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How to Write a COM+ Component
Discover how to write a component that can be used in a COM+ enviroment.
Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack: MFC Enhancements
Hot on the heels of the significant MFC updates that were delivered with the release of Visual Studio 2008, the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack significantly boosts the ability of MFC to deliver modern-looking user interfaces that will be familiar to Windows and Office users. Look at these new controls and see how MFC developers can significantly improve their application's look and feel.
Trace RPC Calls and Notify the COM+ Events to Your Program
Learn about a simple way to understand and implement the COM+ Admin and Instrumentation interfaces.
A Kick-Start to SAX with C++, Part 3
Learn how to implement some basic error handling and perform cleanup operations.
A Kick-Start to SAX with C++, Part 2
Learn how to work around the restriction of using a single handler type at a time.
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MFC Integration with the Windows Transactional File System (TxF)
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
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...

Serializing & Deserializing Objects with VB.NET 2012
There are many ways to serialize data; you can serialize info into and from the registry; you can store and load info from a database, or from a file. Hannes du Preez shows you how to save info to an XML file and load it from that XML file.

Building and Consuming Async WCF Services in .NET Framework 4.5
Learn how simple it is to build and consume WCF services using the async and await keywords in .NET Framework 4.5.