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.NET Tip: Are Your Computers Up and Running? Are You Sure?
add this functionality to your applications to determine if machines on the network are there!
Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS Feed
Build a Windows Event Log Watcher Service Process to Export Event Log Entries as an RSS feed using System.Diagnostics.EventLog, EntryWritten, and EnableRaisingEvents.
Garbage Collector
Any program uses resources. These resources can be files, database resources, network connections, memory buffers, objects, and so forth. Learn how to allocate memory for these resources.
Determining Whether a DLL or EXE Is a Managed Component
Learn how to check whether or not a component is a .NET managed component. Also, learn to get other information, such as dependent assemblies, from the metadata using Microsoft APIs and related COM interfaces.
.NET Tip: Searching System Event Logs for Valuable Info
System event logs can provide valuable information, but manually finding the worthwhile details in them can be difficult. Learn the easy, automated ways .NET provides for reading and searching event logs.
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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.

Entity Framework Code First Simplicity
Looking to quickly get started with Code First in .NET, but don't have the time to read and digest all the tutorials that are available out there? Peter Shaw shows you the quickest, simplest way to get started with Code First Entity Framework (EF).

Exploiting the MonthCalendar Control with Visual Basic
Hannes du Preez explains all (well, most) of the little secrets of MonthCalendar, a control that enables calendar-like capabilities and that looks like a visual representation of a month.
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.