(Guido Stercken-Sorrenti) This article introduces “Avalon,” the exciting new presentation layer of the upcoming Windows version (codenamed Longhorn). I’ll first point out what’s so fundamentally new and advantageous about the way Avalon deals with graphics, and then show you how to use XAMLPad,

Like arrays in other programming languages, PHP arrays allow you to store multiple values in a single variable and operate on them as a set. With over 60 functions, PHP offers an extensive array manipulation toolkit that lets you process arrays in almost any way imaginable including: –reversing

(Martin Shoemaker) IN UML, the L is for language, one of the definitions of which is “any means of communicating,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. That is the single overriding purpose of UML, or the Unified Modeling Language: to provide a comprehensive notation for communicating the re

(Rick Grehan) One of the strengths of object-oriented programming — its core strength, in fact — is the ability it gives developers to model data relationships in a natural way. That doesn’t mean that the modeling process is easy. The architecture of many real-world systems can be complicated tree

(Tony Patton) Garbage collection in the Microsoft .NET common language runtime (CLR) environment absolves developers from tracking memory usage and knowing when to free memory. However, developers still need to stay abreast of an object’s lifetime, thus being aware of when the object is no longer us

(Scott Mitchell) About a year ago I wrote an article titled, Syndicating Your Web Site’s Content with RSS. In that article, I looked at how you can provide programmatic access to your site’s latest content through an XML-formatted syndication standard known as RSS. The code in Syndicating Your We

(Alejandro Gervasio) In the first article of this series, the concept of composition in object-oriented programming was explained, and illustrated with an example that implemented composition using two simple classes. In this article, we will create a MySQL database wrapping class that uses the conc

(Mark Strawmyer) .NET remoting enables application communication. It is a generic system that different applications can use to communicate with one another. By exposing its objects to remote processes, .NET allows interprocess communication. The applications can be located on the same computer, dif

(Ray Rischpater, Aaron Wood and Aleatha Parker-Wood)One of the challenges of cross-platform development is managing your build environment. With so many platforms these days using the combination of Microsoft Visual Studio and an emulator to facilitate rapid development and frequent cross-compilatio

(Anand Kumar) This article gives a sound idea how to write secure code for ADO.NET. Data Access Layer (DAL) is a common and very curtail for your application. Its very important know some of the basic security points while writing ADO.NET program.