Web Services

  This application transfers the contents of a machine's clipboard to another machine through the user of ASP .NET Web Services. Brian Trautman Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 1-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual Basic or Visual C# Express Editions Hardware: None Download:…

  In this installment of "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman borrows Travis Illig's CueCat BarCode scanner and creates a plugin for Windows Live Writer than lets him blog more easily about books he's reading. We decode the bar code info, change UPCs into ISBNs, call…

See how to take an existing ASP.NET application (a T-shirt store) and add AJAX functionality.  The T-shirts themselves have painfully bad puns on them (the kind I love), all written by yours truly. See http://smarx.com/posts/bad-ajax-jokes-good-ajax-sample.aspx for the running sample…

This was the first time I had ever met Scott Guthrie in person. Like many devs working with MS dev tools, I was quite familiar with the guy - just about everything he says is useful. I used to code by his posts, articles, and interviews. Meeting him was weird. For one thing, he's…

  This article walks the reader through the development of a Windows Mobile 5.0 application that interacts with Amazon's E-Commerce Service (ECS). I cover set up of the development environment and much of the code that is needed. Readers can download the C# or VB.NET source code that…

With the aid of Amazon.com web services, Clint Rutkas created a program that will guess what your gift is. With the size of your wrapped present, the program will poll Amazon and based on what is on your wishlist, it will guess what it may be!   Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required:  1-3…

In this Office Live screencast, Albert Shen shows you how to add Workflows to Office Live Business Applications using SharePoint Designer 2007.   Office Live is built on Windows SharePoint Services v3 and as a result, leverages the powerful new Windows Workflow Foundation.  …

In this Office Live screencast, Albert Shen shows you how to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to build powerful views of your business data, and integrate them into your Office Live Business Applications.   The Data form web part can consume data from various data sources including…

SharePoint Designer 2007 is a great tool for designing, developing and customizing your Business Applications in Office Live. In this screencast Albert Shen, a software design engineer on the Office Live team, will show you the various capabilities in SharePoint Designer and how you can use…

Bringing a wealth of experience from having worked in a variety of roles including architect, project manager, developer and technical writer, Mike Benkovich is a published author with WROX Press and APress Books, writing primarily about getting the most from your SQL Server database. Since…