Table of contents for Nov/Dec 2024 in CODE Magazine

I'm having a lot of fun combining musicology and history with modern technology. But there's a catch. After a little bit of research, I've discovered that books in the mystery section almost always include a murder. In order to get published you have to play by the rules, so I started thinking about which character I was willing to bump off. The answer is that I don't want to kill any of them, partially because I already have two other books planned in the series and I need the expertise of the main characters in all of them. I don't want to distract from my chase through history with a murder, which, after all, should be more important than some missing or rediscovered documents, right? Now that I've done this…

joydipkanjilal@yahoo.com Joydip Kanjilal is an MVP (2007-2012), software architect, author, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience. He has more than 16 years of experience in Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. Joydip has authored eight books, more than 500 articles, and has reviewed more than a dozen books. If you're to work with the code examples discussed in this article, you need the following installed in your system: • Visual Studio 2022 • .NET 9.0 • ASP.NET 9.0 Runtime If you don't already have Visual Studio 2022 installed on your computer, you can download it from here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. I'll start by showing you the basic concepts and then explore how you can program against each of them. Overview of Threads, Multithreading, and Multitasking In this section, I'll…

megger@codemag.com Markus, the dynamic founder of CODE Group and CODE Magazine's publisher, is a celebrated Microsoft RD (Regional Director) and multi-award-winning MVP (Most Valuable Professional). A prolific coder, he's influenced and advised top Fortune 500 companies and has been a Microsoft contractor, including on the Visual Studio team. Globally recognized as a speaker and author, Markus's expertise spans Artificial Intelligence (AI), .NET, client-side web, and cloud development, focusing on user interfaces, productivity, and maintainable systems. Away from work, he's an enthusiastic windsurfer, scuba diver, ice hockey player, golfer, and globetrotter, who loves gaming on PC or Xbox during rainy days. Some things are very similar and some things are practically unrecognizable from just a short five years ago. Operating Systems and General Tech I usually start these columns looking back…

http://www.pdsa.com Paul has been working in the IT industry since 1985. In that time, he has successfully assisted hundreds of companies’ architect software applications to solve their toughest business problems. Paul has been a teacher and mentor through various mediums such as video courses, blogs, articles and speaking engagements at user groups and conferences around the world. Paul has multiple courses in the www.pluralsight.com library (https://bit.ly/3gvXgvj) and on YouTube.com (https://www.youtube.com/@pauldsheriff) on topics ranging from C#, LINQ, JavaScript, Angular, MVC, WPF, XML, jQuery, and Bootstrap. Contact Paul at psheriff@pdsa.com. You created data-entry pages, partial pages to reuse on those pages, and you navigated among those pages. In this article, you'll continue to use more data entry controls and learn to perform data binding between controls. You're going to create a class…

Thestrangerous.substack.com @jason-murphy.bsky.social Jason is a writer, AI enthusiast, and media creator. As the producer and co-host of Hacking the System on the National Geographic Channel, he stole cars in Hollywood, made improvised smoke bombs, and prepared for the apocalypse. On YouTube, he co-created and hosted the Modern Rogue, where he explored hacking, lock-picking, and tradecraft. After publishing multiple speculative fiction novels and writing a produced screenplay, Jason is currently exiled in the desert, where he stares into the future with awe and terror. And he still wants to make a video game. engines, even with very little coding experience. That's all well and good, but in the interests of curiosity and laziness, I want to know if I can prompt a Large Language Model to do it all for me.…

www.winsmarts.com @sahilmalik Sahil Malik is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, a .NET author, consultant, and trainer. Sahil loves interacting with fellow geeks in real time. His talks and trainings are full of humor and practical nuggets. His areas of expertise are cross-platform Mobile app development, Microsoft anything, and security and identity. useful with it, it comes down to a hard choice of rote theoretical concepts that seem so far away from usable code, or a matter of calling APIs with a key and giving up all my data to some random company out there. Where's that robot mowing my lawn? The issue is that I don't want to offer up the corpus of my data to some random service out there. Maybe it's a data security or privacy issue, or…

ashleigh.lodge@gmail.com Ashleigh is the Application Development Manager at Neovation Learning Solutions in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, managing a team of over 20 developers, UX designers, and QA analysts. A graduate of the Computer/ Analyst Programmer (CAP) program at Red River College, she has held various development and management roles in the tech industry for over 10 years. A vocal advocate for accessibility and inclusive design, Ashleigh has spoken about accessibility at Prairie Dev Con Winnipeg and Regina, and at TedxWinnipeg. In her free time, Ashleigh consumes a truly frightening amount of pop-culture media, including movies, TV shows, comic books, and novels. You can usually find her with Pokémon Go open on her phone, no matter where she is or what she's (supposed to be) doing. ARIA is an acronym that stands…

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