Wednesday, December 28, 2005

VB and Voice Recognition

Microsoft has been quietly developing VRS technology and integrating it into Windows. There are many downloads available on the Microsoft Web site that add VRS to your desktop, but very little on how to add this to your applications. This is a short tutorial on how to add voice commands to your application. Read more...

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Glimpse into the next generation of enterprise development using XML

This tutor is intended for anyone who wants a glimpse into the next generation of enterprise development. If you want to develop an understanding of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and learn how to use XML for business-to-business (B2B) communications, learn what the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and BizTalk extensions are, and learn how to use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 with XML, this book will provide the information you need. You are assumed to have a basic understanding of Microsoft Visual Basic and the Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Developers will find code samples, a discussion of the Internet Explorer 5 document object model, and many more topics. Web developers will find material on using XML to build Web pages. Senior developers and managers will find discus-sions on how XML can be integrated into the enterprise. Some of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications discussed in this book are not final, and they are changing constantly. It is recommended that you visit the W3C Web site at http://www.w3.org often for the updated specifications. Start reading...

Building `Drag-and-Drop` DIVs: Developing a Basic Script

Alejandro Gervasio explains in detail to show how to build a Draggable-n-Droppable DIV in his article here...

Highlighting Multiple Search Keywords in ASP.NET

Commonly we program to highlight the search word as a whole including spaces between them and not taking to highlight each word of the search expression into the input. Dimitrios Markatos discusses how we could bring about searching individual words and highlighting them in his article here...

Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Virtual Web Services Through Pattern Matching

Assume a situation in which a website is providing a free web service of weather reports. We can consume that service and display these weather reports in our website. One fine day, they have had enough and stop the web service permanently. They are still displaying the weather report in their website. You want to capture that information and display it in your website. Now this virtual web service comes into the picture. Read more...

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Practice for Designing Web Applications

This article gives some very basic approach for designing a scalable, maintainable, and extensible Web application using ASP.NET and OOP approach. Read more...

Friday, December 02, 2005

Introduction to the .NET Speech SDK

Even though the .NET Speech SDK is still in beta (2), exploring it will show what Microsoft has in store for us in the full release. To run the SDK, the .NET Framework SDK and the .NET Speech SDK beta must be installed. This entire article uses Visual Studio .NET 2002 (VS .NET) for application development. First, this article will cover Speech Application Language Tags (SALT), the foundation of this SDK. read more...

Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now

Visual Studio provides a rich extensibility model that developers at Microsoft and in the community have taken advantage of to provide a host of quality add-ins. Some add-ins contribute significant how-did-I-live-without-this functionality, while others just help you automate that small redundant task you constantly find yourself performing. The add-ins are available free and to know more or to get them follow this link...