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Discover Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Microsoft introduced this technology, which is a part of .NET 3.0, to make your life easy when it comes to building distributed applications.
Simplify Application Deployment with Registration-Free COM
In the days before .NET, COM's dependency on the Registry and its backward compatibility issues were the Achilles' heels of Win32 development. Learn a technique for deploying your existing COM components without the pain traditionally associated with the Registry.
Enumerating Exchange Contacts in .NET
Through COM Interop, learn how to program against the Exchange Store for Exchange Server 2003.
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Using AutoMapper in Your ASP.Net MVC Applications
AutoMapper is an external component that helps in creating a mapping between a source and destination model types. Read on to learn about the AutoMapper component and how to use it in an Asp.Net MVC application.