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Add-ons for your handheld
Reviews Want to customise your handheld with some nifty accessories? Check out our guide to the latest add-ons for Pocket PC and Palm devices.
Microsoft releases new Visual Studio and .NET
News Microsoft has made its top development tool, Visual Studio 2008, available for download to its professional developer subscribers.
Tags: Software
Silverlight 2.0 offers paradigm shift
Techguide Silverlight 2.0 rovides a platform for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to build dynamic user interfaces that are platform and browser agnostic.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Microsoft Windows, .NET
OpenAmplify developer's diary - part 2: Author comparisons
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application that can match documents with content that is similar or identical to the source document.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Comparison, Microsoft SQL Server, Demographics, LINQ, OpenAmplify, Web sites, Web 2.0
OpenAmplify developer's diary Part 1: Making the request
Techguide Justin James chronicles his process of using Hapax's OpenAmplify Web service to create an application which can match documents that have similar content or is identical to the source document.
Tags: Web services, Protocols and platforms, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL, OpenAmplify Developer, Web Browser, Dividend, client system, Developer
Hands-on programming: Working with Windows Event Log in .NET
Techguide Justin James walks you through the basics of using Windows Event Log in .NET, from the terminology to working with event sources and logs.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Log, Event Log, Event ID, installation package, Application, Levit & James Inc., Event, LINQ
Using Bing from .NET
Techguide Justin James shares his recent Bing experience and provides a code snippet that will put you well on your way to writing a Bing-enabled application.
Tags: Business applications, .NET, Software engineering/development, Namespace, LINQ, Simple Object Access Protocol, Microsoft Corp., WSDL, AppID, Business applications
Code concepts: C#'s var keyword
Techguide Justin James explains in this overview, that var is used in variable declarations instead of a type, and also weighs differing opinions about what makes var useful.
Tags: Programming languages, Software engineering/development, Ruby, C#, Justin James, Microsoft Developer Network, Programming, blogging, Microsoft Visual Studio, PHP
10 skills developers need in next five years
Techguide For those looking to get ahead in your field or simply stay employed, this is not the time to be complacent. Find out what skills to work on now to maximize your future job prospects.
Tags: Programming languages, Personal development, Recruiting, Functional Programming, Mobile, Web Service, Developer, Rich Internet Application, Justin James, Environment
Parallel Extensions Library: Making multithreading easier
Techguide Find out what advantages Microsoft's Parallel Extensions Library has over traditional .NET multithreading techniques.
Tags: Programming languages, Web servers
Mainsoft: Opening options for Java, .NET developers
Techguide Mainsoft provides tools for running .NET code on the Java platform.
Tags: Java
Can Microsoft win over enough developers?
Techguide Microsoft is trying very hard to be the cause and beneficiary of reflexivity, but only time will tell if it can create enough demand in the minds of developers.
Tags: Operating systems, Software engineering/development
