Explore COM Interoperability, also known as COM Interop. COM Interop is the means to which COM objects can be used in a .NET application and how .NET objects can be built to appear to be COM objects.
Take a dip into how the Connection Points Event Handling mechanism in Classic COM Components can be used by .NET applications to receive event Notifications via the COM Interop.
Aravind, who contributed mightily to the COM interoperability chapter of the Microsoft Press "Inside C#" book, writes this fantastic tutorial on how to use COM components from your .NET C# applications!
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...
The question has been asked whether or not it was possible to have a textbox that can be automatically filled in with the previous URL history, similar to what can be found in any decent web browser. And the answer is...
Although coding is the primary responsibility of a developer, there are many other application lifecycle management activities that need to be performed with the code. V. N. S. Arun takes a look at the list of features offered by Visual Studio 2012 for the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
