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Most of the applications that use ActiveX controls, do so by embedding them at design time. This article demonstrates how simple it is to create and place Active X controls at run time.
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Understanding Serialization is important if a developer is contemplating Azure .NET Queuing on either Azure Service Bus or Azure Storage Queues. Jeffrey Juday examines some common patterns to effectively apply Data Contract Serialization, leveraging the .NET Data Contract Serialization.