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Applying Themes to User Controls and Packaging Them in a Separate Library/.dll in C#, WPF & XAML with .NET Framework 4.0
Understand how to have a simple user controls with themes that match the standard controls. The themes supported in the sample are generic, luna (all types) and royale.For re-usability, these are packaged in a library.
Term of the Week: XAML
XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) is the codename for a new Microsoft markup language used to create UI elements for client applications in the forthcoming Windows release codenamed "Longhorn." The main XAML benefit to developers is that you'll be able to separate the application logic code from presentation code.
XAML Custom Controls and Animation
Learn about Microsoft's upcoming declarative language XAML, primarily for user interfaces and documents, will provide a simple way to separate functionality from design.
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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...

Back to the Basics - Working with Dates in VB.NET
Working with Dates can be frustrating. The .NET Framework provides the DateTime class (among others) for any sort of date manipulation. Read on to learn more.

How to Push Data from Server to Client Using SignalR
SignalR is an Asp.Net library that pushes data to a wide variety of clients. The burden of worrying about which server push transport to use and deciding on the fallbacks has been removed from developers. Read on to learn more.



