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C Sharp Development 101 – A Tutorial Series
Posted 4 hours, 33 minutes ago via Hack a Day
In this tutorial series we are going to look at C# Development using the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions. This will take you from the basics of installing Visual Studio 2010 Express, to the Object Oriented Programming style associated with C# and other languages, dabble in some database access (Access & SQL Server Express) and finally, design a project that will pull all of our knowledge together into a final solution.
We are going to begin by downloading the Visual Studio 2010 express from Microsoft’s website so that we can get started on some C# development. After the file has been downloaded you will need to have a connection to the Internet so that the program can download the necessary files to complete the install. For the sake of customization we won’t walk through the rest of the install and will pick up with some add-ons that will make your coding experience easier.
With the Express edition now installed, it is good to know that the express editions of Visual Studio 2010 do not support extensibility. This means that the ability to install plug-ins and add-ons is not included. If you happen to acquire or have a full version of Visual Studio 2010 then the option is there for you to add these plug-ins that have helped me out in a tough spot before.
- Visual Assist X
- This is probably one of the best applications out there for intellisense and document syntax highlighting. Now many of you might be saying that Visual Studio already does this. Yes they do, but not as well as Visual Assist X. This add-on will look into your added in files such as the Boost library, and retrieve all of the Boost functions and try and piece together a description of what that particular function would do. Syntax highlighting is the best around with the quick option to do minimal to maximum highlighting. A must have for the avid programmer but will run you $249 for a one year subscription and $49 maintenance fee every year afterwards. This price tag might discourage most but take the 30 day trial and take it for a test run.
- Ghost Doc
- A product of SubMain, this add-on will allow you to document your code quickly and efficiently using XML markup. To generate these comments it uses the elements type, parameters of the function as well as its name to generate the comment. This is especially useful for people who do not enjoy documenting functions in their code. Most promising add-on if you are looking for code documentation.
- AnkhSVN
- A free SVN add-in for Visual Studio that allows you to connect to a repository, browse the branches all within the comfort of the Visual Studio environment. Very easy to use for people who want to start a community project on Google Code or host their own. A must have for people who like to collaborate and don’t want to hover over one persons computer to review code.
All of these have been personally used and are highly recommended for use when developing for the .NET framework. The next part in this series will go back to an old classic for programmers; Hello World. We will go through making a project file and printing Hello World to the console as well as on a form. As always, any problems with the series or if you just have questions post to the comments so that we may learn from each others mistakes and grow as a community. If you can’t wait until the next post,
here is how to start making a Hello World console app. Until next time, Happy Hacking!
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This is Why Grammar Nazi’s Are Single … at Art of Trolling
Great Advice In This Economy, Grandma!
Crazy Things Parents Say
Please Tell Me This Was In The ‘Self-Help’ Section
Oddly Specific
The Robot That Might Destroy Us All
College Humor
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GNU/Linux powers state-of-the-art hearing aid research
Posted 4 hours, 40 minutes ago via LWN.net
64 Studio Ltd. has created a Linux distribution for HörTech gGmbH to
aid in research on hearing impairment and augmentation technology.
"64 Studio was commissioned by HörTech to create a GNU/Linux
real-time audio distribution, code-named Mahalia, optimized for the Lenovo
Thinkpad X200 notebook. Giso Grimm of the Carl von Ossietzky-Universität
Oldenburg explained: "We prefer to use ready-to-use Linux audio
distributions over patching the kernel ourselves, since our expertise is in
signal processing, not kernel development. When we were faced with the fact
that our then favourite audio distribution failed to deliver stable
real-time kernels for several releases, we asked 64 Studio to tailor us a
customized distribution with a working real-time kernel that matched our
specific needs and ran stable on the selected hardware.""
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The Spindicator
Posted 5 hours, 33 minutes ago via Hack a Day
[Harvey] wrote in to share the Spindicator with us. The spindicator is a hard drive activity activity indicator built in a ring to resemble a dekatron. Using the pulses from the hard drive activity LED, [Harvey] tested several different methods of interpreting that data for display. The final version, negative edge triggered with a lowpass filter can be seen after the break. It is nice and smooth and vaguely reminiscent of many programs’ loading screens.
He has pictures and tons of detail on the project including videos of previous versions that acted quite erratically.
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Steve Jobs Defends New iTunes 10 Icon Against Criticism
Posted 5 hours, 35 minutes ago via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
With the release of iTunes 10 on Wednesday, Apple has revamped the application's icon for the first time in many years, doing away with the traditional design of music notes on top of a CD. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the change at Wednesd...
