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    String Builder: Building Strings with Streams on the Stack

    By John Wellbelove
      -  Published 04/20/2011

    Discover how to build strings using streams, in one line, using only the stack as storage.

    AJAX Using RESTful MVC3 Services and jQuery

    By David Talbot
      -  Published 04/20/2011

    REST is an approach to providing a highly efficient API that can be called by other applications or by your AJAX framework. David Talbot shows you how to use MVC3 to define REST services in your controllers to be called by jQuery AJAX requests in your view.

    Navigation and Passing Data Between WP7 Pages

    By Chris Bennett
      -  Published 04/19/2011

    Ready to start adding multiple screens to your WP7 app? This article demonstrates the techniques necessary to support multiple pages and navigation between them.

    MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)

    By Nick Wienholt
      -  Published 04/18/2011

    The Transactional File System (TxF), which allows access to an NTFS file system to be conducted in a transacted manner through extensions to the Windows SDK API. MFC 10, has been extended to support TxF and related technologies. This support allows existing MFC applications to be easily extended to support kernel transactions.

    [Updated] Rubix Cube (not yet reviewed)

    By Georges Dumond
      -  Published 04/18/2011

    This program presents an original way of the famous Rubik's Cube by an assembly of 27 multi-colored cubies isolated in the space. Even during its deformations, it allows a 3D vision of the cube thanks to the basic MFC graphic functions. This simulation can also rapidly calculate a solution to reordering the Cube.

    Cloud Services: Making Sense of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS

    By Brian Prince
      -  Published 04/15/2011

    With the many different types of cloud services available, it is likely that you have seen the terms IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. This article explains what these different terms are and how to pick the right one for you.

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    Faster Microsoft C++ Programming With The MFC Class Wizard

    By Nick Wienholt
    | Article Published 02/23/2011

    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.

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    .NET Framework: Use Your Own Cache Wrapper to Help Performance
    By Mark Strawmyer
    | Article Published 01/04/2011

    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.

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    Visual Basic .NET Development 101: Learning and Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
    By Paul Ferrill
    | Article Published 02/25/2011

    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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    .NET Framework Parallel Programming Design Patterns
    By Jeffrey Juday
    | Article Published 04/04/2011

    There is a buffet of Parallel Programming patterns and conventions documentation. A good approach to digesting all the available information is to ingest a little bit at a time. Developers looking for a Parallel Programming Patterns and Conventions appetizer will find it in this article.

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