I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

More fun with VB and APIs In this sample, we used the SHFileOperation API to send a specified file to the Recycle Bin, allowing users to restore files if necessary. Next time, we will look at some ...

After a public preview, Microsoft has renamed and officially launched its "mission control" service for mobile apps, now called Visual Studio App Center. Visual Studio App Center was debuted as a ...

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Microsoft is giving up on making its Visual Studio App Center a Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) to concentrate on DevOps functionality, and many developers aren't happy about it. The volley of ...