Google's ready to make its assistant more flexible. Developers can now build device-specific commands for its digital helper, Google Assistant. Previously, developers could build custom commands to an ...

Google Now already has a ton of useful voice commands built in. Thanks to a recent update to Tasker plugin AutoVoice, though, you can now create your own commands that plug directly into Google Now to ...

To help readers follow the instructions in this article, we use two different typefaces. Boldface type is used to identify the names of icons, agendas and URLs. Sans serif type indicates commands and ...

In WPF and Silverlight, you can separate your UI logic into a set of Command classes that facilitate loose coupling, testable designs, and reusability. An ideal application would remove all coding ...

Many Windows 11/10 users execute similar tasks every day, and while there is a way to execute those tasks every day using the inbuilt Task Scheduler in Windows, its even better if you can execute ...

Outlook comes with two types of built-in command bar objects, the Menu Bar and toolbars. Only one Menu Bar is allowed, but you can customize both it and the built-in toolbars. Outlook comes with two ...

In Part 1 of this series, Eric Vogel walks you through a software design pattern that is commonly used to handle UI interactions. The command pattern is a common software design pattern that allows ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...