.NET Framework 4.0 saw a few changes in the classes in the System.IO System.IO namespaces to make the disk I/O operations better. This article provides an insight to these changes.
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 basic code to install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue, and change logon user for Windows Services remotely.
What does .NET's LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) have to offer the VB developer? Read on to find out.
Native code continues to be the most powerful and flexible mechanism for producing applications that work closely with the host OS. For native development in Vista, get to know the new Windows Event Log features.
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.
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...
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.
Control and low coupling happen when a developer combines MEF, WCF, and File-less activation. Jeffrey Juday shows you how to chain the technologies together.
