Just Like a Magic

In this article we are going to explore the Speech API library that’s part of the TTS SDK that helps you reading text and speaking it. We’re going to see how to do it programmatically using C# and VB.NET and how to make use of LINQ to make it more interesting. The last part of this article talks about…… won’t tell you more, let’s see!

This is the last article in this series, it talks about unmanaged code interoperation; that’s, interop between .NET code and other code from other technologies (like Windows API, native libraries, COM, ActiveX, etc.)

Be prepared!

In the previous article, you learnt what interoperability is and how it relates to the .NET Framework. In this article, we’re going to talk about the first form of interoperability, the Managed Code Interop. In the next article, we’ll talk about the other forms.

In this article and the few following it, we’ll try to take a tour in Interoperability in .NET Framework.

In this lesson, we’ll start by an introduction to the concept of Interoperability. In the next few lessons, we’ll have a look at Interoperability and how it fits into the .NET Framework and other technologies.

Since Interoperability is a very huge topic and cannot be covered in just a few articles, we’ll concentrate on Interoperability in .NET Framework (not any other technologies) and summarize its uses.

Here we go!

Today, we’ll have a brief discussion of value types and reference types in .NET framework and how their behavior change while used or passed to functions. We’ll talk about the passing mechanism, the two genres of .NET types, the scope, and the conversion routines between the two genres.

Like anything else in MCI, you can set device information using a MCI command (string/numeric), and this time it’s the MCI_SET command.

Have you ever received an exception like this: “System.Security.SecurityException: xxx.” ?

I was asked whether it’s efficient to perform a manual garbage collection using GC.Collect() or not!

Are you somewhat confused between Serialization and Marshaling? This writing would break this confusion up, it would give you a basic understanding of the process of Serialization and the process of Marshaling, and how you can get the most out of each.

A second honeymoon with Microsoft Agent. Do you remember our article Programming Microsoft Agent in WinForms and our sample application PartIt? After you have included your desired agent in your application, are you feeling bad with the default popup menu? If so, then you are in the right place (welcome :).)

First, this writing concentrates of and compares between three programming languages, C#, C++/CLI, and ISO/ANSI C++. It discusses 9 rules that every developer should keep in mind while working with constructors, destructors, and finalizers and class hierarchies:

Here’s the complete “What’s New in C#” webcast series of Bruce Kyle (ISV Architect Evangelist of Microsoft) from Channel 9 blog.

Actually, I was having a problem synchronizing threads calling a function. If we could regenerate the bug, we would end up with code like this….

This writing is like an encyclopedia for the SQL statements and stored procedures used to enumerate, attach, and detach databases on a SQL Server instance. It lists the statements and stored procedures that you can use and discusses them in simple examples.

Today, we are going to create a simple application, actually a simple sheet designing tool. This tool gives the user the flexibility to design his sheets, reports, bills, invoices, and receipts (whatever.)