The Windows "Turn off" buttons are three or more steps away from the desktop work area, depending on your personal settings. This can be not only inconvenient, but downright bothersome at times. These programs can power down the computer, in just one or two steps.
Learn how to build a simple event log "watcher" application to monitor event log changes on a remote machine(s).
Think console applications are old news? Then you haven't tried the cool new console application features available in VB 2005. Check out some of this author's favorites.
Learn how to creating a DOS-style console application with Visual Basic. The simplicity of doing this may surprise you!
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...
Apart from Hashtables, queues and stacks are probably the most common Collection classes. This article explains the ins and outs of queues and stacks.
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.
