10 Ways to Improve the Performance of Your WPF Application

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications are often classified as applications that are resource hungry, and yes they are. However, you can still improve their performance to a greater extent by following few techniques that we'll examine in this tutorial.
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.NET Framework 4.0 Task Parallel Library BlockingCollection

Learn how BlockingCollection, a new .NET Framework 4.0 concurrency friendly data structure, can serve as a mediator between task classes sharing data

http://www.codeguru.com/columns/experts/article.php/c18027

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Use JavaScript To Ensure Users Agree Before Posting

Often, you may need to make sure that visitors to your site agree to specific terms before they submit a form. You may need to do so for legal reasons before they upload a file, add an image, or submit a comment. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use JavaScript to disable all the fields on a form until a user agrees to your terms.

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Google Instant

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type.  key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

Read more http://www.google.com/instant/

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Adding Multimedia to Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Applications

Federico Kereki demonstrates ways to add sound (and, by extension, video) to your GWT-based website using some relatively easy coding methods, with and without resorting to additional libraries. You'll also learn how to adjust your code to accommodate both HTML5-enabled and Internet Explorer browsers, depending on the user's settings, by using the advanced 'deferred binding' technique.

http://www.informit.com/click.ashx?dk=38719&u=C2BC2D11-29BF-48E7-852A-5BC13F26B96A&r=%2farticles%2farticle.aspx%3fp%3d1625682

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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

Learn to leverage to the power of Microsoft LightSwitch with Brad Jones by creating a simple database, entry screen, and application without writing a single line of C# programming code.

http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/article.php/c17855

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ODAC for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Oracle has just released new versions of Oracle Developers Tools for Visual Studio, ODP.NET, Oracle Providers for ASP.NET, and .NET stored procedure support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. 

With ODAC 11.2.0.1.2, developers can connect to Oracle Database versions 9.2 and higher from Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. ODAC components support the full framework, as well as the new .NET Framework Client Profile.

download at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/windows/downloads/index-101290.html?msgid=3-2161760054


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