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Vista User Access Control and Visual C++
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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.

Finger Printing is the New Tracking Cookie
Recently one way that developers have been looking to address the cookie abuse problem is via a method known as fingerprinting. Peter Shaw shows you how to generate a fingerprint in C# for use in your own projects.

Introduction to Using XML with VB.NET 2012
Learn how to work with XML files with VB.NET by creating an XML file, adding nodes and elements onto it, and then removing the nodes and elements.
How to Create MapReduce Jobs for Hadoop Using C#
This article introduces you to Big Data, Apache Hadoop and MapReduce jobs. We will also learn how to create MapReduce jobs using C#.