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Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK

July 10, 2008 8:30am PDT

The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API.

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Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API

August 18, 2008 8:30am PDT

Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. Tony Patton explains out how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server backend.

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Manage relational data with the Java Persistence API

April 25, 2008 10:08am PDT

The Java Persistence API (JPA) is a Java framework that allows developers to manage relational data in J2SE and J2EE applications. Peter Mikhalenko explains what persistence is, describes how it...

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Installing the Amazon EC2 API tools and ensuring basic security

May 9, 2012 12:51pm PDT

Nick Hardiman explains the process of creating an auto-scaling group in order to ensure his web service has adequate capacity. But before downloading the needed tools from Amazon, security must be...

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Using pluggable look-and-feel in Java Swing APIs

June 27, 2007 1:07pm PDT

The Java Swing API provides a pluggable look-and-feel (PLAF) capability, which allows Swing GUI widgets to change appearance based on the programmer's customized look-and-feel setting. Almost all...

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Five great features of the Android Fragments API

December 10, 2011 7:35pm PST

Kyle Miller says Fragments makes supporting portrait and landscape modes in his Android apps a lot more appealing. Here's an overview of the API's cool features.

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Process multimedia with the Java Media Framework API

December 12, 2007 1:23pm PST

The Java Media Framework (JMF) API allows developers to process media in many different ways. JMF scales across different media data types, protocols, and delivery mechanisms. Read about some of...

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API Generator for Visual Basic 1.1 (Windows)

January 15, 2007 12:00am PST

The API Generator is an advanced API Viewer that enables you to create prototypes for any VB API calls. If you have used the Microsoft API Viewer in VB6, and you are starting to work with VB. NET,...

Provided by: Timur Software

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Control data caching in .NET with the Caching API

June 30, 2006 1:34pm PDT

Decreasing page load time is imperative when dealing with Web site performance. Tony Patton explains how you can make this happen by using the .NET Caching API.

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Mining API Patterns as Partial Orders From Source Code: From Usage Scenarios to Specifications

September 7, 2007 12:00am PDT

A software system interacts with third-party libraries through various APIs. Using these library APIs often needs to follow certain usage patterns. Furthermore, ordering rules (Specifications)...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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A Generic Security API for Symmetric Key Management on Cryptographic Devices

July 29, 2009 12:00am PDT

Security APIs are used to define the boundary between trusted and untrusted code. The security properties of existing APIs are not always clear. In this paper, the authors give a new generic API...

Provided by: INRIA

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Combining Multiple Dimensions of Knowledge in API Migration

March 3, 2011 12:00am PST

The authors combine multiple dimensions of knowledge about APIs so that they can support API migration by wrapping or transformation in new ways. That is, they assess wrapper-based API...

Provided by: University of Waterloo

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Analyzing Temporal API Usage Patterns

January 1, 2012 12:00am PST

Software reuse through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) is an integral part of software development. As developers write client programs, their understanding and usage of APIs change over...

Provided by: McGill University

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Improving API Usage Through Automatic Detection of Redundant Code

September 1, 2009 12:00am PDT

Software projects often rely on third-party libraries made accessible through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The authors have observed many cases where APIs are used in ways that are...

Provided by: McGill University

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Poll: Are Microsoft application APIs any good?

June 15, 2011 10:04am PDT

If you have used Microsoft's APIs for their various applications, developer Justin James wants to know what you think of them. Let us know by taking this poll.

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See how the Java API for XML Registries works

April 30, 2008 8:58pm PDT

JAXR enables Java programmers to use a single, easy-to-use abstraction API to access a variety of XML registries. In this tutorial, Peter Mikhalenko shows you how JAXR works.

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Video: Adobe's Flash Catalyst let's developers connect to Facebook's API

April 17, 2009 10:45am PDT

Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch demos a beta version of Flash Catalyst, a Web development program that allows developers to import pictures and make each shape into a Web element.

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Programming news: Google API changes, major Zend updates

November 19, 2010 11:51am PST

Read about ASP.NET MVC 3 RC, Google mod_pagespeed, a free WP7 development book, a comic about the bloat/speed conundrum, and more.

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Adobe AIR brings the Web to the desktop

November 26, 2007 3:02pm PST

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to leverage existing Web development skills to build and deploy rich Web applications to the desktop.

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Programming news: Windows API Code Pack, Ruby's BigDecimal library

June 15, 2009 10:22am PDT

Get highlights about the Windows API Code Pack, the vulnerability in Ruby's BigDecimal library, the preview of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, tidbits about Expression Web 3, the Titanium RIA...