Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a COM based technology used to get system-related information. Joydip Kanjilal shows you how to leverage the power of WMI to retrieve system information.
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.
OData protocol allows you to create RESTful data services by exposing URI end points. ASP.NET Web API supports OData queries so that your data can be consumed by the client over HTTP with the help of OData query options. Bipin Joshi illustrates how to work with the OData support provided in the Web API, and how to write OData queries.
Learn how to leverage the power of ORM tools to design data access layers that are independent of the underlying database
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.
.NET Framework 4.5 has shipped with quite a number of updates and improvements to the parallelism features, many of which Microsoft implemented based on user feedback and common feature requests. This article walks you through a few of these new improvements.
Hannes du Preeze shows you how to add a preview of a selected picture to an OpenFileDialog. Part 2 of this article focuses on the user interface and user interaction with the preview pane.
Hannes du Preeze shows you how to add a window, which will provide you with a preview of a selected picture and other picture specific details, to an OpenFileDialog.
With the RTW of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE in August, Microsoft included some new features and nice enhancements. Read on to learn the top 7 items that caught one developer's eye.
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.
Will tablets fail? I started to post this comment on an article, but decided it made a nice little blog post instead!
What happens when your display goes beyond the monitor or television? You end up with IllumiRoom. Cool stuff from Microsoft Research.
Check out this infographic on the Cloud, including Cloud security.
