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A First Look at Visual Studio 2008 Shell
See what Visual Studio 2008 Shell has to offer and how it can help you.
Creating PowerShell Cmdlets in VB 2005
Windows PowerShell not only offers a powerful shell and scripting language, but also an easily extensible interface. Here, you will learn that it is relatively simple to extend the shell and language by creating custom cmdlets.
Disk Serial Number'�Using the WMI Scripting Library
Use the new WMI interfaces to obtain the disk's serial number. (Added: 24-Sep-2000)
Enhancing the SHBrowseForFolder API Function
Extend the functionality that was given in the MSDN Knowledge Base article Q179497 "HOWTO: Select a Directory Without the Common Dialog Control". (Added: 22-Feb-2000)
Locating Desktop Icon Positions using Memory Mapped Files
Learn how to manipulate the desktop using Windows memory-mapped files. (Added: 9-Jun-1999)
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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...

Adding Sizzle to a Video Slot Game with VB.NET
The final installment of our Slot Game series shows you how to build in a way to win or lose. We will also add some effects for when a win takes place.
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.