7 Useful Tools For Android Developers

There’s a huge market for mobile app development. I’m an iPhone user myself, and we’ve posted plenty of stuff here on iOS design and development. But it looks like the popularity of the Android platform isn’t slowing down anytime soon. It’s market share keeps growing. So we thought it was about time that we help out you Android developers out there. Here’s a list of tools and kits that you should

How to: Storyboard only start with the conspicuousness of the application in the browser window

In two previous articles, I have described techniques to only start a Storyboard when loading of the Silverlight based application is complete. These techniques help no longer at the latest when the Silverlight application has a small size, part of a larger html page is and is not initially visible, if the html page starts, for example because it is embedded at the bottom of the html page. This

If you want to use GUIDs to identify your files, then nobody's stopping you

Igor Levicki proposes solving the problem of file extensions by using a GUID instead of a file name to identify a file.You can do this already. Every file on an NTFS volume has an object identifier which is formally 16-byte buffer, but let's just call it a GUID. By default a file doesn't have an object identifier, but you can ask for one to be created with FSCTL_CREATE_OR_GET_OBJECT_ID, which

UI Design Pattern - Dashboard

Dashboard a landing page of an application containing large and clear symbols of main functionality and optionally an area for relevant new information.Check out Google I/O 2010 conference presentation Android UI design patterns for a conference presentation about UI design patterns. It features the dashboard pattern. Pattern cardProblemVery clear and easily accessible navigation to

פעולות חיתוך ואיחוד בין קבוצות וביצוע Union בעזרת Join

דרך מעניינת להסתכל על טבלאות היא כעל קבוצות של רשומות. נכון שהדימוי האינטואיטיבי הוא דווקא של רשימה מסודרת (טבלה..) אבל לסדר אין חשיבות והטבלה נשארת אותה טבלה ללא קשר לאופן המיון הלוגי או הפיזי של הרשומות (זו כנראה אחת הסיבות להתעקשותה של Microsoft לא לאפשר ביצוע Order By ב-View), ובין טבלאות ניתן לבצע פעולות חיתוך ואיחוד כפי שלמדנו במבוא לתורת הקבוצות.. לצורך ההמחשה ניצור שתי טבלאות בעלות מבנה

Getting Started with Spring.NET

I have been a big fan of the Spring Framework for quite some time. As a matter of fact, I count on the many benefits and features of Spring for most of my Java projects. I have found Spring to be a gateway to productivity and better practice development for a number of solutions in the enterprise. Recently, I have been investigating the .NET platform and C#. We have a mixed Java/C# environment at

XAMLtoMVC dynamic image generator

What XAMLtoMVC is forXAMLtoMVC was created to ease tasks in web development when you have something to display that is impossible (or nearly impossible) with html. And especially with images you want to use, but you realize you can't because they are too static to reflect even the smallest changes. The solution is based on MVC actions and Html helper methods creating images ondemand.Let’s see

Социальные службы «помогают» похищать людей

В последнее время преступники, которые занимаются похищением людей с целью получения выкупа, начали активно использовать для этих целей Интернет, в частности разнообразные социальные службы. В таких популярных сервисах, как Google, Facebook, Twitter и в таких геосоциальных службах, как Foursquare, легко можно узнать всю информацию о будущих жертвах. В Мексике, например, помощью этих служб часто

Getting ASP.NET MVC application to work on IIS 6.0

איך להתקין אפליקציית Asp.net MVC על שרת iis 6.0.שלב 1: התקנת Asp.net Mvc מכאן אפשר להוריד את ההתקנה ל – Asp.net MVC 2. יש להוריד את הקובץ AspNetMVC2_VS2008.exeלאחר ההורדה יש לחלץ את ההתקנה.פתח Cmd, גש לתיקיה שבה נמצאת ההורדה וכתוב את הפקודה הבאה: AspNetMVC2_VS2008 /x   נפתח חלון להכנסת שם התיקייה, ולאחר הזנת השם נוצרת תיקייה חדשה בשם שנתת, מתוך התיקייה שנוצרה תחת המחיצה של mvcruntime יש את הקובץ

F# WPF Application with Themes Template

Project DescriptionF# WPF Template  with Themes.This project includes the source code of the template installer. The template will generate a simple WPF application which contains a menu bar, sample UserControl and themes, and demonstrates the usage of the  WPF Commanding (both built-in ApplicationComamnds and  DelegateCommand). After installing the template (VSIX file), you will see the “F# WPF