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How to Build a Simple Event Log Montior/Watcher (Using TCP in .NET)
Learn how to build a simple event log "watcher" application to monitor event log changes on a remote machine(s).
.NET Remoting and Event Handling in VB .NET
Using .NET Remoting, learn how to configure a remote server, define remotable objects, and define custom event arguments and delegates. Do all of this while creating a simple chat application!
Creating Your Own Windows Service
Create a Windows service'—such as virus checkers, disk-monitoring applications, or security programs'—using Visual Basic.
Creating a Windows Service in VB.NET
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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.
.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...

Working with Hashtables in .NET
There are millions of Namespaces in the .NET Framework. Coming from a VB 6 background, I was accustomed to arrays and arrays only. Luckily all has changed with .NET, in that the .NET Framework supports Collections, which as its name implies, is a collection of objects that you can store in a certain manner.
Implementing a WCF Message Contract
WCF implementations normally take two different approaches; a Document style or an API style. Document style implementations are more flexible and often easier to extend and version. Also, Document style or rather, Message Contract service implementations, work well between systems with a shared message assembly. Jeffrey Juday guides you through architecting a WCF Message Contract implementation.