If you use one server to develop your applications and another to deploy them, you probably have to change your database connection settings each time you deploy your configuration files. Learn a quick fix for this problem.
ASP.NET 2.0 enables you to encrypt portions of your configuration file. You can pick a section in your Web.config file to encrypt and then decrypt.
Explores this helpful technique presented by Wrox author Stefan Schackow for working in ASP.NET in multiple environments from testing, to staging, to live, to backup servers.
Discover the main differences between accessing the Registry with VB 6 and with VB.NET.
Changes to the .NET configuration file are not available in the application until a new application domain is started. This behavior can be a real headache when you need to read changed configuration settings. Learn what your options are for achieving this with minimal pain.
A new namespace in the upcoming 2.0 release of the Microsoft .NET Framework adds support for some very useful network-related items. Explores some of these new items and how you can use them to your advantage.
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...
Knowing which version of MS Office is installed on the client computer is vital; unfortunately, many programmers see this as an afterthought. Hannes du Preeze shows you four different ways to determine the Office versions installed so that you don't make this mistake.
A developer building messaging solutions with Azure Queuing and Azure Service Bus should follow a Pipeline pattern when processing a significant number of different messages. One approach to building a Pipeline is to layer a message following an Envelope pattern.
