See how you can determine which ports on a computer have an application listening.

add this functionality to your applications to determine if machines on the network are there!

Discover the basic code to install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue, and change logon user for Windows Services remotely.

What does .NET's LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) have to offer the VB developer? Read on to find out.

Native code continues to be the most powerful and flexible mechanism for producing applications that work closely with the host OS. For native development in Vista, get to know the new Windows Event Log features.

Investigate some basic logging scenarios, explain and define some of the required terminology, and take the first steps to more efficient logging.

When using .NET and C#, IP Address information is stored in the System.Net.IPAddress class, which provides no method for comparing IP addresses except for equality. Learn to circumvent that problem.

Learn about using application configuration files in Microsoft .NET and the concept of application configuration files and the native support the Microsoft .NET Framework provides.

Basic math operators—such as plus, minus, and modulus—can get you only so far. It is only a matter of time before you find that you need more robust math routines.

Discover how to send e-mail from within your .NET applications using the System.Web.Mail namespace.

The libraries in the .NET Framework cover almost every task you are likely to tackle when developing for .NET. Learn how to use them from this chapter from the Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start.

Learn about the important classes in the Diagnostics Namespace.

This example presents the FileInfo class, which allows you to get information about a file.

The .NET Framework takes a much different approach to the Environment than Windows. There is a class called Environment, which is part of the System namespace.

Using the buffers instead of array copies. Understand the difference.