Tutorials

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.

Learn how to encrypt and save BLOB data to a SQLite database using SQLitePlus.

Learn three ways to serialize .NET objects or any BLOB data to a SQLite database by using SQLitePlus.

Learn how to read and write Open XML files (MS Office 2007).

Learn about the importance of transactions and key transaction management features in .NET 2.0 from JOe Duffy, author of Professional .NET Framework 2.0.

In part two of the series, the author of "GPS.NET" teaches developers how to write GPS applications suitable for the real world by mastering GPS precision concepts. Source code includes a working NMEA interpreter and sample high-precision application in C# and VB.NET.

What is it that GPS applications need to be good enough to handle in-car navigation? Also, how does the process of interpreting GPS data actually work? This two-part series will cover both topics and give you the skills you need to write a commercial-grade GPS application that works with a majority of GPS devices in the industry today.

Explore how to interact with files from within .NET. The topics covered will include how to get the properties on files in a directory as well as how to use a number of classes in the System.IO namespace.

As part of the exploration of the streams framework, you will see the different types of stream, types of file system objects, and potential application environments, including Microsoft Windows-based and Web-based environments.

Understand how to handle XML data in .NET using C# Datasets and Data Views.