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Google Translator using Windows forms

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This latest version of GoogleTranslator utilizes Google Translate's AJAX APIs to translate text and retrieves the translation by parsing the returned JSON content.  What is it? Sample Application beta Version GoogleTranslator is an object that allows you to translate text using the power of Google's online language tools. This demo  allows you to easily perform a reverse translation. The app can be used as a poor man's resource translator for simple phrases, but you'd be wise to confirm the translation with a native speaker before using the results. How do I create it? You use Google Api to get translated text to Target language you specify. string sourceLanguage =sourceLang; string targetLanguage = targetLang; string urlNew = string.Format("https://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl={0}&tl={1}&dt=t&q={2}", sourceLanguage,

Much Awaited Release .NET Core 1.0 !!!

GETTING STARTED WITH .NET CORE To Start With : . NET Core 1.0 runs on Windows, Mac, and several flavors of Linux including RedHat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. It supports C#, VB, and F# and modern constructs like generics, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), async support and more. The Core Runtime, libraries, compiler, languages and tools are all open source on GitHub where contributions are accepted, tested and fully supported. If you use Visual Studio 2015 (and remember,  Visual Studio Community is free !) you  should get VS2015 Update 3 first  then install the  .NET Core Tools for Visual Studio . If you don't want to use VS, consider using  Visual Studio Code  for free and install the  C# extension  from the marketplace to get a great code editing experience along with the  .NET Core SDK for Windows . Of course, if you're on Mac/Linux/Whatever, go over to  http://dot.net  and download whatever's right for you! If you want all the  advanced and specific downloads for .NET

Small ways to be a better Scrum Master

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There is a thin line between a ScrumMaster and a facilitator. A ScrumMaster doesn’t need to work on the user story or design solutions, but he or she should understand user stories, technology, and the people behind the project in order to become a better ScrumMaster. ScrumMasters are not event managers. Rather, a good ScrumMaster will remove impediments, and a better one will prevent the impediments from forming and affecting the team to begin with. How?  Start the day the right way Many who manage projects are tuned into their day on automatic pilot: They open the laptop and stare at the screen, usually reading their emails. Why? Because that is how we connect to ongoing work from where we left off yesterday. In order to become the better ScrumMaster, leave your seat and meet with the people around you. Team members, extended team members, and colleagues will ask us whether we've seen or read a particular email. Our answer will be no, but we can listen to their issues through imp

Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 4

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In this part, we'll start off by adding another XSLT file (for the news item pages), and then move on to look at how we can integrate standard .Net User Controls to Umbraco. Also available in this series: Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 1 Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 2 Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 3 Getting Started with Umbraco: Part 4 Adding the newsList Macro Create a new XSLT file (and macro) in the back-end and call it newsList . In this XSLT file we'll be using a non-standard entity, which is the HTML entity &\mdash; . In order to use this entity we need to define it in the entity list in the XSLT doctype declaration at the top of the file. To add the mdash entity add the following code within the square brackets directly after the defined non-breaking space entity: < ! ENTITY mdash " &#x2014; " > We'll save a variable so that we can easily access the newsList node in order to get its child nodes. Directly after the currentPage p