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    Introduction to Lucene.Net

    Rohit Kukreti describes the basic steps to use Lucene.Net within an ASP.Net application.

    Play Background Audio in Your Windows Phone Apps

    Windows Phone Mango (also called version 7.5) supports multi-tasking, which enables a number of new features, one of which is the ability to play background audio. In this article, we learn how we can play background audio in a Windows Phone application.

    [Updated] Kinect for Windows: A New Interface for Your Apps

    Microsoft officially announced that a new Kinect for Windows device will be released on February 1st along with a commercial license. How easy is it to code to?

    Introduction to Routing Service in WCF 4.0

    Now in WCF 4.0, developers can create services that act as a Router to route messages to other client WCF services based on the requests from the clients. This feature is called WCF Routing Service. Read this article to learn more about it.

    Developing for the Windows Phone Sensors

    Windows Phone devices have inbuilt sensors, which can help detect the motion of mobile devices. In this article, we explore how we can use the sensor support on the Windows Phone platform to detect movement of the device.

    Metro Style Application - How to Work with Data and Controls Using C#

    Microsoft Windows 8 Developer Preview introduces a new development platform and Visual Studio 2011 for creating Metro style apps. It also includes Microsoft Expression Blend for designing RIA. This article shows you how to work with data binding controls in a Metro application.

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    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...

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    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.