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Redirecting STL Standard Output and Error to a Log File

Although there are many nice logging libraries for C++, sometimes you may simply need a basic level of logging for your application.

STL provides a way to redirect standrad output and standard error to a stream. Using this feature, we can easily redirect them to a log file.

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Using SVN revision number in ANT and Java files

In this article, I will show you a quick way to use SVN revision number as a part of your software version. The small ANT target that I will show you below will enable you to extract and integrate the SVN revision number, during compile time, into your source code. This will enable you to show an updated version number of your application anywhere on your application.

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WS-Discovery to Find Web Services During Run-Time

WS-Discovery is a WCF based multicast protocol to enable run-time discovery of services within ad-hoc networks. It allows you to discover the address of Web Services during run-time.

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WCF Callbacks between the Service and Client

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) based Callbacks.
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WCF File Upload Service

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) based File Upload service.
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Windows Communication Foundation WCF Notes

These are my notes for Windows Communication Foundation. It covers many aspects of WCF services, and it can easily be used as a quick WCF tutorial.
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CardLayout Implementation for CSharp

This article provides a simple Card Layout implementation for C# Windows Forms. CardPanel, our CardLayout implementation, keeps other Controls as Cards, and allows you to switch between them by only showing a single one at any given time.

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Line Number Information from XmlDocument

This articles provides an extended version of XmlDocument that keeps track of LineNumber and LinePosition of each node through the IXmlLineInfo interface.

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Implementing a Single Interface with Multiple Classes

This article will provide you information about how you can distribute the functionality of a single interface into multiple classes.

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Regular Expressions based Matchers for NMock2

While using NMock2, in many cases, you may not be able to easily guess exact parameter values, but you may have an idea about a portion of it. RegExMatcher class fills this gap.

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A String.Format Alternative for Using Named Variables Instead of Numbers

StringHelper.NamedFormat is a String.Format alternative which will let you use names instead of numbers in your string templates.

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F-Prot Anti-Virus Wrapper for Procmail

This article will provide you a way to scan your incoming messages using F-Prot automatically on your Linux system using Procmail and f-prot-wrapper.sh script.

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JavaScript API to Control SONY SNC-RZ30N Network Camera

SonySNC.js is a JavaScript API to control a SONY SNC-RZ30N Network Camera within a web page.

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Parsing Survey Word Files with PERL

This article will give you a brief overview of the process to extract information from survey files in Microsoft Word format using PERL and Win32:OLE.
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Creating Text Mode User Interfaces with PERL

In the late 1997, while I was developing two console based applications, TAL and ELM-TAG, on Solaris based systems, I ended up creating a set of useful functions for text mode screen manupulation.

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