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The Common Language Specification defines the minimum things that a language must support to be .NET compliant. There are optional features too. One such optional feature involves events.
.NET Under the Hood: a Little ILDASM
Does a simple C++ application compile to the same IL as the equivalent VB or C# application? Let's see.
MSIL Tutorial
Managed C++, C#, VB .NET, and other .NET programming languages are compiled to IL code (or MSIL). Learning MSIL gives you the chance to understand some things that are generally hidden. While you never need to write programs in MSIL directly, in some difficult cases it is very useful to open the MSIL code and see how things are done.
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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.

Services Made Easy
Discover how to easily create and add WIN32 Services in .NET. You’ll also discover the Topshelf toolkit.

Working with Configuration Files and Visual Basic
Learn how to store, modify, and retrieve information from a configuration file in Visual Basic.

Working with State Machines in the .NET Framework
Arun Karthick introduces you to the state machine model and shows you how to create a simple working state machine sample using the .NET framework in the C# language.