Modeling a WCF service with Service Factory The Web Service Software Factory 2010 is an integrated collection of resources to help you build Web services that follow well-known architecture and design patterns. We will use the Service Factory to create models for all the contacts, specify implementation technologies for the models, and generate source code [...]

What is WebMatrix Webmatrix is a lightweight tool to create web pages using new Web Pages Framework and Razor syntax. WebMatrix is a stack of software components required to build web applications. There are four components to the stack: IIS, Development framework (.NET 4.0), a Database platform (SQL Server); and a lighweight web authoring and [...]

Advanced Styling We built an Android app without Java, we’ve so far learned how to use CSS to style a collection of HTML pages to look like an Android app in previous article Developing Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and Javascript – Part I. We’ll make those same pages behave like an Android app. Specifically, [...]

Building a Safe ActiveX Control We built a basic ActiveX Control using MFC ActiveX Control in Visual Studio 2008, we’ve so far learned how to create Methods, Properties, Events and how to add an ActiveX Control to html page in previous article A Complete Web ActiveX Control – Part I. To make a control that [...]

What is Android? Android is a software stack for mobile device that includes an operating system, middle ware and key applications. Methods to develop an Android application. There are essentially two ways to deliver an android application. One using a client-side application developed using Android SDK and installed on user device. Second using a web [...]

What is an ActiveX Control ActiveX is a Microsoft technology developed in the mid 90’s, that allows for the creation of applet-like applications that can be downloaded and run within Microsoft’s Web browser. ActiveX controls are comparable with Java applets: programmers desinged both of these mechanisms to allow web browsers to download and execute them. [...]