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Outline Text, Part 2
Display outline text with a translucent shadow and display a cached outline text for video rendering.
GraphicsMagick: Image Processing Add-In as Easy as Abra Cadabra!
Need to create, update, or convert images programmatically? Look no further than GraphicsMagick for help for your C, C++, Perl, or .NET app.
Turn Image Hotlinking to Your Advantage
Don't block hotlinked images; instead, learn how to label them to bring visitors to your web site and increase your web presence, even if you are restricted by a shared hosting environment.
Interactive Mapping Using SVG & ASP.NET
This article provides an in-depth introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics, some simple and complex examples, and a case study that shows how to use SVG to enable real-time travel updates to the London Underground online subway map.
Can You Say "C# Xbox 360 Development?"
XNA Game Developer is coming from Microsoft, and the Express edition will be free!
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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...

VB.NET and Videos: Playing a Video through XNA GameStudio 4.0
99% of Microsoft samples and web resources are created for C#. If a VB developer wants to learn something new he has to figure it out for himself. Read on to learn how complicated it is just to get the right tools for the job.

ChannelFactory Caching in WCF 4.5 - An Insight
Arun Karthick walks you through the ChannelFactory caching feature introduced as part of WCF 4.5, providing insight into the various caching modes available, along with suitable source code samples.