When Android and iOS were rolled out and had the world in storm, Windows also tried its best to feed people with efficient, portable applications that can be used on their very own platform. This gave birth to the latest trend in mobile computing, the Windows 8 Applications, previously known as Metro Apps. Many companies
SEO Best Practices and Guidelines
SEO Best Practices are very important in getting good page ranks for your web pages. After all what is the use of a web page if it does not have any traffic.
How to Integrate SkyDrive Backup in Windows 8 App
If you want to provide a backup and restore feature within your windows 8 application written in xaml and c# then this is a must read. The sample code is re-factored for windows 8 RTM release.
What is REST (Representational State Transfer)
REST (Representational State Transfer) defines a set of architectural principles by which you can design Web services that focus on a system’s resources. REST, which was first introduced by Roy Fielding (Univ. of California, Irvine) in the year 2000, is a simpler alternative to SOAP/WSDL based web services. A web service is said to be ‘RESTful’ when it is implemented using the principles of REST. Over the past couple of years web technology giants have started adopting REST and RESTful services heavily underscoring their significance.
Best Practices: Database Operations
Few things that you could consider as part of better coding practice and for better application performance.
Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit
Companies can have thousands of applications installed across distributed networks. To ensure that these applications are compatible with a new version of operating system, it is essential that companies test these applications against the new operating system deployment (such as deploying Windows Vista or Windows 7).
How to use Namespace Alias Qualifier – (global)
As you know a code file can declare multiple namespaces – stand-alone ones or nested ones. The types under the namespaces with the same name are treated as one single logical group. Types that are not declared in any namespace are considered to be in the “global†namespace, which is the outer-most, default one.
How to get details of a file extension including icon
How to retrieve the descriptive name of a file extension and icon. If you have some sort of file ‘browse’ Window that you want to show the file name, and the ‘File Type’ field where it says something like ‘File Folder’, ‘WinZip File’ or ‘FLG File’ – here is some simple code that does that for you.
How to create a reusable method to check null or an empty string
We always need some utility methods handy to speed up our development activity. The method in this article shows how to check if a string is null or empty.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Part 1
This article explains the need for a new platform to exploit the graphics power of today’s computer systems. This provides background information on the evolution of WPF and covers why user experience is an important consideration in application design. WPF is an integrated client platform and next generation of development tools for building Windows client applications.