The Windows "Turn off" buttons are three or more steps away from the desktop work area, depending on your personal settings. This can be not only inconvenient, but downright bothersome at times. These programs can power down the computer, in just one or two steps.
Learn how to build a simple event log "watcher" application to monitor event log changes on a remote machine(s).
Think console applications are old news? Then you haven't tried the cool new console application features available in VB 2005. Check out some of this author's favorites.
Learn how to creating a DOS-style console application with Visual Basic. The simplicity of doing this may surprise you!
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.
