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Clients that Find Servers in a Windows Network Domain (TCP/IP, Mailslot)
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Creating a Chat System
Published 06/18/2003
Create a Chat System (Client and Server) to chat either on a LAN or the Internet.
Open Source Messenger for Any Version of Windows
Published 03/03/2003
Build an open source messenger that works with nearly any version of Windows.
Using MAPI to Send E-Mail
Published 12/24/2002
How to send customized e-mail messages and attachments programmatically using MAPI.
Peer to Peer Network Messenger
Published 06/19/2002
This program is a peer to peer messenger program which functions (and looks) like MSN messenger. since this program is peer to peer there is no hidden server code, it's all here!
Adding More Privacy to Users of Existing Messengers
Published 05/22/2002
SQLProxy is a program created for adding more privacy to users of existing messengers. In this first versions, only Yahoo! messenger protocol is supported.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
Published 04/18/2011
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
Published 06/23/2011
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...
How to Determine Which Office Version is Installed with VB.NET and C#
Published 01/04/2013
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.
Building an Azure Queuing Message Pipeline
Published 01/15/2013
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.
