GNOME and .NET are getting together. According to today’sannouncement, Ximian is working on Mono, an implementation of the .NET CLI. Although the .NET CLI is currently a small subset of the entire .NET framework, you can expect Mono to go beyond the CLI, as it will likely implement much of the framework in the [...]
In this excerpt from Programming Visual Basic for Palm OS, learn about synchronization logic. Part 3 of 4.Synchronization LogicThe SyncLogic object created in the BeginProcess routine encapsulates all of our synchronization logic. In our example, the class instancing property is set to Private, and the class file is saved as Ch4aLogic.cls. By partitioning a conduit [...]
If you ask an OOP guru what an OOP language is, you will probably hear him/her utter words such as class, interface, information hiding, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, etc. Those sound cool, don’t they? OOP, however, is a topic that is not too easy to master in a day or two or by just attending a [...]
Most of us remain blissfully unaware of the implementation details behind the scenes when we use foreach to iterate over an array or some other collection. And as long as we use one of these out-of-the-box data structures, we don’t have to worry about it. But many times, the [...]
In my previous column I said that I will be working on an application and discussing it as I go. Well, it turns out that real customers and real life haven’t actually gotten the project past the “I Have A Dream” stage, so it will be a few weeks before I have much that is [...]
Editor’s Note: Mitch Tulloch has gathered 100 hacks for his Windows Server Hacks book to help system administrators master the more powerful features of Windows Server. To provide a real look at what these hacks can help you do, we offer three excerpts from the book: How to use an ADSI-based script to search for [...]
The .NET Framework provides twosets of standard interfaces for enumerating and comparingcollections: the traditional (nontype-safe) and the new generictype-safecollections. This book focuses only on the new, type-safe collectioninterfaces as these are far preferable.You can declare an ICollection of any specifictype by substituting theactual type (forexample, int or string) for thegeneric type in the interface declaration(<T>).TIP: [...]
Webcams are useful for videoconferencing, but videoconferencing has not really caught on. So if you own a webcam, you know that most of the time it is lying around gathering dust. But if you have a webcam, you can put it to better use than videoconferencing. In this article, I will show you how you [...]
The 1.0 Preview Release of Mozilla’s next-generation browser, Firefox, was rolled out last week, and like earlier versions, it packs many features that improve on Internet Explorer, such as faster load time and support for tabbed browsing.