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By Tiziano Cacioppolini August 6, 2013
This code example demonstrates how to dynamically group pushpins in the map control. There is a lot of code for Windows Phone 7, then I merged all what I need to create a project for WP8. First of all you need some namespace declaration: for map control and for pushpins from WP Toolkit. You need also two templates: one for a standard pushpin and the other for the cluster. ClustersGenerator is the core of the project....
By Dan Randolph August 5, 2013
Use the .NET 3.5 Named Pipes IO for Inter-process communication by implementing a pipe listener on a separate thread. The first sample is a WPF project. It can also be done just as easily in Windows forms. The sample demonstrates how to pass string data from clients to a pipe server application that contains a pipe listener that runs on a separate thread within the server application. The main requirement here is that the clients are collecting....
By Reed Kimble August 4, 2013
With today's low-cost electronics and micro-manufacturing techniques the average electronics hobbyist has access to a plethora of powerful little microcontrollers (MCUs), along with a huge assortment of possible peripherals, and nearly all of these require a RS-232 serial interface to communicate with a PC. The accessibility and ease-of-use of VB.Net has made it an attractive platform for developing small purpose-driven applications...
By Naomi N August 3, 2013
So, what is happening here? Why are we getting this error? The explanation lies in the way SQL Server determines the type of the constant. In this particular case it figures that it can use precision 4 and scale 1 (1 figure after decimal point). So, that precision will not be enough to hold the value 1000 and thus we're getting the error. We can verify the type, precision and scale using the following query...
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