This Week’s Topics
- Comments from the Editor
- Recently Published Books
- New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru
- Updating a Database from WinForms Controls, Old School
- Introduction to AJAX Technologies
- VIDEO: Develop Windows Services
- Updating a Database from WinForms Controls, Old School
- Hottest Discussions
- New Articles on Developer.com
- Securing Web Services in JBoss Application Server with WS-Security
- Introduction to Multi-Tenant Architecture
- A Slider-Controlled Softening Program for Digital Photos
- Securing Web Services in JBoss Application Server with WS-Security
Comments from the Editor
This week I get to take a couple of days to It is interesting that to many people and indoor waterpark is like Until next week… Brad!
relax. While you’re reading this, I’ll likely be gliding on a raft down a
lazy river or swoshing down a water slide in an indoor waterpark.
saying “an open source Microsoft project.” It seems like the two things
things shouldn’t really go together. In truth, they can. For an indoor
water park, you get all the fun of a waterpark even if there is snow or
rain outside. With open sourced Microsoft, you get things like Mono 2.0
and Moonlight. In the end, it is all good!
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Bradley L. Jones
www.CodeGuru.com
[email protected]
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Recently Published Books
For those of you keeping up by reading
books. The following are just a few of the new books that have been
recently released. If you’ve read any of these, feel free to write a
review to be posted on CodeGuru. See the submission
guidelines.
Sams
Teach Yourself Windows Workflow Foundation in 24
Hours
By Robert
Eisenberg for Sams Publishing
600 pages for $23.99
Smart
Business Intelligence Solutions w/ Microsoft SQL Server
2008
By Goff,
Mauri, Malik, and Welch for Microsoft Press
780 pages for $49.99
New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru
Following are short descriptions of new
articles on CodeGuru. If you are interested in submitting your own article
for inclusion on the site, then you will find guidelines here.
Updating
a Database from WinForms Controls, Old School
By Paul Kimmel
Old school programming,
whereby the programmer reads control values and writes inline SQL, still
works, but it’s so 90s. If you are new to WinForms or Web programming but
experienced, peruse the article and then master LINQ.
Introduction
to AJAX Technologies
By Rob Foster
Get help bringing you up to speed with AJAX’s
place in your web development toolbox.
VIDEO:
Develop Windows Services
By Dan Rigsby
Developing straight Windows Services doesn’t allow
for rich debugging by developers and often requires stopping the service,
redeploying, etc. This video explores how to build Windows Services for a
more rich development experience.
Discussion Groups
Check … HOT THREADS …
out the CodeGuru discussion forums
Forums include Visual C++, General C++,
Visual Basic, Java, General Technology, C#, ASP.NET, XML, Help Wanted, and
much, much, more!
Basic
inheritance question (C#)
How
Can I Close exe files with C++ code? (C++)
New Articles on Developer.com
Securing
Web Services in JBoss Application Server with
WS-Security
By
Javid Jamae & Peter Johnson
Learn how to secure a web service using
WS-Security. WS-Security is a specification from OASIS (Organization for
the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) that describes
enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity and
confidentiality.
Introduction
to Multi-Tenant Architecture
By Neal Schneider
Learn how to create
websites with similar functionality yet different UIs and maintain them
across one shared code base using Multi-Tenant Website Architecture.
A
Slider-Controlled Softening Program for Digital
Photos
By Richard
G. Baldwin
Learn how to write a Java program to apply a blurring or
softening filter to your digital photos. The amount of softening is
controlled by the user with a slider.