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    Creating a Tag Cloud for Your ASP.NET Blog

    Most blogs display a Tag Cloud that presents keywords in font sizes proportional to the number of blog posts having that tag. If you are building your own blog engine or website you will need to build the tag cloud on your own. This article shows how to do just that.

    Multitasking for Microsoft Windows Phone

    Windows Phone Mango brought about the most anticipated feature in the platform, multitasking. In this article, we explore what that excitement is all about.

    Creating a Custom Output Cache Provider in ASP.NET 4

    ASP.NET 4 follows a provider model for output caching, which means you can now define a custom cache provider and plug it in using a configuration file. This article illustrates how such a custom output cache provider that stores cached output in disk files can be developed.

    Using Background Agents in your Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Apps

    Windows Phone 7.5 supports the ability to execute scheduled tasks and background agents. In this article, we explore how we can use background agents in our Windows Phone Mango applications.

    Creating OData Entries in WCF Data Services

    To fully exploit Open Data Protocol (OData) with WCF Data Services there are classes and interfaces a .NET app must instantiate or implement. Using a sample WCF Data Services application, this article explains how to implement data creation on an OData Endpoint.

    Dealing with Profile Access in ASP.NET MVC Applications

    While developing a Web Forms based website project developers can access profile properties in a strongly typed fashion. ASP.NET MVC and Web Application projects, however, lack this handy and useful feature. In this article Bipin Joshi shows you how to access user Profile in ASP.NET MVC applications as well as an alternative to overcoming this limitation.

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    Using VC++ .NET

    USING VC++ .NET

    MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)

    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.

    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.

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    PROGRAMMING INSIGHTS

    Creating OData Entries in WCF Data Services

    To fully exploit Open Data Protocol (OData) with WCF Data Services there are classes and interfaces a .NET app must instantiate or implement. Using a sample WCF Data Services application, this article explains how to implement data creation on an OData Endpoint.