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    Working with WCF RIA Services

    Learn how WCF RIA Services can be used in conjunction with Silverlight to access server objects easily using reflection.

    How to Write World Ready Windows Phone Applications

    Today's app user base isn't restricted to just one region. In this article, we walk through the platform support available for developers targeting Windows Phone to develop world ready Windows Phone applications.

    [Updated] HTTP Handlers and HTTP Modules in ASP.NET

    Learn how to create your own file extensions and secure Web applications using HTTP Handlers and HTTP Modules.

    [Updated] Creating a .NET Web Service

    This is the first of two articles on Web Services by Chris Peiris. Learn to create a .NET Web Service using C# and examine the Discovery protocol, UDDI, and the future of Web Services.

    [Updated] The ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

    Solomon Shaffer explores the life cycle of an ASP.NET page from initialization to unloading. He also explains the various methods to override ASP.NET server-side events.

    [Updated] Tuning Up ADO.NET Connection Pooling in ASP.NET Applications

    Connection pooling increases the performance of Web applications by reusing active database connections instead of creating a new connection with every request. This article shows how to monitor the connection pool, diagnose a potential problem, and apply the appropriate fix.

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    Using VC++ .NET

    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: Collections and Generics

    The original release of the .NET Framework included collections as .NET was introduced to the Microsoft programming world. The .NET Framework 2.0 introduced generics to complement the System.Collections namespace and provide a more efficient and well performing option. Read on to learn more...

    VB Today

    VISUAL BASIC TODAY

    Input and Output with VB.NET 2010

    The .NET runtime has everything you need to format your output and handle special characters. Both Visual Basic 2010 Express edition and Visual Studio 2010 help you with Intellisense if you can't remember the syntax. This article explores simple console input and output and shows you how to get it done.

    Insights

    PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS

    WCF Data Services Providers

    OData's simplicity and common underlying Web standards have made it a popular Data protocol in the Microsoft stack. WCF Data Services includes several Providers that surface OData from .NET classes.