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    Visual Basic Development 101: VS 2010 Part 2: Menus and Tools

    This article is part two of an introduction to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. It covers how to navigate through the different menus and tools. It specifically covers Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition. Read along to learn how to write a very simple Hello World application using Windows Forms.

    Visual Basic .NET Development 101: Learning and Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a great integrated development environment for turning out top quality .NET framework applications. VB 2010 Express provides the same basic tools without some of the high-end team development pieces. This first of a two-part article will introduce the user to the VB 2010 Express product.

    SQL CLR Integration in SQL Server 2008

    Is some of your business logic in code and some in SQL Server? Then, just call the SQL from the .NET framework and the .NET framework from SQL with CLR integration. Here are all the steps you need to get started.

    Working with Large Memory-Mapped Files in VB 2010

    Memory mapped files use the system's memory manager and lets you treat large files as if they were in-memory objects, supporting extremely large file access, faster access, and multiple, simultaneous processes accessing the same file.

    Microsoft Visual Studio Backup Macro

    Use this macro to generate backups from Microsoft Visual Studio solution's context menu

    Visual Basic Developers Get a Shot at Windows Phone 7

    Microsoft has begun distributing preview versions of Visual Basic that can be used to start writing apps for Windows Phone 7.

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    USING VC++ .NET

    Faster Microsoft C++ Programming With The MFC Class Wizard

    During the glory days of MFC and ATL in the 1990s and early 2000s, The Visual C++ class wizard was a highly-used and useful IDE tool that simplified life for developers. The re-introduction of the class wizard, after the absence of a decade, demonstrates commitment to the 'glory day's' ideal and adds simplicity to class management tasks inside the IDE.

    Nuts & Bolts

    .NET NUTS & BOLTS

    .NET Framework: Use Your Own Cache Wrapper to Help Performance

    See how you can use the .NET framework to create your own wrapper classes in C# programming to help boost your application performance when accessing a bunch of reference or other look-up type data that you frequently use.

    VB Today

    VISUAL BASIC TODAY

    Visual Basic .NET Development 101: Learning and Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

    Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 is a great integrated development environment for turning out top quality .NET framework applications. VB 2010 Express provides the same basic tools without some of the high-end team development pieces. This first of a two-part article will introduce the user to the VB 2010 Express product.

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    PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS

    .NET Framework: Task Parallel Library Dataflow

    Learn about the Task Parallel Library Dataflow, a new member of Microsoft's Technical Computing Initiative built on the Task Parallel Library.