Windows Vista ushered in a new era of collaborative working with Windows Meeting Space. Here, you'll learn how to initiate a secure workgroup of up to nine users over a variety of connections.
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.
The application is designed using .NET remoting framework 1.0. .NET remoting provides a very powerful framework for the distributed application.
The security enhancements that the .NET Framework 2.0 made to the TCP channel enable secure TCP communication either through code or application configuration files. Learn how to apply both techniques to .NET remoting clients and servers.
Learn the ins and outs of .NET remoting and event handling in VB .NET with an examination of the supporting code in a simple chat client and server application, including the use of the command, observer, singleton, and factory patterns.
Learn how to implement a client's configuration file in VB .NET so that the client can talk to your server, and find out why clients that handle server events have to be remotable.
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.
While porting a C# applications to something other than Windows used to be hard, today command line tools can make it super easy!
Hannes du Preez shows you how to handle exceptions properly in Visual Basic.
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.
