I'm playing round with my first WPF app, which is just a small utility with a progress bar and a cancel button for the UI. I want to be able to accept some arguments from the command line, and I'm not ...

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With each iteration of the Windows Phone OS, it's getting nearer to converging with the Windows desktop OS (Windows 8.x). The most recent Windows Phone update includes support for universal ...

Windows Vista is not just a new operating system from Microsoft. Yes, it has a ton of features that you can either love or hate if you're a user. However, if you're a developer, there are so many new ...

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Infragistics plans to release Monday a reference application for using Microsoft's Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). The company is partnering with Amazon and Microsoft in this endeavor. WPF ...

Even as the number of Windows 8 Modern apps in the Windows Store continues to grow, there appears to be a difference between what third party developers use in making those apps compared to ...

I have a SQL 2008 database with some sprocs, etc... that take data in tables and export it to XML files. These XML files are used to provide sample data to test an application we use that imports XML ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Every mobile and desktop platform has its own technology stack, or stacks, that developers can use to build applications. It used to be acceptable to build an application for a single platform, or ...