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Sometimes an application needs to interact with the user interface (UI) of a second application. The first application might be a test application that drives the UI of the target to run through some automated tests. It might describe the UI out loud, as an aid to users that are blind. It might be a speech application that allows users to give vocal commands. In each of these cases, the application needs a way to inspect and interact with the UI of the system and other running applications.

You have decided to take the plunge and create a Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system-aware application. This decision comes with a new set of requirements when it comes to enabling Tablet PC-specific features and deployment of your application. This article will take you through the process of creating a Tablet PC-aware application and deploying it in the enterprise.

Speech-enabled applications require specialized grammars that clearly define the types of input they're expected to parse and understand. Find out how to build grammars by walking through the process of building a grammar for an order status retrieval system that lets callers retrieve orders by voice.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 now includes code analysis tools in the Development and Team Suite editions. Using the code analysis feature, your code for managed assemblies can be scanned to ensure compliance with standard programming and design rules.

In today’s post I will describe different security settings of the application pool and the IIS6 directory. It’s not always easy to guess which permissions must be set on system folders and files in order to make the application run … Continue reading →

Develops an analogy between database table and file directory information and argues that it could be very useful if it were possible to have a similar application to Windows Explorer for database tables. Demonstrates how to obtain the information from Sql Server system tables and dynamic management

Online Article: ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part Infrastructure

Web applications today do a number of things. They could be a banking site, a content management system, or a news Web site. In spite of the diversity of Web applications available today, it almost always makes sense to break a Web page into smaller, reusable widgets

Enterprises collect a wide variety of data in the form of text, audio, video, geospatial attributes, web, system and device logs, clickstreams, sensor readings, device outputs, link traversal logs from bots, crawlers, etc. In fact, about 90% of the data in the world has been created in the last few years. As hardware gets cheaper, more people have and use more devices and generate huge volumes of data which needs to be stored and analyzed to create value.

Growing up in the 80s, two of the concepts that drew me in to computer science were computers that were small enough to take with you (called "Luggables" then) and displays that were thin enough to hang on a wall. Technology has come a long way in that time-and the Ultra-Mobile class of personal computers that run the Windows Vista operating system is a great example of that progress. So what is a UMPC and why would I be interested in writing an application that is optimized for it?

PSAM Control Library is a WinForms library containing the IncipitViewer control for drawing musical notes which can be read from MusicXml file or added programmatically. The library was initially a component of larger software Polish System for Archivising Music but I thought it could be useful for other software developers so I decided to distribute it under BSD licence. PSAM Control Library is written in C# under Microsoft Visual Studio Express.