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This Week’s Topics
- Comments from the Editor
- Recently Published Books
- New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru
- Dynamically Building Windows Presentation Foundation DataTemplates
- .NET Tip: Determining the Type of a Character Variable
- Creating a Pretty IE Toolbar in C#
- Provocative Search Engine Friendly URLs in ASP.NET
- Dynamically Building Windows Presentation Foundation DataTemplates
- Hottest Discussions
- New Articles on Developer.com
- Portal Performance Planning
- Images, Drawn Graphics, and Event Handling in a MIDlet
- .NET Tip: Determining the Type of a Character Variable
- Portal Performance Planning
Comments from the Editor
This week has had a couple of interesting When would a beta be available? Speculation is that Microsoft could be Another tidbit of news this week centers on the idea of producing a In October, HiVision expects to release a miniNote that can be bought Although I’m unable to find the new miniNotes listed on their site, you It is easy to get excited about cheap computers and new operating Until next week… Brad! For those of you keeping up by reading Intellectual Click: Following are short descriptions of new Dynamically .NET Creating Provocative Check … HOT THREADS … Portal Images, .NET
tidbits of news. The most interesting is a report by InternetNews.com that the release to manufacturing of the
next version of Windows could be slated for as early as June of 2009—next
year. That is very aggressive, especially without a public beta already
being available. But then, this new version, Windows “7” would likely be
an upgraded version of Windows Vista.
handing out betas as early as the PDC conference next month or at their
WinHEC conference in November. Either way, it seems that Windows “7” is on
the fast track.
laptop for under $100. This objective has been a focus for many years to
provide developing countries and others a means of using the Internet and
a computer. It appears that HiVision is reaching this goal.
for $98 in large quantities. They currently have the cost down to $120,
but believe they will be able to break the $100 cost. The machine will
have a gig of RAM, WiFi, three USBs, RJ45 connection, audio, and more. It
will be available with Linux or WindowsCE.
can find a number of videos and reports on the Internet that show these in
action. TechVideoBlog.com has a great video that shows the machine running
(see http://trailers.divx.com/media/charbax/ifa2008/HiVision-MiniNote.html).
They also have footage of a HiVision representative showing a hot pink
version of the machine that is currently in production for about $120.
systems. I do, however, believe it is a safe bet to say that these two new
developments are not going to meet in the near future!
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Bradley L. Jones
Recently Published Books
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.
Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting
Code
By Van
Lindberg for O’Reilly
350 pages for $34.99
What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters
By Bill Tancer for
Hyperion
240 pages for $25.95
New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru
articles on CodeGuru. If you are interested in submitting your own article
for inclusion on the site, then you will find guidelines here.
Building Windows Presentation Foundation
DataTemplates
By
Jeffrey Juday
Discover how to use the XamlReader to dynamically create
a Datatemplate. Then, see how you can bind to a Dataset and display the
data in a ListView control (via a sample application pointing to the
Northwind database).
Tip: Determining the Type of a Character Variable
By Jay Miller
Is it a number, a letter,
punctuation? Use this extension method to determine the type of a
character variable.
a Pretty IE Toolbar in C#
By Anton Zlobinz
Learn about the work principles and ways and
use of IEToolbarEngine. This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which has
a reusable architecture.
Search Engine Friendly URLs in ASP.NET
By Cristian Darie and Jaimie Sirovichbr>
Authors Cristian Darie and Jaimie Sirovich show how to turn ugly dynamic
ASP.NET URLs into human and search engine-friendly URLs that may improve
your search engine ranking.
Discussion Groups
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!
Bridge
Design Patterns – Unresolved External Symbol (C++)
Permutations
using recursion in C++ (C++)
New Articles on Developer.com
Performance Planning
By Scott Nelson
The performance of your portal has a direct
impact on usability, and usability can make or break your portal ROI.
Learn design and development approaches that will help prevent and
pinpoint pesky portal performance problems.
Drawn Graphics, and Event Handling in a MIDlet
By Richard G. Baldwin
Learn how to paint
images, draw graphics, and do event handling on a cell phone screen.
Tip: Determining the Type of a Character Variable
By Jay Miller
Is it a number, a letter,
punctuation? Use this extension method to determine the type of a
character variable.
