Following in the footsteps of my previous article it would have been improper not to take on the task of xamlizing a four-legged creature. In short I decided to work on a WPF project that replicated a walking four-legged animal.
A lot of developers moving towards the new LINQ to SQL find it difficult to write SQL queries in C# to query data using LINQ. LINQ is a query language which is integrated in C# to query data fromObjectCollects, SQL, XML etc. Before you start reading this article, it is good to have look at the features supported by LINQ:
Here in this article, I am going to discuss the basic SQL queries and the LINQ queries similar to SQL queries, with visual representations of the LINQ queries. Before I start discussing, here is the structure of the table I am using for this article:
The products are listed in alphabetical order. All servers are UPnP compliant. The Server column is the name of the server and a link to the vendor's product page. The Price column is how much the server costs. The Windows, Mac and Linux columns show support for those operating systems. The Music column indicates that the software can stream at least 1 type of music. The Photo column indicates that the software can serve at least 1 type of image. The Video column indicates that the software can stream at least 1 type of AV. The Transcoding column indicates that the software can transcode from one format to another.
| Server | Price | Windows | Mac | Linux | Music | Photo | Video | Transcoding |
| Allegro Media Server | 39.95 | X | X | X | ||||
| Cidero Internet Radio Station Server (Java) | Free | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Cyber Media Gate (Java) | Free | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Cyberlink Digital Home Enabler Kit | 79.95 | X | X | X | X | |||
| Elgato Eyeconnect | 49.95 | X | X | X | X | |||
| Fuppes | Free | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Geexbox | Free | X | X | X | ||||
| GMediaServer | Free | X | X | X | X | |||
| JRiver Media Center | 39.95 | X | X | X | X | |||
| MediaTomb | Free | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
| Mezzmo | 24.95 | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| MiniDLNA | Free | X | X | X | X | ? | ||
| MythTV | Free | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Nero MediaHome | 79.99 | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Nullriver Medialink | 20.00 | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| On2Share | 19.95 | X | X | X | X | |||
| PS3 Media Server | Free | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Rhapsody | 12.99/month | X | X | X | X | |||
| SimpleCenter Premium | 19.99 | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Tversity | Free | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| TwonkyMedia | 39.95 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| uShare | Free | X | X | X | X | |||
| Wild Media Server | $40 | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
| Winamp Remote | Free | X | X | ? | X | ? | ||
| Windows Media Connect | Free | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| Yahoo Music Jukebox | Free | X | X |
This article explains a method to secure a REST based service using basic authentication. The service itself is implemented using Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation. The authentication of the credentials should be possible against any type of backend. For example authenticate against an active directory, a custom file or a database. Basic Authentication is standard available in combination with WCF and IIS, but the downsite of this is that authentication is only possible against an active directory.
This article and provided source code can be used in two ways. First, just download the code, go down to the use the code and implement your WCF service using Basic authentication. Second you can use the article to learn what exactly is Basic Authentication and how can WCF REST be extended.
Image via CrunchBaseI don't know if you have run into this problem too, but when trying to deploying a Silverlight app on a commercial server and finding that it does not allow *.xap file, what do you do? I thought I was stuck but it turns out that there is a work around. Read the following article.
Actually, In this article i am accessing the sound file from the our project resource. Many times we use sound in our project but in earlier days i placed the sound file in different location and then i access it. It's useful for them who want to hide resource of project and they want to make project portable.
This tutorial explains the steps required to integrate a Google-like, interactive event calendar in an ASP.NET MVC application. We will use dhtmlxScheduler, an open-source JavaScript calendar that provides event scheduling interface with drag-and-drop capabilities and Ajax support. Events can be displayed in Day/Week/Month/Year views and edited by end-user on the client side.
Navigate fifteen challenging levels, building and upgrading towers to create mazes that leave enemy creeps marching to their death! With explosive OpenGL-based graphics and 3D stereo sound, HexDefense brings the arcade intensity of tower defense to Android like never before. The game is fast and intense – easy to play, but very tough to master!
This is a short article that examines the implementation of a technique for drag selection of multiple items in a Canvas or ItemsControl derived class. In this article I use a ListBox to host the drag-selectable items.
In addition I look at how to make the selected items draggable. This felt like a natural addition as dragging the items is often what you would want to do after drag selecting them.
Image via WikipediaOkay, I may have to break down and get one of these. 
Image via CrunchBaseIntroduction to this article:In this paper, we will show how to use the Amyuni PDF components to dynamically view PDF documents within a Silverlight control. We will discuss how to create a Silverlight 3 control to display and interact with PDF documents. The same control can be used for viewing PDF, XPS or any document type.
