Tom Archer illustrates step-by-step instructions for using the .NET DataReader class to read image data from a database, and he presents a generic function that will write this data to disk.
Learn how to retrieve a current user's basic security information, such as the fully qualified user name (with domain or workgroup), whether the user is authenticated, and the authentication type.
Learn how to enumerate event log entries, read specific event entries, manually filter events based on their desired property values, write new event entries, and clear an event log.
Tom Archer illustrates how programmatically modifying Windows Registry keys and values from Managed C++ is much easier and more intuitive than ever before.
Learn how to access the Microsoft Word spell checker using Automation from your own Managed C++ Windows Forms applications.
Implementing and utilizing extensible property sheets in your .NET classes has never been easier.
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...
Learn how to use a for loop to loop through all of the images found on a web page and save them via the DownloadFile method of the WebClient object.
SOLID principles form the base for writing good and clean object oriented code in C#. Learn about the S.O.L.I.D principles and explore C# coding samples for each.
