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Kai Wähner04/23/12
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When to use JavaFX 2 instead of HTML5 for a Rich Internet Application (RIA)?

These days, we are starting a new project for realizing a Rich Internet Application (RIA). One of the first questions is: Which technologies and frameworks shall we use? Find out some pros and cons for different approaches and situations.

Jason Hull04/23/12
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Analyzing Search Results for Fun and Profit

The web manager and an marketing department should work together on addressing the positions of their site's search results for both user satisfaction, and promotion of the correct products that marketing wants to offer. There are useful tools out there for measuring the profitability of your search results.

Mitch Pronschinske03/26/12
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Flash-like Editing Tool, Adobe Edge, For JavaScript Animation: Tutorial

This is a tutorial and example of an Adobe Edge Application being built. It's similar to flash, yet it uses JavaScript rather than ActionScript.  Download...

John Esposito01/18/12
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DZone Top Article of 2011: Ask DZ - What's the best programming advice you've ever got?

For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it was so good? Maybe include some particular projects the advice helped you with, or how the advice...

Andrea Haubner01/09/12
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Input Controls in Silverlight

So far I didn’t spent much time on Input Controls. When I needed an example, I just quickly created a project that probably would contain a textbox control, a textblock control and/or a button control. But as I have seen on other applications, there are...

Simon Jackson12/29/11
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The XNA 2D “from the ground up” tutorial series

Some time ago when I first started posting on XNA-UK (not my first posts ever, just when I joined XNA-UK), I focused on a very detailed 2D game development series. It started with an original 2D tutorial series that was based on C# and DirectX run by the...

Andrea Haubner12/27/11
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Creating Buttons in Expression Blend

When I create an application, I am thinking about making the UI as appealing to the user as possible. The first thing the user sees from my application is the little icon in a long list of applications. Let’s assume the user likes this icon. Then most...

Jerry Nixon12/25/11
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XAML Dev’s Favorite Snippet

Data binding in XAML is powerful. We can wire up forms without code-behind. However, for it to work, data bound objects must implement INotifyPropertyChanged. Without this interface, object property value changes are not reflected in the UI. Objects ...

Punit Ganshani12/23/11
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Color Reflector for WP7 and Silverlight

Let’s assume that you have a paint application.  A user can draw, modify pictures, save it, retrieve it back and even share it.  Now with such an application, you would want to enhance the user experience by allowing him customize the user-interface....

Andrea Haubner12/22/11
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Understanding XAML Syntax

In yesterday’s blog post I was taking a first closer look at XAML. I’d like to continue at exactly the same point. XAML is a programming language that is created in such a way that it is focused on defining the design or the layout for a Silverlight...

Pieter De Rycke12/19/11
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My MVVM Tombstone Pattern

I am developing an application for Windows Phone 7 and during tombstoning I had to store some data of the view model. Tombstoning is done in the code behind of the view in the “OnNavigatedFrom” and “OnNavigatedTo” methods. This forced me to...

Mitch Pronschinske12/18/11
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Deep-DIVE in Silverlight 5

With Silverlight 4 out for over a year now, some amazing applications have been built with it. It's time to take a look at the next version now because it...

Michael Crump12/17/11
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Yet another Beeping P/Invoke Demo (SL5 RC)

Introduction You might have noticed that the Silverlight 5 (Release Candidate) is out. One of the new features included in the RC is the ability to call P/Invoke. In this short demo, we will write a Silverlight 5 application that uses the feature. Tools...

Mitch Pronschinske12/17/11
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Introduction to XAML development on Windows 8

At BUILD 2011, Microsoft announced Windows 8. This upcoming version of Windows is probably the biggest change the OS ever went through. Windows 8 focuses...

Tim Dams12/15/11
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7 WP7 Dev Tools You Might End Up Using Frequently

There’s an incredible amount of guides, tools and utilities to be found on the Internet (or should I say ‘tha cloud’?) for Windows Phone 7 developers. Compiled in this article are some of the tools I’ve come across on my searches which I now use...

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
— Brian Kernigan