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SharePoint and Web Parts : An Introduction
Microsoft SharePoint is clearly the current top-dog in corporate information sharing, document management, and workflow management. What many companies are now discovering is how SharePoint can be an effe...
32-bit applications have been around for a long time while 64-bit operating systems are only recently gaining popularity. Therefore, I would expect that the 64-bit OS successors would make it easy to run legacy 32-bit apps. And, they do a...
While it is usually preferable to avoid mixing development environments for a project, sometimes we need to create a mixed platform solution. In a recent project, I needed to create a class library in C# to interact with a LabVIEW 2009 SP1 appl...
In an ideal world, a design project has well defined phases with appropriate time alloted for each milestone. In the real world, clients often bring a project that is already behind schedule, needing results yesterday. Board design can be a cum...
I had a customer that wanted a Business Intelligence SharePoint web-part to track their facebook fans over time, to measure the effectiveness of their Facebook marketing push. Little did I suspect that I would be a casualty in the wars over database ...
Recently I worked on a project where I needed to import test data from a chemical process contained in text files into a MS SQL Server database. I was about to start a C# .NET project to do this task, but I thought there has to be a quicker and easie...
The message box, in Windows Forms and WPF, is a useful, quick-and-dirty way to send an alert, display an error, and get simple input from the user. The message box is, however, modal.
Recently, I needed to use a message box in WPF but did not want...
Recently, I created a function to execute this simple flowchart:
This function is executing within its own thread and starts an asynchronous action that executes in another thread. This function periodically checks the system state. Before the...
DMC started as a motion integrator (the M stands for motion). Even though we do a great many other things these days, we still maintain a strong competency in this area.
We were recently contacted by a client who has an old Acroloop 2000 ISA based...
A few days ago, I was working on a project where I needed to control a stepper motor using the .NET Micro Framework on the GHI Embedded Master microprocessor. Stepper motors are a unique type of motor - the velocity is controlled by a pulse wave inpu...