December 2012

Volume 27 Number 12

December 2012 Code Downloads

Building HTML5 Applications - Designing Accessibility with HTML5

To reach the broadest possible audience, you’ll want to design your Web site for accessibility using the latest technologies That means using HTML5, as Rajesh Lal explains.

C# - Matrix Decomposition

Matrix decomposition is an essential part of many important algorithms. Learn what matrix decomposition is, when it is used, and how to code it in C# and integrate it into your applications.
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Cutting Edge - Essential Facebook Programming: Authentication and Updates

Integrate Facebook functionality into apps and use the Facebook C# API to authenticate users and post programmatically on behalf of the currently logged-in user.
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Data Points - Pain-Free Data Access in JavaScript--Yes, JavaScript

Julie Lerman takes a look at Breeze, an open source data access API that makes working with JavaScript a whole lot easier.
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Kinect - Listening with Kinect

Explore how speech recognition works in Kinect for Windows applications.

SQL Server - Data Quality Testing Using SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services

SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services isn’t just for data stewards. Find out how this tool can help your IT team improve the data quality of your data-centric projects.

Test Run - Graph-Based Shortest-Path Analysis with SQL

Shortest-path graph analysis is likely to increase in importance as enterprises gather more data and store that data in a cloud environment. This article shows how to use this approach on your data.

Touch and Go - A Touch Interface for an Orienting Map

SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services isn’t just for data stewards. Find out how this tool can help your IT team improve the data quality of your data-centric projects.
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Windows Azure Insider - Windows Azure Service Bus: Messaging Patterns Using Sessions

Learn to take advantage of a robust and flexible implementation of the publish/subscribe pattern via a simple real-life scenario.
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Windows Phone - Speech-Enabling a Windows Phone 8 App, Part 2: In-App Dialog

Learn how to use speech for input and output in Windows Phone 8 apps, starting with simple examples and working up to more complex scenarios.
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