System Information

See how you can determine which ports on a computer have an application listening.

add this functionality to your applications to determine if machines on the network are there!

Discover the main differences between accessing the Registry with VB 6 and with VB.NET.

Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS feed using System.Diagnostics.EventLog, EntryWritten, and EnableRaisingEvents.

Any program uses resources. These resources can be files, database resources, network connections, memory buffers, objects, and so forth. Learn how to allocate memory for these resources.

Learn how to check whether or not a component is a .NET managed component. Also, learn to get other information, such as dependent assemblies, from the metadata using Microsoft APIs and related COM interfaces.

System event logs can provide valuable information, but manually finding the worthwhile details in them can be difficult. Learn the easy, automated ways .NET provides for reading and searching event logs.

The system event log is a good place to store information about your .NET application, and writing entries to the event log is fairly straightforward. You can easily add the code for it to a utility class.

Learn about monitoring the Windows event log for user logon events.

Get a sneak peek at some of the major language enhancements Microsoft has in store for C# 3.0.

Learn about a form that can be used to give a fade in/out effect to any form and especifically to notification/alert windows.

Learn the steps involved in specifying that an application is to be minimized to the Tray, how to allow the user to restore the application by double-clicking the icon, and how to create and respond to a System Tray icon's context menu.

Discover how to view system information, existing performance monitors, and more, all from your .NET applications!