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This Week's Topics
- Comments from the Editor
- Recently Published Books
- New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru
- [Updated] How to Use a Font Without Installing It
- Opening Modal Managed Windows from MFC
- The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
- Using a Web Application to Obtain Client-Specific Information
- Easy C++ - Delegates / Generic Properties / Closures / Thunks
- New Articles on Internet.com
- Build your own MVC Framework: Making Headway
- Obtaining Client-Specific Information with a Web Application
- Build a Custom WCF Encoder
Comments from the Editor
You might or might not know that Codeguru is associated with InternetNews.com. This is our site that posts news articles daily on things happening in the industry. Here are a few of the recent news items:
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RSA Warns of Virtualization Risks
Those that manage virtualization well stand to gain from it, according to RSA's report.
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IBM Brings Desktops to the Cloud
New service makes your desktop as transportable as a cloud itself, eliminating the need for a fat client.
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Microsoft Delays Office 2010 Web Apps Preview
Still, Microsoft says the Web-based Office apps will begin reaching early testers "soon."
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Snow Leopard: Apple Shines Again
From the blogs: Smaller, faster, and cheaper, Apple's done it again with an OS release that should put the rest of the industry to shame.
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Dell, HP Side With Microsoft on Word Appeal
The PC makers plead that stopping shipment of Word now would injure them.
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Report: Virtualization Market Up for Grabs
Microsoft is a come-from-behind favorite in at least one area of virtualization led by VMware.
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FCC Opens Probe Into Wireless Industry
Agency looking for measures of competition, innovation and investment to inform a litany of regulatory issues.
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Intel's Next-Gen Centrino Timed With Windows 7
UPDATED: New mobile platform will be the first with the Nehalem architecture and ready in time for the Windows 7 launch.
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Free Software Group Lobbies Against Windows 7
Foundation identifies seven sins that big corporations could avoid if they'd only abandon Windows for open source.
Until next week...
Brad!
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Bradley L. Jones
www.CodeGuru.com
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Recently Published Books
For those of you keeping up by reading books. The following are just a few of the new books that have been recently released. If you've read any of these, feel free to write a review to be posted on CodeGuru. See the submission guidelines.
Android Wireless Application Development
By Shane Conder, Lauren Darcey for Addison-Wesley
600 pages for $44.99
Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design
By James A. Whittaker for Addison-Wesley
256 pages for $39.99
New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru
Following are short descriptions of new articles on CodeGuru. If you are interested in submitting your own article for inclusion on the site, then you will find guidelines here.
[Updated] How to Use a Font Without Installing It
By Wong Shao Voon
How to use a font without installing it first on user systems.
Opening Modal Managed Windows from MFC
By Marius Bancila
This article explains how one can use WPF and Windows Forms windows from native code as modal windows, and what are the problems that can arise and what are the solutions.
The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
By Mark Strawmyer
Learn three industry trends that are influencing the next releases of C# and Visual Basic.
Using a Web Application to Obtain Client-Specific Information
By Paul Kimmel
Obtain client-specific information from your Web application using ActiveX, which only works with Internet Explorer and browsers that have ActiveX extensions.
Easy C++ - Delegates / Generic Properties / Closures / Thunks
By Ali Imran
Implement delegates in C++ (which normally most of C++ compilers don't support) in a way that is really easy and that is cross-compiler compatible.
New Articles on Internet.com
Build your own MVC Framework: Making Headway
Marc Plotz takes us further into his custom, lightweight MVC Framework.
Obtaining Client-Specific Information with a Web Application
Obtain client-specific information from your Web application using ActiveX, which only works with Internet Explorer and browsers that have ActiveX extensions.
Build a Custom WCF Encoder
When the built-in WCF encoders don't meet your needs, follow this example to create a custom encoder—and just plug it in!