Learn about the COM Interoperability improvements coming with the .NET Framework 4.0 and how they will make your COM Interop such as Office applications much easier.

Discover how CCR can work with the .NET Ping class APM functions.

Discover an ADO.NET Entity Framework tutorial covering basic data operations for applications, including LINQ To Entities, Method Expressions, stored procedure mapping, and a little discussion about its usage in an enterprise environment.

An ADO.NET Data Services Tutorial covering REST, querystring operations and expressions, HTTP verbs, Linq to Data Services, security, exceptions and tracing.

This tip looks at properly closing a WCF connection from your application - whether you're using the proxy classes or a ChannelFactory.

Learn about several features relevant to developers in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0, such as parallel programming, XSLT debugging, new ASP.NET features, and new VB.NET and C# features that include the Chart control, XSD Designer, Lambda Expressions, and optional parameters.

Learn about the work principles and ways and use of IEToolbarEngine. This is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, which has a reusable architecture.

Have you ever dreamt about porting your managed Windows Mobile application to Symbian OS? Or, maybe you wanted to develop a new one but were uncertain whether you need to learn a new paradigms and languages? Well, with Net60 from Red Five Labs, you may be relieved; you can continue your development in your favorite languages!

The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT), is a powerful and flexible platform for rapidly creating embedded device firmware with Microsoft Visual Studio. Now is just the right time to explore this new world.

Generics represent the new type introduced in .NET Framework 2.0. By understanding generics, you gain the ability to create classes, interfaces, methods, and delegates that can manipulate any kind of data in type safe mode. Certainly, you have noticed that many times you had to implement some logical functionality in your application but for different data types.

Take a look at how you now can use your C# skills to create an embedded application. No hardware is required to get started!

Learn about the usage of a J# library in C# for zipping and unzipping functionalities.

Discover the power behind state machine workflow and how it can be used to more closely match business and other processes.

Get an introduction to dependency properties and routed events in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two extremely important topics in WPF—especially if you want to write custom elements.

Learn about the use of the Windows clipboard via a clipboard ring utility. It also illustrates a Yahoo! messenger-like popup alert feature.

Discover Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Microsoft introduced this technology, which is a part of .NET 3.0, to make your life easy when it comes to building distributed applications.

Activities are the building blocks of workflows. When you use Windows Workflow Foundation, you likely will want to build custom activities to fit your tasks.

The generic collection introduced with .NET 2.0 allows you to create collections of your objects without having to design a new class.

Using the DependencyObject and the DependencyProperty in conjunction enables .NET developers to expose some of the powerful features of the Windows Presentation Foundation. Learn how to implement data binding with them.

Microsoft will introduce the much-anticipated Windows Workflow Foundation (WinWF) as part of the .NET Framework 3. Get the lowdown on WinWF and learn how to build a sequential workflow with it.

The current version of the .NET Framework is 3.0.

Sure, you can bind database-related objects to grids and repeaters, but what about binding your own objects to grids and lists? Learn how to build a class that can be bound to a Repeater without involving any databases.

The .NET Framework 2.0 gets very fussy when you try to run both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 sites in the same application pool. Learn how to support both versions on the same Windows 2003 machine.

The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) specification executes code inside the bounds of a well-defined type system, called the Common Type System (CTS).

See how the Configuration Console is an extremely powerful tool that can be used to simplify creating and editing .config files.