This video expands on the topic of Stored Procedures which was introduced several lessons ago. In this video we explain the basic syntax to create and update stored procedures, using input and output parameters, return values, declaring variables and adding other T-SQL programming elements into you…

Explore the speech recognition capabilities in Windows Vista and watch a demonstration to learn how you can operate them to open, close, and use programs; navigate around the screen; explore the Web; and create documents. You’ll also get some tips on how to edit documents, improve recognition of…

If you've used PHP, you may have had the pleasure of using MySQL, an open-source SQL engine.  Jeffery McManus has pointed out a few helper points for problems he has had with the .Net framework and MySQL.  The two main points are Dates and unsigned integers and he explains why…

I expected a nice little interview when I went over to visit Doug Purdy in building 42. What I got was the strangest bit of Channel Ninery that I've experienced so far in my several short weeks on the job. In this video, you'll watch as Doug Purdy assembles a meeting in the style of buliding 42.…

This Wednesday the 16th, scrape together two hundred stones and make a b-line for your local Cingular shop to be one of the first to hold the Cingular BlackJack in your hands. Gaze into it's large QVGA display, marvel at it's svelte design, and let your fingers dance across its full QWERTY…

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth Introduction: You can read more about the restart and recovery APIs on my blog here, here and here. Video Contents: First 40 seconds: Introduction Next 10 minutes: Demo Last 4 minutes:    2 slides and summary.

Over at Code Project, Jeff Atwood, posted a rather neat article on a Captcha control.  A Captcha is a way to help prove you're a human attempting to do something rather than a computer.  There is are a few great articles on Human Interactive Proofs out there if you're interested in…

  This sample demonstrate simple wallpaper cycler. It expects a folder in which it will find images. Upon startup, it will change the wallpaper, and it will even modify the placement behavior based on the size of the image found. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Easy Time…

  This sample allows you to mark out the offensive sections of your media and skip or mute the sections automatically during playback without modifying the actual media file. Uses Windows Media Player 10 SDK. Arian Kulp Arian Kulp's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required:  1-3…

  This article is basically about Family History Web service using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition In this article a client application is shown which is built as a front end to the Web service. Peter Bernhardt 3Leaf Development Difficulty: Easy Time Required:  1-3…