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Apple manufacturers churning out 2 million iPads per month
Posted 5 hours, 43 minutes ago via digg.com: Top News
Manufacturing partners are now said to be delivering 2 million iPads per month, double recent levels.
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Infrared Nerf autocannon hunts predators, little sisters too (video) -- Engadget
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When it comes to keeping unwanted personnel out of your property, whether that be an estate or an alcove, you can't be expected to hang
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How it's made
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LaCie intros ultra-compact MosKeyto USB thumbdrive
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Offering capacities up to 16GB in a size that is only 0.7 inches long and 0.35 ounces, the device is short enough to lay flush against a notebook while being stored in a bag.
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LG's 31-inch OLED TV spotted, priced at IFA
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The organic 1080p screen is characterized as large and vivid but is also detachable from its stand. Unlike the XEL-1 and some conventional TVs, where a thin screen is permanently fixed to the stand, the LG set can be removed or rotated in place.
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'Impossible' Soccer Kick Leads to New Physics Equation
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A group of French scientists have come up with a new physics equation to help explain how Brazilian soccer star Roberto Carlos scored his "impossible" kick in 1998.
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Apple Adds Showtimes to Movie Trailer Site
Posted 6 hours, 13 minutes ago via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
Macworld reports that Apple has added listings of showtimes to its movie trailer site, offering a slick HTML5 interface that utilizes geo-location to find theaters in your area.
When you visit the page, your Web browser will a...
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Ubuntu 10.10 Beta (Maverick Meerkat) Released
Posted 6 hours, 27 minutes ago via LWN.net
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) beta is available for testing. The Ubuntu
10.10 family of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Mythbuntu,
have also reached beta status. Maverick Meerkat is scheduled for a final
release on October 10, 2010.
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Apple Removes Custom Ringtone Creation in iTunes 10
Posted 6 hours, 28 minutes ago via MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
Apple's former custom ringtone editor, no longer present in iTunes 10
As noted by Mac|Life, iTunes 10 appears to be lacking the ability to create ringtones from songs purchased from the iTunes Store. The feature had allowed users to s...
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Mobile internet in emerging markets: The next billion geeks | The Economist
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How the mobile internet will transform the BRICI countries
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Google Announces Wave In A Box
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Google Wave is far from dead, and developers, early adopters and enterprises will be glad to hear it. Today Google announced it will expand on the code it has already open sourced, building Wave into a functional application that will allow users to run wave servers, host their own waves and build bigger and better applications with the real-time collaboration technology.
"Since the beginning, it has been our vision that the Google Wave protocols could support a new generation of communication and collaboration tools," engineer Alex North wrote on the Google Wave developer blog.
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Google had big plans for Wave - it was supposed to replace email and the killer app among Google Apps, but the company basically gave up on the project earlier this month (see Google Wave Is Dead). It still seems possible for the technology to do big things. But it sounds like Google plans to move on after the application is released. The future of the open source project will be defined by developers' contributions, North wrote.
Wave In A Box will not have the "full functionality" of the Gmail-integrated Web app, but it will feature threaded conversations and support importing data from wave.google.com.
The release of Wave as an application could be a big deal for developers, especially at businesses that want to take advantage of Wave for real-time collaboration and discussion (see our post, 5 Services That Leverage Google Wave).
Wave was always intended for people to run on their own machines, but this release will make the process much easier. Developers and enterprise users that have been eyeing Wave will be more likely to take the technology into their own hands and build things like feature-rich Web forums, productivity tools and apps to facilitate collaborative projects.
Google did not specify a timeline for the release of the new code, but it has said that wave.google.com will be available at least through the end of the year.
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NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
Posted 6 hours, 28 minutes ago via digg.com: Top News
If youve seen Danny Boyles movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASAs mission to visit the Earths Sun wont include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Suns atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch sometime before 2018.Four million miles doesnt sound very close, but its still very exciting, since this is a region no other spacecraft (created by us) has ever encountered. NASA plans for the project to unlock the suns biggest mysteries.Although the spacecraft will be relatively far from our stars surface, its carbon-composite heat shield will have to withstand intense radiation, as well as temperatures exceeding 2550 degrees Fahrenheit.The experiments selected for Solar Probe Plus are specifically designed to solve two key questions of solar physics why is the suns outer atmosphere so much hotter than the suns visible surface and what propels the solar wind that affects Earth and our solar system? said Dick Fisher, director of NASAs Heliophysics Division in Washington.Weve been struggling with these questions for decades and this mission should finally provide those answers, said Fisher.[Image credit: NASA]More About: mission, NASA, space, spacecraft, sun, SunshineFor more Tech coverage:Follow Mashable Tech on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Tech channelDownload our free apps for iPhone and iPad
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