Using DirectX in Windows Forms
Windows Forms is a Microsoft technology that provides a clean and easy framework for building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is both extensible and componentized. However, it is sometimes desirable to have a rich 3D user interface to display 3D data or to allow the user to interact in 3D. DirectX, another Microsoft technology, is a graphics framework with support for 2D and 3D graphics, which supplies an abstraction layer between low-level system components (such as drivers) and high-level applications (such as a GUI or a game). This document will discuss the process of hosting DirectX inside of a Windows Forms application in order to provide seamless integration between the two frameworks for use in GUIs that may be graphics intensive.
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ASP.NET Web Services and Web Clients
Web Services Overview
. The World Wide Web has opened up the possibility of large-scale distributed computing
. Web Applications only allow interaction between a client browser and web server hosting a web page
. Web Services create web-based apps that interact with other apps running on other computers
- A Web Application is intended for viewing by a person using a browser
- Web Service: a program with which any other program can interact. Web Server program has no user interface
- Web Client: a program that consumes (uses, interacts with) a web service
. Could be a Web Form, a Windows Form, or even a command line application
. The web client usually has some sort of user interface
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Windows Server Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools
Monitoring event logs is an essential part of an administrator’s job. Unfortunately, viewing event log settings and log file sizes from the GUI is cumbersome, and it would be useful to have an easier way to obtain this information.
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Real’s Howto WSH VBScript
These How-to’s are about the usage of VBScript used with the Window Scripting Host (WSH). WSH enables scripts to be executed directly on the Windows desktop or command console, without the need to embed those scripts in an HTML document. Scripts can be run directly from the desktop simply by clicking on a script file ( .vbs for VBScript), or from the command console. The WSHost is included with all recent Windows versions or it can be freely downloaded from Microsoft or here
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Understanding the Windows Scripting Host
One of Windows’s most notable deficiencies when compared with other operating systems is its lack of a batch language for automating tasks. Although the underlying MS-DOS supports batch files, they are of little use in the Windows environment: under Windows 3.1 you can’t even launch Windows programs from batch files. Support staff wishing to automate tasks for their users have been forced to use third-party tools like Wilson WinBatch or JP Software’s Take Command. Because these tools are not part of Windows, they must be separately installed before they can be used. Licensing of these toolsmeans that additional costs are often incurred, which, if the budget is not available, becomes a problem.
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