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Touch and Go: Viewing a Virtual World from Your Windows Phone

Although we no longer believe that celestial spheres surround the Earth, that’s still a handy concept for programs that let you use a smartphone to view a virtual world. Such a program needs to determine its orientation in 3D space, and Charles Petzold explains how to accomplish this using the horizontal coordinate system.
2012-07-31 18:00:00   Source: Touch and Go: Viewing a Virtual World from Your Windows...   Tags: Mobile

UI Frontiers: Thinking Outside the Grid

In Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight, using a Canvas or a single-cell Grid seems very similar. The difference is in how the container appears to the rest of the layout system. Canvas doesn’t participate in layout, so you can use it whenever you need to transcend layout.
2010-05-02 19:00:00   Source: UI Frontiers: Thinking Outside the Grid   Tags: WPF Silverlight

Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 2

‘Expert Systems’ is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm.

Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 1

‘Expert Systems’ is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm.

Man, Marriage and Machine – Adventures in Artificial Advice, part 3

‘Expert Systems’ is one of the most commercially successful application of Artificial Intelligence. This three part series describes how to develop an expert system based artificial advisor, using a backward reasoning algorithm.

A C# data import caching solution utilizing generics and your existing business classes.

Leverage your existing classes and the power of generics to speed up and simplify importing denormalized data into your system.
2010-07-07 22:09:00   Source: A C# data import caching solution utilizing generics and...   Tags: C#

Windows Azure: Windows Azure Comes to the Rescue

What do you do when marketing comes to you needing a fully functional conference registration system for a show just a month away? You leverage Windows Azure, Silverlight and Windows Phone to build an app with all the social media trimmings, as Microsoft's Mark Kromer details here.
2012-07-31 18:00:00   Source: Windows Azure: Windows Azure Comes to the Rescue   Tags: Silverlight

Isolating Dependencies in Tests Using Mocks and Stubs

Unit tests are not "unit" tests if they test things other than the System Under Test (SUT).
2009-06-15 22:50:42   Source: Isolating Dependencies in Tests Using Mocks and Stubs   Tags: Testing

GUIDs as fast primary keys under multiple databases

Using the right approach can make GUIDs nearly as fast as integer primary keys on almost any database system.
2012-06-02 07:39:00   Source: GUIDs as fast primary keys under multiple databases   Tags: Database

WPF/xaml NotifyIcon and Taskbar (system tray) popup window

Integrating WPF and XAML with the windows forms NotifyIcon control to produce a slick, styled popup window when the mouse is moved over the NotifyIcon