Corporate Accounting: Microsoft Dynamics GP/Microsoft Great Plains by Andrew Karasev
The ideas of Corporate ERP/MRP/Accounting application was developed back in 1960th, however nowadays the topic is still actual and we are watching how dozens of new Accounting packages hit the market every year. This process sees some consolidation, to be admitted. ... In our opinion – if you consider Microsoft Dynamics GP development – Microsoft Dexterity – with Dexterity Source Code programming option is the best choice, however Microsoft will expose more programming options to C# and Visual Basic developers through XML web services.

Automating MS Excel Using Visual Studio.NET by Vahe Karamian
Introduction I have written this article to address requests I have been getting through e-mail on how to automate MS Excel. Most people who are looking at this article might also be interested at the following articles for automating MS Word documents. ... /// /// Vahe Karamian - 03/22/2005 - Convert To String Array /// Convert System.Array into string[] /// /// Values from range object /// String[] #region CONVERT TO STRING ARRAY private string[] ConvertToStringArray(System.Array values) { string[] newArray = new string[values.Length]; int index = 0; for ( int i =...

Enabling User Driven Modelling by Peter Hale
Research Summary The intention of this research is to enable non-programmers to create software from a user interface that allows them to model a particular problem or scenario. This involves people entering information visually in the form of a tree diagram. ... Until recently XML has been used to represent information but languages such as Java, C++, and Visual Basic have been used for the actual code. ... The development of visual user interfaces has been a major step forward. ... Pictorial metaphors give visual feedback so the user knows what the software system is doing.

What is a Good Program Spec? by Tim Bryce
"Whenever you see a ratio of 1:4 analysts:programmers you will find systems analysis being performed at the wrong time and by the wrong person." - Bryce's Law INTRODUCTION Since the industry is preoccupied with producing software faster (and not necessarily better), let's stop and consider... Because there is now many ways for producing software than just writing source code using a common text editor; e.g., visual programming aids/prototyping tools, workbenches, 4GL's, program generators, etc.

Create Computer Games - Get Started on Creating Your Own Virtual Worlds by Daniel Punch
I’ve always loved video games, ever since I first played them on a friend’s computer in the afternoon after elementary school. There’s something almost magical about the fact that we can move images around and interact with virtual worlds, a living fantasy presented for us to interact with... Now, I’m a second year software engineering student, so if I weren’t able to code a game without too many dramas there’d be something drastically wrong. ... Storyboards are visual representations of ideas. ... There are many RAD (Rapid Application Development) Tools available for game creation, a...

Steganography in Principle by Emmanuel Sodipo
1.0 Introduction Steganography is one of the oldest arts that people have always wanted to have since they started communicating with each other, but sadly the least researched. Most people study steganography either as academic discipline or out of curiosity and I belong to the latter camp. ... 2.7.1 Visual Attack The visual attack is a stego-only-attack that strips away part of the object in way that allows for a human to search for visual anomalies. ... There are four basic approaches to a successful attack: • Visual or Aural attack.

OpenGL Terrain Generation - An Introduction by Vahe Karamian
Introduction NOTE: For the HTML version of this article with graphics and downloads please visit the following link: http://www.codeproject.com/opengl/OPENGLTG.asp I have always been interested in computer graphics and their applications. Data representation and visualization is one of the... At the age of 16 I got my first computer, and I started transferring the code over to Quick Basic. ... Using the Code I will only list the code that deals with the terrain generation here. ... So far, all the code was just to setup the camera position and bind the texture, the next block of code...

Web Standards by Mike Vollmer
HTTP Protocol The web is run on port 80. You are probably wondering what "port 80" is, right (whether you actually are or not is irrelevant)? Well, the answer is easy (not really). See, the Internet and the web are different. The Internet is the infrastructure (ie the physical wires, the server... Hiding your Connection If you have a copy of Visual Basic 6, making a web browser is easy, thanks to Winsock and the code templates included, so I will not put in an example of that. ... The important thing to look for when examining the code it the os.print("") commands.

DVD Decrypter Software - Ethical Or Industry Breaker? by Mike Smythe
As every day goes by, the security and creation processes make it increasingly complex to successfully duplicate and replicate popular media such as DVD movies and music Cd's. This is to protect industry, and stop the illegal production and distribution of these products, and urgent issue that... The only issue with this basic use is that you need to be careful of the DVD decrypter you use. ... For the more technology savvy user, you can adjust the data that's being decrypted, in order to increase the audio-visual quality of the duplicated media.

Declarative Programming - Strategies for Solving Software Problems by Roy Furman, Ph.D
Many software and hardware producers take pride in the exponential pace of technology change, but for users and consumers of their products and services the rapid technological obsolescence often means increased costs, frustrations, and unfulfilled promises. ... Developers write sequences of operations in a language, such as C++, Java, Visual Basic, etc., that implement an algorithm, or recipe, for performing tasks. ... Understanding a program's algorithm is often difficult for other developers without extensive metadata, or comments, on the code and empirical tracing of the program's...