Learn to use the implementation of asynchronous Win32 sockets without the use of MFC.

The C++ XML parsing article which should have been written since the advent of XML! This article defines a new Elmax abstraction model over the DOM model.

Windows Azure Diagnostics is geared to help you with the challenges of gathering and analyzing the diagnostic data you need from the variety of machines in a distributed system. Read on to learn more.

If you are unable to find a free Modbus Slave simulator, here is one.

Microsoft renames and upgrades two Forefront security servers.

An update to pcouderc's class to support authentication

Learn how to customize the internet explorer context menu to add Codeguru Favorites items.

Forms are how your users talk to your scripts. To get the most out of PHP, you must master forms. The first thing you need to understand is that although PHP makes it easy to access form data, you must be careful of how you work with the data.

Learn how to make sure the credit card you're accepting isn't fraudulent.

Tired of over-committing to one web scripting technology only to get derailed by the client's browser? Wt will insulate your application logic from the bumpy ride of trying to guess the right web platform for your apps.

Discover how to intercept network traffic (IP packets) by putting a socket in promiscuous mode.

Learn how to use a mailslot to broadcast information over a network.

Use this simple tool to display and modify the IP-to-Physical address translation tables used by ARP (Address Resolution Protocol), such as Windows command-line arp.exe.

Read a broad overview of today's four most popular and growing server-side programming/scripting languages.

Learn to use the "Network Distributed Object Model" to have a simplified way of performing network communication at the object level.

Most available web filters work inline, meaning that all outgoing and incoming packets are passed through a filter driver. This approach along with its own benefits has a big flaw; the filtering process affects data transfer throughput. Learn about an experimental remedy to this issue by putting the filter engine in sniffer mode. This way, the filtering process and data transfer act independently.

XML Data Binding allows you to manipulate an XML document via a set of simple objects. Learn about the generation of these objects, and see a summary of the existing products on the market.

This five-part article gives a basic overview of the building blocks underlying XML Schemas, showing how and when to use them.

Walk through the components of an RSS 2.0 feed for building your own feeds either by hand or programmatically.

Look at how to design your web application URIs to ensure you give them the maximum lifespan possible from Professional Web 2.0 Programming co-author Erik Bruchez.

Discover a command line tool and tutorial to manage Internet Explorer's history. It is solely based on the CUrlHistory object.

Learn how to access the IHTMLDocument interface for any iframe contained within the IE webbrowser control.

Learn about fast and portable URI encoding and decoding functions that use std::string as the argument and return type, and do the buffer conversion, including '\0'.

Learn a method for controlling how users download files from your ASP.NET applications.

Custom controls assist developers in maximizing code reuse and minimizing headaches. Learn the process of creating custom controls within Microsoft's latest UI model, the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Learn about XPath, a small language used specifically to locate a single node or multiple nodes that match a particular pattern.

Learn what makes a successful AJAX client, and how many AJAX applications lose sight of the enormous benefit of supporting offline mode operation.

Reliability is a big issue in Internet Web services integration. Learn how to mitigate Web service reliability problems by using an asynchronous messaging approach.

Ajax is becoming the hot topic in Web programming today. Discover more useful things that it can do for you.

Professional AJAX author Nicolas Zakas shows the benefits as well as some of the disadvantages of using HTTP requests in your applications.

Learn how a BHO (Browser Helper Object) could be used to block a particular Web site.

A clone of the Win95/98/ME utility for checking and controlling IP addresses.

Learn about a RFC2759-compliant implementation of the MS-CHAPv2 response calculation algorithm.

Learn about a Windows FTP client written without CInternetSession or CFtpConnection classes.

Learn about a simplistic example of using a Scripting Runtime Library.

Learn about a native C++, MFC, ATL/COM system to remote view a desktop.

Leverage the SharePoint SDK classes to build a newsletter generator that collects all the changes to a site and presents them to users in an e-mail newsletter format.

Learn to integrate Web publishing with working with your Word documents.

With the help of POOM (Pocket Outlook Object Model), you can implement sophisticated and customized mobile applications with rich functionality.

By using BizTalk 2004, Web services, and the Broker enterprise pattern, you can create a centralized file broker that enables you to more easily configure security, administer services, and share code across your organization.

Learn to develop hook-based key loggers and hook-safe software.

Learn about the different Web service design methodologies as defined by the Web Services Standardization Groups, clarify the terms, and highlight their differences.

Learn how to develop a custom SharePoint Web service for InfoPath 2003 documents, which allows you to reliably perform actions whenever a user saves one of the documents.

Microsoft released the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of their next-generation Web-Services technology, "Indigo," today.

Create an HTML viewer control on a CE device. Once animated, this control allows you to pass any data that is capable of being rendered by using HTML tags from the desktop device to the CE device. The power and elegance of this approach can hardly be overstated.

Use the IOUpdate.dll library to automatically update your application from the Internet.

Microsoft's Bill Gates on interoperability.

Explore the mechanics of launching an HTML viewer on your CE device.

Continuing his series on custom Web control development in Managed C++, Stephen Fraser takes it up a notch by examining the more advanced—and far more powerful—composite custom Web control.

Learn to write a small routine or utility to make a post request to a Web server and retrieve the data. This article demonstrates such a technique, tested on Linux.