, Visual Studio .NET 2008 is finally on general release. There are a ton of new features and enhancements in this release that make it almost a no-brainer to upgrade - I thought I’d take a moment and list my top ten favorites in no particular order.
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The Zen of Volta
by Richard BlewettRichard takes a looks at a preview of a Microsoft incubation project called Volta, offering a new way of deploying applications written using single-tier architecture to a multi-tiered client/server environment without having to rewrite the code.
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Understanding Open XML
by Matt NicholsonMatt Nicholson introduces a range of articles covering the new Ecma Office Open XML standard, as supported by 2007 Microsoft Office system. Find out how Open XML works, how to use it and what you can do with it.
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Inside Open XML
by Matt NicholsonAs Matt Nicholson explains, Open XML is not just a new file format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, but an open standard capable of expressing any Word, Excel or PowerPoint document.
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OpenXML - Open for business
by Matt NicholsonThe new file format introduced with the 2007 Microsoft Office System opens up many business opportunities. Matt Nicholson finds out who is doing what.
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Opening the package in OpenXML
by Tim AndersonIn the second part in this series on OpenXML, Tim Anderson explains how the new Packaging API helps you work with Office Open XML documents.
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New C# 3.0 Language Features
by Scott GuthrieLearn about some of the new features in C# 3.0 including automatic properties, collection initializers, extension methods, lambda expressions and anonymous types.
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XAML pure
by Ian ElliotWhat exactly is XAML all about? Is it a replacement for HTML? Not according to Ian Elliot, who explains exactly what it does.
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Access all areas
by Sing LiDelivering on the mobile data access promise with the iPhone/iPod Touch.
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Inside ASP.NET AJAX back end services
by Dino EspositoMost of the emphasis with AJAX is on how to perform an asynchronous update at the client. Dino Esposito considers the other end of the connection – how exactly does the server provide the data that the client needs?
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AOP in JavaScript using Humax Framework
by M Sheik Uduman AliIn this article, I've explained how can we design our client side application with aspect-oriented approach along with object-oriented approach using the open source web framework "Humax".
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Dynamic Search Conditions in T-SQL
by Erland SommarskogA very common requirement in an information system is to have a function (or several functions) where the users are able to search the data by selecting freely among many possible criterias. In this text I will look at various techniques to solve this problem.
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Have you seen the Silverlight? – More Silverlight
by Dave WheelerIs Silverlight the way to make your browser based applications as rich as a desktop application? Dave Wheeler thinks so and put the case for sophistication in Silverlight. In this second article, we look at events and move rapidly on to animation and other powerful presentation effects.
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Microsoft Indexing Service and ASP.NET
by Barry DorransMicrosoft Indexing Service is a service that provides a means of quickly searching for files on the machine. Barry investigates how we can use the indexing service to expose full-text searching in ASP.NET.
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Have you seen the Silverlight?
by Dave WheelerSo you want fancy, sexy streaming media in the UI? And you want cool animations, fancy glow-in-the-dark buttons and decent, scalable vector graphics? And you want to run your application in a browser on both Windows and Mac OSX? If you’re already reaching for your copy of How to Wow with Flash, stop. There’s a new kid muscling onto the somewhat crowded Rich Interactive Application (RIA) block, and it’s coming from Microsoft.
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Programming Office documents with Open XML
by Mike OrmondXML is at the heart of Office 2007, and Mike Ormond introduces its exciting possibilities.
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Ten CSS Tricks You May Not Know
by Trenton MossSome great tips and tricks using CSS - from applying more than one CSS class to an element, specifying a different style sheet to be used for printing, image replacement techniques and more.