Adobe's Dave McAllister On the Open Screen Project
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Dr. Dobb's talks with Dave McAllister, Director of Standards and Open Source for Adobe, about the Open Screen Project.
Google Goggles
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Google's new visual search application for Android devices.
Mayo Clinic and IBM Detect Brain Aneurysms
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The new method uses analytics technology developed by the Mayo and IBM collaboration, Medical Imaging Informatics Innovation Center, and has proven a 95 percent accuracy rate in detecting aneurysm.
Multi Multicore
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Intel's James Reinders discusses how parallelism can feed your greed for more resources in A Multicore Minute #18.
Parallelism, Developers, & the Cloud
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James Reinders explains Intel's Parallel Universe Portal.
Single Chip Cloud Computer
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Researchers from Intel Labs have created an experimental, 48-core Intel processor or "single-chip cloud computer."
Create a Custom Settings Class
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Scott shows how to create a custom application-settings class to make it easy to persist settings for a section of your application.
Creating Charts with ReportViewer
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The ReportViewer control provides rich reporting capabilities within Visual Studio.
Build a Windows Installer Using WiX
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Windows Installer XML (WiX) is an open-source toolset for building an .msi file based off of a definition in an XML document.
A Quick Look at LINQ
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Language INtegrated Query (LINQ) is one of the new features coming in the Orcas version of Visual Studio. LINQ lets you use a SQL-Like syntax to work with objects, relational DBs, or XML.
In Praise of Powershell
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Windows Powershell is a powerful command-line admin tool that combines the best features of a UNIX shell with the power of the .NET Framework.
Building Bus. Processes in WFF
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The Windows Workflow Foundation lets you design workflows for business processes and then build apps from them.
Sizing Up .NET 3.0's WPF
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Scott Swigart demonstrates the Windows Presentation Foundation command structure and the canExecute property, which provides context sensitivity to functions in an application.
Interprocess Communication with WCF
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Windows Communication Foundation allows interprocess communication between applications. WCF makes it easy to define both the interface for a service and the implementation.
Iron Python
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Scott Swigart builds a simple Python Console Application that calls on features in the .NET Framework. His sample app reveals some benefits of dynamic compilation in Python on .NET.
ASP.NET Cross-Page Postbacks
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Scott takes a look at ASP.NET cross-page postbacks. In ASP.NET 2.0, it's easy to build a form on one page and post the information returned to a different page.
Deploying SQL Server Everywhere
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SQL Server Everywhere is a tiny, in-memory database engine that uses file-based databases. The Community Tech Preview integrates SQL Server Everywhere into Visual Studio.
Code Generation, Data-Centric Apps
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Scott Swigart shows how to use Code Generation to create a data access layer and how you can use that access layer as part of your apps.