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Tinu Awopetu07/27/09
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NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 with JavaFX Now Available for Download!

The NetBeans Team is pleased to announce the release of NetBeans IDE 6.7.1, which supports the latest JavaFX SDK. Download NetBeans 6.7.1 (A JavaFX-only download bundle is also available.) NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 is an update to NetBeans IDE 6.7 and includes the...

Rick Ross02/14/08
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Welcome to DZone's new IndicZone community for Indian IT Pros

Let me welcome all of you to the new DZone community for one of the most important and fastest growing groups in the worldwide IT scene: Indian developers and IT professionals. No matter where you look, if something interesting is happening on the IT and...

Sagar H Ganatra05/16/12
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CSS media queries in JavaScript

I was wondering if JavaScript can be used to update the elements in page, say changing the source attribute of an image based on the device width. Turns out there is a function matchMedia which accepts a media query string as input and returns the result.

Robert Maclean05/15/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 5: Some More Interesting Blocks

Robert Maclean continues his series on new and improved .NET 4.5 capabilities. Today he is discussing TransformBlock and BroadcastBlock.

Jeremy Likness05/15/12
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The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World

Jeremy Likness shows some examples of async activity implemented in a Metro application, through the Task class.

Merrick Chaffer05/14/12
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Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel

Merrick Chaffer shows how to improve content stacking performance with VirtualizingStackPanel in WPF. He managed to figure out how to get virtualization to actually behave itself in a ListBox WPF control.

Greg Duncan05/14/12
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Xamarin Designer for Android Now Avaiable for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop

Xamarin, the company behind the Mono framework, is releasing a visual application designer that allows developers to easily build applications for Android on top of Mono.

Daniel Mohl05/13/12
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Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F#

Fog is a library that makes it easier to use F# to interact with Windows Azure through the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. It provides functions for many of the common activities related to table storage, blob storage, and queue storage as well as service bus queues and topics.

Sasha Goldshtein05/13/12
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“Fitting” Performance into the Software Development Lifecycle

Where do you fit performance in the software development lifecycle? This innocent question carries the mind baggage of having to retrofit performance into an existing process.

Den Delimarsky05/12/12
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Image Cropping In Windows 8 Metro Applications

Den Delimarsky shows how it is possible to crop an image in a Metro application, built on top of the managed WinRT APIs.

Martin Hinshelwood05/12/12
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Process Template Upgrade #7 – Overwrite Retaining History With Limited Migration

Martin Hinshelwood continues his series on TFS data migration. In option #7, he basically overwrites the old work items with new ones.

Jeremy Likness05/12/12
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The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await

Jeremy Likness explains the WinRT asynchronous action model through the Task class, that took over the most frequently used .NET 4 async concepts.

Den Delimarsky05/12/12
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Use Built-In Application Icon Resources on Windows Phone

In some cases, it is possible to use stock icon resources as the main Windows Phone application icon. Den lists some of the icons as well as shows how to access them.

Greg Duncan05/10/12
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Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 Released

Microsoft announced the Beta release of the Portable Library Tools 2 for Visual Studio 2010. It adds support for building portable libraries targeting more recent platforms, scoped to those features supported by Visual Studio 2010.

Robert Maclean05/10/12
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.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 3: IDataFlowBlock

A new interface in .NET 4.5 is the IDataFlowBlock, which is implemented in many interesting ways, so to look at those Robert Maclean starts off with the simplest implementation.