.NET CF Performance Best Practices (jsprunger.com)

submitted by dayman(35) 1 day, 10 hours ago

The impact of performance is much more readily apparent in .NET Compact Framework applications. The mobile devices commonly have a CPU that is 10 times slower than your desktop CPU, and possibly up to 100 times less RAM than a desktop or server. In Agile or XP development, the mantra is often to ignore performance considerations until necessary – I don’t think you can apply that to .NET CF... read more...

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daemoniq: Windows service hosting for mere mortals (code.google.com)

submitted by jstateresa(15) 2 months, 3 days ago

Developing and debugging windows services or daemon processes in .Net can be a really painful and tedious process. Daemoniq takes a stab at this problem by providing another level of a abstraction on top of System.ServiceProcess?. This allows developers to concentrate on writing windows services in .Net by providing functionality such as configuration, deployment and debuggability read more...

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DirectX 11 for Windows 7 and Vista SP2 (dotnetfacts.blogspot.com)

submitted by eugenciuta(715) 3 months, 10 days ago

DirectX® 11, the next generation of graphics technology, arrives with Windows 7. This is great news for players because the game developers will utilize new features to create rich worlds, realistic characters, and more fluid gameplay. read more...

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How to check hardware virtualization support in Windows (praveenbattula.blogspot.com)

submitted by praveenbattula(395) 3 months, 12 days ago

How to check the system hardware supports virtualization in Windows. This post will explain the solution for it. read more...

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How to check what updates are installed on my machine? (praveenbattula.blogspot.com)

submitted by praveenbattula(395) 3 months, 12 days ago

How to check what updates are installed on my machine? Simple way. read more...

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Install latest MSN windows messenger security update. (praveenbattula.blogspot.com)

submitted by praveenbattula(395) 3 months, 28 days ago

Should install the latest security patch update to Windows MSN messenger. read more...

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How to create a windows service in dot net framework (cherupally.blogspot.com)

published 4 months, 12 days ago, submitted by kcherupa(255) 4 months, 16 days ago

Explains detailed steps to create a windows service using visual studio read more...

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Why Shouldn’t I use PRISM? | Grumpy Dev (www.grumpydev.com)

submitted by Grumpydev2(65) 7 months, 2 days ago

Plenty has been written about PRISM, its benefits, and how to get started; but very little on why you wouldn’t use it on your next WPF/Silverlight project. I’ve put together some concerns, based both on criticisms I’ve read, and supposition on my part; and some commentary about whether I believe those concerns are well founded or not. read more...

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Installing Dotnet Windows Services, the easiest way (cavemansblog.wordpress.com)

submitted by cavemansblog(35) 8 months, 29 days ago

Using the InstallUtil.exe has been my primary mechanism of installing a windows service. I will demonstrate the easiest way of installing/uninstalling a windows service by just double clicking on the service executable. read more...

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Windows 7 Product Lines Announced (geekswithblogs.net)

submitted by sdorman(735) 1 year ago

Microsoft today announced the new product line for Windows 7. In some ways the new Windows 7 product line follows the same ideas of Windows Vista, but the big differences are that each Windows 7 edition is a superset of the previous edition (which means that each higher edition will have every feature of all lower editions) and they will be focusing primarily on two editions of Windows 7: Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional. read more...

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Content Management System (CMS) developed in both desktop & web modes (www.visualwebgui.com)

submitted by webgui(195) 1 year, 2 months ago

A custom Document Management application that would allow its staff and users to add, edit and review documents regardless of their physical location was developed for a Dutch insurance company. The documents stored in the system describe various workflow procedures, policies, specifications, offers, and they are grouped together in a tree-based hierarchy. read more...

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RadPop Free Caller ID and Web Monitor windows application (dink.no-ip.info)

submitted by hughesdo(45) 1 year, 2 months ago

RadPop is a free Caller ID monitor for on your windows computer. Apparently no one dug a Web Monitor so I found a more practical use for a very cool pop-up. I have added Caller ID monitoring to the RadPop application. There are plenty of additionally things I can think to add to this application but the really cool thing was I deployed this with one click deploy. So if anyone did install my application once they rerun the application the new revision will be installed automatically. read more...

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Get the message for PDC 2008 (channel8.msdn.com)

submitted by atifaziz(990) 1 year, 4 months ago

Microsoft got their best ad-agency guys and gals together to figure out how best to get the word out on PDC 2008. This (video) is an inside look at one of their early brainstorming sessions, which apparently got a little out of hand. read more...

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How to: Debug Windows Service in Visual Studio .NET (dotnetfacts.blogspot.com)

submitted by eugenciuta(715) 1 year, 4 months ago

Debugging a Windows Service Application is a very unpleasant task because such application doesn’t run from within Visual Studio .NET. A Windows Service Application runs in the Services Control Manager context. This article is about how to debug a Windows Service application as a regulat Windows Forms application. read more...

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Using Windows Server 2008 64 bit as a development workstation (rabdullin.com)

submitted by abdullin(330) 1 year, 4 months ago

Review, tips and tricks on using Windows Server 2008 64 as a workstation for the .NET Developer. read more...

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How to change RDP listening port in Windows 2003 server? (aspadvice.com)

published 1 year, 5 months ago, submitted by stephen_henry(75) 1 year, 5 months ago

This article will brief you on the way to change the default Remote Desktop Connection port to other port. This feature is important to protect your server from unwanted attempt access. Please also note that the firewall should be configured to allow such connections... read more...

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